Biography:
Frederick Joseph Welch
01/09/1875 –26/12/1944
Frederick Joseph Welch
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Plot 1069 Frederick Josiah Welch
Born 1 September 1875 in Wraysbury, now a hamlet just west of Heathrow airport, to Josiah and Elizabeth Welch. His father was a police constable and he was their third child.
By 1877, when Albert Edward, arrived they were living in Denham, Bucks, but had moved again by late 1880 to Chalfont St Peter. The 1881 census reveals that Josiah was by then employed as a gamekeeper and that twins Lily and Elizabeth Rose had been born in December 1880. In March 1884 Josiah received a caution for not sending one of his children to school.
On 19 December 1890 the Welch’s life fell apart. Josiah was arrested on a charge of “Feloniously and carnally knowing Ellen Rice, a girl under the age of 13…” He was sentenced to 12 months hard labour in St Alban’s gaol.
By this time the family had moved to 35, Highfield Road, Berkhamsted. Ernest and Frederick were employed as agricultural labourers and twelve year old Albert as a gardener’s labourer.
Despite their father’s conviction the family remained in Berkhamsted and at the time of the 1901 census Josiah and Elizabeth lived at 23 Highfield Road. Josiah was now a bricklayer and Ernest a bricklayer’s labourer. Beatrice was a dressmaker and Albert a packer at Cooper’s chemical works. The twins were also still at home.
Josiah’s behaviour was to cause the family more grief and he was up in court in August 1892 and November 1893 for physically threatening and abusing his wife and family.
Frederick married Sophia Clara Hance 16 December 1900 and the 1901 census records them living at 4 Holliday Street, Berkhamsted. Frederick was a packer at Cooper’s chemical works.
Ivylene Phyllis was born in 1908. The 1911 census reveals that another infant had died by that date.
In 1911 the family were living at 5 Highfield Road. Frederick was still employed packing sheep dip for Cooper’s.
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Plot 1069 Frederick Josiah Welch
Born 1 September 1875 in Wraysbury, now a hamlet just west of Heathrow airport, to Josiah and Elizabeth Welch. His father was a police constable and he was their third child.
By 1877, when Albert Edward, arrived they were living in Denham, Bucks, but had moved again by late 1880 to Chalfont St Peter. The 1881 census reveals that Josiah was by then employed as a gamekeeper and that twins Lily and Elizabeth Rose had been born in December 1880. In March 1884 Josiah received a caution for not sending one of his children to school.
On 19 December 1890 the Welch’s life fell apart. Josiah was arrested on a charge of “Feloniously and carnally knowing Ellen Rice, a girl under the age of 13…” He was sentenced to 12 months hard labour in St Alban’s gaol.
By this time the family had moved to 35, Highfield Road, Berkhamsted. Ernest and Frederick were employed as agricultural labourers and twelve year old Albert as a gardener’s labourer.
Despite their father’s conviction the family remained in Berkhamsted and at the time of the 1901 census Josiah and Elizabeth lived at 23 Highfield Road. Josiah was now a bricklayer and Ernest a bricklayer’s labourer. Beatrice was a dressmaker and Albert a packer at Cooper’s chemical works. The twins were also still at home.
Josiah’s behaviour was to cause the family more grief and he was up in court in August 1892 and November 1893 for physically threatening and abusing his wife and family.
Frederick married Sophia Clara Hance 16 December 1900 and the 1901 census records them living at 4 Holliday Street, Berkhamsted. Frederick was a packer at Cooper’s chemical works.
Ivylene Phyllis was born in 1908. The 1911 census reveals that another infant had died by that date.
In 1911 the family were living at 5 Highfield Road. Frederick was still employed packing sheep dip for Cooper’s.
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Coopers Chemical Works