See also

Family of Benjamin George Oakley and Ellen Beatrice Wilson

  • Husband:

  • Benjamin George Oakley (1893-1915)

  • Wife:

  • Ellen Beatrice Wilson (1881-1963)

  • Children:

  • Benjamin George Oakley (1916-1990)

  • Marriage:

  • 25 Jul 1915

  • Hemel Hempstead Register Office - The Forum, Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England1,2

  •  

  • Benjamin a single carter in Bedfordshire Regiment Transport Section of Bennetts End Hemel Hempstead, Helen a widowed millhand of 187 Marlowes Hemel Hempstead, groom's father Harry Oakley deceased, bride's father George Wilson, witnessed by Fanny Hoar and Daisy Cyril Parr

Husband: Benjamin George Oakley

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Benjamin George Oakley

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1915 burial B G Oakley

  • Name:

  • Benjamin George Oakley3

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Henry Oakley (1844- )

  • Mother:

  • Rachel Bennett (1853?- )

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • agricultural / farm labourer4

  • Birth:

  • Q1 1893

  • St. Pancras, London, England3,4,5

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 8)

  • Belcony Cottages, Leverstock Green, Hertfordshire, England5

  •  

  • son living in four rooms with his mother Rachael and brothers Albert and Alfred. Born in St. Pancras London

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 18)

  • 11 Bennets End, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England4

  •  

  • unmarried son working as a labourer thrashing machine and living in four rooms with his mother Rachel. Born in St. Pancras London

  • Death:

  • 4 Dec 1915 (age 22)

  • Pas-de-Calais, France6

  •  

  • Cause: of wounds after a shell had landed in the barn where he was billeted

  • Burial:

  •  

  • Humbercamps Communal Cemetery Extension, Grand Rue, Humbercamps, Pas-de-Calais, France6

  •  

  • private 12404 of the 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment

  • Medals:

  •  

  •  

  •  

  • Victory, British and 1915 Star medals

Wife: Ellen Beatrice Wilson

  • Name:

  • Ellen Beatrice Wilson7

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • mill hand1

  • Birth:

  • 12 Sep 1881

  • Hemel Hempstead "Registration District", Hertfordshire, England7,8

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 58)

  • 119 Seaton Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England8

  •  

  • married doing unpaid domestic duties and living with her husband Tom, sons Ronald and Benjamin. Born on 12th September 1881

  • Death:

  • Q3 1963 (age 81)

  • Hemel Hempstead "Registration District", Hertfordshire, England9

Child 1: Benjamin George Oakley

  • Name:

  • Benjamin George Oakley10,11

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • painter8

  • Birth:

  • 23 Jan 1916

  • Hemel Hempstead Register Office - The Forum, Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England8,10,11

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 23)

  • 119 Seaton Road, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England8

  •  

  • an unmarried painter living with his mother Helen, step-father Tom and brother Ronald Slow. Born on 23rd January 1916

  • Death:

  • Nov 1990 (age 74)

  • Dacorum "Registration District", Hertfordshire, England11

Note on Wife: Ellen Beatrice Wilson

previously married to John William Coxhill (1876-1911), then to Tom Slow (1885-)8,12,13,14

Sources

1.

Marriage Certificate. Cit. Date: 17 July 2019. Family Archive, Held by David and Sue Wilkinson.

2.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Hemel Hempstead 1915 quarter:3 volume:3a page:2488. Cit. Date: 17 July 2019.

3.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Pancras 1893 quarter:1 volume:1b page:21. Cit. Date: 16 July 2019.

4.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG14 piece:7752 class:RG78 piece:383 registration district:141 sub-district:1 enumeration district:13 schedule:45. Cit. Date: 17 July 2019.

5.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG13 piece:1326 folio:114 page:3. Cit. Date: 16 July 2019.

6.

Commonwealth War Grave Commission, (on-line at www.cwgc.org). 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment no:12404 ref:I.D.1. Cit. Date: 17 July 2019.

7.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Hemel Hempstead 1881 quarter:4 volume:3a page:504. Cit. Date: 17 July 2019.

8.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG101 piece:1608H page:7 line:41 letter code:DEGO. Cit. Date: 17 July 2019.

9.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Hemel Hempstead 1963 quarter:3 volume:4b page:67. Cit. Date: 17 July 2019.

10.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Hemel Hempstead 1916 quarter:1 volume:3a page:1572. Cit. Date: 17 July 2019.

11.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Dacorum 1990 quarter:4 register:1190 volume:10 page:182. Cit. Date: 17 July 2019.

12.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Hemel Hempstead 1904 quarter:4 volume:3a page:1274. Cit. Date: 17 July 2019.

13.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Hemel Hempstead 1911 quarter:4 volume:3a page:825. Cit. Date: 17 July 2019.

14.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Hemel Hempstead 1921 quarter:3 volume:3a page:2301. Cit. Date: 17 July 2019.