Area: Wellsted Street

BORN HULL 05/05/1885. SON OF HORATIO 'JAMES' BLYTH (1863-1932) & MARIA ELLEN WINSOR (1856-1935), OF 8, DEVONSHIRE VILLAS, WELLSTED STREET, HULL. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HE HAD SERVED 8 YEARS WITH THE 4TH EAST YORKSHIRE TERRITORIALS. HE EMIGRATED TO CANADA, IN 1906. WORKED AS A BOOK KEEPER. MARRIED MABEL SHAKESBY, AT WINNIPEG, MANITOB […]

BORN HULL 1885. SON OF JOHN HENRY & BETSY BURTON, OF 34 WELLSTED STREET. HIS WIFE POLLY BURTON LIVED 24 GREEN LANE, HULL. HE WAS WELL KNOWN AS A FISHERMAN AT HULL FISH COCKS. EMPLOYED AY MESSRS KEHALL BROS & BEECHING. HE WAS A THIRD HAND ON ONE OF THE TRAWLERS, DURING THE 'RUSSIAN OUTRAGE'. ENLISTED HULL AUGUST 1914. SERVED W […]

BORN HULL 1897. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & HANNAH MARIE CAMPEY, OF 92 , WELLSTED STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) & 32, NEW VILLAGE ROAD, COTTINGHAM (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD ONE ELDER SISTER, ETHEL MARY CAMPEY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2/6TH SHERWODD FORESTERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 21/03/1918, AGED 21. COMME […]

BORN HULL 1899. GRANDSON OF JANE AND ALEX PYE, OF 6 ALBERT AVENUE, WELLSTED STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF MRS E CLARK, OF 70 UPPER ACCOMMODATION ROAD, YORK ROAD, LEEDS. EX NORTHEAST RAILWAY'S CRANE LAD. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 85115, 11TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. HE DIED OF GAS POISONING, ON 14/07/1918, AGED 1 […]

BORN HULL 01/09/1890. SON OF JAMES WILLIAM COOPER (1860-1910) & ANNIE MARIA INGRAM (1864-1930), OF 34 STANIFORTH PLACE, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. AN ENGINE CLEANER FOR THE NORTH EAST RAILWAYS. HE MARRIED ADA WAUDBY (1891-1977), AT ST BARNABAS CHURCH, HULL, ON 31/08/1912. THEY LIVED AT 15 CHESTNUT AVENUE, WELLSTED STREET, HULL, WITH THEIR C […]

BORN GOOLE 1895. SON OF JOSEPH DAVIS. STEP SON OF ADA JANE SCOTT. DROWNED, 22/08/1918, AGED 23. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. SS Prunelle, built by Bergsunds Mek. Verks., Stockholm in 1874 and owned at the time of her loss by The Shipping Controller (H. W. & C. M. Ezard), London, was a British steamer of 579 tons.On August 22nd, 1918, […]

BORN DUBLIN 5/10/1864. SON OF GEORGE DENSLEY AND MARY ANN MORGAN. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. THE FAMILY MOVED TO ENGLAND AND TRAVELED WIDELY. HIS FATHER DIED ON 12/02/1902, AT GILLINGHAM, KENT. HIS MOTHER DIED IN MANCHESTER, ON 31/10/1918. JOHN PATRICK DENSLEY WAS MARRIED THREE TIMES. FIRST TIME AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT, ON 29/01/1889, TO CATHERI […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF HENRY GIRDLEY BULLOCK & MRS ELIZABETH BARBARA BULLOCK. OF 9, BLANCHE TERRACE, CONSTABLE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 11, FRANCIS AVENUE, WELLSTED STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). ERRAND BOY. HE ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EYR. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 28/10/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, ON […]

BORN MIRFIELD, YORKS 1894. SON OF THE LATE FREDERICK GRAHN & SARAH ELIZABETH OATES. SON OF A GERMAN, THAT MOVED TO HULL. HIS AUNTIE MATILDA WROE LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. HE WAS KILLED INA ACTION AT ARRAS, ON 21/03/1918, AGED 24. COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. HE WAS PICTURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 10/09/1918. […]

BORN HULL 1877. SON OF ELIZA & JOHN WILLIAM HAGUE. HE WAS A CHIEF OFFICER WITH THE WILSON SHIPPING LINE. HIS MERCHANT VESSEL WAS MINED IN THE WAR AND HE DROWNED ON 12/02/1916, AGED 39. HIS WIFE SARAH ANN (WILSON) AND THREE CHILDREN LIVED AT 15 VICTORIA AVENUE, WELLSTED STREET, HULL. HE WAS A FORMER TRINITY HOUSE BOY AND IS RECORDED O […]

BORN HULL 1891. SON OF JOHN WILSON HALEY (1854-1917) AND ELIZABETH COATES (1856-1926), OF 237 NORTH BOULEVARD, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. A CERTIFIED BOOK KEEPER AND FORMER MERCHANTS CLERK. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 3.5 INCHES TALL, 35-37 INCH CHEST, 135 LBS WEIGHT, "GOOD" PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 10TH DE […]

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF CHARLES & MARY HUTCHINSON, OF 10 FRANCIS AVENUE, WELLSTED STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. SON OF A COLLECTOR. HE WAS COMMISSIONED AS A 2ND LIEUTENANT, INTO THE 2ND YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 08/10/1918, AGED 20. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, PAS DE C […]

BORN HULL 1897.  SON OF JAMES HENRY & CLARA ANN JOYS OF 12 WELLSTED STREET, HULL (WR PENSION ADDRESS). BEFORE THE WAR, HE WORKED FOR MESSRS, GILLIATS, ON HULL HIGH STREET. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS WHEN WAR BEGAN. HE SERVED WITH THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT IN EGYPT AND FRANCE.. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/06/1916, AGED 19. […]

BORN HULL 1895. THIRD SON OF JAMES HENRY & CLARA ANN JOYS, OF 12 WELLSTED STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). FORMERLY, EMPLOYED AT MESSRS, LINSLEYS, MYTON GATE, BREWERS, WHERE HE WAS VERY POPULAR. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, IN SEPTEMBER 1914. TRANSFERRED TO 11TH THE EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 06/08/1916 […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF EMILY S. MATTHEWS OF WELLSTED STREET, HULL. SERVED IN THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 10/10/1917, AGED 24. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE COTTINGHAM WW1 MEMORIAL, HALLGATE. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 22/10/1917, BY HIS MOTHER AND SISTERS

BORN HULL 24/09/1882. ELDEST SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM MCKEE (1857 - 1915) & SARAH HARRIET WHITE, OF 5 LAUREL AVENUE, WELLSTED STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) AND 1 CALIDARE AVENUE, BRIGHTON STREET, HULL. ONE OF THREE BROTHERS, KILLED IN THE WAR. A FORMER SEAMAN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINING THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, AT E […]

BORN HULL 1896. AN ORIGINAL HULL PAL. SON OF THOMAS & AMY MOSS, AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE IS BURIED AT ORCHARD DUMP CEMETERY, ARLEUX-EN-GOHELLE, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE READS, "ABIDE WITH ME"