Morpeth/North Shields - Local Knowledge needed pls

Looking for a shove in the right direction here. Having hit
something of a brick wall regarding a direct ancestor (Walter Anderson
b c1865 North Shields, son of Walter Anderson, Master Mariner - on the
offchance it rings a bell), I'm trying to trace the family via
anecdotal cousins.

They are Pattersons, who owned a confectionary business in the area
from c1900-c1930. I have substantiated this via bmd/census/trade
directories, but have yet to make a link. I was told that Mr (John

myths...

Some people refer to Lord Mayors of towns where the tilte is simply
Mayor.. Happens quite frequently in Cambridge, which has a Mayor.
(Oxford has a Lord Mayor.)

Robert) Patterson became Lord Mayor of somewhere during this period, as
I'm not aware of local boundaries either then or now I'm looking for
some help with that. The businesses were located in Queen Alexandra
Road and Prudhoe Street, North Shields.

The names Allen & Reed may be connected to the family/business (I
think it was called Patterson & Reed at one point, and Mrs Margaret
Patterson was nee Allen)

Where might he have been Mayor of, and where would I look for a list of
Mayors? Also is anyone aware of any online resources newswise as
looking for obits might help me.

Eve McLaughlin...

LORD Mayor limits the number of towns, since most have plain mayors. The
obvious place is Newcastle on Tyne, but I can tell you that no one
called Patterson was Lord Mayor from 1910 to 1935, neither was there an
Alderman living in 1935 called Patterson.
Morpeth had a Mayor only, and similarly, no Pattersons 1910-35. The
Mayor there was a Phillipson with an exceptionally pretty Mayoress (his
daughter Daphne).
If you have a notion of another city where he might have lived, i will
have a look.

Richard N...

The mayor/lord mayor question is probably misleading as this is
anecdotal from the daughter of my Great-Aunt who used to visit them
when she was a child - I couldnt say which is was, but its likely to be
based in fact as this branch of my family is fairly sane. I'm hunting
through the disaster that is my filing system to find Mr Pattersons
approx as age I feel its unlikely he was Mayor before 1910, but
possible it was after 1935. Mm - found it, he was born in 1875 so
post-1935 is quite possible. I have an address of Queen Alexandra Road,
Preston, Tynemouth for 1906, but no idea of later residences. Thanks
for the help so far. I should be able to get an address from the early
1920s as their daughter died of TB, that will take a wee whiley though.
Thanks again
Richard Newbold

Any research suggestions need to be viable via the web or postal
service as I live in Shetland.

Hopefully,
Richard