Area: Haddon Street

BORN BRADENHAM, BUCKS 1884. WIFE ANNIE & SON LIVED ABOVE -1911 ADDRESS. MOTHER IN HIGH WYCOMBE, BUCKS. COAL MAN. MEMBER OF THE HULL & DISTRICT DRUIDS ORDER, WHICH HAD 1,096 MEMBERS SERVING. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 13/11/1914, AGED 31. BURIED IN LEICESTER.HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 9TH AUGUST 1915, AND IN THE HULL […]

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF  MRS BUCHAN AT 30 HADDON STREET, HULL. PRESUMED DROWNED, ON 21/01/1916, AGED 17. The Hull trawler EARL (H436) was reported missing in the North Sea on 21/1/1916. The Hull trawler EARL (1916), owned by the Great Northern Steam Fishing Company, was on Saturday given up for lost. The vessel which carried a crew of nin […]

BORN BRIDLINGTON 1896. SON OF ALLISON CLAXTON (1865-1939) & MARY WILSON (1865-1936), OF 39, HADDON STREET, HULL, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY ENGINE CLEANER SINCE 19. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 14/09/1914. HIS ARMY RECORDS, DESCRIBE HI […]

BORN DONCASTER 1879. LIVED IN HULL. SON OF HARRY (1849-1917) AND EMMA COLLINS, OF DONCASTER. PARENTS DECEASED. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. HE MARRIED ON 22/08/1907. HUSBAND OF SARAH CAROLINE PATCHING (1880-1941) AND FATHER OF FIVE CHILDREN THEY LIVED AT 3, EDNA GROVE, HADDON STREET, HULL, (OFF HAWTHORN AVENUE). HE WORKED FOR T […]

Born Bridlington 12/08/1892. Son of John William Creaser (1872-1929) and the late Mary Alice Fidler (1873-1903), of 9, May Villa, Haddon Street, Hull, England; Worked with his cousin in Scarborough as a Butcher's assistant. Emigrated to Canada, where he worked as a butcher. Married Theresa Runham in 1916. Husband of Theresa White (former […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WILLIAM GREEN 12/171. Born Hull in 1895, details are thin on the ground otherwise. William was an orphan, and it appears, an only child. He was adopted by a Mr and Mrs Skinner of 26 Haddon Street, Hawthorn Avenue, Hull. he was employed as a Butcher, for Mr Gibbins, of Woodcock Street, Hull. When war came […]

BORN BRADFORD 07/11/1876. SON OF JOHN H. & MARY ANN HOLDSWORTH, AT 14, HOWARD STREET, HORTON, BRADFORD. HE MOVED TO HULL IN THE EARLY 1890'S. HE MARRIED IN HULL, IN 1899. HIS WIFE HENRIETTA SOPHIA (COLLIER), LIVED AT 28, HADDON STREET, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED AT THE HULL ICE COMPANY AND ALSO AS A FUR […]

BORN HULL 1890. SON OF SAMUEL NEWBURY (1849-1929) & LATE ELIZABETH ANN COLLINSON (1850-1921) OF 41 HADDON STREET, HULL. SON OF A FISHERMAN AND FISH DOCK LABOURER. ONE OF ELEVEN SIBLINGS, HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND SIX SISTERS. FOUR SONS WERE LOST IN THE WAR. HE WORKED AS A TRAWLER, TRIMMER. ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. LOST AT […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF SAMUEL NEWBURY (1849-1929) & ELIZABETH ANN COLLINSON (1850-1921), OF 41, HADDON STREET, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS AN ENGINE CLEANER, FOR THE HULL AND BARNSLEY RAILWAY LINE. HE HAD ENLISTED IN THE HULL TERRITORIALS, ON 29/02/1912 AND ENLISTED WHEN WAR BEGAN ON 0 […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE WALTER REGINALD RIDER 12/1372. Born in Hull, 1894, Walter was known as "Reg", the son of Walter and Alice Rider of 3 Park Avenue, Haddon Street, Hull. His father died in 1902 and Alice married Charles Penny. Walter served his apprenticeship as a Pork Butcher, and worked for the Hull & Barnsley Railway […]

BORN SOUTH SHIELDS, 1894. ELDEST SON OF DAVID & MARY ANN ELIZABETH SIMPSON, OF 64 HADDON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS).  HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED WITH THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. TRANSFERRED TO THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/07/1917, AGED 23. DURING A SUCCESSFUL, N […]