Derek Johnstone has provided the following:
Thomas George Coleman was born in Stalham, Great Yarmouth Norfolk about 1885. Details of his parents have not been not established.
In 1891, when Thomas was aged 6, he lived with his uncle Robert Lubbock, also from Norfolk, at Louise Terrace, Chester-le-Street, County Durham.
Thomas was not located in the 1901 Census when he would have been 16. In 1905, Thomas married Francis Elizabeth Eckermann, from West Hartlepool, County Durham, at Newcastle. Records show her grandfather was from Germany.
In 1911 Thomas lived at 63, Blenheim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne when he would have been 26 years old. Thomas was employed as a general labourer in a rolling mill. They had two children: Wilhelmina aged 5 and Thomas aged 3.
Military records sometimes use the spelling 'Colman' but all other documents show his name as Coleman. Soldiers Died in the Great War confirms he was born in Yarmouth, Norfolk and enlisted at Newcastle-on-Tyne with the service number is 204570 in the Northumberland Fusiliers 1st/ 4th Battalion (Territorials). He was formerly 25/805 in a Tyneside Irish Battalion. His Pension Index Card documents his wife as Francis Elizabeth Coleman and children Wilhelmina Eveline, Thomas William, Thelma and Ernest Mathew.
Thomas George Coleman is remembered in our list of Tyneside Irish
