(Living) married (Living). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francesco married WALLER Beatrice Elizabeth (Betty). Beatrice (daughter of WALLER Arthur and HO Elizabeth Lydia) was born on 22 Mar 1922 in Shanghai, China; died on 11 Jun 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
date from funeral card

Died:
from funeral card

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 29 Sep 1939, 50 High Street, Egham, Surrey, England

Notes:

Best man for wedding to Doreen Brian Dunscombe - his friend from Fleet Air Arm
Residence at time of marriage: The Chaplaincy, Hornchurch, Essex, where father , Ernest, was chauffeur & Daisy was housekeeper. It was a home for deaconesses, Anglican “nuns.”

Norman married GRADWELL Doreen Iris on 4 Jan 1947 in St Barnabas Church, Southfields, Wandsworth, London, England, and was divorced in Jun 1959 in London, England. Doreen (daughter of GRADWELL Frederick Arthur and PRYOR Ellen (Eleanor) Mabel) was born on 10 Jul 1929 in 30a Penwith Road, Southfields, London; was christened in St Barnabas Church, Southfields, London; died on 21 Jun 2018 in Owen Sound, Grey County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Traveled Liverpool to Saint John on SS Empress of France, landed 05 March 1952
On arrival in Toronto, stayed at the Ford Hotel across from bus station, then lived in Long Branch near Brown’s Line.

Empress of England liner, Southampton To Halifax, train to Montreal, then train to toronto

Notes:

witnesses: Edward Gradwell, M.S. Dunscombe
Fred as Edward?

Francesco married BOTTERO Margaret. Margaret was born in 1875; died in 1958. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthur married HO Elizabeth Lydia. Elizabeth (daughter of HO Fook and LO SHUI CHOI Lucy) was born on 8 Sep 1894; died in ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 31 Mar 1901, 3, North Street, Egham, Surrey
• Census: 2 Apr 1911, 33 Queens Road, Egham, Surrey, England
• Census: 29 Sep 1939, 50 High Street, Egham, Surrey, England

Notes:

Name verified by Doreen COOPER FAWCETT, who met him.
Witness for Thomas Southam wedding 1927

Buried:
estimate

Ernest married SOUTHAM Daisy Hannah on 23 Jun 1923 in Chertsey, St Peter, Surrey, England. Daisy (daughter of SOUTHAM William George and PERKINS Mary Ann Ada) was born on 1 Jul 1901 in Lyne, Chertsey, Surrey; was christened on 21 Jul 1901 in Botleys And Lyne, Surrey, England; died in 1977 in Hammersmith, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 29 Sep 1939, 50 High Street, Egham, Surrey, England

Notes:

Witnesses to marriage 1923: William George Southam, Elsie Mabel Southam

Birth:
1939 register says 1 Jul 1900

Holy Trinity, Lyne?

Notes:

Married:
witnesses: William George SOUTHAM, Elsie Mabel SOUTHAM

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 2 Apr 1911, 51 Selwyn Ave., Richmond, Surrey

Notes:

Joined army with Teddy’s birth certificate, Second Battalion? Coldstream Guards. Served in Turkey in 1920; crossed the Gobi Desert. Served in Ireland during Irish Rebellion, getting bayonet wound in his neck. Probably served for 7 years with Coldstream Guards because he was married in uniform in 1927. Late 1920s, worked for Watneys Brewery as drayman in Mortlake. Later joined Territorial Army, was a Regimental Sergeant Major when WWII started, but became a Battery Sergeant Major in Royal Engineers. Stationed at Hatfield, then later elsewhere in England, manning searchlights with Royal Engineers. Royal Artillery took them over about 1940. Medically discharged for duodenal ulcer near the end of the war.
In 1945, took over as custodian and bartender in Drill Hall in Southfields, London, for Territorial Army for about 5 years. Lived with Ellen in adjoining apartment while Roy, Joyce, Maureen and Doreen, Norman and Lynda stayed at their house in Birdhurst Road.
***

England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 about Frederick Arthur Gradwell
Name:
Frederick Arthur Gradwell
Gender:
Male
Birth Date:
25 Jun 1904
Baptism Date:
17 Jul 1904
Baptism Place:
St. James, Ashted, Warwick, England
Father:
Edward Gradwell
Mother:
Charlotte Gradwell
FHL Film Number:
1545522
Reference ID:
item 3 p 132


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Source Information:
Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Birth:
registered in Aston, Vol 6d, page 251

Died:
Queensway General Hospital

Frederick married PRYOR Ellen (Eleanor) Mabel on 22 Jun 1927 in St Barnabas Church, Southfields, London. Ellen (daughter of PRYOR Albert Newton and KEMBLE Nellie (Nana)) was born on 14 Mar 1903 in 66 Vanderbilt Road, Southfields, London, England; was christened on 19 May 1903 in Wandsworth Saint Anne; died on 16 Jan 1993 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada; was buried on 20 Jan 1993 in Sanctuary Park Cemetery, Etobicoke, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 2 Apr 1911, 24 Algarve Road, Earlsfield, London, England
• Census: 29 Sep 1939, 1 Miller's Mead, Colliers Wood High Street, Mitcham M.B., Surrey, England

Notes:

Birth:
sub-district springfield, count of london, birth reg Wandsworth, june 1903, 1d, #755

Census:
living with Mabel Glass family