Cornforth England
14 Nobel Street, Hendon
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by) : Ellen Scholfield nee Green.
Gender: Female
Date and Place of Birth: 25 March 1883, Cornforth, Durham.
Date and Place of Death: N/K
Nationality: British
Biography
Childhood:
Census 1901: Ellen Green, Housemaid domestic, living at 8 Belle View Park, Thornhill, Sunderland in household of Deborah Doxford.
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Occupation:
Place of residence at Gretna:
Job title at Gretna: Not known.
Marital status: Married. 1907.
Husband: James William Miles Scholfield (or Scholefield)
Occupation: Plater/Burner at Sunderland Shipbuilding Co’s yard, Sunderland. Earning £1-14s-3d a week.
Children: one child in 1916 – James Thomas Scholfield.
Any other information: Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette Friday 22 September 1916.
Place of Residence: 14 Nobel Street, Hendon, Sunderland. Ellen Scholfield is working at Munitions at Gretna Green, having left her son with her mother.
Court case re assault and desertion by husband. Husband ordered to pay Ellen 10s a week.
1911 Census: James William Miles Scholefield, Boiler, Plater, Engine Works (Marine) aged 25, Ellen Scholfield aged 28 and James Thomas Scholfield, aged 2 years, living in three rooms at 6 Winchester Terrace, Sunderland.
1939 Register : James W M Scholfield (single-sic) living at 43 Borough Road, Sunderland, general labourer and ARP warden.
1939 Register Ellen Stiff (crossed out and Scholfield inserted), 25 March 1883, domestic housewife, living at 8 Bells Marsh Road, Great Yarmouth, with Harry Stiff, 5 Sept 1887, general labourer. Both entries say M = married.
James W M Scholfield died 24 April 1953 in Sunderland 1a 819.
Cornforth England
14 Nobel Street, Hendon