Son of  
                        W.P. 'Bill' Richardson's Great Uncle, Thomas Richardson
                          Thomas Keir Hardie 
                        Richardson was born on 17th July 1903, he was 
                        the seventh child of Thomas Richardson and his wife Mary 
                        Eleanor (nee Purvis) and his birth was registered in the 
                        Chester le Street Registration District. 
                        He was baptised on 12th August 1903 and his baptism was 
                        recorded in the Primitive Methodist Register for Jarrow 
                        Circuit. The record said the family lived at 6 
                        Cooperative Terrace, Washington and Thomas' Dad worked 
                        as a checkweighman. 
                        Sadly, he did not live very long and died in June 1904, less than a year old. 
                        Thomas was buried at Holy Trinity, Usworth on the 25th 
                        June 1904.  |