Area: Waverley Street

BORN HULL 1898. ELDEST SON OF FRED & SARAH ATKIN, AT 3 VICTORIA PLACE, WAVERLEY STREET, HULL & 7 ALBERT'S PLACE, WALKER STREET, HULL. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. AN ERRAND BOY. WHEN WAR BEGAN, HE WAS WORKING IN THE OFFICE FOR OHLSON AND CO. LTD, CASTLE STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 8687, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. […]

BORN HULL OCT 1877. SON OF JOHN & FAITH BROMLEY ABOVE 1891 ADDRESS. WIFE LOUISE LIVED AT 71 UNITY STREET, SHEERNESS. BROMLEY, JOHN RICHARD (38), Ship's Corporal 1st Class (no. 177710), HMS Natal, Royal Navy, †30/12/1915, Son of John and Faith Bromley, of Hull; husband of Louise Bromley, of 71, Unity St., Sheerness. Awarded China Med […]

Born Hull 1882. Private John H Coopland 2520. Unit: A Company, 1st/4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Death: 03 May 1915 Wounded and Missing in action Western Front. Husband of Ruth (Hairsine) Coopland, of 5, Francis Place, Waverley Street, Hull. He is commemorated on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial to the missing and Hull's Walker S […]

BORN THWING, BRIDLINGTON 1894. ELDEST SON OF GEORGE DOSDALE (1871-1939) & MARY ELIZABETH ROBINSON (1872-1955), OF 16 SELBY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 4 COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, WAVERLEY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD A YOUNGER BROTHER, CALLED ERNEST. HIS FATHER WAS A CARTER. HE WORKED IN A BUTCHER'S SHOP. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. S […]

BORN HULL 29/05/1880. SON OF HENRY FARR (1852-1931) AND HANNAH MARY HARRISON (1851-1929), OF 12 MANCHESTER PLACE, WAVERLEY STREET, HULL AND GRIMSBY. SON OF A FISH WORKER. HE HAD ONE SURVIVING BROTHER AND THREE SISTERS. WORKED AS A COAL LIGHTERMAN. MARRIED AT GRIMSBY, IN 1905. HUSBAND OF, MARY ELLEN PORTER AND FOUR SONS, LIVING AT 115, C […]

THIRD SON OF SARAH ANN (YOULDEN) GRASSAM - 4 STIRLING STREET, HULL. HE LEFT £177 TO HIS WIDOW, ETHEL (SMITH) ABOVE, HULL DAILY MAIL ADDRESS - 12/06/1919. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE WITHERNSEA WW1 MEMORIAL. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE THOMAS ALFRED GRASSAM 25058. Born in July 1880, Thomas was the third of ten children to Alfred and […]

Hull Pals Memorial Post. Private, JAMES ALFRED HARRIS, 28057. Born Hull, 1894, the youngest of eight children to George and Elizabeth Harris, of 56 Constable Street, Hessle Road, Hull. James worked as a Labourer at Reckitt's, but his life changed forever when he enlisted for the 41st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment on 30/04/1912. When […]

BORN 1882. A ROYAL NAVY ENGINEMAN. HE SERVED ON HMS "CERES". DIED OF A CEREBRAL ABCESS, AT HULL HOSPITAL, ON 13/04/1918, AGED 36. BURIED AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. DETAILS FROM NAVAL RECORDS. ADDRESS UNTRACED. E. HILL IS LISTED ON THE ON THE WALKER STREET WAR MEMORIAL, HULL. Note, probate records, show an Ernest Hill died in Hull, on 13 […]

LISTED IN THE LOST TRAWLERMAN OF HULL RECORDS. On February 1st, 1922, the British trawler MAGNETA, built in 1915 by Cochrane & Sons Shipbuilders and owned by Ross, Francis & Thomas, Ltd, was wrecked in a hurrican. 9 crew and 2 Russians lost their lives. The MAGNETA was fishing legally 9 miles from the Russian border. Despite that […]

BORN BRADFORD 1887. SON OF JAMES HOULT (1860-1925) AND MARY JANE HABBERSHAW (1865-1924), OF 4 KEELING ENTRY, MYTONGATE, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD ONE BROTHER AND TWO SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS A LABOURER. HE MARRIED ADA MARY COULSON AT HULL IN 1909. HIS WIFE ADA MARY HOULT, OF 2 WAVERLEY PLACE, WAVERLEY STREET, HULL, & 4 HENRY TERRACE, R […]

BORN HULL 1880. SON OF THE LATE THOMAS HUDSON (1852-1892) AND ANNIE ELIZABETH HUDSON (1857-1928), OF 7, HODGSON SQUARE, LORNE STREET, HULL. HE WAS A HULL DOCK LABOURER, RESIDEING AT 2, WALTER'S AVENUE, DANSOM LANE HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND A FORMER  'MESSRS. LEE SMITH' MILLS WORKER, AT WINCOLMLEE. HE ENLSITED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND/5 […]

BORN HULL 1894. SON OF JAMES H & MRS EMILY HUNTER, OF 82 BELMONT ROAD, LIVERPOOL. HE HAD BEEN WITH THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT IN FRANCE SINCE MARCH 1916. HIS LATE FATHER SERVED 27 YEARS IN THE HULL RIFLES AND TERRITORIALS AND RETIRED AS A QMS IN THE 5TH HULL CYCLISTS. STANLEY HUNTER'S DEATH WAS REPORTED, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, IN TH […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF GEORGE MILLER & REBECCA LAWS. WIFE ALICE. BROTHERS JOHN & GEORGE LAWS - 87 WAVERLEY ST & LEONARD, RNR - 33 STRICKLAND ST.

BORN HULL 1892. SON OF THE LATE EDWARD & ANNIE LEVITT, OF 59 LEE SMITH STREET, HEDON ROAD, HULL. HIS FATHER WORKED FOR THE HULL CORPORATION. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A SHIP STEWARD. HE LIVED AT  5 FRANCIS PLACE, WAVERLEY STREET, HULL, (1911 CENSUS). HE JOINED THE ARMY IN 1912 AND SERVED WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. HE WAS KILLED I […]

BORN SIERRE LEONE 1877. SON OF JOHN & MARY MEHEUX. EMPLOYED FOR 18 YEARS AS A DONKEYMA FOR THE WILSON LINERS. HE WAS IN LAST SHIP FOR EIGHT YEARS. HIS WIFE AGNES AND SEVEN CHILDREN, LIVED AT 45 WAVERLEY STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. SS 'CITO': Wilsons & North Eastern Railway Shipping Co; 1899; Earle´s Co. […]

BORN HULL 1897. SON OF WILLIAM THOMAS & ELLEN PALMER, OF 13 GOGAN STREET, HULL (1911) AND 77 WAVERLEY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (HULL PALS), IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED AT OPPY WOOD, ON 08/05/1917, AGED 19. HE […]

BORN HULL 1894. ONLY SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & MRS JULIA (GOODHAND) PARKER. TWO SISTERS MARY & ANNIE. EMPLOYED BY MR WHITTICK, COGAN STREET, HULL. HE WAS A KEEN SPORTSMAN AND PLAYED FOR SEVERAL YEARS, IN LOCAL ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. ENLISTED IN 1915. SERVED AS A GUNNER IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. SERVED FOR OVER THREE YEARS. KILL […]

BORN HULL 1891. ELDEST SON OF HANSELL AND ANNIE PARKER, OF 3 SUTTON TERRACE, HODGSON STREET, HULL. A LABOURER. HE WORKED AT BON ACCORD OIL MILLS, GLASSHOUSE ROW, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL WHEN WAR BEGAN. WENT TO FRANCE IN 1915 AND WAS WOUNDED. RETURNED TO FRANCE IN OCTOBER 1915. HE SERVED WITH THE 8TH EAST  YORKSHIRE REGIMENT WHEN HE […]

BORN HULL 1897. ONLY SON OF GEORGE W & MARY PRESTON, OF 10, UPPER UNION STREET, HULL (HDM ADDRESS, 03/11/1916), 5, CARISBROOK AVENUE, MONTROSE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND KILNWICK PERCY, POCKLINGTON. BEFORE JOINING THE ARMY HE WORKED FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS, ON THE DREDGER 'LORD JOICEY'. HE ENLISTED IN HULL IN […]

BORN HULL, 1899. SON OF EDWARD PRICHETT (1864-1910) AND ALICE SMITH (1860-1924). HE WORKED AS A LABOURER (BLACKSMITH'S STRIKER), FOR MESSRS, W. ARMSTRONG & WHITWORTH, HULL. HIS ARMY ADDRESS WAS 6 UNION PLACE, ENGLISH STREET, HULL. 1 FRANCIS PLACE, WAVERLEY STREET, HULL  WAS HIS 1918 ABSENT MILITARY VOTERS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED AGED […]