Frank Welbourne

Frank was the third son of Francis (Frank) and his first wife Mary Ann Welbourne (née Townsend).

His father was born in Plungar, Nottinghamshire, in about 1861 and his mother in Somercotes, Alfreton, Derbyshire, also in about 1861. They were married at Nottingham St Ann on 11 September 1881; Francis (23) was a butcher and living on Herbert Street, while Mary Ann (21) was a dressmaker and living at 2 Dane Street.

Frank and Mary had four sons, John Thomas b. Somercotes Jan. 1882, and Herbert Charles b. March 1886, Frank b. 1888 (OND) and George b. March 1892, who were born in Nottingham.

Frank and Mary were living at 6 Hawksworth Street, Sneinton, with their three sons, John, Herbert and Frank in 1891. The fourth son, George, was born the following year.

By 1901 the family was living at 11 Paxton Street; Frank snr. was still working as a pork butcher and his two eldest sons were also in work, John as a joiner and Herbert as a stone mason.

Frank, his wife and their four children had moved to 14 Berkeley Street by 1911. Frank was a pork butcher's journeyman, John a drayman (railway company), Herbert a Great Northern Railway Company carriage cleaner, Frank a caster in a factory, and George a threader of lace.

Frank jnr., who was now working as an ornamental pressman, married Amy Knight (b. 1889) at All Souls Church, Nottingham, on 9 April 1915; the address of both was given as 223 Alfreton Road on the marriage certificate.

Their daughter Freda Amy was born on 8 May 1917 but she died on 23 December in the Children's Hospital, Nottingham, just four months after her father's death.

Frank and Amy were living on Cumberland Street, Nottingham, when he attested in December 1915 but they later lived at 43 Westville Street, the address at which Amy was living when her daughter died in December 1917. Amy continued to live at this address until the following year when by May she had moved to the Collins almshouses at 24 Park Street. She was recorded on the 1921 Census living at the Almshouses with her widowed grandmother, Lydia Knight (95). However, when the England & Wales Register was compiled in 1939, Amy was one of a number of female Salvation Army officers recorded at Oak Hill, Salford, Lancashire, which was a charitable institution for women and girls. It provided maternity care and probably gave training in domestic work as many women were noted to be 'domestics', but with the number of aged and infirm women recorded in the establishment it may have also provided residential care. Amy did not remarry and died in 1976 (reg. Southend-on-Sea).

Mary Ann Welbourne died on 16 August 1920, aged 59, and her widower married Mary Roe in 1921 (JAS). Frank and his wife were living at 12 Leen Gate, Old Lenton, when he died on 9 June 1924, aged 63. He was survived by his three sons by his first marriage and his second wife who died in Epperstone on 12 March 1958.

John Thomas married Caroline Elizabeth Fanny (b. 1880 Launceston Cornwall) in 1905 and their daughter, Ellen was born the following year. In 1921 the family was living at 16 Ridgway Street, Nottingham; John was a railway carter (Great Central Railway), and his daughter was a milliner's assistant (wholesale milliner). Ellen, of 130 Hungerhill Road, married Horace Henry Dicker, a coach builder, at Nottingham St Ann on 7 April 1928. John, a lorry driver (railway company), and his wife were still living at 16 Ridgeway Street in 1939. Also in the home was their married daughter, Ellen; the record of one other member of the household remains closed. Caroline died in October 1950 and John married Elsie Bainbridge in 1952. He died in 1976.

Herbert Charles married Nellie Norwood (b. 1889) at Sculcoates St Saviour, Hull, on 9 July 1918. The marriage certificate gave Herbert's address as Berkeley Street, Nottingham, and his occupation as 'soldier'; no military records have yet been identified. Herbert, a florist and seedman's assistant, his wife and their two daughters, Bessie and Elsie, were living on Laburnum Avenue, Sculcoates, in 1921. Their son Frank Alan was born the following year and another daughter, Doris, in 1924. Herbert, his wife and their youngest daughter, were still living at Laburnum Avenue in 1939. Nellie died in 1958 (reg. Hull) and Herbert died in hospital in Taunton in August 1960; the probate record gave his address as Glaston Road, Street, Somersetshire. He was buried in Sutton Churchyard, Hull.

George married Edith Mary Hine in 1916. A notice in the paper of his brother's death in 1917 included the information that George was serving in France and there is a record of the award of the British War Medal and Victory Medal to a George Welbourne, PW/4796 Middlesex Regiment. George, a paviours labourer, and his wife were living at 89 Caroline Street, Nottingham, in 1921; their daughter Winifred was born the following year. The family was recorded on the 1939 Register at 'Brookside', Valley Road; George, a cable joiner (electricity), Edith and Winifred, a printers' folding machinist. Winifred married Richard Copson in 1943. Edith died in 1950 and George in February 1975. The probate record gave his address as 53 Southdale Drive, Carlton.