Photo Brian Chandler
In Wallsend Church Bank Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In
Loving Memory of
William,
dearly beloved husband of
Thomasine Sowerby,
who died December 26th 1922
aged 59 years.
Also the above
Thomasine Sowerby,
who died December 29th 1944
aged 77 years.
Also Mary Jane, their only daughter
who died October 15th 1891
aged 9 month.
Also William, their youngest son
who died a prisoner of war in Germany
,October 20th 1918, aged 20 years.
Also Ralph, their eldest son
and dearly loved husband of
Nora Sowerby,
who died May 15th, 1941, aged 48 years.
William Sowerby is remembered in Wallsend on W7.23 and in Willington Quay on W56.05
