Photo from 6th Pit Roll of Honour
The family home at 1 Primrose Hill
David Sloan has provided the following:
Christian name Mark;
Born 1892 Rainton
Not Married
Worked Lumley 6th Pit.
Mark's father Gilbert remarried Frances Edith Oliver
1911 Census shows Primrose Terrace (Primrose Hill) New Lambton
Gilbert Lowerson 47 born Rainton Miner
Frances Lowerson 46 born Medomsley
Mark Lowerson 13 born Lumley son Miner
Thomas Oliver 17 born Medomsley stepson Miner
William Lowerson 16 born Lumley son Miner
Arthur Bowes Oliver 15 born Medomsley stepson Miner
Norman Lowerson 14 born Lumley son Miner
Thomas H Lowerson 11 born Lumley son
Clifford Oliver 9 b Medomsley stepson
Beatrice Mary Oliver 11 born Medomsley step daughter
Dorothy Lowerson 8 born Lumley daughter
Barbara Lowerson 7 born Lumley daughter
Barbara Curry 15 born Lumley niece
Brother William and Step brother Thomas were also killed.
Mark Lowerson is remembered at Burnmoor onB154.01 He is also mentioned on the 6th Pit memorial where the picture - shown here - appears. See W134.01