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Thank you for your help everybody. Going to get the birth certificate anyway just to confirm but from the look of it this is them. Should have known with the spellings really as I've had a similar problem on an other branch of my tree with Cartwright (cartwrite, cartwrit...)

The births of the children on the census and possibly Jane is also theirs

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Births Mar 1907 (>99%)
Fewester Jane Easington 10a 538
Births Sep 1908 (>99%)
Fewester William Easington 10a 552
Births Jun 1910 (>99%)
FEWESTER Norman Easington 10a 552

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Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
Deaths Mar 1907 (>99%)
FEWESTER Jane 0 Easington 10a 320

You might have missed this birth as you say born between 1915-31

Surname First name(s) Mother District Vol Page
Births Dec 1912 (>99%)
Fewester Rachel Kay Easington 10a 1044

To confirm Gins 1911 says I year old for Norman. The 1911 census was taken on 2nd April and William has put that Norman was born 7 April under the column headed "for infants under 1 year of age state the age in months as 'under 1 month' or 'one month' etc". Despite a full stop between 1 and 7 April it looks as though Ancestry have interpreted as age 17!

Married 4 years 3 children born 1 has died

1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Lime Kiln Row Haswell, Haswell, Durham, England

Name as completed and signed is Fewester

First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Occupation Age Birth year Birth place
William Fewester Head Married Male Coke Drawer At Coke Oven 24 1887 Shotton Colliery
Elizabeth Ellen Fewester Wife Married Female - 23 1888 Murton Coly
William Fewester Son - Male - 2 1909 County of Durham
Norman Fewester Son - Male - 1 1910 - Transcription

The births of the other children have a mixture of the spellings, not surprisingly

I would think that this is your couple as James W is also born in Easington

But, if you are in any doubt, buy the birth certificate for James W and it will give the details of his parents

I don't have the first names. My Grandmother says that Grannie Nellie rings a bell which would lead me to believe it may be the listing from gins (nellie being ellen) with the different spelling. I've searched Robert Thomas Fewster and the 1911 census he's living with Sarah Jane so I don't think thats the one.

Do you know your great great grandparent's first names?

This is the only marriage I can see between a male Fewster and a female Kay but it's a while before the birth of the children:-

First name(s) ROBERT THOMAS
Last name FEWSTER
Marriage quarter 1
Marriage year 1885
Registration month -
MarriageFinder™ ROBERT THOMAS FEWSTER married one of these people
SARAH JANE TULEY, ***MARY KAY***
District LEEDS
District number -
County Yorkshire
Country England
Volume 9B
Page 530

Perhaps they never actually married?

EDIT - That sounds more likely to be the one Gins. I only searched at first on the spelling given by Samantha.

Kath. x

This the above couple in 1911


Name:William Fewester

Age in 1911:24

Estimated birth year:abt 1887

Relation to Head:Head

Gender:Male

Birth Place:Shotton Colling

Civil Parish:Haswell

County/Island:Durham

Street address:Lime Kiln Row Haswell

Marital Status:Married

Occupation:Cole Drawer At Coke

Registration district:Easington

Registration District Number:552

Sub-registration district:Dawdon

ED, institution, or vessel:19
Piece:30038

Household Members:


William Fewester 24
Elizabeth Ellen Fewester 23
William Fewester 2
Norman Fewester 17 <<<Think this says 1 on the image

There is this but more info might help us



Marriages Dec 1906

FEWESTER William Easington 10a 797
KAY Elizabeth Ellen Easington 10a 797
POOLEY George Henry Easington 10a 797
Shackler Elizabeth Easington 10a 797

Could anyone please have a look and see if they can find a marriage record for me? Between Fewster with Maiden name Kay. They were my Great Great Grandparents. They had a son (My great Grandfather) James W Fewster in 1918 in Durham and had 6 other children between 1915 and 1931.

Thanks in advance!