Area: Spring Bank

BORN DURHAM 1883. SON OF RICHARD SOUTHERN BIRKETT (1855-1927) & MARGARET EMILY BIRKETT (1855-1914), OF 8, TINTERN STREET, SUNDERLAND. HE HAD ONE BROTHER AND ONE SISTER. HE BOARDED AT 54, SPRING BANK, HULL (1911 CENSUS). WORKED FOR FOUR YEARS AS TOBACONIST WITH MR J W LOCKING. HE MARRIED AMELIA WEBSTER (1875-1958), AT HULL, IN 1913. […]

BORN BATTERSEA LONDON 1891. SON OF ALEXANDER FRANCES (1857-1894) AND FANNY ELLEN MAYSTON (1857-1947). ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HE LIVED IN HULL AND WORKED AS AN ASSISTANT TEACHER AT HULL'S SEAMAN ORPHANGE, SPRINGBANK. HE LATER LIVED LEISTON, SUFFOLK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 17/10/1915, AG […]

BORN HULL 26/02/1897. HIS GUARDIAN, MRS JANE SHEPHERD, LIVED AT 659 SPRING BANK, 19 BRUNSWICK AVENUE, ST GEORGES ROAD AND AT 2 PRETORIA STREET, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL. HE WAS EDUCATED AT WHEELER STREET COUNCIL SCHOOL AND WORKED AS A GROCER'S ASSISTANT. HE EMIGRATED TO CANADA IN MARCH 1914 AND WORKED AS A CARPENTER. (HDM 29/09/1919). H […]

BORN HULL 1892. SERVED AS 'SMITH'. SON OF FREDRICK & JENNIE SIMPSON, OF 29 CANNING STREET, HULL (1901) & 41, SPRING BANK, HULL (1911 CENSUS). A MARINE FIREMAN. ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED ON 06/03/1917, AGED 24. BURIED AT BIENVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE.

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE SIDNEY TAYLOR 10/1008. Born 20/02/1894 in York, the second of four children to Thomas Bottomley Taylor and Jane Webster Nottingham, of Wood Grange, 435 Holderness Road, Hull and Brantingham. From a wealthy family, he had three brothers. Educated at Bridlington Grammar School and a Farm Pupil at Barnard […]