William Armstrong (1804 – ) was an English concert hall songwriter and performer from Newcastle upon Tyne.
William Armstrong was born around 1804 in Painter Heugh[1] in Newcastle.
His father was a shoemaker owning a business in Dean Street.
William himself was apprenticed to a Mr Wardle, a painter of White Cross (the site of a previous market cross dating from 400–500 years previous) in Newgate Street.
He was admired as the singer "Willie Armstrong" as well as being appreciated as a songwriter, and was known as a performer who enjoyed singing his own songs.