Birth: 1859 Whickham, Durham, UK
Father: Benjamin Porter 1837-1911
Mother: Mary Gill 1838-1860
Christening: 19 October 1859 St Mary the Virgin, Whickham, Durham, UK
Marriage: October-December 1886 Gateshead, Durham, UK
Husband: William Armstrong c1837-1913
Death: October-December 1928 Gateshead, Durham, UK
William Thomas Gills Armstrong 1887-1974
Mary Armstrong [Clark, Rockett] 1890-1958
Catherine Armstrong 1896-1908
Robert Armstrong 1898-1939
Another unknown child died before 1911.
Birth of Mary Ann Porter in FreeBMD in July-September 1859 in Chester le S (10A 385).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for the baptism of Mary Ann Porter on 19 October 1859 in Whickham, Durham, parents Benjamin and Mary Porter.
Her mother died in April-June 1860 in Gateshead.
In the 1861 census as Mary Ann Porter aged 1, born in Whickham, Durham and living with her widowed father (Bejamin) who was living with his parents-in-law (John and Dorothy Fairley) in Old Sunniside 8, Whickham, Durham. Another family lived at the same address. (John Fairley's daughter Mary married William Gill on 3 July 1837 at All Saints, Newcastle, and they had a daughter Mary Gill born 5 May 1838 who married Benjamin Porter on 19 April 1858 in Gateshead).
Her father married Margaret Walker on 29 June 1862 in Gateshead.
Her half-brother was born on 6 December 1864, registered in October-December 1864 in Gateshead, baptised on 1 January 1865 at St Mary the Virgin, Whickham.
Her half-brother was born on 26 October 1866, registered in October-December 1866 in Gateshead and baptised on 28 November 1869 at St Mary the Virgin, Whickham.
Her half-sister was registered in April-June 1869 in Gateshead and baptised on 28 November 1869 at St Mary the Virgin, Whickham.
In the 1871 census as Mary Ann Porter aged 11, born in Whickham, Durham,, and living with her father (Benjaman), (step)mother (Margaret), two (half-)brothers (Benjaman and Hugh), (half-)sister (Margaret), stepmother's brother (George S Walker) and a boarder (George Neale aged 21, born in Ashmanhough, Norfolk, and a railway platelayer) at 101 Marley Hill, Whickham, Durham.
Marriage of Mary Ann Porter and William Armstrong in FreeBMD in October-December 1886 in Gateshead (10A 1048).
Her son was registered in July-September 1887 in Gateshead.
Her daughter was registered in April-June 1890 in Gateshead.
In the 1891 census as Mary Ann Armstrong aged 33, born in Lirmmsidge, (sic - in the index, Sunniside on the original), Durham, and living with her husband (William), son (Thomas Gill), daughter (Mary), and four boarders (Ellener Mitchell aged 31 and a widow, Martha J Oxley aged 11, Willie Oxley aged 4 and Isabell Mitchell aged 1, all born in Swalwell, Durham) in two rooms in Back Whickham Road, Whickham (the description is the west side of the village of Swalwell).
Her daughter was registered in January-March 1893 in Gateshead.
Her daughter was registered in July-September 1896 in Gateshead.
Her son was born on 17 September 1898 and registered in April-June 1898 in Gateshead.
In the 1901 census as Mary Ann Armstrong aged 41, born in Swalwell, Durham, and living with her husband (William), two sons (Robert and Thomas Gills) and two daughters (Mary and Catherine) in two rooms in Buckbank, Whickham, Durham (part of the ecclesiastical parish of Swalwell).
In the 1911 census as Mary Ann Armstrong aged 51, born in Marley Hill Whickham, married for 24 years with five children, two having died, and living with her husband (William) and two sons (Robert and Thomas Gills) in two rooms in Harbottles Buildings, Swalwell, Durham.
Her husband died in January-March 1913 in Gateshead.
In the 1921 census as Mary Ann Armstrong aged 61 years 8 months, born in Sunniside (not in the index), Durham, widowed, and living with her son (Robert - head of family) in one room in Borwn Bldgs (sic - in the index, Brown's Bldgs on the original), Swalwell, Whickham, Durham.
Death of Mary A Armstrong in FreeBMD in October-December 1928 aged 68 in Gateshead (10A 936).
Sunniside Road is the B6316 south from Wickham towards Marley Hill on A692.
Mary Ann Porter was the mother of Mary Armstrong and grandmother of Elizabeth Ann Armstrong, both wives of Henry Rockett Aldridge, husband of Doris Grieveson, second cousin once removed of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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