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WILLIAM POULTON
BORN HULL 11/02/1884. SON OF CHARLES EDWIN POULTON (1856-1906) AND ELIZABETH STEELEY (1856-1899).
SON OF A FISHERMAN. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS.
HE MARRIED TWICE. FIRST TO MARY ANN ELIZABETH ANDREAS KRAUS (1881-1912), ATY NEWINGTON PARISH CHURCH, HULL, ON 13 OCT 1903 AGED 19. THEY LIVED AT 4 BAINTO TERRACE, GILLETTE STREET, HULL. WORKED AS A SHIP'S ENGINEER.
THEN MARRIED MOLLY DRINGHALL (1884- ), ON 8 NOV 1913, AT NEWINGTON CHURCH, HULL, AGED 29. THEY LIVED AT 14, PROVIDENCE TERRACE, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL. STILL WORKED AS A SHIP ENGINEER. MOLLY'S FATHER WAS A RETIRED MASTER MARINER.
HE SERVED AS AN ENGINEMAN, IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE, ON HMS "QUEEN". HE DIED OF DISEASE ON 6 OCT 1918, AGED 34.
HIS WIFE MOLLY POULTON NOW LIVED AT 4, EMMA'S TERRACE, ROSAMOND STREET, HULL (NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS). THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN, LILIAN, WILLIAM AND MABEL.
HE IS BURIED AT TOURLAVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, MANCHE, FRANCE.
London W14 8XP
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