James Joseph (Jim) Green

James Green was born in Ireland in ~1879, father John Green, leather worker.  He was brought up by two aunts in Dublin (Mary says that he had a relative with a brewery in Dublin – possibly with the name O’Brien?, she and her sister Moya went to stay with the aunts several times and one of the aunts was called ‘Aunt May’).  The aunts were very religious and wanted Jim to become a priest, but instead he went to Durham and became a bricklayer -  Jim Green was a master bricklayer in the ironworks, who later built furnaces and chimneys for ICI in Billingham – at one point, they sent him to Germany to study special bricklaying techniques.  He died in an asylum in 1949, where he was admitted following inhalation of fumes in a furnace.

In 1901 census, there were only two James Green’s of the right age who were born in Ireland and both were bricklayers:

• James Green, age 22, bricklayer, was a nephew in the Cassidy  household [RG13/267 f 171] (Patrick, age 40 a brickmaker, born in Scotland, and Mary age 38 born in Ireland) at 14 Mulliner Street  in Dewsbury, Yorkshire . Also living with the Cassidys were Moya (9) and Susan  (7) Cameron or Camerson, both born in Scotland, who were nieces.  In 1891, Patrick and Mary Cassidy were living in Falkirk, and their nephew  James Green was living with them there too, aged 11.  In this census, Patrick gives his place of birth as Mossvale, Lanark and Mary's place of birth as Omagh, Ireland.
• James Green, age 22, bricklayer, was a boarder in a household in Normanton. [RG13/4199 f99]

I now believe that the first of the above individuals is the correct one, after finding the following marriage record :

Patrick Cassidy married Mary Green on 31 December 1884 at St Mungo’s Roman Catholic Chapel, Glasgow.  Patrick was age 24, occupation Brickmaker Journeyman, bachelor, of 6 River Street, Springgrass parish.  His father was John Cassidy, brickwork labourer and his mother Mary Cassidy (nee Smith). 

Mary Green was age 23, occupation Sewing Machinist, spinster, of 152 Garragate Hills, Glasgow.  Her father was James Green, Carrier Foreman (deceased) and her mother was Margaret Green (nee Burns) (deceased).

The witnesses were James Cassidy, Alice Slennion(?) and a third witness whose name is illegible. (source marriage entry, Scotland’s People)

Patrick was born 19 jul 1860 at Mossvale, Cadder, Lanark, the son of John and Mary (Smith) Cassidy, both born in Ireland.  (source birth record, Scotland’s People).  I also have found census entries for Patrick living with his parents in 1861 and 1881.

However, I have not yet been able to establish how Moya and Susan Cameron are related to the Cassidy family - they could have been nieces of either Patrick or Mary.  [keep looking for their birth records]

James Green died on 2^nd Sept 1949 at Winterton House, Sedgefield.  He was aged 70 years, a retired builder’s bricklayer, or 57 Leven Road, Norton, Stockton.  The cause of death was general arterio sclerosis (PM) certified by Stanley Johnson MB. And the death was reported by J J Green, son, of 29 Bramley Road, South Ealing. (source death certificate)   

James and Mary Isabella Green with Jack, Moya and Jim– taken in about 1914 

James and Mary Isabella Green’s children:

	Moya Green Bell born on 18 Apr 1909 [1909 jun Auckland 10a, 252] married Arthur Resker  in 1937 and lived in Finchley, then moved to Knebworth in Hertfordshire. Moya died in Mar 1991 in Waveney. Their children are Rodney and Carol.
	.John (Jack) Green Bell, born 26 jan 1912 at 22 Arthur St, Crook.  His father was James Joseph Green, bricklayer journeyman, his mother Mary Isabel Bell, formerly Adamthwaite.  Jack died at the age of 10 years on 4 sep 1922 in Stockton and Thornaby Hospital from concussion of the brain caused by being accidentally knocked down by a Motor Car (source Death Certificate)
	James Bell Green [born 1913 sep Newcastle 10b, 324] married Dorothy - their daughter was Maureen
	Mary Susan Green Bell, 21 dec 1914 at Middlesbro’ married Len Ward in 1940. Mary died in September 2005. Their daughter is Susan
	William Green,  born 18 aug 1918 [1918 sep Stockton 10a 162] and died in Aug 2000 at Watford.  Married Gwen (1821-2002)  - their children are Elaine and Jeffrey

Some time before their eldest child Moya was born, James and Mary moved in together –their children attended the  Catholic school, which must have been James’ religion.

James and Mary finally managed to marry on 10 May 1941, at the Register Office in Durham Western – by which time Mary was a widow aged 63 years and James was a bachelor aged 62 years.  Presumably they had to wait until Mary's first husband John Bell had died. James' occupation was given as Bricklayer at Chemical Factory and his father was John Green, leather worker, deceased.   He gave his address as 57 Leven Road, Norton, but Mary gave her address as 4 Arthur St, Crook – her father’s old address. The witnesses were Alfred Henderson and Jane Adamthwaite  (source Marriage Certificate)

Some years after Jim's death, ‘Grandma Green’ as she was called, moved from her home on the Bluehall Estate in Norton and went to live with Bill and Gwen in Billingham in about 1949.  She died on 2 April 1952 at Bill and Gwen’s home at 79 Stokesley Crescent, Billingham, aged 73 years.  The death certificate states she was the widow of James Green bricklayer journeyman, of 57 Leven Road Norton, Stockton on Tees and gives the cause of death as Chronic Myocarditisis, due to senility.  The death was reported by J Green, son of 29 Bramley Road, South Ealing, London (source death certificate).

Grandma Green with granddaughter Susan and daughter Mary in Hampstead in about 1949

  Moya, Jack and Jim Green

Moya and Arthur

Bill and Gwen

Mary and Len

Jim and Dot with Maureen

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