Area: Roxburgh Street, HU5 3NR

BORN ANLABY COMMON 1887. SON OF GEORGE HENRY BRODDLE (1860-1926) & EMMA ELIZABETH BRODDLE, OF 13, HULL ROAD, HULL. A FORMER RECKITTS WORKER AND MILKMAN. HE MARRIED, MATILDA HANNAH ELIZABETH CHANDLER (1889-1975), AT SKIRLAUGH, IN NOVEMBER 1908. HIS WIFE MATILDA & FOUR CHILDREN, LIVED AT 10, OBAN AVENUE, DE LA POLE AVENUE, HULL (1 […]

Thank you to Peter Bonner for the following information, sent on 02/09/2017: Peter Brown was born on the 8th February 1878, at Scagglethorpe, in Yorkshire, close to Malton, and was baptised at Settrington church on August 25th 1878. He would spend much of his early life in this rural area and eventually became a farm worker like his fath […]

BORN HULL 15/01/1903. SON OF MATHEW HENRY CRANSWICK (1860-1928) & THE LATE KATE WRIGHT (1863-1909), OF 14 ROXBURGH STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL. THIS WAS HIS 1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 04/09/1915. JOINED THE ROYAL NAVY AS A BOY SAILOR. DIED OF FLU, ON 03/11/1918, AGED 15. BURIED IN HULL. HIS BROTHER, LANCE CO […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF MATTHEW HENRY CRANSWICK (1860-1928) & THE LATE KATE WRIGHT (1863-1909), OF 14 ROXBURGH STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL. THIS WAS HIS 1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HIS BROTHER, CAPTAIN, WILLIAM CRANSWICK, EYR, LIVED AT THE SAME ADDRESS AND 6 VINE TERRACE, NORWOOD STREET, HULL. MATHEW ENLISTED HULL […]