There appear to be very few references to the families below in official records.
He was born in Glasgow and moved to Northumberland where he married Ellen Unknown, a lass from Newcastle who was the same age as Willliam, in spring of 1887 in Newcastle on Tyne. Fifteen months later their daughter Sarah Ann was born. The 1891 census shows them living at 115 Hornborough Street, Newcastle with William working as a 'healder' up, (possibly in one of the shipyards).
Ten years later they had moved to 8 Tyne Terrace, still in the Byker district of Newcastle, and William was a plater's helper in a shipyard.
William Richard Pyner married Isabella Watson in the spring of 1892, possibly because Isabella was pregnant as their first son, Joseph Watson Pyner was born six months later, although he died at the age of eighteen months. Two years later, in the autumn of 1894, they had another son who was named after his father. In 1901 Isabella and her son were living at 24 Beacon Street, North Shields. There is no mention of Isabella's husband so possibly William was a fisherman and away at sea on census night.
In 1904 they had another son who was called Joseph Watson Pyner and in 1913 they had a daughter called Isabella. Isabella's husband was killed in the First World War on the 26th February 1918 when they were living at 66 Charlotte Street, North Shields. William was the skipper of the SS Trawler Rambler.
I believe that the family continued to live in the Tynemouth area as Isabella died in 1943 and her son, William Richard, nineteen years later in the autumn of 1962 at the age of 68.
Joseph Watson married Bertha Davies in 1933 and they had three children - two boys and a girl. Joseph was a member of the Royal Naval Reserve and was skipper of the HMS Saon when he died on the 13th July 1940. This may have been a trawler which was requisitioned by the Navy for the duration of the war.
