Research - John Simpson Kirkpatrick (the man & the donkey)

Any information regarding the above and the Tyne Dock area of South Shields between 1892 and 1914 is sought for a local history research project.

 Special interest in tracing information about families who lived in the area before the First World War.  Particularly:

• Plater family and anyone related to the writer Alan Plater.
• Parkes family who lived in Byron Street and who emigrated to Australia before the First World War.
• William & Thomas Lowes - both worked at Readheads shipyard after the war.
• John Jackson - worked as a trimmer before the war.

• Descendants of school teachers at Tyne Dock, including:

Wonders, Robertson, Willis, Gedling, Irvine, Deaton, Smith, Winter, Dixon and Richardson.

 Also pupils in Mortimer Road School in the 1950’s where memorial services were held for Kirkpatrick.

 If you have any information, then please send an e-mail to the editor