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Cookson, registered as Catherine Ann Davies, was born on 20 June 1906 [1] [2] at 5 Leam Lane [3] in Tyne Dock, South Shields, County Durham, England. She was known as "Katie" as a child. [ 4 ] She moved to East Jarrow , which would become the setting for one of her best-known novels, The Fifteen Streets .
Catherine Cookson was born as Catherine (Katie) Ann McMullen on 20 June 1906. She never knew her father and was brought up by her illiterate and uneducated step-grandfather John McMullen, her grandmother Rose and the woman she initially thought to be her sister, Kate Fawcett.
Cookson (registered as Catherine Ann Davies) was born at 5 Leam Lane in Tyne Dock, South Shields, County Durham and known as “Kate” as a child. She moved to East Jarrow, County Durham which would become the setting for one of her best-known novels, The Fifteen Streets.
The child grew up in her grandparents' home in the industrial port of Tyne Dock in South Shields, England. Her grandmother died when she was seven, and her grandfather and alcoholic mother had a tenuous relationship.
Aug 2, 2020 · Born as an illegitimate child to an impoverished Catholic family, Catherine Cookson emerged from the ashes of one of the worst starts in life to become one of the most cherished writers of the region.
Popular British writer, Catherine Cookson (1906-1998), was in kinship care as a child. Catherine Cookson was born Catherine Ann Davies into poverty to Alexander Davies and Catherine Fawcett in Jarrow, a town in north-east England on the River Tyne and then part of County Durham.
Jun 11, 1998 · In 1976, Cookson ended her near half-century of self-imposed exile and was welcomed back to the north-east like a long-lost, well-loved queen. Royalty, in fact, came to her. In 1986, the Prince...
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