See also

Family of Harry Redgwell and Susan Gurton Wilkinson

  • Husband:

  • Harry Redgwell (1891-1922)

  • Wife:

  • Susan Gurton Wilkinson (1887-1976)

  • Children:

  • Violet Kathleen Redgwell (1920-1991)

  •  

  • Eva Eileen Redgwell (1921-2004)

  • Marriage:

  • 1 Jun 1918

  • Congregational Chapel, Chapel Road, Tollesbury, Essex, England1,2,3

  •  

  • Harry a stoker Petty Officer on HMS Royal Oak, Susan of Tollesbury, both single, groom's father David Redgwell a horseman on a farm, bride's father James Wilkinson a mariner. Married by certificate and witnessed by Florence Wilkinson and Eliza Redgwell

Husband: Harry Redgwell

  • Name:

  • Harry Redgwell2,3,4

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • carman then as a Petty Officer stoker in the Royal Navy3,5,6

  • Birth:

  • 30 Jan 1891

  • Bowers Gifford, Essex, England4,5,7,8,9

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 2 mns)

  • Little Chalvedon Hall Cottages, Bowers Gifford, Essex, England7

  •  

  • son living with his parents David and Elizabeth, sisters Lydia, Alice, Eliza, Emily and Polley, and brother George, Born in Bowers Gifford

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 10)

  • Butlers Cottage, Shopland, Essex, England8

  •  

  • son living in four rooms with his widowed father David, brothers George and William, and sisters Alice and Pollie. Born in Bowers Giffold Essex

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 20)

  • 26 Ruskin Avenue, Prittlewell, Essex, England5

  •  

  • unmarried brother-in-law working as a carman for a haulage contractor and living in four rooms with his brother-in-law William Pond, sister Emily Pond, unnamed nephew Pond, brother George and sister Alice. Born in Bowers Gifford Essex

  • Military Service:

  • btw 18 Dec 1911 and 6 Jul 1922 (age 20-31)

  • Royal Navy as no:K.13586 becoming a Petty Officer stoker9

  •  

  • being a carman born in Bowers Gifford Essex, 5' 8" tall, with a chest of 37" brown hair, grey eyes and a fresh complexion. He participated in the Battle of Jutland on 31st May - 1st June 1916 whilst serving on H.M.S. Royal Oak as a leading stoker

  • Death:

  • 6 Jul 1922 (age 31)

  • Hong Kong6,10

  •  

  • Cause: of heatstroke

    whilst serving on H.M.S. Titania

Wife: Susan Gurton Wilkinson

  • Name:

  • Susan Gurton Wilkinson11

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • James Wilkinson (1841-1920)

  • Mother:

  • Rosetta Gurton (1846-1937)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • cook12

  • Birth:

  • 7 Aug 1887

  • Tollesbury, Essex, England11,12,13,14,15,16

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 3)

  • Hunts Lane, Tollesbury, Essex, England13

  •  

  • daughter living with her parents James (absent at sea) and Rosetta, brothers William (absent), James and Charles, and sisters Nellie and Florence. Born in Tollesbury Essex

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 13)

  • Hunts Lane, Tollesbury, Essex, England14

  •  

  • unmarried daughter living with her parents James and Rosetta, brother James, and sisters Nellie and Florence. Born in Tollesbury Essex

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 23)

  • Bramley Croft, Tower Road, Hindhead, Surrey, England12

  •  

  • unmarried servant working as a domestic cook and living in seventeen rooms with Rose Densham, her granddaughter, a housekeeper and three other servants. Born in Tollesbury Essex

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 52)

  • 3 Breakwell Cottages, Mell Road, Tollesbury, Essex, England15

  •  

  • a widow doing household duties and living alone. Born on 7th August 1887

  • Death:

  • 6 May 1976 (age 88)

  • Chelmsford "Registration District", Essex, England16,17

  • Probate:

  • 9 Jul 1976

  • Probate Registry, Arcade Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England17

  •  

  • of 59 Mell Road Tollesbury Essex died 6th May 1976, administration of £7,420 (~£51,000 in 2017)

Child 1: Violet Kathleen Redgwell

  • Name:

  • Violet Kathleen Redgwell18,19

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 24 Jan 1920

  • Rochford "Registration District", Essex, England18,19

  • Administrator:

  • 13 Apr 1966 (age 46)

  •  

     

    Violet Kathleen Redgwell was appointed as an administrator at the probate hearing of Florence Wilkinson on Wednesday on 13 April 1966 at the Probate Registry, Arcade Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England

  • Death:

  • Q4 1991 (age 71)

  • Chelmsford "Registration District", Essex, England19

Child 2: Eva Eileen Redgwell

  • Name:

  • Eva Eileen Redgwell20,21

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 13 May 1921

  • Maldon "Registration District", Essex, England20,21

  • Death:

  • Dec 2004 (age 83)

  • Colchester "Registration District", Essex, England21

Sources

1.

Church Register.

2.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Maldon 1918 quarter:2 volume:4a page:1239. Cit. Date: 16 August 2020.

3.

Marriage Certificate. own copy, index 61a. Cit. Date: 27 August 2020. Family Archive, Held by David and Sue Wilkinson.

4.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Billericay 1891 quarter:1 volume:4a page:467. Cit. Date: 27 August 2020.

5.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:10143 class:RG78 piece:533B registration district:195 sub-district:2 enumeration district:31 schedule:42. Cit. Date: 27 August 2020.

6.

FindMyPast British Royal Navy Seamen 1899-1924 Transcription, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). no:K.13586. Cit. Date: 27 August 2020.

7.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG12 piece:1383 folio:18 page:1. Cit. Date: 27 August 2020.

8.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG13 piece:1683 folio:6 page:4. Cit. Date: 27 August 2020.

9.

FindMyPast British Royal Navy Seamen 1899-1924 Transcription, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive ref:ADM 188/894/13586 no:K.13586. Cit. Date: 27 August 2020.

10.

Ancestry Family Trees, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk). Willsmore Family Tree by Anne Willsmore. Cit. Date: 14 November 2017.

11.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Maldon 1887 quarter:3 volume:4a page:461. Cit. Date: 14 November 2017.

12.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:3136 class:RG78 piece:115 registration district:34 sub-district:4 enumeration district:2 schedule:189. Cit. Date: 16 August 2020.

13.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG12 piece:1399 folio:177 page:2. Cit. Date: 20 March 2020.

14.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG13 piece:1693 folio:62 page:11. Cit. Date: 20 March 2020.

15.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:1581A page:19 line:8 letter code:DDPA. Cit. Date: 16 August 2020.

16.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Chelmsford 1976 quarter:2 volume:9 page:1704. Cit. Date: 16 August 2020.

17.

UK Government Probate Service, UK Government Find a Will, (on-line at www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1966 page:6883 no:761007052Q. Cit. Date: 16 August 2020.

18.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Rochford 1920 quarter:1 volume:4a page:1759. Cit. Date: 14 January 2017.

19.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Chelmsford 1991 quarter:4 register:1291 volume:9 page:2178. Cit. Date: 14 November 2017.

20.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Maldon 1921 quarter:2 volume:4a page:1443. Cit. Date: 14 January 2017.

21.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Colchester 2004 quarter:4 district:469/1 register:B89C entry:220 date:1204. Cit. Date: 14 November 2017.