John Samson, b: 1930 - Middlesborough, England

^{1969 Armstrong first person on moon}
^{1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl}
^{1989 Berlin wall falls}
^{1991 Persian Gulf War}
^{1991 Break-up of the Soviet Union}

^{1922 USSR formed by Soviet states}
^{1939 - 1945 World War II}
^{1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)}
^{1950 Korean War begins}
^{1964 - 1973 Vietnam War}

^{1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy}
^{1899 Boer War begins}
^{1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight}
^{1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage}
^{1914 - 1918 World War I}



		^{Charles Henry Samson}^{b.1900 Middlesborough, England d.1960 Middlesborough, England}

	^John Samson^{b.1930 Middlesborough, England d.1999 Whitby, England}

^{Carolyn Samson}^{b. d.}		^{Mary Ellen Robson}^{b.1899 Hebburn, England d.1934 Middlesborough, England}

^{Loraine Samson}^{b. d.}

^{Wendy Samson}^{b. d.}		^{Wilfred Benson}^{b.1907 Whitby, England d.1984 Whitby, England}

	^{Joyce Benson}^{b.1937 Whitby, England d.2001 James Cook Hos, England}

		^{Lilly Hughes}^{b.1910 Wrexham, Wales d.}