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George Watkins

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This photograph is of George Watkins.George used three chriatian names , one of those being Walter. He also had two familly names. Born 1849 in Sunderland he was apprenticed 1865-69 as a merchant seaman to Joseph Hill of Hartlepool on the brig"Safeguard"on voyages to the Baltic including St. Petersburg, taking coal out and bringing timber back.From at least 1876 he lived at 19 Charles Street where he died in 1919

Donor : Malcolm Hardy

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