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James Dryden Chrisp                           1890-1964
James was born on 29 November 1889, the son of John Chrisp and Margaret Scott, at Alnwick, Northumberland. Occupation ranged from labourer at marriage to stonebreaker, in 1910, to shifter in a coal mine in 1913. He briefly served in the Royal Artillery in WW1 but not for very long as he joined the Police force in 1915. He was a Police Officer from 22 Feb 1915 to 13 August 1944. After leaving the Police Force in 1944, he worked as Commissionaire at the Sunderland Forge. He died in Sunderland, of carcinoma of stomach, at age 74.
Muriel Frances Edwards                      1888-1956
Muriel was born on 15 October 1888, the daughter of Henry William Edwards and Frances Marshall, at South Shields, County Durham. Their first daughter, Muriel died at the age of 19, in Sunderland, of enteric fever (which is another name for Typhoid, as there was an epidemic in the Sunderland area at the time). At the time, the family lived at 8 Cedric Crescent and Muriel was working as a shop assistant at Woolworths.
I have identified the following children.
  Muriel Dryden Born 3 Nov 1910   Morpeth, Northumberland  
Freda Born 2 Apr 1913   Amble, Northumberland Married Richard Henry Burry

Birth of Parents
James Dryden Chrisp b: 29 Nov 1889               Northumberland                 1890 1Q Alnwick 10b 400
son of John Chrisp and Margaret Scott, Newton on the Moor

Muriel Frances Edwards b: 15 Oct 1888               County Durham       1888 4Q South Shields 10a 711
daughter of Henry William Edwards and Frances Marshall, 43 Byron Street, Westoe

Marriage
9 Apr 1910
James Dryden Chrisp
Muriel Frances Edwards 		Longframlington Northumberland      1910 2Q Rothbury 10b 805

Wit: Eliza Elliot, William John Summers

Children
Muriel Dryden Chrisp b: 3 Nov 1910               Morpeth, Northumberland       1910 4Q Morpeth 10b 449
daughter of James Dryden Chrisp and Muriel Frances Edwards, Eshott Heugh     Died 20 Dec 1929

1911 Census RG14-71 3 April 1911 Thirston, Northumberland
Eshott Heugh, Felton   (3 Rooms)
James Dryden Chrisp
Muriel Frances (Wife)
Muriel Dryden (Dau) 		Age 22
Age 22
Age 5 Mon 		Stone Breaker Newton on Moor
South Shields
Eshott Heugh 		Northumberland
Durham
Northumberland 		29 Nov 1889
15 Oct 1888
3 Nov 1910

Freda Chrisp b: 2 Apr 1913               Amble, Northumberland       1913 2Q Alnwick 10b 997
daughter of James Dryden Chrisp and Muriel Frances Edwards, Eshott Heugh     Died Aug 1988

Death
Muriel Frances (Edwards) Chrisp Died 13 Aug 1956, Age 67,       1956 3Q Sunderland 1a 752
at Sunderland General Hospital

Death
James Dryden Chrisp Died 1 Oct 1964, Age 74,       1964 4Q Sunderland 1a 1020
at 8 Cedric Crescent

DURHAM   20 Oct 1964                         Probate
CHRISP, James Dryden, of 8 Cedric Crescent, Sunderland, died 1 October 1964, Administration Durham 20 October, to Freda Burry (Wife of Richard Henry Burry).   Effects £1,819