New to this and looking for a lead.

[notanotherminer]

The 1901 census also holds a clue to Annie's name before her marriage to Jasper. Their son,Thomas, was living with an uncle, Thomas Usher, at 19 Pensher Street, Gateshead. Thomas himself was enumerated as Thomas Usher Dinning.

RG13/4757/129/page 14 Crown Copyright TNA

This leads to the following marriage:

Dinning Jasper Dec qtr 1892 Chester le Street vol 10a page 798
Indexed on the same page was Ann Usher

[Colin Rowledge]

And to follow Graham's lead -

Marriage - Oct-Dec 1892 in Chester le Street - Jasper Dinning and Ann Usher - vol.10a page 798

Death - Jan-Mar 1911 in Chester le Street - Jasper Dinning age 49 - vol.10a page 328

Colin

[Johno]

Right it certainly looks like all this information is on the right lines after the last two posts. I know my dad had cousins called Usher so I'm going to be spending a fair bit of money over the next few months to follow up these.
Thank you very much for your help. I'm sure I'll soon be able to work out how to research these things myself with a bit of luck.

[notanotherminer]

I'm sure I'll soon be able to work out how to research these things myself with a bit of luck.

I think it would be worth your while having a read of our Beginners guide to Genealogy to which I posted a link in your Introductory thread. For your convenience I'll give you the link again. Just click here.