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Cooper Thomas Burn
Mercantile Marine Reserve HMS Viknor
from:Houghton-le-Spring
(d.13th Jan 1915)
Thomas Burn Cooper served on HMS Viknor with the Mercantile Marine Reserve.
Age 25 he died on 13th January 1915. Born and lived Jarrow he was the son of John and Annie Burn of Jarrow and Husband of Jane Gibson Burn (nee Wood) of 17 Council Street Houghton-le-Spring. He is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
On the on the 1911 census, Thomas Burn age 23 is a Check Weightman for a Lead Manufacturer living with his wife Jane Gibson Burn and child at 133 Regent Street, South Shields on the 1911 census. His parents John and Ann Burn and family are at 146 Hope Street, Jarrow