Harold Ambrose Lewin

Harold Ambrose Lewin was born in 1898 at Nottingham, he was the son of Ambrose Lewin and Mary Elizabeth Regan who married at Nottingham in 1889. Their children included: Joseph William (b.1890), Florrie (b.1893), Ellen/Helen (b.1895), Harold Ambrose (b.1897), James (b.1900), Margaret (b.1902), George (b.1903), Ethel (b.1905), Winifred Maud (b.1907) and Jessie (b.1909).

His father Ambrose Lewin was born in 1870 at Raford, his mother Mary Elizabeth Regan was born in 1871 at Ilkeston, Derbyshire, they were married in 1889 at Nottingham they had 12 children, sadly 1 was to die in infancy or early childhood.

The Lewin family lived at: 24 Schooner Street, Radford [C.1891]; 14 Stansfield Street, Radford [C.1901]; 27 Forster Street, Radford [C.1911]. The Nottingham Evening Post reporting the death of Private J.W. Lewin gave his address as 8 Garfield Road, late of Forster Street [n.e.p.25.7.1916]. The post-war address provided by the CWGC for his parents was Mozart Street, Radford Boulevard. Ambrose Lewin, a lace maker, died at Nottingham, aged 76, in 1947. His wife, Mary Elizabeth had predeceased him, dying at Nottingham in 1942, aged 72.

In the 1911 census the family were living at 27 Foster Street, Radford, Nottingham, Ambrose Lewin 41 yrs is a lace maker, he is living with his wife Mary Elizabeth 40 yrs and their 10 children including Joseph 21 yrs a lace threader and Harold Ambrose 13 yrs a tobacco packer