Charts for Tyneside Head of Families
  • Joseph Clouston (1754-1815) The Grandson, of Thomas (1671-1754). Joseph married in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1786. Joseph seems to have spent his life at sea. His marriage produced 2 sons, Robert, whose youngest son was Sir Thomas Smith Clouston. The youngest son, George, would return to Tyneside in 1815 and settle raising his family in North Shields.
  • His son, George Clouston (1788-c.1850) Born in Newcastle Upon Tyne, George returned to Orkney with his parents before 1794. In 1815 he returned , married and became the first Clouston to settle on Tyneside. His death is still shrouded in mystery despite the researchers who have attempted to find it. It is assumed he died at sea circa 1849-50.
  • Thomas Clouston (1791-1863) Thomas was a seaman out of Orkney. His birth has not been identified properly as there were 3 Thomas's baptised about that time. One clue is that his mother who died on Tyneside in 1843 was called Margaret and was about 80 years old. This suggests she is Margaret Flett of Firth and Stennes, wife of Thomas Clouston. There is a baptism that matches this marriage but only the year is given. It is possible because the marriage took place in February 1790 and the birth soon after.
    Thomas, the eldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth Clark disappears but the younger son John Clark moved his family to Hartlepool.
  • James Clouston (1819-86 Middlesborough) James Clouston arrived in Middlesborough by sea in 1843. He married and had four children.
  • Joseph Clouston (1800-56) Tynemouth Lighthouse Keeper Joseph Clouston and Ann Angus were married in Stromess by the Rev Charles Clouston. Between 1842 and 1844 the family, now with a daughter and 3 sons, moved to Burnham in Somerset. Shortly after the birth of another daughter they moved to Tynemouth where Joseph became the Lighthouse Keeper.
    The story of the demise of the family was told on the headstone found in Preston Cemetery, North Shields. William died in Burnham, Joseph died in 1856. In 1868 both the other sons had died Joseph in Lahore and John at sea. Margaret died in 1870 and her sister in 1878, neither had married. Ann Angus died in 1887 leaving a question if her husband and children had died who placed her name on the headstone?

  • James Clouston (1804-b.61) and Caroline Collier James Clouston married Caroline Collier in Gateshead in 1845, they settled in South Shields. He was 41 she, 23. I've been pondering on this for years, after all men married in their early 20's so why did James leave it so late. He was a Mariner so maybe he was always at sea. There is another possibility. In 1827 a Mariner called James Clouston married Jane Pollard at St. Hilda's South Shields. They had two sons. Jane and the two boys died in 1834/4 and James disappeared. Is it possible that the two men are one and the same.
    James' son Malcolm returned to Orkney to farm his Grandfather's land.
  • James Clouston (1822-99) and Sarah Harper James arrived in Gateshead in about 1846. The story has a heavy load of tradgedy one branch of his family (his son James) being wiped out by Tubercolosis in Staffordshire in the early part of the 20th Century.
  • Thomas Clouston (1823-1903) and the Russell, Kennedy and Main Connections Robert Kennedy (Master Mariner and Owner) and Isabella Russell (Merchants) married in London but both came from families north of the Tyne. The marriage produced daughters who maintained their mothers businesses after her death.
    Thomas a Ships Carpenter married Barbara Russell Kennedy in 1852. His wife and her sisters managed successful businesses in North Shields and between them managed the many children, although Barbara and Thomas had only one son who would inherit the business.
    Thomas and Barbara's eldest daughter, Isabella, married John Main a ships Engineer and in 1892 they emigrated to Western Canada. The story is told by their descendents and featured in the Northumberland & Durham Family History Society Journal.
  • John Clouston (1816-95) Aberdeen and Tyneside John appears in Aberdeen in 1838 when he marries Jessie Preston. In the early 1870's his eldest son William arrives on the Tyne. William's work diaries from the 1890's are held by the Tyneside Archive. By 1891 the rest of John's family including John and Jessie had also moved to Tyneside.