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4th Eng.Off. William Oliver Richard Blakey
Mercantile Marine SS Caithness
from:Jarrow
(d.20th April 1917)
William Oliver Richard Blakey was a Fourth Engineer Officer on the S.S. Caithness (Newcastle) with the Mercantile Marine. He was aged 47 when he died on 20th April 1917. William was the son of Jane Ann Blakey (nee Westgarth) of 64 Duke Street Jarrow and the late John Robert Blakey. he was born and lived Jarrow. William is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
On the 1911 census John Robert and Jane Ann Blakey parents of William Oliver Richard Blakey are living at 22 Commercial Road, Jarrow.