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. |