John Thompson OLIVER [8195]

  General Notes:

OBITUARY MR. J T OLIVER .
News of the death of Mr J T Thompson Oliver, late assistant chief engineer to the North-Eastern Railway Company, at Newcastle, will be received with widespread regret. Mr Oliver, was the grandson of Mr Thomas Oliver, architect and surveyor, who brought out the well known Olivers map of Newcastle in 1830, and his father Mr Adam Oliver was an official of the N E R.
Mr Oliver who was an ''old boy" of Dr. Bruce's school, began his railway career under Mr T.E. Harrison, at that time engineer in chief of the N E R. That was in 1857 so that at the time of his retirement in 1913 he had a service with the company of 56 years. During that period he witnessed many important developments in the company's system, of a gigantic network af railways. He served under five general managers, and there were so five stationmasters of Newcastle during his long railway career.
Mr Oliver was formerly a member of the Newcastle Board of Guardians. One of the great interests of his life was the care of "Waifs & Strays" and in that oonnection he served for over thirty years as secretary of the Newcastle Ragged and Industrial Schools, most of the time as oo-secretary with the late Dr Spence Watson, while he was secretary for several years of the Netherton Reformatory, succeeding the late Mr R R Redmayne.
The funeral will take place at Jesmond Old Cemetery tomorrow at 2.45.
NOTE: The above is from a newspaper cutting dated Sept 2nd 1918.

Oliver John Thompson of the Waverley Hotel Whitley Bay Northumberland railway engineer died 30 August 1918 at Craig House Morningside Dr, Edinburgh. Probate Newcastle upon Tyne 11 November 1918 to Victoria Hopkins (wife of Edward Nathanial Hopkins) Effects £4801 16s 3d
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  Other Records

1. Census: England, 5 Apr 1891, St Andrew Newcastle on Tyne NBL. John is recorded as head of house aged 47 married a Civil Engineer born Newcastle on Tyne

2. Census: England, 31 Mar 1901, Jesmond Northumberland. John Thompson Oliver is recorded as head of house married aged 56 a civil engineer on his own account born in Newcastle upon Tyne

3. Census: England, 2 Apr 1911, Jesmond Northumberland. John is recorded as head of an 8 room house married age 66 civil engineer on the North Eastern Railway a worker born Northumberland

John married Jane BROWN [8196] [MRIN: 2667] in 1885 in Croydon SRY. (Jane BROWN [8196] was born circa 1846 and died on 7 May 1918 in Tynemouth NBL.)