Daughter of  W.P. 'Bill' 
                        Richardson's Great Uncle, Thomas Richardson
                          Ada was born on 
                        1st 
                        November 1895, the fourth child of Thomas Richardson and 
                        his wife Mary Eleanor (nee Purvis). Her birth was 
                        registered in the first quarter of 1896 in the Chester 
                        le Street Registration District. She was 
                        baptised on 28th November 1895 and her baptism was 
                        recorded in the Primitive Methodist Register for the 
                        Jarrow Circuit. The family lived at New Washington and 
                        her Dad was a Check-Weighman at the pit. Sadness 
                        for the family when Ada died in July 1896, she was just 
                        8 months old. She was buried at Holy 
                        Trinity, Usworth on the 17th July 1896, the service was 
                        performed by Alexander Begg.  |