Death
Sarah Skipsey died 9 August 1902 age 73.
Joseph Skipsey died in the house of his son Cuthbert at 5 Kells Gardens, Low Fell, Gateshead, on the 3rd September 1903, aged seventy-one. He was interred in Gateshead Cemetery. Two of his five sons and the eldest of three daughters survived him.
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