Area: Worthing Street

BORN HULL 1892. ONLY SON OF JAMES A BARRICK (1854-1930) & MARY JANE BARRICK, OF 16 TYNE STREET, HULL AND 129, WORTHING STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD SEVEN SISTERS, SOME OF WHICH DIED IN INFANCY. SON OF A RAILWAY CLERK. HE ALSO WORKED AS A CLERK. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. COMMISSIONED INTO THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED AT YPRES, O […]

BORN HULL 18/02/1888. SON OF JOHN JOSEPH BEST (1848-1912) & SARAH JANE BLACK (1852-1901). SON OF A SLATER. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND SIX SISTERS. WORKED AS A BRICKLAYER. BOARDED AT LEVEN, EAST YORKSHIRE (1911 CENSUS). HIS BROTHER ROBERT HENRY BEST, LIVED AT 4, ESK TERRACE, WORTHING STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1 […]

BORN WRENINGHAM, NORFOLK, 10/12/1879. KNOWN AS "PERCY BLOOM". SON OF GEORGE BROOKS BLOOM (1841-1916) AND ADELAIDE ALEXANDER. HIS WIFE RHODA BLOOM LIVED AT THIS 1911 CENSUS & PROBATE ADDRESS. A GPO POSTMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, GREY EYES, DARK BROWN HAIR. ENLISTED IN THE NAVY, ON 10/12/1897. SERVED 12 YEARS. RE-ENLISTE […]

BORN HULL 24/09/1894. SON OF THOMAS BURKE (1865-1922) & CATHERINE (KATE) HORAN (1866-1943), OF 55, WEST STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS), 34, WEST STREET (1911 CENSUS) & 2, WORTHING STREET, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A COAL DEALER FROM IRELAND. HE HAD SISTERS, AGNES AND KATE AND BROTHERS, EDWARD AND JOHN. HE WORK […]

BORN HULL 1882. SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM THOMAS & BETSEY LUCINDA CHAPMAN, HULL. MARRIED CATHERINE ELIZABETH MASON, ON 09/10/1915, AND LIVED AT 32 HEYWWOD STREET, MOSS SIDE. OCCUPATION GIVEN WAS 'TRAVLLER'. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 10 INCHES TALL, 155 LBS WEIGHT, 38 INCH CHEST, HAZEL EYES AND BLACK HAIR,A SCAR ON HIS RIGHT JAW. HE ENLISTED […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FRED JOHN CHAPMAN 22506. Born Hull, 5th October 1889, Fred was the third of five children to William and Betsy Chapman, of 37 Worthing Street, Hull (War Pension address). A Labourer by trade he worked for Reckitts. He enlisted at City Hall on 12th December 1915 leaving England on 17th June 1916, bound for […]

BORN KIMBERWORTH, ROTHERHAM, ON 09/10/1869. ONLY SON OF ROBERT DAVISON (1829-1894) & CATHERINE AUGUSTA PAGE (1834-1901). HE MARRIED LOUISA MARY AGNES WURR, (1865-1965), IN LINCOLNSHIRE IN 1904. THEY LIVED AT 1, ESK CRESCENT, WORTHING STREET, HULL WITH CHILDREN, ROBERT AND WINIFRED. (1911 CENSUS). A NAVAL POSTMAN. HE SERVED AS ROYAL […]

BORN HULL 1900. SON OF JOHN THOMAS FLINTOFF (1865-1917) & SARAH JANE BARNETT (1869- ), OF 12 BROOKLYN TERRACE, WORTHING STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS) AND 10, CLAREMONT AVENUE, REYNOLDSON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HE WORKED AS A RULLEYMAN. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 1 INC […]

BORN BARTON ON HUMBER, LINCS, ON 28/12/1883. SON OF THOMAS HOLLAND (1859-1908 AND MARIA WHELDON EASTON, (1860-1915), OF BARTON MARRIED AT ROWLEY, ON 8TH MAY 1909. HUSBAND OF LOUISA JANE (SNOW) & THREE DAUGHTERS, LIVED AT WEST BULL COTTAGE, HULL ROAD, HULL AND 12 WORTHING STREET, HULL. A FARM LABOURER, AT EPPLEWORTH COTTINGHAM (1911 […]

BORN SCARBOROUGH 1888. SON OF RICHARD ELSWORTH NICHOLSON  (1854-1923) & SARAH ANN NICHOLSON (1858-1946), OF 101, WORTHING STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER. PRIOR TO WAR, HE WORKED FOR DARPERS, MARSHALL & SNELGROVE, OXFORD STREET, LONDON (1911 CENSUS) AND WAS AN ASSISTANT FOR CRAFT & CO, […]

BORN GOOLE 1890. HE HAD NO LIVING PARENTS OR SIBLINGS. LIVED WITH HIS AUNT, ANN BELAMY AT KIRKELLA AND 164, WORTHING STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). EMPLOYED IN THE OFFICE OF THE HELLYER'S STEAM FISHING COMPANY, ST ANDREWS DOCK, HULL. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 6 INCHES TALL, 132 LBS WEIGHT, 34-36 INCH CHEST HE ENLISTED BEVERLEY, on 04/11/1915 […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF FREDERICK PARKER, OF 46 BACHELER STREET, HULL. A FORMER RAILWAY CLERK. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY HULL CORPORATION AS A TRAMWAY DRIVER ON THE HEDON ROAD ROUTE. HE ENLISTED HULL, EX PRIVATE, 22688 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE TYNESIDE SCOTTISH. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/04/1917. HIS COMMANDING OFFICER REPORTED […]

BORN HULL NOVEMBER 1899.  SON OF MRS F (TAYLOR) OF 51 WORTHING STREET, HULL. HE WAS AN ASSISTANT AT THE MAYPOLE COMPANY, BEVERLEY ROAD BRANCH, HULL. ALSO A VIOLINIST AT THE NATIONAL PICTURE PALACE, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL. HIS STEP FATHER, MR F.F. TAYLOR, WORKED AT THE GRAPES HOTEL, CHARIOT STREET, HULL AND SERVED IN THE ARMY IN SALONIKA. […]

Born Leeds, 1895. Son of George William Southam and Eliza Southam, of 54 Tunis Street, Hull (1911 Census) and then 39 Worthing Street, Beverley Road, Hull, in 1915. Hull. He worked for the Hull Corporation Electricity Department. He enlisted into the 12th Rifle Brigade. Sent to France. He died of his wounds on 8 September 1915, aged 19. […]

BORN HULL 1881. SON OF ISSAC MRS ANN E. SPENCER, OF 5, MANCHESTER PLACE, WAVERLEY STREET, HULL & 7, EMERALD TERRACE, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS AN OIL MANUFACTURER AND BOARDED IN GRIMSBY (1911 CENSUS) AND 14, BROOKLYN CRESCENT, WORTHING STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 16/08 […]