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GRADWELL Frederick Arthur

Male 1904 - 1984  (79 years)


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  • Name GRADWELL Frederick Arthur 
    Birth 25 Jun 1904  Back 118 Green Lane, Aston, U.D., Sub-District Of Deritend, County Of Birmingham, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • registered in Aston, Vol 6d, page 251
    Baptism 15 Jul 1906  Saint Elizabeth Vineyard, Richmond Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Census 2 Apr 1911  51 Selwyn Ave., Richmond, Surrey Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Burial 1984  Riverside Crematorium Chapel, Etobicoke, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 26 Mar 1984  Etobicoke, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Queensway General Hospital
    Person ID I19  Lynda Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Nov 2020 

    Father GRADWELL Edward William,   b. 30 Nov 1869, New Bartholomew Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Nov 1905, Aston Union Workhouse, Erdington, Warwickshire Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years) 
    Mother BROWNE (BROWN) Charlotte Mary,   b. 12 Oct 1873, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 3 Nov 1895  St. Bartholemew’s Church, Birmingham, Warwickshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • Witnesses: William Gradwell, Mary Copus
    Family ID F71  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family PRYOR Ellen (Eleanor) Mabel,   b. 14 Mar 1903, 66 Vanderbilt Road, Southfields, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jan 1993, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years) 
    Marriage 22 Jun 1927  St Barnabas Church, Southfields, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Children 
     1. GRADWELL Roy William,   b. 14 Nov 1927, Wandsworth, SW 17, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Feb 2013, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     2. GRADWELL Doreen Iris,   b. 10 Jul 1929, 30a Penwith Road, Southfields, London Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jun 2018, Owen Sound, Grey County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
    Family ID F13  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Jan 2014 

  • 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.
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      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. [6]

  • Sources 
    1. [S17] Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth of Frederick Arthur GRADWELL.

    2. [S54] Father Hudson Society, Gradwell File Part 1 & Part 2.

    3. [S150] 1911 England Census.

    4. [S40] Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage of Edward Gradwell & Charlotte Browne.

    5. [S18] Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage of Frederick Edward Gradwell & Ellen Mabel Pryor.

    6. [S79] Soldier’s Service and Pay Book for Fred Gradwell.