In 1911 the family were living in the Herring Yard, Boulmer. James Snr was an inshore fisherman with only two children, James Jr, born about 1896 and a daughter, Rhoda, born 1905. All the family were born in Boulmer.
It is likely that WB Stephenson on the casualty list for the same year is the son of the other man in the photograph. Robert Stephenson was an inshore fisherman, widowed, with 3 children still at home. Two sons, Robert (born 1892) and William (born 1896) both whinstone stonebreakers, and a daughter, Nellie (born 1898). I wonder if they were stonebreakers in the quarry on the road into Longhoughton from Alnwick, or the whinstone quarry at Craster?
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