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SIGN UPRalph GOUNDRY 1841 – 1915 – Genealogical Records
Birth Date: ABT APR 1841
Birth Location: Lambeth, Surrey
Death Date: 8 MAR 1915
Death Location: the Workhouse Infirmary, Dover, Kent
Father: George GOUNDRY
Mother: Betsey SADLER
Spouse(s): Apphia WORRALL, Isabella WHITFIELD
Children(s): Annie GOUNDRY, Charles GOUNDRY, Rosalind GOUNDRY
1841 marked the beginning of Ralph GOUNDRY's life in Lambeth, Surrey, to parents George Alexander GOUNDRY and Betsey Firth SADLER. Eventually, Ralph GOUNDRY married Apphia Susanna WORRALL and Isabella Grahamsley WHITFIELD, and they welcomed Annie Ella Apphia GOUNDRY, Charles Ralph GOUNDRY and Rosalind Grahamsley GOUNDRY. Ralph GOUNDRY passed in 1915 at the Workhouse Infirmary, Dover, Kent.
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Parents
George GOUNDRY
1803 – 1871
Birth Location: Lambeth, Surrey
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Betsey SADLER
1814 – 1887
Birth Location: America Place, St. Saviour's, Southwark, Surrey
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Spouses(s)
Apphia WORRALL
1849 – 1909
Birth Location: Wem, Shropshire
AW
Isabella WHITFIELD
1868 – 1915
Birth Location: Preston, North Shields, Northumberland
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Children(s)
Annie GOUNDRY
1871 – 1936
Birth Location: 16 Sheldon Street, Islington, Middlesex
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Charles GOUNDRY
1873 – 1912
Birth Location: All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Rosalind GOUNDRY
1898 – 1982
Birth Location: –
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Sources
Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Year: ABT APR 1841
Event Place: Lambeth, Surrey
Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 6 MAY 1857
Record Source: he was apprenticed into the Merchant Navy for four years to Peter Thompson AIKMAN, on the ship "Ivanhoe", 1034 tons, at the Port of Glasgow
Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 6 FEB 1865
Record Source: he was 2nd Mate on the "Hornet" of London, 1156 tons, which arrived in Sydney, New South Wales, having left from London via Plymouth. The ship carried a total of 437 emigrants, comprising 177 men, 200 women, 23 boys and 37 girls. Apart from the M
Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT 1871
Record Source: he began employment with the Tyne Steam Shipping Company, which operated regular cargo and passenger services between Newcastle and London, Dunkirk, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg. Between 1864 and 1904, the company owned a total of 25 ships, of w
Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 13 MAR 1872
Record Source: Ralph GOUNDRY was included in Lloyd's Captains' Register as a Captain to whom a Masters' certificate had been issued by the Registrar-General of Seamen, during the week ending 9th March 1872, after taking the examination at South Shields.
Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT 9 JUL 1872
Record Source: he began making weekly return trips to Hamburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp for the Tyne Steam Shipping Company, mostly on the SS. "Brigadier"
Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 20 FEB 1873
Record Source: he was Captain of the screw steamer "Otter", en route with passengers and cargo from Newcastle to Antwerp - off Yarmouth, at about 7 am. a thick fog set in, so the ship slowed, and sounded the fog-horn almost continuously. Suddenly a vessel, the "
Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 26 FEB 1873
Record Source: the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette reported that the "Otter" lay in about 12 fathoms at low water, about five miles off Bacton, North Haisborough Lightvessel bearing NE 3/4 N, nearly three miles distant, Cromer Lighthouse, WNW 9½ miles distant.
Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 11 AUG 1873
Record Source: the steamship "Dragoon", of which he was Captain, en-route from Newcastle for Copenhagen had to put back in to Newcastle, with the top of her low-pressure cylinder broken, piston rod bent, etc.
Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 14 JUL 1874
Record Source: the British Consulate in Antwerp issued a letter requiring him, as Captain of the steamship "Brigadier", to transport a man to Newcastle for trial. The man, a seaman on the brig "Mayflower" of South Shields, was charged with shooting at the Captai
Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 10 AUG 1875
Record Source: "Report of Ralph GOUNDRY, Master of the steamship "Dragoon", of Newcastle, 582 73-100 tons, from North Shields on the 10th of August, at 11 am., for Copenhagen (general cargo) : at 2.30 pm., weather fine and clear, wind S.S.E., moderate, the sai
Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 6 SEP 1875
Record Source: he was Captain of the steam vessel "Dragoon" of Newcastle, and appeared as a witness at a special meeting of the Local Marine Board of Newcastle at which the ship's late First Engineer was investigated re charges of incompetency and gross acts of m
Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 11 OCT 1875
Record Source: a newspaper reported that the screw-steamer "Dragoon" was involved in an accident near Newcastle Quay, when it collided with a wherry which was crossing the river - two of the three crew of the wherry were reported to have been killed. It reporte
Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 1876 AND 1900
Record Source: he was listed as a Master of Home Trade Passenger Ships who were licenced to pilot their own Vessels into and out of Shields Harbour.
Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 21 MAY 1876
Record Source: "at half-past two, the Tyne Steam Shipping Co.'s well-known steamer "Brigadier", Capt. GOUNDRY, arrived at the Rotterdam Wharf, North Shore, Newcastle, and was moored alongside. A number of children were playing on the Quay, at the east end of th
Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 29 DEC 1878
Record Source: he was Captain of the screw steamer "Collingwood", which was proceeding to sea, bound from Shields to Havre, with coals, when she came into collision with H.M.S. "Castor", which was moored at the Low Lights, North Shields. The "Collingwood" had bo
Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Residence
Event Year: BET 1879 AND 1888
Event Place: 14 Milton Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 4 FEB 1879
Record Source: he requested the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette to state that following a collision between his ship, the "Collingwood", and another steamer, the "Alrune", "that it was the "Alrune" which took the ground, and not his steamer"
Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 11 SEP 1879
Record Source: a hawker of firearms went on board the SS "Rosalind" in the Victoria Dock, Hull to offer his goods for sale. A Custom House officer on board took one of the revolvers and not knowing it was loaded, pulled the trigger and accidentally shot anothe
Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 9 JAN 1880
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Sentinel" which arrived at Shields from Rotterdam.
Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1881
Record Source: at the High Court of Justice, Admiralty Division a claim was brought by John JOICEY and others, the owners of the steamship "John McIntyre", against the owners of the "John Ormston" and Ralph GOUNDRY and others, the Master and crew, in respect o
Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1883
Event Place: 14 Milton Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: APR 1883
Record Source: the monthly meeting of the River Tyne Improvement Commission "was held to vote for a new Harbour Master for the Tyne. Out of 31 applicants Ralph GOUNDRY, 42, Tyne Steam Shipping Company, received the 3rd largest number of votes"
Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: JUL 1884
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Miaca".
Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1887
Record Source: living at 14 Milton Street, Newcastle, he was a subscriber to The History of Newcastle & Gateshead, Vol. 3.
Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 30 AUG 1887
Record Source: he was granted Administration of his mother's estate.
Genealogy Event 27
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 20 OCT 1887
Record Source: he was granted Administration of the estates of his brother George William GOUNDRY who had died on 12 June 1869, and of his sister Myra who had died on 23 Jun 1873.
Genealogy Event 28
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 17 DEC 1887
Record Source: he was granted Administration of the estate of his brother Charles John GOUNDRY, who had died at sea on or after 24 Dec. 1867.
Genealogy Event 29
Event Type: Residence
Event Year: 1888
Event Place: 14 Milton Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Record Source: and was qualified to vote as he occupied a dwelling house there.
Genealogy Event 30
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 18 DEC 1888
Record Source: an advertisement in the Shields Daily Gazette read:-
Genealogy Event 31
Event Type: Residence
Event Year: BET 1890 AND 1900
Event Place: 15 Harrison Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Genealogy Event 32
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 9 AUG 1890
Record Source: a newspaper letter described an excursion on the "Juno" from Newcastle to Antwerp, which cost £3-10s-0. (approx. equal to £1,575 in 2019). They set sail on Saturday morning and arrived at Antwerp on Sunday evening, returning from Antwerp on Wednes
Genealogy Event 33
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 23 JUN 1894
Record Source: another newspaper article about a trip from Newcastle to Antwerp on the "Juno" said "I was in luck's way, for I also travelled with the same captain - Captain GOUNDRY. If a passage is rough and stormy, you require a captain who will comfort and ch
Genealogy Event 34
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 14 JUL 1894
Record Source: a newspaper article describing an excursion on the "Juno" said " Apart from the capital fare and the comfortable berths, the "Juno" is commanded by a captain of whom everyone speaks in the most glowing terms. Captain GOUNDRY is certainly an accomp
Genealogy Event 35
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 29 SEP 1894
Record Source: another newspaper article stated "We came home on the "Juno", under the watchful care of Captain GOUNDRY, ever the most kindly and agreeable of "skippers", who likes to see a well-filled table and bright faces surrounding him"
Genealogy Event 36
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 25 JUN 1895
Record Source: a list of contributors to the Poor Children's Holidays Association in Newcastle, "a fund for giving delicate children the benefit of two or three weeks in the country, and for providing a day's holiday at the seaside" included Captain GOUNDRY, 10s-
Genealogy Event 37
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT 1896
Record Source: he was named in Abstracts of the returns made to the Board of Trade of shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts or in rivers and harbours of the United Kingdom from the 1st July 1895 to the 30th June 1897
Genealogy Event 38
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: FEB 1896
Record Source: a newspaper reported "a telegram from Lloyd's agent at Antwerp states that the British steamer "Busy Bee", from Shields for Antwerp, and the Hansa Line steamer "Lindenfels", from Hamburg and Antwerp for Bombay, were in collision off Wielingen durin
Genealogy Event 39
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT JUN 1896
Record Source: another newspaper letter about a voyage with Captain GOUNDRY, this time on the SS. "Warkworth" said "It is not a bad boat, except that it is rather slow, is not intended for passengers, and has little accommodation". Of the captain it said "If w
Genealogy Event 40
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 22 JAN 1900
Record Source: he was named as next of kin when his son Charles enlisted for the Army.
Genealogy Event 41
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 26 NOV 1901
Record Source: the body of a Marine Engineer named THOMPSON, from Sunderland, who had arrived at Antwerp on 23rd Oct. after travelling from Newcastle with Captain GOUNDRY on the "Juno", was found in the River Scheldt after he had been missing for three weeks. "O
Genealogy Event 42
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT AUG 1909
Record Source: his wife Apphia died
Genealogy Event 43
Event Type: Death
Event Year: 8 MAR 1915
Event Place: the Workhouse Infirmary, Dover, Kent
Record Source: his home address was The Nook, Temple Ewell, Kearsney, near Dover - his wife died three weeks later
Event Type: Birth
Event Year: ABT APR 1841
Event Place: Lambeth, Surrey
Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 6 MAY 1857
Record Source: he was apprenticed into the Merchant Navy for four years to Peter Thompson AIKMAN, on the ship "Ivanhoe", 1034 tons, at the Port of Glasgow
Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 6 FEB 1865
Record Source: he was 2nd Mate on the "Hornet" of London, 1156 tons, which arrived in Sydney, New South Wales, having left from London via Plymouth. The ship carried a total of 437 emigrants, comprising 177 men, 200 women, 23 boys and 37 girls. Apart from the M
Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT 1871
Record Source: he began employment with the Tyne Steam Shipping Company, which operated regular cargo and passenger services between Newcastle and London, Dunkirk, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg. Between 1864 and 1904, the company owned a total of 25 ships, of w
Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 13 MAR 1872
Record Source: Ralph GOUNDRY was included in Lloyd's Captains' Register as a Captain to whom a Masters' certificate had been issued by the Registrar-General of Seamen, during the week ending 9th March 1872, after taking the examination at South Shields.
Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT 9 JUL 1872
Record Source: he began making weekly return trips to Hamburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp for the Tyne Steam Shipping Company, mostly on the SS. "Brigadier"
Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 20 FEB 1873
Record Source: he was Captain of the screw steamer "Otter", en route with passengers and cargo from Newcastle to Antwerp - off Yarmouth, at about 7 am. a thick fog set in, so the ship slowed, and sounded the fog-horn almost continuously. Suddenly a vessel, the "
Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 26 FEB 1873
Record Source: the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette reported that the "Otter" lay in about 12 fathoms at low water, about five miles off Bacton, North Haisborough Lightvessel bearing NE 3/4 N, nearly three miles distant, Cromer Lighthouse, WNW 9½ miles distant.
Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 11 AUG 1873
Record Source: the steamship "Dragoon", of which he was Captain, en-route from Newcastle for Copenhagen had to put back in to Newcastle, with the top of her low-pressure cylinder broken, piston rod bent, etc.
Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 14 JUL 1874
Record Source: the British Consulate in Antwerp issued a letter requiring him, as Captain of the steamship "Brigadier", to transport a man to Newcastle for trial. The man, a seaman on the brig "Mayflower" of South Shields, was charged with shooting at the Captai
Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 10 AUG 1875
Record Source: "Report of Ralph GOUNDRY, Master of the steamship "Dragoon", of Newcastle, 582 73-100 tons, from North Shields on the 10th of August, at 11 am., for Copenhagen (general cargo) : at 2.30 pm., weather fine and clear, wind S.S.E., moderate, the sai
Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 6 SEP 1875
Record Source: he was Captain of the steam vessel "Dragoon" of Newcastle, and appeared as a witness at a special meeting of the Local Marine Board of Newcastle at which the ship's late First Engineer was investigated re charges of incompetency and gross acts of m
Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 11 OCT 1875
Record Source: a newspaper reported that the screw-steamer "Dragoon" was involved in an accident near Newcastle Quay, when it collided with a wherry which was crossing the river - two of the three crew of the wherry were reported to have been killed. It reporte
Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: BET 1876 AND 1900
Record Source: he was listed as a Master of Home Trade Passenger Ships who were licenced to pilot their own Vessels into and out of Shields Harbour.
Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 21 MAY 1876
Record Source: "at half-past two, the Tyne Steam Shipping Co.'s well-known steamer "Brigadier", Capt. GOUNDRY, arrived at the Rotterdam Wharf, North Shore, Newcastle, and was moored alongside. A number of children were playing on the Quay, at the east end of th
Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 29 DEC 1878
Record Source: he was Captain of the screw steamer "Collingwood", which was proceeding to sea, bound from Shields to Havre, with coals, when she came into collision with H.M.S. "Castor", which was moored at the Low Lights, North Shields. The "Collingwood" had bo
Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Residence
Event Year: BET 1879 AND 1888
Event Place: 14 Milton Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 4 FEB 1879
Record Source: he requested the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette to state that following a collision between his ship, the "Collingwood", and another steamer, the "Alrune", "that it was the "Alrune" which took the ground, and not his steamer"
Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 11 SEP 1879
Record Source: a hawker of firearms went on board the SS "Rosalind" in the Victoria Dock, Hull to offer his goods for sale. A Custom House officer on board took one of the revolvers and not knowing it was loaded, pulled the trigger and accidentally shot anothe
Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 9 JAN 1880
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Sentinel" which arrived at Shields from Rotterdam.
Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1881
Record Source: at the High Court of Justice, Admiralty Division a claim was brought by John JOICEY and others, the owners of the steamship "John McIntyre", against the owners of the "John Ormston" and Ralph GOUNDRY and others, the Master and crew, in respect o
Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Occupation
Event Year: 1883
Event Place: 14 Milton Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: APR 1883
Record Source: the monthly meeting of the River Tyne Improvement Commission "was held to vote for a new Harbour Master for the Tyne. Out of 31 applicants Ralph GOUNDRY, 42, Tyne Steam Shipping Company, received the 3rd largest number of votes"
Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: JUL 1884
Record Source: he was Captain of the SS "Miaca".
Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1887
Record Source: living at 14 Milton Street, Newcastle, he was a subscriber to The History of Newcastle & Gateshead, Vol. 3.
Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 30 AUG 1887
Record Source: he was granted Administration of his mother's estate.
Genealogy Event 27
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 20 OCT 1887
Record Source: he was granted Administration of the estates of his brother George William GOUNDRY who had died on 12 June 1869, and of his sister Myra who had died on 23 Jun 1873.
Genealogy Event 28
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 17 DEC 1887
Record Source: he was granted Administration of the estate of his brother Charles John GOUNDRY, who had died at sea on or after 24 Dec. 1867.
Genealogy Event 29
Event Type: Residence
Event Year: 1888
Event Place: 14 Milton Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Record Source: and was qualified to vote as he occupied a dwelling house there.
Genealogy Event 30
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 18 DEC 1888
Record Source: an advertisement in the Shields Daily Gazette read:-
Genealogy Event 31
Event Type: Residence
Event Year: BET 1890 AND 1900
Event Place: 15 Harrison Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Genealogy Event 32
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 9 AUG 1890
Record Source: a newspaper letter described an excursion on the "Juno" from Newcastle to Antwerp, which cost £3-10s-0. (approx. equal to £1,575 in 2019). They set sail on Saturday morning and arrived at Antwerp on Sunday evening, returning from Antwerp on Wednes
Genealogy Event 33
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 23 JUN 1894
Record Source: another newspaper article about a trip from Newcastle to Antwerp on the "Juno" said "I was in luck's way, for I also travelled with the same captain - Captain GOUNDRY. If a passage is rough and stormy, you require a captain who will comfort and ch
Genealogy Event 34
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 14 JUL 1894
Record Source: a newspaper article describing an excursion on the "Juno" said " Apart from the capital fare and the comfortable berths, the "Juno" is commanded by a captain of whom everyone speaks in the most glowing terms. Captain GOUNDRY is certainly an accomp
Genealogy Event 35
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 29 SEP 1894
Record Source: another newspaper article stated "We came home on the "Juno", under the watchful care of Captain GOUNDRY, ever the most kindly and agreeable of "skippers", who likes to see a well-filled table and bright faces surrounding him"
Genealogy Event 36
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 25 JUN 1895
Record Source: a list of contributors to the Poor Children's Holidays Association in Newcastle, "a fund for giving delicate children the benefit of two or three weeks in the country, and for providing a day's holiday at the seaside" included Captain GOUNDRY, 10s-
Genealogy Event 37
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT 1896
Record Source: he was named in Abstracts of the returns made to the Board of Trade of shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts or in rivers and harbours of the United Kingdom from the 1st July 1895 to the 30th June 1897
Genealogy Event 38
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: FEB 1896
Record Source: a newspaper reported "a telegram from Lloyd's agent at Antwerp states that the British steamer "Busy Bee", from Shields for Antwerp, and the Hansa Line steamer "Lindenfels", from Hamburg and Antwerp for Bombay, were in collision off Wielingen durin
Genealogy Event 39
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT JUN 1896
Record Source: another newspaper letter about a voyage with Captain GOUNDRY, this time on the SS. "Warkworth" said "It is not a bad boat, except that it is rather slow, is not intended for passengers, and has little accommodation". Of the captain it said "If w
Genealogy Event 40
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 22 JAN 1900
Record Source: he was named as next of kin when his son Charles enlisted for the Army.
Genealogy Event 41
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 26 NOV 1901
Record Source: the body of a Marine Engineer named THOMPSON, from Sunderland, who had arrived at Antwerp on 23rd Oct. after travelling from Newcastle with Captain GOUNDRY on the "Juno", was found in the River Scheldt after he had been missing for three weeks. "O
Genealogy Event 42
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: ABT AUG 1909
Record Source: his wife Apphia died
Genealogy Event 43
Event Type: Death
Event Year: 8 MAR 1915
Event Place: the Workhouse Infirmary, Dover, Kent
Record Source: his home address was The Nook, Temple Ewell, Kearsney, near Dover - his wife died three weeks later