See also

Horace Augustus Palmer (1887-1943)

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Birth:

  • Q4 1887

  • Bildeston, Suffolk, England3 4 5

  • Baptism:

  • 3 Jun 1888 (age 0)

  • St. Nicholas's Church, Bildeston Road, Wattisham, Suffolk, England1

  •  

  • son as Horace Augustus of Albert Edward Palmer (labourer) and Emma Caroline of Bildeston

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 3)

  • Tendring Road, Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, England4

  •  

  • son living in four rooms with his parents Albert and Emma, brother Frank, and sister Beatrice. Born in Bildeston Suffolk

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 14)

  • Church Street, Boxted, Essex, England5

  •  

  • unmarried son working as a kitchen boy and living with his parents Albert and Emma, brother George, and sisters Beatrice and May. Born in Offton Suffolk

  • Military Service:

  • frm 4 Jul 1904 to 23 Aug 1904 (age 16)

  • Royal Field Artillery as no:349226

  •  

  • a groom who said his aged was 18. He was 5' 7" tall, weighed 133 lbs with achest of 33/35", a fresh complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, a mole on his right shoulder and a scar on his left thumb. Discharged having made a <unreadable> statement

  • Census absence:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 23)

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  • Census absence:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 33)

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  • Death:

  • 1 Dec 1943 (age 56)

  • Thurrock "Registration District", Essex, England2 7

  • Probate:

  • 12 Feb 1944

  • Probate Registry, Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, Wales7

  •  

  • of Lennard House Avelly Essex died 1st December 1943, probate of effects of £877 3s 1d (~£33,000 in 2017) to Arthur Cyril Patmore contractor

Sources

1.

Suffolk Family History Society All Baptisms Suffolk 1813-1900, (SFK-BPI/P1-1 own copy). Wattisham St. Nicholas baptisms entry:426. Cit. Date: 22 October 2024.

2.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Thurrock 1943 quarter:4 volume:4a page:698. Cit. Date: 26 October 2024.

3.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Cosford 1887 quarter:4 volume:4a page:667. Cit. Date: 22 October 2024.

4.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG12 piece:1401 folio:75 page:15 schedule:106. Cit. Date: 22 October 2024.

5.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG13 piece:1717 folio:30 page:2 schedule:16. Cit. Date: 22 October 2024.

6.

FindMyPast British Army Service Records, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive Series:WO 363 regiment: no:34922. Cit. Date: 26 October 2024.

7.

UK Government Probate Service, UK Government Find a Will, (on-line at www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Llandudno 1944 page:201. Cit. Date: 26 October 2024.