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William Henry Linthwaite Tudor

Service number 31173
Military unit 19th Garrison Bn Hampshire Regiment
Address Nottingham
Date of birth
Date of death 21 Feb 1919 (44 years old)
Place of birth Nottingham
Employment, education or hobbies

House Painter

Family history

William Henry Linthwaite Tudor was the son of Henry Linthwaite Tudor and Annie/Anne Ganley who married at Nottingham in 1872. Their children included: Lucy Anne (b.1872), Frances Ellen (b.1873/d.1874), Winifred Ellen (b.1874), Catherine Hannah (b.1876), William Henry Linthwaite (b.1877), Frances Alice (b.1879), Mary Elizabeth Linthwaite (b.1881), Florence Harriett Linthwaite (b.1882), Clara Lilian R. (b.1884) and Thomas Albert Linthwaite (b.1886). In 1881 the Tudor family were living at 44 Raleigh Street, Nottingham. In 1887 Anne Tudor died at Nottingham, aged 35. The 1891 census shows Henry Linthwaite Tudor, a widower, living by himself at 30 Lovats Yard, Nottingham. Most of the children, including William Henry Linthwaite, were living their widowed grandmother, Lucy Tudor, at 21 Oliver Street, Nottingham. The 1901 census has Henry Tudor lodging at 5 Portland Place, off Coalpit Lane, Nottingham. At the time of the 1911 census he was visiting a family in Sutton in Ashfield. Employed throughout his working life as an accounts clerk, Henry Linthwaite Tudor died in the Mansfield area, aged 65, in 1914. He remained a widower for the rest of his life.

In 1900 William Henry Linthwaite Tudor married Emily Musson (borb 20th Sptember 1882) on the 2nd June 1900 at All Saints Church, Radford, Nottingham, at Nottingham. Their children included: William Henry Linthwaite (b.1903), Samuel Albert Linthwaite (born 2nd February 1905), John Robert Linthwaite (b.1906/d.1906), Thomas Ganley Linthwaite (b.1908/d.1914), Minnie Florence Linthwaite (b.1909/d.1909), Florence May Linthwaite (born 24th May 1911), Hilda G.amley Linthwaite (born 8th June 1914) and Jesse Ganley Linthwaite (born 5th July 1919).

They lived at: 22 Schooner Street, Radford [C.1901]; 3 Navarino Terrace Brixton Road, Radford [C.1911 & CWGC]. Emily Tudor did not remarry and died at Nottingham in 1938 at he age of 56.

Commencing 25th August 1919 his widow was awarded a pension of 33 shillings and 9 pence a week.

Military history

He initially enlisted at Nottingham, he served with the Northumberland Fusiliers [Service No.16469]; died of double pneumonia and cardiac failure while in Nottingham on 21st February 1919 ; buried at the General Cemetery, Nottingham.

Extra information

Nottingham Evening Post obituary (abridged) 25 February 1919: TUDOR, on the 21st inst. Private WHL Tudor, Hampshire Regiment, of double pneumonia. Military funeral General Cemetery. Husband of Emily Tudor. Wife and children.

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