See also

Herbert Alfred Ransome (1885-1953)

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • labourer with the Great Eastern Railway then a goods shunter for GER then LNER3,4,5

  • Birth:

  • 24 Oct 1885

  • Ipswich, Suffolk, England1,3,4,5,6

  •  

  • 1939 register census says born on 24th October 1884

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 5)

  • 6 Handford Square, Ipswich, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • unmarried son attending school and living in four rooms with his parents Thomas and Mary Ann, sisters Ada, Edith and Alice, and brothers William and Frederick. Born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Census absence:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 15)

  •  

  •  

  • whole family away at sea? John Crick and family living in the family home

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 25)

  • 2 St. Peter's Place, Boars Head Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England3

  •  

  • unmarried head of the household working as a labourer with the Great Eastern Railway and living in four rooms with sister Ada. Born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 35 yrs 8 mns)

  • 2 St. Peter's Place, Boars Head Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England4

  •  

  • unmarried head of the household working as a head shunter for Great Eastern Railway and living in four rooms with his sister Ada. Born in Ipswich Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 53)

  • 145 Robeck Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England5

  •  

  • a married (but he wasn't) goods shunter for LNER living with his sister Ada (also listed as married) and a closed record. Born on 24th October 1884

  • Death:

  • Q1 1953 (age 67)

  • Ipswich "Registration District", Suffolk, England2

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). Ipswich 1885 quarter:4 volume:4a page:764. Cit. Date: 6 January 2021.

2.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1953 quarter:1 volume:4b page:1108. Cit. Date: 7 January 2021.

3.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG14 piece:10817 class:RG78 piece:584 registration district:213 sub-district:1 enumeration district:19 schedule:31. Cit. Date: 7 January 2021.

4.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG15 piece:9414 registration district:213 sub-district:1 enumeration district:22 schedule:187. Cit. Date: 20 March 2023.

5.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG101 piece:6608F page:21 line:25 letter code:TVOA. Cit. Date: 7 January 2021.

6.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG12 piece:1468 folio:71 page:5. Cit. Date: 7 June 2017.