Young Family – The Y Series
Mike Young and Sheena nee Keith have been researching their family histories since the mid-1970s and have now so much material that rather than publishing it on a single website, they have decided to divide it into four groups, one for each of their parents’ surnames. The Y series is Mike’s paternal line of descent.
Young family lineage chart
All surnames in the Young story
See here for an alphabetical list of all surnames in the Young pages with links to the relevant text.
Young Family places of birth
For a map showing all known places of birth for all our direct Young ancestors click below and select the Young layer.
April 2017
Ref. Y2
THE YOUNG FAMILY
Living memory – the Young-Train Family
As is normal, our first steps in tracing the Young family history were aided by talking to older members of the family. Mike’s father, Horace William Young, knew his descent, as the only son (and second child) of Walter Young and Annie Maria Train (The Train descent is at Ref. Y6.). He married Annie Maria Train 7.8.1894 at Albion Street Independent Methodist Church when he said he was a labourer in a timber yard and at the 1901 Census they were at 3 Fern Street, with Amy, aged 3, as well as Annie Maria’s widowed mother, Anne and her brother George, aged 27, a leather worker. By 1911 Walter and Annie Maria had completed their family and we find them at 7 Fern Avenue, Fern Street, with Amy,13, Horace William 6, and Edith just 3 months. Anne Train is still there aged 68. Their family is described in Appendix 1 hereto.
At the 1891 Census (aged 19) Walter was still at home at 27 Temperance Street, Hull, when he was recorded as a dock labourer. Later he was a tally clerk, and it was said in the family that he had a prodigious way with arithmetic, being able, for instance, to add up five column of figures (of reasonable length, one presumes!) in one pass. He died 9.11.1922, aged 51 and his widow, Mike’s grandmother, outlived him by 34 years, dying in 10.6.1957, aged 82.
The Young-Cotter Family
Walter Young was born 16.10.1871, the second son and third child of John Young and his wife Jane, nee Cotter (See Ref. Y3). Their family is described in Appenix 3 hereto.
Mike’s father, Horace William, was 18 when his father Walter died in 1922 and he describes in his autobiography the rather stressful relationship he then had with his grandfather John until the latter’s death a bit over four years later. There is some evidence that John Young could be rather assertive and awkward and, from the family historian’s point of view, the awkwardness is more than hinted at by our failure to discover any documentary evidence of his birth or baptism. When, 15.8.1863, he married Jane Cotter in Holy Trinity Church, Hull, he declared himself to be aged 22, living in (or off?) High Street, the son of the late William Young, a labourer. John’s death certificate stated that he was 86 when he died on 8.1.1927. If both ages are true (a rare thing in family history!) he was born between 16.8.1840 and 7.1.1841. Although the 1871 Census (April 2) has him aged 32, i.e. two years older than the above, the 1881 to 1911 Censuses fit in with the 1840/41 dates. John Young gave his place of birth as Hull, but the GRO does not reveal a John Young born at Hull between 1837 and 1843 (March). We have not seen any entries anywhere with a suitably aged father William Young with son John.
Leaving, for the moment, John Young’s ancestry, we can recount the development of his career and his family. As Appendix 2 recounts, we managed to find two witness statements by John. The first was when a lad was killed at the NER Goods Station in November 1861. At that time John, who would be 20 or so, was a rulley driver, although, two years later, when he got married, he said he was a labourer. He stated that he lived at 3 Wilsons Buildings, South Street, whereas the 1861 Census has him at Southern’s Court, High Street, a “dock labourer”. Perhaps rulley driving and being a dock labourer were part and parcel. John and Jane had eight children but two died as infants so that in the 1881 Census entry we find them at 1 Siminson’s (??) Gallery, Little Queen Street, Holy Trinity Parish, Hull, with Henry aged 15, Edith 11, Walter 9, George 5, Jane 3 and John (generally known later as Jack) just one month old. It is that address that John admitted to on the second occasion that he gave a witness statement, i.e. 14.12.1881, in connection with a pickpocket case. Again, he said he was a rulleyman, although in the April he had said shipping labourer. The nice thing about discovering the witness statements is that we have a copy of John Young’s signature.
In 1869 John Young said he was a rulley driver but when Mike’s grandfather Walter was born 16.10.1871 he said he was a dock labourer. In 1894, when Walter married, the father’s occupation was given as a brewer’s labourer. At this time John Young would be in his mid-fifties. At the 1891 Census (27 Temperance Street) he said he was a labourer in a brewery and ten years later, when John and Jane were at 27 Tankerville Street, Hull, with George, Jane and John still at home, his profession is the same. This bears out family folklore which said that he was still employed (as a watchman) at the Hull Brewery when he was about 70. (A notice in the Hull Daily Mail at the time he died spoke of “many years with Hull Brewery Company Ltd”). Jane Young died 19.11.1901 at the age of 63, of cancer. According to Annie Maria, her daughter-in-law, Jane suffered as a result of John’s bad temper.
By 1915 John had settled in Sykes Street, with Walter’s family, but, following a spell in hospital with a broken leg, he went to live at 55 King Street with his daughter Jennie and her second husband Inspector Herbert North. After a spell with daughter Edith, John eventually died at King Street at the age of 86 and was buried in the Western Cemetery with his wife Jane and his son Henry, who had died aged 24 in 1890.
The next generation back
So where did John Young come from? In the 1861 Census, we find a certain Hannah Young at 1, Southern’s Court, High Street, Hull, a building that had three families living in it. What this lady was and did is central to the matter of our further ancestry. In 1861 she had with her the three youngest of her four sons, the eldest having married five years previously but still living adjacent to his mother. The eldest offspring left at home was John Young, aged 20, a dock labourer, said to be born in Hull. We always felt it likely that this was “our” John Young but for some time we lacked proof. In Appendix 4. we explain how we satisfied ourselves on this score. Just for the record, Hannah was consistent in the age she gave for John in 1861, 1851 and 1841. On the latter occasion, when the Census was in June, she said he was 9 months old, implying a birth date of August or September 1840. This fits nicely with the range of expected birth dates already mentioned for “our” John.
Looking at the (June) 1841 Census, Hannah Young is down as living in Church Lane, Holy Trinity Hull, aged 24, with two sons, i.e. Thomas aged 5 and John, 9 months, the householder being Sarah Young who was aged over 65. It was said that Sarah was not born in Yorkshire but the others were.
When we come to 1851, Hannah has acquired a third son, baby William. She states that she is widowed but when she (rather belatedly) registered William Samuel’s birth in 1850, no father’s name is given. In 1851 Hannah says she is 32, against the age of 24 in June 1841, an example of inconsistent age declaration that she would continue at each census. At this point all we could gather was that she could have been born any time 1815-19.
Pondering the life-style of Hannah Young, we noted the extraordinary variety of fathers’ names that were asserted by John and his brothers. When Thomas (definitely Hannah’s eldest son) married Elizabeth Hardacre at Holy Trinity Church, Hull, in December 1856, he said he was the son of the late Thomas Young, hatter. Seven years later, also at Holy Trinity, our John gave his father’s name as William, labourer (deceased) and 1878 Hannah’s youngest son, George Henry said his father had been George Young (deceased), a tailor. We lack any official record of the birth of Thomas and John but Hannah did register the birth of the two youngest boys and in each case no father’s name was given. All this persuades us that she never married.
Another aspect is that Hannah Young said that she was a hat trimmer by trade. Piggott’s National Commercial Directory 1830-31 lists, in Hull, no fewer than 20 straw and leghorn hat makers. Volume I of he Book of Trades or Library of Useful Arts originally printed for R. Phillips of 7 Great Bridge-street [sic], London and republished by the Wiltshire Family History Society in 1991, has a chapter on the Straw Hat Maker. The author opens by saying that there are few manufactures in the kingdom in which so little capital is wanted, or the knowledge of the art so soon acquired, as that of straw-platting. The splitting of straws required a small machine, costing around two shillings, which lasted for many years. He differentiates the role of the straw hat maker as making up the hats after the straw is braided or platted. The hat maker sewed the plaits together and placed the finished article on wooden blocks for hot pressing. Whitening of both the raw material and the finished product was accomplished by exposure to sulphur fumes. The chapter concludes by stating that persons who made up the hats would earn half a guinea a week, but the braiders or platters, if very expert, would earn much more.
In 1871, aged 55, Hannah Young said she was a laundress, born in Garthorpe, Lincolnshire. She was living with her eldest son, Thomas, and his family at 1 Salthouse Lane, with her youngest son, George Henry, then aged 14, a baker. In 1881, aged 64, she was a charwoman employed at a house at Elloughton, a village to the west of Hull. Again, she said she was born at Garthorpe. As explained below, Garthorpe could equally mean Fockerby in the Yorkshire parish of Adlingfleet), certainly by that time.
Hannah died 20.9.1892, aged 75, when she was living at 10 Ada’s Avenue, Sculcoates (part of Hull), where she had been at the 1891 Census. This was the home of her son Thomas, whose wife Elizabeth was the informant at her death. The death certificate has her as the widow of Simon Young, master tailor, something that at first put us off, but perhaps we should not be too harsh on Elizabeth, as she “made her mark”.
Fellow family historian Peter Godfrey’s mother was the granddaughter of Thomas Young (or, quite possibly, Thomas Shires Young), Hannah Young’s eldest, via his fifth child, Walter, who was born in 1873. Mike Young’s father was the grandson of John Young, Hannah Young’s second child, via his third child, Walter, who was born 1871. Thus Peter and Mike are third cousins.
Hannah Young’s background
As is clear from the above, Hannah Young left lots of clues in the 19th Century records, even if many of them conflict. In particular, in 1851, Hannah states that she was born in Fockerby, Yorks. This is a tiny hamlet in Adlingfleet Parish . Although technically in West Yorkshire, Fockerby is that awkward thing for a family historian: a border village, being situated in the 19th Century on the boundary of the West Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. This was formed by the old line of the Don river, with the slightly larger community of Garthorpe on the Lincolnshire side. By the time of the first Ordnance Survey published in 1824 (the surveying actually done 1819-1822), the massive drainage improvements by Vermuyden and others had rendered the Don redundant so that the two hamlets were virtually one, as they are today. Nonetheless we have to look at the records of two counties in connection with the Youngs, because Fockerby inhabitants were in Adlingfleet in the West Riding of Yorkshire, while Garthorpe was in Luddington Parish, in the Isle of Axhome part of Lincolnshire. As time went on, however it seems that Fockerby folk looked more and more to Luddington as their parish church and spoke of themselves as coming from Garthorpe. Indeed, Hannah Young said that from 1871 onwards.
The bishop’s transcripts for Adlingfleet have three Hannahs baptised between January and March 1817 and then none until April 1819. Rather interestingly, one was Hannah Young, baptised February 25 1817 the daughter of Thomas Young, a miller of Fockerby, and his wife Sarah. We concentrated on this couple – per Appendix 6 – and settled that Hannah was their youngest child and at some point before the mid-1830s* she and her mother (at least) had migrated to Hull, where they are to be found in the 1841 Census, Sarah being widowed by then and Hannah having two sons, Thomas aged 5 and John aged 9 months. Next door was Hannah’s sister Jane (married to Harry Gibson) and along the street was another sister Sarah, married to George Ponsonson.
* Hannah gave birth to Thomas 1835/36 in Hull.
All the evidence points to Hannah Young never marrying, despite eventually producing four sons. We think her eldest child was named after her father Thomas.
Back another generation: Thomas and Sarah Young
Hannah’s mother, Sarah Young, died in Hull in 18.3.1851 just before the Census. She was said to be the widow of Thomas Young, labourer (N.B. not a miller!) and was 75. We believe that, when she married Thomas Young in Hull 29.8.1798, as his second wife, she was Sarah Aistrope (See Ref Y21). Background to this marriage and details of Thomas Young’s two families, who were all born in Fockerby, are at Appendix 6.
Our problem is that we lose sight of the family between 1817 and 1835 and in that time Thomas Young died (having, we believe, retired from milling) and the family moved to Hull. We do not know how these events fitted together – it is possible the move to Hull could have been prompted by Thomas’s retirement. Hull was readily accessible by boat up the Trent and along the Humber. If so, Hannah Young could have spent at least some of her school days in Hull. In 1825 Thomas and Sarah’s daughter Sarah married in Doncaster, rather than in Adlingfleet. Could it be that be because the family were no longer at Fockerby even by then?
1825 would also have been significant financially to Sarah (the mother) because in June of that year she started to benefit from the distribution of the estate of her father John Aistrope*, in the form of a trust fund of £121 (equivalent to, say, £12,500, in today’s money). Sarah was to receive interest earned by the fund and on her death the capital was to be paid in equal shares to any of her children who outlived her. (In practice, the four daughters Mary, Sarah, Jane and Hannah.)
*A fellow researcher has kindly copied to us details of John Aistrope’s estate
Sarah Young nee Aistrope died at Hull 18.3.1851, i.e. just before the Census, her son-in-law Henry Robert Gibson being the informant.
Millers of Fockerby
Looking at the Adlingfleet and Luddington records, it is noticeable that there is a cluster of Youngs, many of them millers, in and around Fockerby-Garthorpe, the most prominent being Thomas (1735-1796) and his son Thomas (1761-??) who were described as the millers of Fockerby for some 60 years up to about 1820*. William, another son of Thomas, (1769-1832) was another miller at Fockerby although by 1809 he was being described as a pauper. We think Thomas Young retired from the Mill at some stage, most likely after he turned 60 (in 1821) and handed over to his much younger brother-in-law, George Aisthorpe, who, when resident at Garthorpe (which adjoined Fockerby) was described as a miller until at least 1831. By the 1841 Census George Aistrope had died and there was only one Young household in Fockerby – another Thomas but an Ag Lab – and no evidence of the mill still being in use.
*Baines & Parson Directory of Yorkshire 1822 has Fockerby with 3 farmers and “Corn Miller Thomas Younge”, this may not necessarily be evidence that Thomas Young was still the miller there five years after Hannah’s baptism in 1817 recorded him as a miller, as such directories might not have been actively updated. Apparently Fockerby Mill was a post mill, i.e. the whole “buck” or working section containing the machinery, to which the sails were attached, was capable of being rotated on a substantial post to face the sails into the wind, in contrast to the more substantial tower mill type, where a relatively small cap (to which just the sails were attached) rotated. In the days before railways many village mills served their own communities, i.e. competition was limited. In the period we are considering the enclosure of common land led to an increased production of grain and prompted the improvements in the workings of the brick- or stone-built tower mills in the area and this, with an improved road network, could have put pressure on the old post mills, with their possibly deteriorating wooden structure that, in any event was always at risk of demolition by adverse extreme weather.
Actually the first O.S. map (surveyed 1820-21) has the name as Frockerby and shows a Frockerby Mill about half a mile north of the hamlet. Peter Godfrey of Hull reports that at the spot where the mill stood, between Fockerby and Adlingfleet, the locals refer to Tommy Young’s Corner and Tommy Young’s Field, even to this day. We are continuing to seek specific information about the life of Fockerby Mill.
Thomas Young’s ancestry – the Young – Hill Family
In common with other researchers, we think it a reasonable conjecture that Hannah’s father Thomas Young was born in 1761 the son of Thomas Young and Elisabeth Hill (See Ref. Y22), who married at Snaith 30.3.1758, he being described as a “milner”. Appendix 5 describes their family. Elisabeth died in 1781 at Fockerby, i.e. fifteen years before her husband. He died of pleuresy aged 61 at Fokerby being buried 5.3.1796. He died intestate, his administrator being his eldest son, Thomas, who was sworn in March 1799.
Young – Inch family
In the first half of 18C there was a cluster of Youngs sprang up at Cowick, which, at that time, was in Snaith parish and we think that our Thomas Young was baptised at Snaith 13.1.1735, the father being William Young of Cowick and the mother Mary Inch who both lived at Cowick when they married at Snaith 16.11.1732. The only thing we know about Mary is the Inch is predominantly a Cornish name. Details of their family are given in Appendix 7 hereto. There was also a John Young at Cowick having children baptised (and buried!) in parallel with William.
We believe that John Young was buried at Snaith 26.10.1714, while still at Cowick and there was a “widow Young” buried there 31.3.1731.
Young – Lambert family
Given the above, we were naturally interested in a Cowick couple who had a John Young and a William Young baptised at Snaith respectively 1.3.1701 NS and 3.5.1703. There had also been an earlier son of theirs, also John, baptised 15.4.1699 who was buried 28.12.1700. These parents were John Young of Cowick and the former Joan Lambert, who married in the adjoining parish of Campsall in May 1691, when they were resident at Fenwick, which part of that parish. A search of Snaith parish records for the 50 years prior to the above 1699 baptism showed no Youngs at all, so in John and Joan Young we are looking at the first of our Young family to live at Cowick. We might ask where were they between 1691 and 1699. It is very rare for a couple in those days not to have children in the first few years of marriage. We have searched for other John Young/ Jane or Joan baptisms and found none in the north of England in those eight years. Also we have not found any credible Joan Lambert baptisms although there was a Jane Lambert baptised 20.5.1666 at Owston, daughter of Thomas Lambert. Owston is only about four miles from Fenwick, so she could have been a 25 year old bride at Campsall in 1691. As regards moving to Cowick, there were certainly lots of Lamberts living there in the last quarter of 17C. Turning to John Young’s origins, there are very few indexed baptisms within a reasonable distance of Campsall or Snaith. One possibility is the son of John Young baptised at Darrington (near Pontefract) 27.3.1664, i.e. about two years before Jane Lambert. All rather speculative!
July 2020
Appendix 1 to Ref. Y2
The Family of Walter Young and Annie Maria Train
Walter Young and Annie Maria Train married at Hull 7.8.1894. They had children as follows:
Amy Young Born at Hull 15.11. 1897 . Teacher, married 30.7.1921 Harry Lowthorpe, born at Hull 27.8.1899, power station worker. Amy died at Hull 26.6.1963 and Harry died there 29.9.1964. They had three children:
Gwendoline (“Gwen”) Mary Lowthorpe born at Hull 27.5.1924, married there (firstly) 16.6.1945 Philip Stuart Ackerley who was born 13.2.1923. He died 1.10.1961. Gwen and Philip had one daughter. Gwen married (secondly) at Hull 7.3.1964 Leonard Took (born 28.11.1917). There was one son of this marriage. Leonard died at Hull 18.9.1991 and Gwen died there 13.6.2017.
Margaret Doreen Lowthorpe born at Hull 29.1.1931, married there 23.12.1950 Sidney Nelson who was born 4.7.1930. They had four daughters and a son. Sidney died at Hull 10.4.1988 and Margaret died there 7.4.1999.
Harry Raymond Lowthorpe born 11.11.1932 at Hull, power station worker, married at Hull 25.9.1954 Margaret (Margot) Rosaline Grantham who was born 12.1.1934. They had one daughter. Margot died at Hull 20.1.2002.
Horace William (Bill) Young Born at Hull 17.8.1904. Accountant. Married (firstly) at Hull 15.8.1931 Elsie May Mason who was born there19.5.1904. Elsie died 29.5.1951. Bill married secondly at Scarborough 3.9.1960 Alice Parsons (nee Charlton) who was born 30.9.1912 who had had four sons with her first husband Bernard Parsons. Bill and Alice Young latterly lived at Skidby, near Hull but Bill died at a care home in nearby Hessle 7.7.2004, just short of his 100th birthday. Alice did rather better, dying at Norwich 3.10.2016, i.e. three days after her 104th birthday. Bill and Elsie Young’s children were:
John Michael Young born at Hull 25.5.1932. Accountant, pensions director (and family historian). Married at Wooler, Northumberland, 25.5.1963 Sheena Keith who was born 8.4.1930 at Wooler. They had two sons and two daughters. Sheena died at Watford 19.3.2020, the family home being in nearby Bushey.
Peter Mason Young born at Hull 4.7.1939. In the printing trade. Married at Melton Mowbray 24.5.1975 Janet Lucy Wild who was born 24.1.1943. They had two sons. Peter died at Leeds 19.4.2018, the family home being in Otley.
Anthony Robin (Tony) Young born at Hull 20.5.1942. Studied art. Died at Westgate on Sea 2.6.2014.
Edith Young Born at Hull 27.12.1910, clerk and piano teacher. Married at Hull 20.7.1946 David Bland who was born in October 1908. The marriage did not last. Edith died at Hull 11.5.1989.
Walter Young died at Hull 9.11.1922 and Annie Maria died there 10.6.1957.
Witness Statements by John Young
Circumstances
John William Nicholson, a cocker, was killed in an industrial accident on 24 November 1861 at the North Eastern Railway’s Goods Station. An inquest was held two days later when a verdict of accidental death was recorded.
Statement
John Young of 3 Wilsons Buildings, South Street, in the Boro’ aforesaid Rulleyman on his oath saith
I am in the service of White, Love and Shallon. On Saturday evening I was at the Railway Station. I had taken a rulley load of sugar there. After delivering it I was coming out and had to wait while Usher [another witness in the case] got the waggon turned on the table. [i.e. a turntable] My rulley did not catch any waggon.
I did not see deceased. I saw Usher turn his waggon – not quicker than usual. One end struck a waggon standing on the line and stopped turning. I went up to help Usher push the empty waggon back. I saw something on the ground under where the buffers touched. I stooped down and saw it was deceased. I took hold of him and pulled him about a yard. I saw he was dead. I gave the alarm. I had not seen the boy before. The boy lay by the catch in the table.
Source: Hull Coroner’s papers CQB300 folios 127/8.
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Circumstances
Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull Police Court. The Examination of John Young of No.1 Samsons Gallery, Little Queen Street in the Parish of Holy Trinity in the said Borough, Labourer, taken upon Oath on Wednesday the 14th day of December 1881, at the Police Court, in the Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, before me, the undersigned, Her Majesty’s Police Magistrate, in and for the said Borough, in the presence and hearing of Robert C. Frith and Mary Ann Holdsworth who are now charged before me, the said Magistrate, for that they did on the 13th day of December 1881 at the said Borough from the person of Ferdinand Christan one purse containing the sum of £2. 4. 0 of the Moneys, Goods and Chattels of Ferdinand Christan then and there being found feloniously, steal, take, and carry away contrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided.
Statement
And the Informant upon his oath saith as follows:-
Between 8 and 9 p.m. on Tuesday the 13th of December inst [instant, ie this year] I was in the Pine Apple Public House, Salthouse Lane. I saw the two prisoners and the prosecutor [ie, presumably, Ferdinand Christan] there. The female prisoner was talking to the prosecutor and the prisoner Frith was about half a yard from them. About 9 p.m. as I was talking to a friend the female prisoner came and put her arm around my back and tried to put something into my pocket. I said to her “What are you doing?” When she found she could not get it into my pocket she tried to pass it behind her back to the prisoner Frith. I could not see what it was and I did not see what became of it. I then heard the prosecutor cry out to the female prisoner, “You’ve stolen my money”. I saw the prosecutor then get hold of the purse but I don’t know where he got it from and he got hold of the female and was trying to strike her when the landlady said “Let her go” or something of the kind and the prosecutor and another man then pushed her out of the house with prisoner Frith.
I saw you and the female prisoner and the prosecutor and another man all talking together against the counter side.
Outcome
R.C. Frith was discharged. John Young apparently received £20 for making his statement and there was a payment for a translator mentioned of a larger amount.
Source: Hull Petty Sessions papers CQB 361/913
Comment: According to the Bank of England, £1 in 1880 would be worth £120 today, so we must have misunderstood the Court papers. If John Young actually got twenty shillings, rather than pounds he would have benefited by the modern equivalent of over £100, which sounds more reasonable in a case where the amount of the robbery was today’s equivalent of £250.
August 2017
The Family of John Young and Jane Cotter
John Young and Jane Cotter, married in Holy Trinity Church, Hull, 15.8.1863. They had children as follows:
Henry (Harry)
Born at Hull 1865 Q2. Sawyer. Died Hull 17.4.1890 of heart disease, aged 24.
George
Born at Hull 1866 Q4. Died 1868 Q1, aged 1,
Edith
Born at Hull 12.5.1869. Married at Hull 1893 Q4 William Rufford Sinclair, brewery worker. They had four children, two of whom died before 1911, when they were at 198 Belvoir Street, Hull, leaving two that we do know about, as below. William died at Hull 1938 Q3 age 65. We have not seen anything concerning Edith’s death.
Harry Young Sinclair born at Hull 4.11.1894. No profession given at 1911 census, which could be confirmation of family folklore to the effect that he was badly injured skylarking on the railway. Married at Hull 1916 Q3 Clarinda K. Adams and on the 1939 register he was a labourer in a leather works with two sons 22 and 15 and a daughter aged 17.
Edith Mildred Sinclair born at Hull 23.8.1902. Married at Sculcoates (Hull) 1933 Q2 Frank Pooley who was born 22.3.1900. In 1939 at 20 Colville Avenue, Hull, when Frank was a grocer’s manager. Frank died 20.3.1990 (i.e. just two days short of his big day!). Mildred (as she was known) is mentioned in Appendix 4 as contributing vital reminiscences. She is believed to have died aged 89 (not confirmed).
Walter
Born at Hull 16.10.1871. See main text and Appendix 1.
Franck
Born at Hull 1874 Q1. Died 1874 Q4, aged 0.
George Ernest
Born at Hull 1875 Q4. Worked in a flour mill. Married at Hull 1903 Q2 Annie Taylor. Child Arthur born 1906 Q2 and another child deceased by the 1911 census, when they were at 9 Little George Street, Lime Street, Hull. George said to have died of consumption.
Jane (Jennie)
Born at Hull 1878 Q1. Married at Hull 1902 Q4 James Robert Sharp, a french polisher, son of James Robert Sharp, a french polisher of Hull and Kate Honor Mann, a native of Norwich. At the 1911 census they were at 47 New King Street, Hull, with their seven year old daughter Kate Honor Sharp (named for her grandmother who had died at Hull 1903 Q1, aged 49), as well as Jennie’s father John Young, age 70, a brewery labourer, and her younger brother, John (Jack) Young, 30, an engine fitter (railway). Alas, in the last quarter of that year, James Robert died, age 36. The daughter Kate died at Hull 1927 Q3, aged 23. Apparently she had picked up a throat infection while abroad on holiday with her fiancé.
Jennie married Herbert North, a policeman, at Hull 1915 Q2, his wife Mary Ann having died (apparently shortly after child birth) 1914 Q2, leaving him with the new born Hilda Mary and three other young children*. Herbert and Jennie’s daughter Margaret (“Peggy”) was born 1916 Q2. Herbert became an Inspector in the Hull City Fire Brigade and in 1930 was awarded the King’s Police Medal for his heroic rescue of a girl from a blazing house 7.2.1929. He retired shortly afterwards and died in January 1936, aged 58, when resident at John Street, Hull. In 1939 Jennie North was living at 8 Caroline Place with Hilda and Margaret. Jennie eventually lived with her daughter Hilda on the Bilton Grange estate in East Hull and died there 1960 Q4, aged 82.
*One of these was Arthur Smith North (born 1911) who was a cobbler. As a young man was adjudged responsible for the death of his fiancée’s sister and sentenced to death. His fiancée stood by him and a petition was started. Mike’s father, Horace Young, remembered signing it at a booth Jennie North had set up on Monument Bridge. Arthur was reprieved and in 1939 he was listed as being in H.M. Prison Maidstone.. He was eventually released after many years, only, it is said, to hang himself a year or two later. This could have been in Hull 1945 Q4. See also below.
Hilda Mary North was born at Hull 17.4.1914. In 1939 she was a ticket printing machinist. She married at Hull 1944 Q2 Frederick Watson (Fred) Shillito, a part-time Rugby League player and dock worker (despite her mother’s disapproval). 19.10.1990 we interviewed Fred (1911- 2005) and were treated to his colourful life story. This included picking up enough of the language when in an Italian prison camp for one of the camp officers asking him, given his surname, if he was not of Italian origin. Fred, disliking the way the conversation was going, hastily explained that actually he was Irish, name being more correctly O’Shillet! When Italy surrendered in September 1943 and the guards downed tools Fred and eight companions made off South into the mountains and succeeded in eventually reaching Canadians on the Allied front line. Fred had heard Arthur North’s version of events (see above) at first hand but had sworn never to disclose the conversation. However he gave us to understand that the French would have referred to it as a crime of passion. We think that Hilda and Fred had one son. Hilda died at Hull 1981 Q4, aged 67 and Fred died there 2005 Q1, aged 95.
Margaret (Peggy) North was born at Hull 8.5.1916. In 1939 she was a bookinder. She married at Hull 1940 Q4 David Llivingstone Pitts, a decorator. We think that they had one son. David died at Hull 1983 Q3, aged 67 and Margaret died there 1994 Q4, aged 78.
John (Jack) Young
Born at Hull 18.2.1881. In 1911 seen at the home of his sister Jane Sharp as an engine fitter (railways). He married at Hull 1914 Q1 Julia Bradshaw Wiles, born 18.2.1882, the daughter of William Wiles, a dock labourer and his wife Julia Bradshaw nee Wood. On the 1939 register Jack and Julia were at 13 Steynburg Street, Hull, Jack being a general engineer. We are not sure when Jack died – it could be 1942 Q3 (aged 61) or 1955 Q3 (aged 74). Julia died at Hull 1969 Q4, aged 87. We believe Jack and Julia had four children:
Bernard Young born 1915 Q1.
Mary Young born 1916 Q1
Mollie Young born 1917 Q1. Another source has 24.12.1916, with death 16.12.1988
Doris Young born 1921 Q3
Appendix 4 to Ref. Y2
John Young Link
For a long time the information we had on the Young family consisted of two quite considerable bodies of knowledge held together by surmise. We knew our ancestry was through John and Jane Young who had first appeared as a family on the 1871 Census. As recounted in the main text, we have not found a birth or baptism entry for John but we rather suspected that he might be the son of a certain Hannah Young, since she had an appropriately aged son John with brothers (in 1861) William and George Henry. We noted that in the same premises there was a Thomas Young newly married to Elizabeth with their one year old daughter Hannah. This fitted in with 1851 where Hannah had Thomas, John and William and in 1841 with just Thomas and John.
So there seemed to be the four brothers with their apparently unmarried mother but was her John “our” John?
Anyway, in 1990 we did establish that Hannah was John’s mother in a rather roundabout way. This was by talking to John Young’s granddaughter Mildred Pooley at Hornsea (in July 1990). She remembered her Aunt Jennie (John’s daughter, Jane) being visited by George Henry Young* son of George Henry Young. As mentioned the latter appears in the 1871 census with Hannah at 1 Salthouse Lane, so we decided that Mildred’s recollection was of one cousin visiting another.
*Born 1883
THOMAS YOUNG (1735-1796)
MILLER OF FOCKERBY
Thomas Young, born 15.1.1735, the son of William Young of Cowick (near Snaith, West Riding), married Elizabeth Hill at Snaith 30.3.1758. They had the following family at Fockerby in Adlingfleet parish:
Mary. Baptised 4.2.1759 whose burial was 14.8.1778.
Thomas. Baptised 14.12.1761 See main story and Appendix 4
Jane. Baptised 27.4.1762. Said by other researchers to have married Martin Tune at Adlingfleet 31.1.1786 and had 13 children.
Elizabeth. Baptised 27.4.1763 whose burial was 2.5.1763.
John. Baptised 12.8.1764, a butcher of Garthorpe, who married Sarah Singleton, a native of Howden, at Luddington 11.12.1798 and who had 7 children, the last of whom was born after his father died aged 48 – burial 29.11.1812 at Garthorpe. Sarah died aged 51 in 1823
Robert. Baptised 2.3.1766 whose burial was 22.1.1767.
Robert. Baptised 20.9.1767, a miller, whose burial was 2.4.1801, aged 33.
William. Baptised 29.12.1769, miller, who married Mary Auty 7.7.1801. They had 5 children, of whom 3 survived into adulthood. Mary perished in the snow in January 1814, aged 39 but William survived to be 61, his burial being 10.6.1832. Around 1808 William ceased to be a miller, becoming a pauper instead. His son Thomas, ag lab, lived on at Fockerby right up to 1899, having married Frances Renshaw.
As to the parents, the Adlingfleet registers record the death, in December 1781, of Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Young, miller (her age not specified but actually 44) and eventually of Thomas Young (Senr), aged 61, miller of Fockerby in March 1796, from pleurisy.
Thomas Young’s Families
Thomas Young, Mike’ g3-grandfather, (baptised 14.12.1761) was first married 20.7.1790 at Adlingfleet to Hannah Davidson (both said to be of the Parish). In most of the subsequent entries at Adlingfleet Thomas Young is described as a miller “of Fockerby”. They had children:
Elizabeth. Baptised 25.4.1791. She may well be the lady of that name who had an illegitimate daughter Susannah baptised 16.9.1814 whose burial was 20.10.1816, aged 2. Her paternal grandmother was called Elizabeth.
Thomas. Buried 12.7.1793 – BTs record no baptism, so still born?
(The paternal grandfather’s name was Thomas.)
Thomas. Baptised 23.5.1795 whose burial was 11.6.1795
Hannah, the wife, was buried 31.7.1795, i.e. directly after her son Thomas and eleven days after her fifth wedding anniversary. So at this point Thomas Young had just four year old Elizabeth to look after.
In anticipation of the next section, we simply record now that the Luddington register, which covers Fockerby’s adjoining village of Garthorpe has:
Baptised 24.4.1797 buried 30.5.1797 Sarah Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter of Sarah Aistrope. We think the latter was the 22 year old daughter of John Aistrope and Alice, nee Marlin of Garthorpe. (See Ref Y21)
We speculate that Sarah Aistrope got to know Thomas Young by possibly being enrolled by him as a nursemaid or housekeeper. At any rate, in due course they took out a bishop’s licence and married at Holy Trinity Church, Hull 29.8.1798. He said he was 25 (actually 38) and she said she was 22 (actually 23). Ecclesiastically speaking, if Sarah’ residence was still deemed to be Garthorpe then groom and bride were from different dioceses and a bishop’s licence was required, albeit with a marriage at Luddington. In fact the couple chose Hull as the venue. Why would a local couple do that? Did Sarah’s illegitimate baby come into it, we wonder?
In reciting Thomas Young’s second family, the Adlingfleet records that follow generally refer to him as a miller of Fockerby:
Mary Ann. Baptised 5.5.1799. She married Thomas Atkinson, shoemaker later Ag Lab, of Garthorpe, about two years her junior, per Luddington records 17.9.1823. At least one child, Thomas, baptised 6.1.1835 at Luddington. At 1851 Census at Fockerby, 1861 at Garthorpe. She was buried 19.5.1868 at Luddington. Husband Thomas was still at Garthorpe in 1871 (with his 75 year old step-mother Hannah!) and he was buried at Luddington 20.1.1874.
John. Baptised 13.4.1801 – buried May1801. His maternal grandfather was John.
George. Baptised 7.4.1802 – buried 4.5.1802
Alice. Baptised 31.3.1802 – buried 2.4.1803 (Her maternal grandmother was Alice)
Sarah. Baptised 19.7.1804. Married George Parsonson (1797-1864), a waterman 19.12.1825 in Doncaster and had 10 children in Doncaster and Hull. Settled in Hull by 1838 and in 1841 near neighbour of her widowed mother and sisters Hannah and Jane in Hull. Not found 1851 but in 1861 at York, on a vessel.
Jane. Born 29.1.1807 baptised 1.2.1807. Married Robert Henry Gibson (1803-1869) (record of event not seen), mariner, and had at least 6 children. In Hull in 1841 in same building at her mother and sister Hannah. Died 1882 in Hull.
Thomas. Baptised 2.9.1809. Sailor. Died 27.9.1839, High Street, Hull, of consumption, aged 30. Burial, “aged 29”, Holy Trinity 1.10.1839 (informant sister Jane, Carr Lane, Hull). Apparently unmarried.
William Aistrope. Baptised 1.12.1811 – buried 12.1.1815
Hannah. Baptised 25.2. 1817 – see main story.
Comment: We have seen entries relating to no less than 12 children fathered by Thomas Young but only half of them made it to adulthood and most died within a very short time of birth. In fact Sarah Aistrope, Thomas’s second wife, seems to have had five children between 1797 and 1803 with only four year old Mary Ann to show for it (although she would also have had her step-daughter Elizabeth aged 12 there).
We have not seen father Thomas Young’s death, which must have taken place between mid-1816 (or more likely mid-1820s) and the 6.6.1841 Census date – see main text.
Appendix 7 to Ref. Y2
FAMILY OF WILLIAM YOUNG AND MARY INCH
William Young and Mary Inch married at Snaith 16.11.1732. They had children when living at Cowick, as follows:
John Born 29.8.1733 baptised 30.9.1733 buried 12.12.1738
Thomas Born 15.1.1735 NS baptised 16.2.1735. See main text.
William Born 22.2.1737 NS baptised 24.4.1737. Labourer, married at Snaith 27.11.1759 Mary Walker. They had twins William and Mary, the latter dying after a few weeks. There was also John.
William Young was buried 5.8.1771 at Snaith.
John Born 29.8.1738 baptised 30.9.1738 buried 12.12.1738.
Mary Born 22.7.1740 baptised 24.8.1740 buried 1.10.1740.
John baptised 24.11.1745.
We have also seen a burial at Snaith 1.6.1739 of Jane Young, daughter of William of Cowick, but have not been able to fit her into the above.
August 2018
Appendix 8 to Ref. Y2
The Family of Thomas Young and Elizabeth Hardacre
Thomas Young married Elizabeth Hardacer (sic) at Holy Trinity Church, Hull, 8.12.1856. He said he was 21, a rulleyman, of High Street, Hull, and the son of the late Thomas Young, hatter. The bride (who made her mark) is down as aged 20, no profession, the daughter of William Hardacer a factory foreman. Witnesses were Ezekial Carrick and Sarah Randerson. At the 1851 Census Elizabeth Hardacre (the correct spelling), aged 15, was with her family at 10 York Street, St Paul’s, Hull, as a cotton spinner, her father being an overlooker in a factory, with the whole family born at Wigan (Elizabeth being baptised there 4.10.1835) and evidently only recently having moved to Hull.
In the main text we argue that Thomas’s mother Hannah Young never married.
The 1911 Census revealed that Thomas and Elizabeth had eight children but two had died by then. The remaining six are as follows:
Hannah Elizabeth Known as “Annie”. Born at Hull 1859 Q3. Married at St Mark’s Church, Hull, 22.6.1879 John William Atkinson Gawthorpe, butcher, who was said to be 22 and the son of Charles Atkinson Gawthorpe, labourer. We have not seen confirmation of Charles’ birth or parentage. At later Censuses he implied his birth was 1854/55. Both parties said they lived at Spyvee Street, (the Young residence). Witnesses were Thomas Young and Lucy Smith. In 1891 Annie and John were in Ada’s Avenue, next door to her parents. At the 1911 Census Annie and John were living in Fern Avenue, Fern Street, next door to Annie’s cousin Walter Young (Mike’s grandfather) and his family. It seems they had had six children but only three were then surviving, details as follows.
Arthur Gawthorpe born November 1886, butcher, who married at Hull 1906 Q3 Annie Chapman. Their son John was born 22.6.1907 and in 1911 was with them at 111 St Mark’s Street, Hull. Another son, Arthur, born 22.10.1908 (and baptised at St Mark’s Church, Hull 8.11.1908) was not there because he was in the Victoria Children’s Hospital, Park Street, Hull. John became an insurance agent, married to Lilian, while Arthur was a labourer.
Lilian Atkinson Gawthorpe. Born at Hull 18.6.1889. Still at home in 1911. Did not marry. Death registered at Beverley near Hull 1978 Q1 aged 88.
Dorothy Gawthorpe. Born at Hull 1896 Q2. In 1911 at home as a dressmaker.
Annie died at Hull 1923 Q1 aged 63 and John Gawthorpe died there 1928 Q4, aged 73.
Thomas Born at Hull 28.2.1862. Baker. Married at Holy Trinity Church, Hull, 2.1.1884 Amelia Cooper, the 18 year old daughter of Frederick C Cooper, a deceased cattle dealer and later butcher, and his wife Mary Jane, nee Hewland. Thomas gave his address as Myton Gate, with Mary’s being Sewer Lane. The witnesses were Edward Worner and Alice Young (see next section) They had five children but two of them had died by 1911. Details of the three surviving children are as follows
Kate Young. Baptised at St Paul’s Sculcoates 5.5.1899. In 1911 at home as a printer’s clerk.
Annie Young Born 18.8.1892 and baptised at St Paul’s Sculcoates 18.9.1892. In 1911 at home (Mytongate) as a bookbinder’s assistant. Married at Hull 1920 Q2 Sydney Gaze (after he had served in the War). Believed to have had five children. In 1939 Sydney (then working for the Ministry of Labour) and Annie were living at Barracks Road, Beverley. Sydney Gaze was born 18.6.1894, the son of James William Gaze
Thomas Arthur Young Born at Hull and bapised at St Paul’s Sculcoates 23.7.1896. In 1911 an apprentice corn merchant’s clerk.
We think Amelia died at Hull 1928 Q1, aged 63.
Alice Born at Hull 1864 Q3. Aged 23 when she married at St Paul’s, Hull, 19.10.1887 Edward Worner, an engine driver. He was born at Seaton, East Riding, 5.11.1863, the son of James Worner, also an engine driver, and his wife Elizabeth nee Stephenson. The couple were apparently next door neighbours in Ada’s Avenue, Waterloo Street. Witnesses were Arthur Young and Margaret France. Alice died at Hull 1927 Q4, aged 63. Edward was living as Hornsea in 1939 and died there 1942 Q3, aged 80. In 1911 at 1 Woodhall Street, Hull, with their five surviving children (3 girls, 2 boys), one having already died.
Arthur Born at Hull 1866 Q1. Baker. Married at Drypool Church, Hull, 7.8.1895 Louisa Ellen Charlton, age 34, born at Hull Q2 1861 as the daughter (we believe) of George Charlton, deceased, a labourer (and former army sergeant) and his wife Ellen, nee Byrne. We think that George Charlton died at Hull 1874 Q4 (when Louise would have been 12) and her mother must also have died because at the 1881 Census Louise, aged 20, is a housemaid at the Hull Seaman’s & General Orphan Asylum on Spring Bank, Hull, where her young brother, Nathaniel age 12 is a scholar. Ten years later he is married and a pattern-maker, living in Spyvee Street, while Louisa is still working at the Orphanage, as a cook. Perhaps she thought that her brother had been named after his father because on the marriage entry she said she was the daughter of the late Nathaniel Charlton, clerk. By 1911 Arthur and Louisa had only had Ida, born 1896 Q2.
Walter Born at Hull 5.3.1873. Printer. Said he was a clerk when he married at St Paul’s, Sculcoates, Hull, 14.5.1894 Rosina Rebecca Bagshaw, who was born at Deptford 28.12.1873, the daughter of John Edward Bagshaw and his wife Emily Elizabeth Evans. On her wedding lines Rosina said her father was a moulder. By the 1911 Census they had had four children, followed by Lawrence (born 23.4.1911) and Rosina Rebecca (born 1.2.1913). Walter Young died at Hull 15.10.1926, as a brewery labourer, aged 53. In 1939 Rosina was at 11 Brighton Terrace, Hull, with her son Lawrence. She died in July 1961, aged 87, the registration being in Holderness, i.e. outside Hull.
The daughter Rosina Rebecca married at Hull 1938 Q2 Joseph Godfrey and was the mother of fellow family researcher Peter. Joseph Godfrey died at Hull 1990 Q1, aged 75 and Rosina at Cottingham 13.12.2000, aged 87.
George Ernest Born at Hull 1875 Q2. Baker, later a dock labourer. Married at St Paul’s Church, Sculcoates, Hull, 23.7.1898 Gertrude Redfearn, born 1874 Q1, the daughter of Henry Redfearn, boiler maker, and his wife Mary, nee Livingstone. By 1911 George and Gertrude had had four children, who were with them at 19 Lorne Street, Hull.
Thomas Young died at Hull 28.2.1915, aged 79 and Elizabeth Young died at Hull 1915 Q4, aged 80.
September 2020
Appendix 9 to Ref. Y2
The Family of George Henry Young and Elizabeth Goodrick
Note: Some of the detail in this appendix was kindly supplied by Mike’s cousin Mark and his wife Carol.
George Henry Young, the fourth and youngest son of Hannah Young, married 1.7.1787 at St Barnabas Church, Hull, Elizabeth Goodrick, the 18 year old daughter of William George Goodrick, a cork cutter and his wife Sarah Ann, nee Graham. The couple both gave their address as Somerset Terrace, Staniforth Place. George Henry, a baker, said his father was George Young deceased, hatter, but in the main text we argue that his mother Hannah never married. Witnesses were William Goodrick and Mary Jane Reed. 32 years later, at the 1911 Census crossed out information revealed that there had been 16 children but 6 had already died. The surviving 10 are as follows:
(The baptisms mentioned were at St Paul’s Sculcoates, Hull.)
Amy Maud Rachel Born at Hull 9.6.1879, baptised 6.7.1879. Married at St Matthews Church, Hull, 5.10.1903 Albert Cook, aged 24, Engineer, son of Michael Cook deceased, labourer. Both said to resident at 9 King’s Bench Walk. Witnesses George Henry Young and Clara Young. At the 1911 Census Albert was not at home (at New Clee, Grimsby) but Amy had her two children, both born at Grimsby, Cyril Victor (born 1903 Q4) and Eva aged 4. From the 1939 register we know that Albert was a trawler engineer, albeit seeking employment and a son, Richard (a master plumber, electrician wireman) had been born 12.5.1915 and Jean Anita (working in a jam factory) had been born 5.4.1922 and had later married an Odell.
Clara Born at Hull 25.10.1882. Married 8.6.1908 St Andrews Church, Drypool, Hull, William Arthur Leadley, aged 25, driller, son of Edward Leadley, labourer, and his wife Mary Ann, nee Nicholson. Witnesses William Fred Young, Florence Peek and Olive Young. At the 1911 Census the Leadleys (including Arthur, 2, and Charlie, 11 months) were at 36 Porter Street – Clara’s widowed mother’s house, with siblings George Henry, Olive, Harry and Horace. We think that William Leadley died at Hull 1920 Q3 aged 36. Looking at the 1939 register, we did not see a Clara Young with a suitable birth date in the Hull area. We were not surprised as we would have expected her to have remarried fairly soon after being widowed. What we did find was Charles Isaac Leadley, a dock labourer whose date of birth was 29.4.1910, with his wife Violetta, nee Wilkinson, at 6 Jalland Street, Hull. Their hosts were John Curtis, a dock labourer, born 7.8.1881 and Clara Curtis born 25.10.1882. We decided that Clara and Charles were mother and son. Also present was Rose A Ward (Curtis) born 22.6.1920. Her mother’s maiden name was Heenan and it emerged that John Curtis’s wife Catherine, nee Heenan died at Hull 1922 Q3, aged 35.
However, there was a further twist to the tale, in that Clara turns out to have married three times. From 1921 Q1 she was married to John E Wales until he died 1927 Q1 , aged 48. The Clara Wales – John Curtis marriage was 1928 Q3. John Curtis died at Hull 1952 Q1, aged 70 and Clara Curtis died at Hull 1965 Q3, aged 82.
George Henry Born at Hull 29.11.1883, baptised 19.12.1883. In 1911 referred to as “Harry” at 36 Porter Street, with his widowed mother and siblings, said to be a marine engineer. Married at Hull 1912 Q2 Eleanor Carrick, a 32 year old kitchen maid at Hull Royal Infirmary, Prospect Street, the daughter of James Carrick, a fishing officer and his wife Ellen. In 1939 one of the inmates of Hull City Mental Hospital, Willerby, was Eleanor Young, DoB 12.5.1880 – which fits the case – and described as having been in domestic duties (private house), in other words a housewife. What we know of the four daughters of George Henry and Eleanor is as follows:
Eleanor Young Born at Hull 1914 Q1 and died in the same quarter.
Jessie Young Born at Hull 1915 Q1. Married at Grimsby 1934 Q1 Edward A Carter. Jessie died at Grimsby 1937 Q3 aged 22. Edward and Jessie had two children.
Muriel Young Born at Hull 5.9.1917. In 1939 resident as a ward maid at Hull City Fever Hospital, Thwaite Hall, Castle Road, Cottingham. Married at Ilford, Essex, January 1956 Leonard W. Vials, 55, who in 1939, with his first wife Olive at Barking & Dagenham, was a painter and decorator. He was the son of Northamptonshire born William Baker Vials and his wife Charlotte Anne. Leonard and Muriel had no children and Muriel died 7.4.1985 at Dagenham.
Ellen May Young Born at Hull 1919 Q3. Married at Hull 1942 Q2 Allan Bradley. They had one daughter. Ellen May lived in Market Weighton and died 27.11.2010, aged 91.
See Appendix 10 for George Henry’s later family.
Arthur Alfred Baptised at Hull 15.4.1885. A brass moulder in 1911.
William Frederick Baptised at Hull 11.5.1887. A fisherman, he married at St James Church, Hull, 10.12.1908 Florence Neale 18 year old daughter of Alfred Neale, a labourer and his wife Mary. The couple were neighbours in Rose Terrace, Alfred Street. By the 1911 Census William Fred junior had appeared, his father being described as a ship’s steward. In 1939 Florence (“married”) was running a guest house on Cottingham Road. We think William Fred died at Hull 1958 Q3, aged 71. Florence died at Hull 1973 Q3, aged 83.
Charles Isaac Baptised at Hull 30.4.1890.
Olive Born at Hull 1894 Q1.
Sidney Reginald Born at Hull 1895 Q1. Labourer. He enlisted in the Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery 2.9.1914. He embarked at West Hartlepool on the ship Fearnley but died of malaria off the coast of Sierra Leone 7.12.1916, aged 21.
Harold Born at Hull 1899 Q2.
Horace Edmund G Born at Hull 1902 Q2
Elizabeth Born at Hull 30.5.1905. Married at Hull 1924 Q3 Thomas Harold Nicholson, an iron foundry worker, who was born 3.4.1904, the son of Robert Harold Nicholson, a steam trawler engineer, and his wife Gertrude Elsie, nee Walford. Elizabeth and Thomas had five children (including twin girls) and in 1939 were at 8 Mand Crescent, Eastbourne Street, Hull. Thomas died at Hull 1968 Q3, aged 64, and Elizabeth died there 1996 Q2, aged 91.
October 2020
Appendix 10 to Ref. Y2
The Family of George Henry Young and Ethel Nichols
Note: Some of the detail in this appendix was kindly supplied by Mike’s cousin Mark and his wife Carol.
George Henry Young (born 29.11.1883 – see Appendix 9) and Ethel Nichols, born at Rotherham 3.5.1891, the daughter of Andrew Nichols, steelworker, and his wife Hannah nee Worster, seem to have got together after Eleanor Young was incarcerated in the Willerby mental hospital. They had four children, per below, and finally married at Hull 1952 Q3.
Dorothy Born at Hull 1927 Q1. Married at Hull July 1947 Ronald Wray. They had a boy and twin girls. Dorothy died at Doncaster 13.12.2011 and we think Ronald had died there 1998 Q4.
Marjorie Born at Hull 4.9.1928. Married at Hull 1953 Q2 Peter Linton Willingham who was born 4.8.1929 as the son of Ernest Willingham and his wife Amy. Peter died at Great Yarmouth 1990 Q4. They had three children, including family historian Mark.
George A Born at Hull 1930 Q2.
Raymond Born at Hull 28.7.1931. He married secondly at York July 1964 Norma A Barron. They did not have any children and Raymond died at Nottingham 24.9.2007, aged 76.
In 1939 George Henry Young and Ethel were at 96 Walton Street, Hull, where George Henry was a cycle dealer and repairer. Marjorie was at an address in Bridlington, presumably having been evacuated. George Henry died at Hull 1960 Q3, aged 77. Ethel died at Hull 1965 Q2, aged 74.
October 2020
Young Family History 