Area: Finsbury Grove, Providence Row

BORN SUTTON 1889. SON OF MRS ELIZABETH SHEPHERDSON, AT 62, CLIFTON STREET, HULL AND 36, FINSBURY GROVE, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED DURING THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE, ON 23/03/1918, AGED 29. COMMEMORATED AT THE POZIERES MEMORIAL. Spring Offensive […]

BORN HULL 18/09/1894. SON OF HENRY BRAND BLANSHARD (1862-1946) & ALICE HURDMAN (1862-1949), AT 4 FINSBURY GROVE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE LIVED WITH GRANDMOTHER AND SEVEN SIBLINGS AGED 5-21 YEARS AT THIS SAME ADDRESS. EDUCATED AT PARK ROAD SCHOOL. WORKED FOR THE HULL COUNCIL SANITARY DEPARTMENT AS A GENERAL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN […]

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF FRANK BOOTH (1859-1931) AND MARY JANE BOOTH (1863-1895), AT 35, LOWER UNION STREET (1901 CENSUS) AND 28, FINSBURY GROVE, PROVIDENCE ROW, HULL. HE HAD THREE SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS. ERNEST MARRIED MARIA LYONS, AT HULL, IN 1911. THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN, LIVING AT 2, GEORGES PLACE, COACH AND HORSES YARD, MYTON GATE, […]

BORN HASTING 1882. SON OF MRS M F BUMSTEAD & STEPFATHER WILLIAM G STRETTON. CWGC ADDRESS

BORN HULL 1875. ONLY CHILD OF HENRY & NANCY GREEN AT 17 HODGSON STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A HAY LABOURER. HE MARRIED LILLIAN SHEARSMITH (1876-1916), AT ST MATTHEWS CHURCH, HULL, ON 03/12/1894. HIS WIFE LILLIAN AND FOUR CHILDREN, LIVED AT 17 HODGSON STREET AND AT 6 PRAGUE TERRACE, PENDRILL STREET, HULL.  HE ENLISTED IN […]

BORN HULL 1874. SON OF WILLIAM SMITH, OF 20, FINSBURY GROVE, HULL. HIS WIFE THE LATE ESTHER (HETTY) PAUL, LIVED IN BURNLEY (1901 CENSUS). SERVED IN THE BOER WAR. ENLISTED AND SERVED AS COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR, IN THE 17 WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED ON 01/09/1916, AGED 42. BURIED AT LEEDS (BECKETT STREET) CEMETERY, YORKSHIRE, UK. HIS GR […]

BORN HULL 1901. SON OF ALICE (1866-1935) & JOHN WILLIAM WHIPHAM (1837-1915), OF 37 SOMMERSCALES STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND  9 , FINSBURY GROVE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FORUR BROTHERS. GEORGE & WILLIAM WHIPHAM SERVED AT SAME ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 53RD DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, A […]