Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by): Nicholas Twizell 

 

Gender: Male

Date and Place of Birth: 1868, Newcastle on Tyne  

Date and Place of Death: 11th March 1929, Castleton, Roxburghshire, Scotland

Nationality: British

 

Childhood: N/K

 

Parents: Robert and Mary 

Parent’s occupations: Warehouseman the agricultural labourer   

 

Schools / universities attended and years of attendance: N/K

 

Occupation: Police constable 

Place of residence at Gretna: U East Gretna  

Job title at Gretna: Police constable 

 

Marital status: Married Edith Bithell at Hindley.

 

Children: Three children.

Travels: N/K

Awards/recognitions: N/K

 

Trivia / any other information:

Nicholas Twizzell was born in 1868 in Newcastle to Robert and Mary 

 

1871- living at 24 church Hill Cottages, Westgate. Father a warehouseman.   

 

1881 – Living at Corbridge. Father an agricultural labourer.  

 

1891 – Living at the Police Station, Barton, Lancashire as a lodger.  

 

1901- 3 Police Station, Hindley, Lancashire- a lodger, single, a police constable.  

 

7th February 1903- married Edith Bithell at Hindley. He a policeman of 2 Railway Street.  

 

1911- 1 Sunnyside, Ormskirk, Lancashire. 2 children, 1 had died. 5 rooms. Police constable Lancashire Constabulary, 

 

1918/19 – employed as a Police Constable at H M Factory, Gretna living at U East Gretna. Too old for active military service.  

 

1927 – daughter married – he was a club caretaker at Castleton, Roxburghshire, Scotland  

 

11th March 1929 died aged 61 of angina at Castleton, Roxburghshire, Scotland  

 

 

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