Area: West Dock Street

BORN HULL 07/04/1875. SON OF JAMES AND MARY E BROOKS, 49 LIME STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS ADDRESS). HUSBAND OF ANNIE, LIVING AT  5 HUMBER AVENUE, WEST DOCK STREET, HULL (NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS). HIS SHIP MATES CERTIFICATE WAS ISSUED 6TH JUNE 1895. THE TRAWLER 'VIVANTI' WAS BUILT IN BEVERLEY IN 1915 AND REQUISITIONED BY THE ROYAL NAVY AS A […]

BORN HULL 20/09/1894. SON OF HARRY ADDISON & SARAH FLETCHER - 11 ST ANDREWS STREET. LISTED ON THE SUBWAY STREET MEMORIAL, WITH HIS FATHER, HARRY, WHO WAS LOST AT SEA ON 03/10/1914.. On May 4th, 1916, the British navy trawler HMT Crownsin was sunk by a mine from the German submarine U-73 (Gustav Sieß), off Malta. 11 persons were kil […]

BORN CORNWALL 1870. WIFE SARAH ANN FLETCHER, LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS AND ALSO AT 11 ST ANDREWS STREET, HESSLE ROAD. HE HELD A SKIPPER'S CERTIFICATE FOR TWENTY YEARS AND BELONGED TO THE HULL FISHING MASTERS ASSOCIATION. THE TRAWLER, ST LAWRENCE LEFT HULL FOR ICELAND, ON 09/09/1914. IT WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN. PRESUMEDD LOST AT SEA, ON 03/10/19 […]

BORN HULL 1873. HIS WIFE LIVED AT 15 PRINCES AVENUE, WEST DOCK STREET, HULL (NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS). On November 5th, 1915, the Hull steam trawler JERSEY (H270), built in 1895 by Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd., left Hull for a North Sea fishing trip, and we […]

BORN SCARBOROUGH 1877. NO CENSUS RECORDS? ENLISTED SOUTHWARK, SURREY. SERVED WITH THE 9TH ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT, DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 16/11/1915, AGED 38. BURIED BELGIUM. HE MARRIED AT SOUTHWARK, IN JANUARY, 1914. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW. SHE WAS AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 10 SHILLINGS FROM 29/05/1916. SHE RE-MARRIED […]

BORN BARROW UPON HUMBER, 1874. SON OF FANNY FRANCIS BATCHELOR (1856-1878) AND FREDERICK MARTINSON (1841-1881). HE WAS RAISED BY HIS AUNT AND UNCLE. HE MARRIED LAURA DUNHAM (1888-1957) AT SCULCOATES, HULL, IN 1908. THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A FISH MERCHANT IN HULL. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS GUNNER IN THE 150TH ROYAL FIELD ARTI […]

BORN DONCASTER 1895. SON OF THOMAS & ELIZABETH JANE MAY, OF 101 WEST PARADE. WIFE EDITH LIVED AT 3 PRINCES AVENUE, WEST DOCK STREET, HULL AND 14 CROMWELL TERRACE, WEST PARADE, HULL. HE WAS A TERRITORIAL AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. POSTED TO FRANCE, IN JUNE 1916. HE SERVED AS A SERGEANT, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON […]

BORN LONDON 1876. WIFE ANNIE CATHERINE (MORTIMER) ABOVE. SON OF THE LATE THOMAS & JESSIE PALMER, OF14 FLORENCE AVENUE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL. Lost in the North Sea, on the Hull steam trawler CORNELIAN (H506) Sank with all hands, on 14th January 1916. CREW LOST ON CORNELIAN (H506), ADDY, Thomas (22), 42 Queens Gate St, Hull. Bosun FAI […]

BORN HULL 09/08/1892. SON OF CHARLES HESELTINE & ADA LOUISE SMITH, OF 2, BRITANNIA PLACE, PORTER STREET. HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). WAS A COMPOSITOR AT MESSRS GRASSAIN PRINTERS, SCALE LANE, HULL. HE MARRIED ADA (FEATHERSTONE ), ON 30/01/1918. THEY LIVED AT 16, GRANVILLE TERRACE, WEST DOCK STREET & 61, KINGS BENCH STREET, HULL […]

BORN GREAT YARMOUTH 1899. SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM SPRATLING (1856-1936) & MARY ANN DRAKE (1859-1923), OF 6 PRINCES AVENUE, WEST DOCK STREET, HULL. (ARMY ADDRESS). UNMARRIED. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HE WAS A DUSTMAN, EMPLOYED BY THE HULL CORPORATION. HE ENLISTED AT HULL CITY HALL, ON 14/11/1916. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 5.5 […]

BORN CUDWORTH, YORKSHIRE 1885. SON OF SAMUEL WALTER WILLIAMS (1851-1899) & MARGARET JANE OLIVER (1846-1921). HIS FATHER WAS FROM CORNWALL. HIS MOTHER FROM SOUTHAMPTON. HE WAS ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. WORKED AS A HULL FISHERMAN. LOST AT SEA, ON 07/02/1917, AGED 32. HIS WIFE ETHEL MARY WILLIAMS, LIVED AT 2 PRINCES AVENUE, WEST DOCK STREET, […]