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Lost family info in West Rainton
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2021 11:22am
My great,great aunt Mary Ann, known as May, lived at 137 Lewis Street West Rainton some time between 1911 and 1924. (Found this info on an army pension record.)
She and her husband, Henry Peters came from the Woolwich area of London. They married in Co Durham.
They had 4 sons whilst living in the West Rainton area.. Two of them died there between 1914 and 1915.
I was told that Henry was a bare knuckle fighter and that May booked his fights at a large estate in the area.
I just wondered if there were any parish records for any of them. Sometimes they used the name Peterson.
