James and Margaret the first to arrive in Hartlepool 1863----1869.

It is my belief that James and Margaret Flounders  (nee Mitchell / Douglas ) had six ( 6 ) surviving Children when they first arrived in Hartlepool, most of the children were born in or around Newcastle-on-Tyne

Elizabeth (b) Berwick-0n-Tweed, 1844.( married James Murray )
Thomas (b) Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1846. (my Grandfather ) (married Ellen Hind )
Lydia (b) Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1850.    ( married Richard Wanley )
James (b) Gateshead, 1853.                   ( married Sarah Jane Shaw )
Margaret (b) Newcastle -on-Tyne 1859 (married John William Dixon )
Agnes (b) Newcastle-on-Tyne 1863.     (married George Wanley )
 " Richard Wanley and George Wanley were brothers "

All the above had died prior to my birth ,  I knew  none of the above with the one exception, John William Dixon, known to me as " Uncle John Willi, " as a small child I used to run the occasional message for him.

As the last child, Agnes, was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1863, it can safely be assumed that the family arrived in Hartlepool between 1863 and April 1869 the time of the death of James. as James's occupation was a Moulder, , it  is possible that  he may have arrived in Hartlepool to obtain employment in Spion Kop foundary.

1864.Spion Kop Foundary built.
1864.Denton Gray built their first ship, the " Sepia "
1864.Middleton Dock Gate Cottages built.
1864.A Post Office was established in High Street.
1865.Hartlepool Hospital opens.
1868.Ralph Ward Jackson ( C ) Elected M.P. for the Hartlepool's