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Robert Thomas Nixon

(d.15th June 1915)

Site of where previous Palmer Shipyard was in Jarrow

Robert Thomas Nixon was a Fitter and Turner working in the Palmer Shipyard and was killed during a Zeppelin attack on the shipyard and other Industrial targets. He died on the 15th June 1915 aged 32.

Robert was born in Hexham 1832, the son of Robert and Mary Ann Nixon nee Scott. He was married to Bernetta Nixon nee Bennett. In the 1911 census Robert is single, aged 28, living with his elderly father also Robert aged 71 and his older sister Sarah Ann who is 43 single and a dressmaker. There is also a boarder Annie Sinclair 58 and single. Robert himself is working as a mechanical turner in a steelworks.

Memorial Plaque that was in the Palmer Shipyard Jarrow



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