William Campbell Tyrie (1829-1899)
Gateshead father to nine children, five served during First World War
The Gateshead Tyries were a family of eight brothers and one sister, the children of Dundee born William Campbell Tyrie and his Whickham born wife Mabel Ann Arkless. They had married in February 1873 in Gateshead and their first child, a daughter named Barbara Jane was born two years later, eight more children, all boys, followed between 1877 and 1894.
The 1881 census shows that William was a joiner, Mabel was working as a baker and they were living in Askew Road, between the present site of Redheugh and High Level Bridges. Ten years later William was a successful building contractor and they had moved to a house in Bensham, possibly built by William’s own company.
A well known building contractor in Gateshead, according to probate records when William died in 1899 he left his widow over £17,000 (a 21st century equivalent of just under £2 million).
Mabel Tyrie died in 1913
The following contains a short profile for the offspring of William and Mabel who did not served in the armed forces during the First World War. For profiles of the sons who did serve, please see the related stories, below.
BARBARA TYRIE (1875–1911)
The only daughter Barbara married married Robert Alexander Campbell Sansom in Newcastle upon Tyne in January 1892, and they went on to have four sons, the second of whom died in infancy. The oldest two brothers served in the Royal Artillery during the First World War. James Henry served as Driver 111804 from 1914-1919, John Campbell as Private 33578, 1914-1918, and the youngest, William, as Lance Corporal 10380 of the Coldstream Guards, who died on 8 October 1915, from his wounds received in fighting near Vermelles.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL TYRIE (1880-1907)
William worked as a joiner/carpenter presumably in his father’s business and in April 1902 married Lily Ann Anderson in Gateshead. They had a son and a daughter before William’s death in 1907.
JOHN WALLACE TYRIE (1883-1944)
Born in June 1883 by the time of the 1901 census John was working as a clerk in his father’s building company. He emigrated to South Africa, married Anna Susanna Katrina de Beer, and died in Vereeniging, Transvaal, South Africa in 1944.
THOMAS PALMER TYRIE (1886-1963)
Born in January 1886, by 1901 he was a solicitor’s clerk and on 12 December 1906 married Charlotte Ann Liddell in Gateshead and they lived in Whitehall Road and had two daughters. Thomas was listed as the next of kin for all of his brothers that served during the First World War. The 1939 Register shows Thomas working as a Petroleum Board clerk and they were living in Ravensdale Avenue, Gateshead. His wife died in 1950 and Thomas died on 20 September 1963 at Pinehurst Hotel whilst staying in Bournemouth.
Civil Parish: Gateshead
Birth date: 1829
Death date: 05-May-1899
Residence: 411 Askew Road, Gateshead (1881 census)
2 Claremont Park, Gateshead (1891 census)
171 Bewick Road,Gateshead (1911 census, wife and children)
Family: Parents: William Campbell Tyrie, Mabel Ann Tyrie nee Arkless
Siblings: Barbara Jane Tyrie, James Francis Campbell Tyrie, William Campbell Tyrie, John Wallace Tyrie, Thomas Palmer Tyrie, Stuart Campbell Tyrie, Colin Campbell Tyrie, Wallace Kerr Tyrie, Kenneth Campbell Tyrie
Gender: Male
Contributed by Jean Longstaff, Durham
