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John Joseph Turner Strother
Chemist at DornockBiography
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by): John Joseph Turner Strother
Gender: Male
Date and Place of Birth: 14/03/1878 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Date and Place of Death: 30/07/1963 Surrey
Nationality: British
Biography
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Parents: John Robert and Elizabeth Strother
Parent’s occupations: Pharmacist
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Occupation: Commercial Traveller Chemical Manufacture
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Job title at Gretna: Chemist at Dornock
Marital status: Isabella Beattie (nee Fenwick) 1906 Q2 in Morpeth
Children: Elizabeth Winifred (b.06/04/1907)
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Further links, notes, and comments:
Remembered on the Dornock Souvenir giving his forwarding address as his parent’s home at 9 Buston Terrace, Jesmond.
Worked for Scouring Powder Manufacturer in Lewisham in 1939.
Was also a Special Constable
See Hemsworth family tree on Ancestry
Name and address mentioned in the Dornock Farewell, held in The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s archive collection.