Area: North Ferriby, East Riding

BORN NORTH FERRIBY, 1893. SON OF GEORGE & ADA IN NORTH FERRIBY. HE LIVED HIMSELF OFF NEWLAND AVENUE - 1911 CENSUS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED AND PHOTOGRAPH PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 7TH OCTOBER 1915. * Private Gilbert Atkin, late summer porter, Brough, who died in General Hospital, France, on October 5th 1915, as a result of g […]

George Danby Bell was born in Etton on 27 December 1897 to Herbert William Bell, a farm labourer, and Sarah Ann Bell, of Swanland, North Ferriby. Three years after he was born he was living with his parents in Hessle and 10 years later, at the time of the 1911 Census, the family were in North Ferriby. By that time George had a siste […]

BORN NORTH FERRIBY 1894. HULL PAL. SON OF CHARLES DOUGHTY & ELLEN MARGARET IRELAND, ELLESMERE, NORTH FERRIBY. DOW FROM 4/6/16. Hull Pal Memorials write: DAY 28. PRIVATE BENJAMIN IRELAND 10/261.Born 9th September 1894, Benjamin was the youngest of seven children to Charles and Ellen Ireland of Ellesmere, North Ferriby, Hull. An Archit […]

BORN COTTINGHAM 1878. SON OF GEORGE & SARAH JACKSON - WEST VILLA, COTTINGHAM. WIFE HILDA JACKSON LIVED FERRIBY. ENLISTED AT HESSLE. SERVED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 06/11/1917, AGED 40. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 07/11/1918. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE COTTINGHAM WW1 MEMORIAL, HALLGATE. HE IS BUR […]

BORN WOMERSLEY, YORKSHIRE, 1883. SON OF GEORGE & ANNIE. HIS WIFE GERTRUDE LIVED AT 5 BRICKYARD COTTAGES, NORTH FERRIBY, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED BEVERLEY. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 5747, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 10TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 22/08/1917, AGED 34. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WER […]

Born Beverley July 1888. Son of Thomas and Annie Lazenby, of North Ferriby, Yorks; husband of Gertrude Lazenby, of North Newbald, York. Private Fred Lazenby was the brother of Charles and William Lazenby who were also was killed in action in WW1. In 1911 Fred was a Farm Foreman and lived in Melton Brickyard with his family. Fred (Reg […]

Private Charles Lazenby was called up for service on the 12th December 1917 with the 53rd (Young Soldiers) Batallion Durham Light Infantry, but was later transferred to the 51st Battalion Durham Light Infantry. His Regimental number was 92051. Charles was born on the 12th November 1899 in Beverley, Yorkshire. He was killed in action […]

PRIVATE WILLIAM ARTHUR LAZENBY MM 32914. Born Beverley. Son of Thomas William and Annie Eliza Lazenby, of 11, Church Road., North Ferriby, Hull. A Grocer before the war, he enlisted at Hull City Hall, joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment. William was fatally wounded during the Spring fighting in 1918 and withdrawn to th […]

BORN HULL 1882. LIVED ABOVE 1891. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. ADRIATIC SS was a British cargo steamer of 3,028grt that sailed from Newport for Marseille with coal (Admiralty charter) on the 31st October 1916 - missing, presumed war loss Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?141325

George Herbert  Shaw was born in Hull on 12/04/1865. He was the son of John Shaw (1833-1910) and Eliza Joyce (1834-1912), and was educated at Hull College, and in France, Denmark and Germany. John Shaw was a European Corn Merchant. He married Clara Ann Ingleby at Hull in 1890. They had four boys named, Arthur, Edward, Philip and Frank, […]

BORN NORTH FERRIBY 14/05/1895. ELDEST SON OF HAROLD HELMSING & ETHEL (BAXTER) SISSONS FROM NORTH FERRIBY. HE WAS EDUCATED AT RUGBY SCHOOL AND WORKED FOR HIS FATHER WHO WAS A DIRECTOR OF THE SISSONS LTD FIRM. NORMAN GAVE UP HIS COMMERCIAL CAREER TO JOIN THE EAST RIDING IMPERIAL YEOMANRY THE DAY AFTER WAR WAS DECLARED. THREE MONTHS L […]

BORN NORTH FERRIBY, 02/07/1894. SON OF GEORGE & MARY ANN SPROWSON, OF STATION ROAD, NORTH FERRIBY. SECOND OF EIGHT CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A YOUNG FARM LAD (1911 CENSUS). HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY, ON 10/01/1913. DIED ON THE HMS BULWARK EXPLOSION, ON 26/11/1914, AGED 21. HMS Bulwark was part of the 5th Battle Squadron and at t […]

BORN SOUTH FERRIBY, 1887. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY THOMPSON (1856-1929) AND HARRIETT THOMPSON (1859-1947). HE HAD EIGHT BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. A BRICKMAKE (1911 CENSUS) AND FORMER HULL POLICEMAN. HE MARRIED EDITH BOWSKIN (1888- 1954), CLANFORD, BRIGG, LINCS., IN 1910. HIS WIFE EDITH & THEIR FOUR DAUGHTERS LIVED 6 BRICKYARD COTTA […]

BORN LITTLE WEETON YORKS, 1895. SON OF JOHN (1847-1934) AND ELLEN TOMLINSON (1860-1920), OF WALKINGTON, BEVERLEY. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS A FARM LABOURER AT KIRKELLA GRANGE, HULL (1911 CENSUS). THEN WORKED FOR McILLWAINES OIL MILLS, AT STONEFERRY, HULL. HE LATER RESIDED IN NORTH FERRIBY WITH HIS WIFE AND […]

BORN SWANLAND, YORKSHIRE 1889. SON OF HENRY WAUDBY (1862-1935) & LIZZIE CLARKSON WAUDBY (1863-1946) OF 6 CHURCH COTTAGE, NORTH FERRIBY (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A COACHMAN. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HE RESIDED IN NORTH FERRIBY. ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 30919, 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 05/11/1916, AGE […]

BORN SWANLAND, YORKSHIRE 1884. SON OF HENRY WAUDBY (1862-1935) & LIZZIE CLARKSON WAUDBY (1863-1946) OF 6 CHURCH COTTAGE, NORTH FERRIBY (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A COACHMAN. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. . Lance Corporal William Atkinson Waudby (brother of Alfred Neaves Waudby who was also killed in action in WW1) served with the York and Lan […]

BORN BEEFORD, DRIFFIELD, YORKSHIRE, 01/12/1892. SECOND SON OF THOMAS WILSON & CATHERINE USHER, OF GARTH COTTAGE, NORTH FERRIBY. SON OF A COACHMAN. HIS MOTHER WAS FROM HORNSEA. EDUCATED AT TURNER MEMORIAL SCHOOL, NORTH FERRIBY. WORKED AS A GARDENER, AT MILTON ABBEY, BLANDFORD, DORSET. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4.5 INCHES TALL, 34-36 IN […]

BORN NORTH FERRIBY, 1881. SON OF JOSEPH ASHTON & JANET B WILSON. MARRIED 1901. HIS WIFE, EDITH LAWS LIVED 7 MOUNTS AVE, BOOTLE, LANCS. HE WAS A WAITER 1ST CLASS, ON THE HMS LUSITANIA, TORPEDOED IN 1915 AND IS  COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, LONDON. LUSITANIA Rms; propulsion: quadruple screw, four direct-acting Parsons st […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. SGT ERNEST WILLIAM WOODS 12/1297. Born 26th April 1880, Ernest was the youngest of two sons to Thomas and Matilda Woods of 18 St James Square, Hull. A Brush maker by trade. On 07th July 1910, he married Annie Jeanette Gospel (1888-1966) at the St Barnabas Church, Hull. The couple moved to 1 Humber Road, North […]