William Spens

   Ancestral File Number: 3HJM-C9.

  General Notes:

!age 11 in 1851 cen of All Saints Parish of Newcastle born Scotland, in
father's notebook as 23 May, 1840 and in Isabella Brumwell's letter, and temple baptisms. England civil register of marriages: Sep 1873, Newcastle T. 10b, 145.
1881 Census Ref. Rg. 5061 Folio 86 page 25, 5 Slinns Court, s. # 151 Orchard
St.; William Spens, head mar age 40 engraver, Edinburg and wife Dorothy A, 40
Carlise, William noted as an 'Artiz'--in the 'artisan' category; Not in OPR;
Death index Spens, William, 61 years old, Newcastle T. 10b 21.
Address at death given as the workhouse and I. S. (Isabella Stonehouse) Wilson's niece was in attendance, from 204 or 1204 St. Cuthbert's Road, Gateshead;
Burial record #5306, unconsecrated ground, Section E grave 68, of St. Nicholas Parish, death occurred in Union Workhouse, but his address was 39 Sandhill;
1871 Census, Ref. RG 5091; folio 14 page 27 boarder, unmarried, age 30,
engraver, born in Scotland;

1861 census living at 61 Eastwick Terrace with his sister.
Age 21, estimated birth between 7th April 1839-7th April 1840.
He was stated as an engraver and married.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Engraver, 1861.

• Census, 1861, Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Age 21, visiting with sister Sarah Ann and her family at 61 Elswick East Terrace

William married Dorothy A. Hetherington, daughter of John Hetherington and Mary, on 29 Sep 1873 in St. Johns, Newcastle/Tyne, Newcastle/Tyne, England. (Dorothy A. Hetherington was born in 1841 in Carlisle, England and died on 29 Jun 1888 in St. Andrews, Newcastle/Tyne, Northumberland, England.)