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St Peter's Church, St.Peter's Square, Hammersmith cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Peter Trimming - geograph.org.uk/p/1790156 |
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Memorial for Alfred Blazey and Margaret Jane Webb |
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PS: It really is a small world |
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St Peter's Church, St.Peter's Square, Hammersmith cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Peter Trimming - geograph.org.uk/p/1790156 |
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Memorial for Alfred Blazey and Margaret Jane Webb |
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PS: It really is a small world |
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Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Derek Voller - geograph.org.uk/p/3699730 |
Ivy May Hepworth (b. 3 Nov 1892), daughter of Vincent Hepworth and Mary Ann (Annie) Rogers, married William Edgar Farthing (b. 23 Dec 1892), son of Frederick William Farthing and Emily Maud Gidley, on 10 Jan 1913, at the church of Saint James the Less, Plymouth. They had one son:
William Edgar Farthing, formerly a clerk at the Great Western Railway, who enlisted in July 1914 in the Royal Garrison Artillery, husband of Ivy May Farthing of 22 Atheneaum St, The Hoe, Plymouth, Devon was invalided home and died at the London Hospital, Whitechapel on 8 Feb 1917, aged 24, of a disease contracted while on active service. Second Lieutenant William Edgar Farthing is buried at Ford Park Cemetery (Plymouth Old Cemetery).
Ivy May Farthing remarried, on 29 May 1925, to Derrick William Graham.
Derrick William Graham b. 8 Aug 1900, was the elder son of Charles William Graham a Silk Merchant born in Melbourne, Australia and his wife Edith Eleanor Clodd (m. 1899 in the City of London). In 1911, Derrick (10) and his younger brother, Geoffrey Edward (9) were boarders at Doon House Preparatory School for Boys, Canterbury Road, Westgate-on-Sea. He entered service with the Royal Navy in May 1913, as an officer cadet, at Britannia Royal Naval College, at Dartmouth, Devon.
Derrick and Ivy had two sons:
Derrick William Graham made Sub-Lieutenant in 1919; Lieutenant in 1921 and Lieutenant-Commander in 1929. His service record places him in Malta in 1928 and Ivy May Graham and son Michael, of 109 Broadfield Road, Catford, SE6, sailed to Malta with RMS Viceroy of India, in 1931.
In 1939, at West Lodge, Villiers Road, Portsmouth, were Ivy M Graham, listed with a birth year of 1896 - it was 1892 - admitting to be four years older than her husband, but not all eight, while Derrick W Graham RN, at that time, was attached to HMS Dolphin (shore establishment), home of the Royal Navy Submarine Service from 1904 to 1999, at Fort Blockhouse, Gosport.
On 1 Jan 1944 Acting Commander Derrick William Graham, Royal Navy (Portsmouth) was listed in The London Gazette, having been mentioned in despaches. His record states "Mentioned in Despaches for zeal, patience and cheerfulness in dangerous waters, and for setting an example of wholehearted devotion to duty, upholding the high traditions of the Royal Navy."
Graham got his OBE (which him indoors tells me stands for "Other Buggers' Efforts") in 1946 for distinguished services during the war in the Far East.
Acting Commander Derrick William Graham reverted to the retired list on 30 Jul 1948. The marriage between Derrick and Ivy was disolved on 23 Feb 1951 and Derrick William Graham immediately remarried, on 17 Mar 1951, to Margaret Hamilton Sterling in Natal, South Africa. Derrick William Graham of St. Paul Road, Vacoas, Mauritius died, at 59, on 28 Apr 1960.
Ivy May Graham died on 20 Oct 1978 in Portsmouth, just days short of turning 86. She is buried in the churchyard at St Nicholas Church, Durweston, Dorset, where her sister, Ida Lily Soppit, is also buried. Dorset Monumental Inscriptions lists her as "Mother of Grahame & Michael GRAHAM".
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York and King Streets, Toronto, Canada |
William Charles Critzer (28) Bachelor, Sheet Metal Worker, married Bertha Lilian Carter (27) Spinster, Saleslady, in Toronto, on 27 Dec 1930. William listed his parents as Joseph Critzer and Sarah Sophia Thompson, from which we can clearly determine that we have the right man, despite the spellings. William, of 106 Elmwood Avenue, Toronto, listed his religion as Baptist and his father's birthplace as Germany. Witnesses were Alice Maud Carter, the bride's mother and Eric M Carter, the bride's brother. The marriage was solemnised by A J Reid of 946 St Clarens Ave, which appears to be a residential address, so the venue of the marriage is [so far] unknown.
Born in 1903, at sea, aboard the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II at Lat 40.45N/Long 56.52W, off the coast of North America, he had been baptised William Karl Tompson on 9 Dec 1903, at the church of St Matthew, Stepney. Then listed as 'Willie Thompson' (8) he had emigrated to Canada with his grandparents, Dan Tompson and Sarah Jane Baker, having sailed to Montreal from Liverpool aboard SS Corsican on 18 Oct 1912 with his grandmother, Sarah Jane, and his aunt Ivy. On the 1921 Census of Canada, this time listed as Willie Christie (18) he was living at 131 Morrison Avenue, Toronto, still living with his grandparents. (At Ancestry, there's a note saying he should be Critzer, which is obviously not quite true, but the spelling they later adopted).
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Church of St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden, Essex cc-by-sa/2.0 - © N Chadwick - geograph.org.uk/p/5562692 |
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Watney Street and entrances to Shadwell Stations cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Ben Brooksbank - geograph.org.uk/p/3999191 |
Charles Frederick Burden (b. 22 Oct 1858, bap. 15 Apr 1860 at Holy Trinity (built 1844, demolished 1963), Milton-Next-Gravesend, Kent), Customs Officer, then of 363 Cable Street, son of William Henry Burden, Customs Officer, and Mary Elizabeth Sharland, married Sophia Baker (b. 1858), daughter of Charles Hoile Baker and Amelia Young, at Christ Church Watney Street, St George in the East, on 13 Oct 1878. Witnesses were Charles Richard Baker, the bride's brother, and an Elizabeth Pearson. (Charles' father's occupation was later listed as a Tidewaiter - who was a customs officer who boarded ships on their arrival to enforce the customs regulations.)
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St. Nicholas' Church, Deptford Green, SE8 - porch cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Mike Quinn - geograph.org.uk/p/1499613 |
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The former St. Luke's church cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Jonathan Thacker - geograph.org.uk/p/5436811 |
After they married, Annie King applied for permission to depart for the United States, expecting to sail on USS President Grant on 6 Sep 1919, giving her future address in the US as 31 Chapel Street, Dover, New Hampshire.
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Junction of Cable Street and Watney Street, Shadwell cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Robin Stott - geograph.org.uk/p/6067988 |
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St Michael & All Angels, Waddesdon - Font cc-by-sa/2.0 - © John Salmon geograph.org.uk/p/3267102 |
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Gracious Street, Whittlesey (1897) A decorated house on Whittlesey’s Gracious Street during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations for Queen Victoria in 1897. Image Peterborough Images Archive |
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Grave of Dan Tompson at Prospect Cemetery in Toronto |