Peter Lee
- Born: 20 Jan 1864, Trimdon Grange, County Durham England
- Marriage (1): Alice Thompson on 29 Feb 1888 in Haswell Wesleyan Chapel, Durham England
- Died: 16 Jun 1935, Wheatley Hill, County Durham England at age 71
General Notes:
1871 Census RG10/4971 folio xx page 10: Living Haswell Plough, Durham:aged 6
1881 census RG11/4962 folio xx page 10: living Pittington, Durham aged 16 coal miner
Peterlee is one of the North East's new towns, though few know it is also the site of a deserted medieval village called Yoden. The modern town was created in 1948, to rehouse growing populations from nearby mining villages. It is named after Mr Peter Lee, an important miner's leader who became the chairman of England's first all Labour council at Durham in 1909.Lee was born in 1864 at Trimdon Grange, a colliery village in eastern Durham and at the age of ten he started work as a pony driver at Littletown Colliery, just outside Durham City. By the age of sixteen he had achieved the status of a coal hewer. In 1886 Lee emigrated to the United States, where he worked in the mines of Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, before returning to County Durham in 1887. He died in 1935 at the age of seventy.
Peter married Alice Thompson on 29 Feb 1888 in Haswell Wesleyan Chapel, Durham England. (Alice Thompson was born on 29 Sep 1864 in Wingate, County Durham England and died in 1944.)
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