Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1647 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Kay-Mitcheson family of Easington Lane
Covering Dates: 1890s-1950s
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- Miscellaneous documents
- Records of the Kay-Mitcheson Families (Ref: D/X 1647/1-2)
- Photographs of Kay and Mitcheson Families (Ref: D/X 1647/3 - 1647/22)
- Photographs of groups of unidentified people (Ref: D/X 1647/23-42)
- Photographs of unidentified men (Ref: D/X 1647/43 - 1647/56)
- Photographs of unidentified women (Ref: D/X 1647/57-1647 /59)
- Photographs of unidentified children (Ref: D/X 1647/60 - 1647/64)
Catalogue Description
Records given:20 March 2008 Acc: 7132
Catalogue Contents
William Kay was born in Sunderland, c. 1856. He worked as a butcher from the age of 11 and lived much of his life in Easington Lane. He married Mary and they had 12 sons and a daughter. He was very much involved with Easington Central Methodist Church working the choir and Sunday School.
One of his sons, Matthew Kay, married Margaret Mitcheson and they had a son, William Mitcheson Kay, born in 1911. 'Bill' Kay, as he was known, worked in the grocery trade before serving with the Royal Corps of Signals during World War II. After the war, he returned briefly to the grocery trade before training as a psychiatric nurse and working at Bronham Hospital, near Bedford, where he met his wife, Dorothy. He continued working at Bronham Hospital until his retirement.