Area: Thoresby Street

BORN HULL 1897. HULL PAL. SON OF HARRY CHRISTOPHER BARRETT (1865-1934) AND KATE ANTHONY, OF 4, BRENTWOOD VILLAS, REYNOLDSON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 89, THORESBY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE LIVED ABOVE WITH SISTER ETHER AND YOUNG BROTHER JAMES. UNMARRIED MAN. A COMMERCIAL CLERK AND EX BLUNDELL'S PAINT WORKER. DESCRIBED […]

BORN BARNSLEY, YORKSHIRE, 1861. SON OF EDWIN BOOTH & ANN ADSHEAD. MARRIED AT HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, HULL, ON 20/10/1902. HIS WIFE JANE ELIZABETH REDFERN LIVED AT 37 THORESBY STREET, HULL. A MASTER MARINER, SINCE 04/07/1881. SKIPPER OF THE CARGO SHIP 'OTTO'. HE DIED OF SICKNESS, AT DUNKIRK, ON 20/01/1916, AGED 55. HE LEFT £901, IN HIS W […]

BORN HULL 1896. ELDEST SON OF ROBERT HENRY & LOUISE DIXON, OF 46 THORESBY STREET (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS) & LATER 18 NORMAN TERRACE, ROUNDHAY, LEEDS (CWGC ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A CLERK AT MESSRS, BLUNDELL, SPENCE & CO. HIS FATHER WORKED IN THE ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT AT THE GUILDHALL. HE ENLISTED IN THE 1ST HULL PALS. 10TH EAST YOR […]

BORN HULL 1890. SON OF LYDIA BENN DRAYTON (1857-1941) & THE LATE JOHN DRAYTON (1849-1905) OF 91 THORESBY STREET, HULL HIS BROTHERS, PERCY, ARTHUR & CEDRIC DRAYTON SERVED FROM SAME ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS. HE ALSO HAD TWO SISTERS, GERTRUDE DONALDSON AND IDA GLENN. AN IRON MERCHANTS CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 25/02/1916, AGED 25 YEARS AND […]

BORN HOLBORN, LONDON 1882. A SHIPPING CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. HIS WIFE LILLY (HEWITT) AND TWO SONS, LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HIS PARENTS LIVED AT 106 FINSBURY PARK, LONDON. HE SERVED WITH THE 24TH TYNESIDE IRISH. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 17/04/1917, AGED 34. BURIED AT ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "JUST AS I A […]

BORN HULL 1899. ELDEST SON OF HENRY & AMELIA GREEN, AT 131 WELBECK STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 103 , THORESBY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A BOOTMAKER AND DEALER. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES (ROYAL BERKSHIRE) REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 05/05/1918, AGED 19. U […]

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF GEORGE HENRY & LOUISA ROSETTA JENNISON, OF HULL. HIS GRANDMOTHER LIVED AT 55, THORESBY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED ON 22/10/1918, AGED 20. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS GRANDMOTHER, ANNIE M JENNISON, AT THIS ADDRESS. HE IS BURIED AT […]

BORN HULL 1891. HULL PAL. SON OF ROBERT WATSON & HANNAH LEIGHTON ABOVE. Born in April 1891, Oscar was the fourth of five children to Robert and Hannah Rounding of 19 Thoresby Street, Hull. A Law Clerk before the war he queued to enlist on the morning of 1st September 1914, and only 127 men in the entire city were more keen than Oscar to […]

BORN DUDLEY, WORCESTER, 1881. SON OF JOHN MADDOCK. HE ENLISTED IN PONTEFREACT. SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE 3RD KING'SOWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. HE DIED SUDDENLY, AT HOME, AT 138 THORESBY STREET. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 16TH NOVEMBER 1915. HE HAD COMPLAINED OF A PAIN IN HIS HEART THE PREVIOUS DAY AND DIED BEFOR […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF RUEBEN & KATE PALMER (1875-1937), OF 66 NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, (1911) AND  114 THORESBY STREET, HULL. (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF AN INSURANCE AGENT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 15/09/1916, AGED 19. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, KATE. H […]

BORN HULL 1884. WIFE ANNIE ELIZABETH (REVELL), OF 79 , THORESBY STREET, HULL. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. Calypso SS was a 2,876grt British Merchant ship built in 1904 by Earle's SB. & Eng. Co., Ltd., Hull and owned by T. Wilson, Sons & Co., Ltd., Hull . There was accommodation for 57-1st, 44-2nd and 863-3rd class passengers. Taken […]

BORN HULL 15/12/1895. SECOND SON OF WILLIAM JAMES & JANE ANN PROCTOR ABOVE ADDRESS (1901 CENSUS). SON OF AN ORGAN PIPE VOICER. BROTHER TO HENRY, AND TWO YOUNGER, SISTERS, MURIEL AND EVELYN. LIVED AT 3 NANSEN MOUNT, AND 5 ROSEMONT AVENUE, BRAMLEY, LEEDS. WORKED AS AN ORGAN PIPE APPRENTICE. HE ENLISTED IN LEEDS. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORA […]

BORN NORTH CAVE, 1888. A HULL POST OFFICE WORKER. SON OF WILLIAM SELBY AND BETSEY  BISHOP (1850-1928). THEY LIVED 65 SPRING STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 125 THORESBY STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION ON 25/09/1916, AGED 28. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE.

BORN HULL 1898. ENLISTED HULL. AKA 'EDDIE'. ELDEST SON OF JOHN HENRY & ANNIE GRACE STEEL, OF 84, THORESBY STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL. SON OF A HULL SEAMAN. BROTHER TO NORMAN AND BERNARD. GRANDSON OF CAPTAIN AND MRS J HIGGINS, OF 15 PENDRILL STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL. HE SERVED AS A SERGEANT, IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. A RESPONSIBL […]