Biography:
William George Crockett
28/04/1874 –17/01/1940
William George Crockett
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Plot 982 William George Crockett (1874-1940)
William was born 28 April 1874 and baptised 11 April 1875 at Tring, the son of Edward Crockett, a labourer, and his wife Mary (née Bedford).
Young William had a tragic early life. His father died, aged only 24, in 1877 and his son Thomas was born posthumously the next year. Their mother’s mental health gave way and she was committed to the Three Counties Asylum where she died, aged 32, in October 1885. (The Asylum, later Fairfield Hospital, was situated in Arlesey, Beds.)
Meanwhile her small sons were admitted to the Berkhamsted Union Workhouse where they were recorded in April 1881, aged six and three years old.
In April 1891 William, aged 17 and a general labourer, was a boarder with widowed Mrs Agnes Riddle in Gravel Path. (In 1901 his brother Thomas was a lodger with the same Mrs Riddle, by then remarried. Thomas went on to marry, move to Birmingham and died in 1931).
In 1897, at Berkhamsted, William married Sarah Ann Rance, a domestic servants 19 years his senior. William was, by then, employed as a bricklayer.
The couple were to have no children.
In 1901 they lived at 21, Holliday Street with Sarah’s unmarried younger sister Annie, a dressmaker, but by 1911 had moved to 16, Ravens Lane. In 1921 William was a bricklayer for Cooper & Nephew and they had a married couple as boarders.
Sarah Ann died in September 1922, aged 67, and was buried 29 September.
In the 1939 Register William is listed as a retired bricklayer and was a lodger with widowed Mrs Birtchnell at 42, Highfield Road where he died, aged 65, in January 1940. He was buried here with Sarah Ann on the 20 January.
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Plot 982 William George Crockett (1874-1940)
William was born 28 April 1874 and baptised 11 April 1875 at Tring, the son of Edward Crockett, a labourer, and his wife Mary (née Bedford).
Young William had a tragic early life. His father died, aged only 24, in 1877 and his son Thomas was born posthumously the next year. Their mother’s mental health gave way and she was committed to the Three Counties Asylum where she died, aged 32, in October 1885. (The Asylum, later Fairfield Hospital, was situated in Arlesey, Beds.)
Meanwhile her small sons were admitted to the Berkhamsted Union Workhouse where they were recorded in April 1881, aged six and three years old.
In April 1891 William, aged 17 and a general labourer, was a boarder with widowed Mrs Agnes Riddle in Gravel Path. (In 1901 his brother Thomas was a lodger with the same Mrs Riddle, by then remarried. Thomas went on to marry, move to Birmingham and died in 1931).
In 1897, at Berkhamsted, William married Sarah Ann Rance, a domestic servants 19 years his senior. William was, by then, employed as a bricklayer.
The couple were to have no children.
In 1901 they lived at 21, Holliday Street with Sarah’s unmarried younger sister Annie, a dressmaker, but by 1911 had moved to 16, Ravens Lane. In 1921 William was a bricklayer for Cooper & Nephew and they had a married couple as boarders.
Sarah Ann died in September 1922, aged 67, and was buried 29 September.
In the 1939 Register William is listed as a retired bricklayer and was a lodger with widowed Mrs Birtchnell at 42, Highfield Road where he died, aged 65, in January 1940. He was buried here with Sarah Ann on the 20 January.
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