My Great Grandfather, Thomas Derbyshire, born St Helens Lancashire in 1853, moved his family to South Shields in Country Durham. The family was resident there in 1981. In the 1901 Census he was a widower living at 31 Dale Street in South Shields with his children:
Mary Gertrude (my grandmother) b. 1886
Wilfred Joseph b. 1887
Francis b. 1889
James b. 1891
Cecilia Agnes b. 1893
and Owen b. 1895
Anyone out there know anything about these people?