See also

George Boorman (1885-1917)

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George Boorman

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • agricultural / farm labourer then a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery3 4

  • Birth:

  • Q2 1885

  • Lenham, Kent, England1 5 3 4

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 5)

  • Lower Road, Lenham, Kent, England5

  •  

  • son attending school and living with his parents George and Sarah, (half-)sister Elizabeth, and brothers John and Henry. Born in Lenham Kent

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 15)

  • Liverton Street, Lenham, Kent, England3

  •  

  • son working as an ordinary labourer on a farm and living in four rooms with his parents George and Sarah, (half-)sister Elizabeth, brothers John, Henry and Walter, and sister Bessie. Born in Lenham Kent

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 26)

  • Aden Protectorate4

  •  

  • an unmarried gunner serving with the 64th Company of the Royal Garrison Artillery. Born in Maidstone Kent

  • Death:

  • 18 Mar 1917 (age 31)

  • Faversham "Registration District", Kent, England2 6

  • Burial:

  • Mar 1917

  • Faversham Borough Cemetery, Love Lane, Faversham, Kent, England6

  •  

  • gunner no:26246 serving with the 64th Company Royal Garrison Artillery died 18th March 1917 aged 32, son of George and Sarah Ann Boorman of Kemps Hill Farm New Romney. Born at Lenham Maidstone

Sources

1.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Hollingbourne 1885 quarter:2 volume:2a page:717. Cit. Date: 16 April 2025.

2.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Faversham 1917 quarter:1 volume:2a page:1655. Cit. Date: 24 April 2025.

3.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG13 piece:771 folio:80 page:13 schedule:72. Cit. Date: 16 April 2025.

4.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:34996 registration district:641 sub-district:21 enumeration district:23 schedule:9999. Cit. Date: 24 April 2025.

5.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG12 piece:692 folio:70 page:16 schedule:124. Cit. Date: 16 April 2025.

6.

Commonwealth War Grave Commission, (on-line at www.cwgc.org). Faversham Borough Cemetery D.393. Cit. Date: 24 April 2024.