Area: Francis Street

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF JOSHUA CHARLES BETTS (1870-1931) & HARRIET ISABELLA BETTS, OF 12 NELSON SQUARE, GEORGE STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED IN HULL, ON 23/12/1911. HIS WIFE MARGARET NEYLON (1893-1950) & TWO CHILDREN, ELLEN AND JOHN, LIVED AT 9 SPRING TERRACE, WATERLOO STREET, HULL AND 4 CARLTON PLACE, FRANCIS STREET, HULL. HE WORK […]

COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR, THOMAS CHAPMAN 12/96. Born in St. John's, New Brunswick, USA in 1865. Thomas moved to the UK and married Maud May Wingham in July 1902. The couple lived at 74 Francis Street, Hull and Thomas worked as a Hall Porter in a Club to make ends meet. Aged 49 at the time of enlistment, he could have left the fight to youn […]

BORN HULL, 6TH JUNE, 1888. SON OF THOMAS HENRY COLLEY & KATE JOY, AT 11 , FRANCIS STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). THIRD OF FOUR CHILDREN. BROTHERS THOMAS AND WILLIAM AND OLDER SISTER ANNE COLLEY. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1902. HE WORKED AS A PLUMMER WITH MR W L HARRISON, GEORGE STREET, HULL. HE EMIGRATED TO CANADA ON 20/10/1911. EMPLOYED BY […]

BORN BOLTON, LANCASHIRE, 1891. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM DAVENPORT AND MARTHA AINSWORTH, OF 24 JOSEPH LEE STREET, BOLTON. SECOND OF EIGHT CHILDREN. A PAWN BROKER'S ASSISTANT. HE ENLISTED AT BURY, IN 1909. SERVED WITH THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT AND LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS AS A REGULAR SOLDIER. AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR HE WAS APPOINTED AS DRILL INSTRU […]

BORN HULL 1890. SON OF JOHN & EMMA HOLLAND, OF 140 FOUNTAIN ROAD, (HDM ADDRESS) AND 14 , FRANCIS STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). EX 11549 WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS PICTURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 06/07/1915. * HIS BROTHER, GEORGE, ALSO SERVED IIN THE 4TH WYR. AND ANOTHER BROTHER, JACK SERVED IN THE 13TH EYR. HE IN MARRIED 19 […]

BORN ST MARYS, LEIGH, LANCS 1895. SON OF JOSEPH AND MARGARET KNOWLES, 7 STEPNEY GROVE, FLEET STREET, HULL. A GENERAL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS ON 23/07/1913, IN HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE WITHTHE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 13/10/1914, AGED 20. HIS 46  FRANCIS STREET, HULL, ADDRESS IS FROM THE HUL […]

BORN HULL 1890. SON OF JOSEPH LAUGHTON (1850-1915) & CLARA COOPER (1854-1913), OF 34, FRANCIS STREET, HULL AND DUNSWELL. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, 13/1223, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED ON 11/04/1918, AGED 28. HIS ARMY AFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, CATHERINE E. LAUGHTON, AT 17, WOODBINE TERRACE, REY […]

BORN HULL 1883. SON OF JOSEPH LAUGHTON (1850-1915) & CLARA COOPER (1854-1913). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN AT THIS 1901 CENSUS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN THE 13TH HULL PAL. KILLED AT SERRE ON 13/11/1916, AGED 33. HIS PROBATE ADDRESS WAS ENDYKE LANE. HIS BROTHER FRED AND FRANK ALSO DIED DURING THE WAR AND ARE COMMEMORATED TOGETHER ON THE DUNS […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF JAMES AND BRIDGET LYONS, OF 4 PARK PLAVE, MARLBOROUGH TERRACE, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND LATER 2 FISHER BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET, HULL (1919). THEY HAD FOUR SONS. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1913. HIS WIDOWED MOTHER, WAS UNABLE TO WORK AND MOVED TO 171 WINCOLMLEE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). JOHN THOMAS LYONS WAS EMPLOYED AS A […]

BORN HULL 1878. SON OF THOMAS & ELIZA CHAPMAN - 37 WESTBOURNE ST. FISHERMAN. BOARDED AT ABOVE ADDRESS IN 1901. SECOND ENGINEER, ON THE TRAWLER, 'HALCYON', LOST AT SEA, ON 19/02/1917, AGED 39. Halcyon, built by Cochrane & Cooper, Ltd., Beverley in 1898 and owned at the time of her loss by J. Leyman Jr. was a British trawler of 190 […]

BORN HULL 1893. KNOWN AS 'LAURIE'. SON OF TOM & MARIE LOUISA MITCHELL, OF 7 QUEENS TERRACE, ST PAULS STREET , 135 , FRANCIS STREET, HULL, AND 7, HOLBORN MOUNT, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). BROTHER TO ARTHUR AND TOM MITCHELL AND MRS EVA SHEPHERD. HE ENLISTED IN THE EYR TERRITORIALS AT HULL, ON 15/07/1909, AGED 17. […]

BORN SUTTON 1883. SON OF THOMAS LANCASTER AND MARIA PARKER.

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF MARK REVELL (1864-1933) & HANNAH EGGERS (1865-1938), OF 3 MYTON PLACE, CASTLE STREET. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. AN APPRENTICE TANNER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 20/10/1915. HIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS WAS 113 FRANCIS STREET, HULL. HE SERVED WITH THE 2ND/7TH WEST RIDING REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 09/03/ […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF GEORGE & MARY JANE RIGNALL, OF 5 EARLS ROW, CLEVELAND STREET, HULL AND 104, FRANCES STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A GENERAL LABOURER. LIVING AT THIS WILMINGTON ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE ON 17/04/1915. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 15/09 […]

Hull Pal Memorials write: Born in 1895, the only son of John Riley and Sarah Winterton, of 107, Hawthorne Avenue, Hull (War Pension address). Cyril's father died not long after, and at the time of the 1901 Census he and his mother were living with his maternal grandparents at 31 Francis Street West in Hull. She later moved to 85, Fountai […]

BORN HULL 1875. SON OF JAMES & ANNIE SCOTT. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN INCLUDING SIX SONS. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR MESSRS HORSLEY & SMITH, HEDON ROAD. HE HAD ALSO SERVED EIGHT YEARS IN INDIA AS A REGULAR SOLDIER. HE MARRIED ROSE ANN HILL (1881-1918), AT SCULCOATES, REGISTRY OFFICE HULL, IN 1911. THEIR DAUGHTER ROSE WAS BORN IN […]

BORN HULL 1884. SON OF WILLIAM H. SPOUSE & AVA E. SPOUSE, OF 3 JANES PLACE, FRANCIS STREET, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A COAL TRIMMER, BY THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS ON THE HUMBER DOCK. HE MARRIED ANNIE ELIZABETH MCDERMOTTM AT HULL, IN 1907. THEY LIVED WITH THEIR TWO SONS, AT 8 BOOTH STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) HE ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED AS P […]

BORN WHITBY 1880. SON OF CHARLES STEWARD (1847-1900) AND AGNES STEWARD, OF 7, MARLBOROUGH TERRACE, NORFOLK STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) AND 19, FRANCIS STREET, HULL (CWGC & WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND A SISTER. HIS WIDOWED MOTHER WAS A WARDROBE DEALER. SHE DIED ON 22/10/1921. HE WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER. HE WAS IMP […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & THE LATE FRANCIS TINDALL. PRESUMED DROWNED. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. On April 2nd, 1917, the British steel cargo ship BENLARIG, left Fremantle for Colombo with a cargo of wheat in bags and went missing. She was not heard of ever since. 37 CREW LOST. Benlarig was a Bine Line cargo requisitioned by […]

BORN HULL 1882. SON OF DANIEL TRAINOR (1843-1925) & HONORAH McCARTHY (1857-1929), AT 43, FRANCIS STREET, HULL AND 21, STAFFORD STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BOTH HIS PARENTS WERE BORN IN IRELAND. HE WAS ONE OF 12 CHILDREN (FOUR BROTHERS AND SEVEN SISTERS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE 7TH EYR. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, O […]