Ernest Charles Scattergood
1901/1911 - lace warp hand, warp hand/lace maker
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Ernest Charles Scattergood was the son of Charles and Emily Scattergood (nee Hayes). Some records give his mother's name as 'Emma'.
His father Charles was born in 1847 at Nottingham and his mother Emily was born in 1845, also in Nottingham. They were married on 3 June 1876 at Nottingham St Mary and had two sons, Ernest Charles b. 1879 (AMJ) and Herbert b. 1881 (OND). Both children were baptised at Nottingham St Mark, Ernest on 12 October 1879 and Herbert on 2 July 1884.
The two baptismal records gave the family's address as 23 Union Cottages, but the 1881 Census recorded that Charles, a stationer, his wife, a cigar maker, and their son Ernest were living at 3 Union Cottages.
By 1891 the family had moved to 27 Gladstone Street, Nottingham. Charles was a stationer's shopman but his wife was no longer in paid employment.
Charles died in 1900 (JAS) aged 54.
His widow and sons were still living at 27 Gladstone Street at the time of the 1901 and 1911 census; Ernest was a lacewarp hand and his brother a lace warehouseman.
Herbert married Ethel M. [Mabel] N. [Nellie] West (b. 1884), known as Mabel, in 1911 (AMJ) and their daughter Mary Evelyn was born later that year. By 1921 Herbert, a shipping clerk for Thos. Adams Ltd, Stoney Street, was living with his wife and child on Main Road, Burton Joyce.
Emily has not yet been traced on the 1921 Census but the CWGC record gives her address as 18 St Ledger Terrace, Westminster Street, St Ann's Nottingham, although the War Pensions Ledger record has Main Street, Burton Joyce, her son Herbert's address.
Emily probably died in 1933: registration Emily Scattergood 1933 AMJ Nottingham aged 87.
Herbert, a shipping clerk (lace trade), was living at 24 Edgar Rise, Nottingham, with Mabel and their daughter, a lace scalloper, when the 1939 England and Wales Register was compiled. Mabel died in 1954 (burial 21 July) and Herbert six years later in 1960 (burial 1 September). Their daughter Mary Evelyn did not marry and died on 5 November 1977.
Ernest Charles Scattergood enlisted at Nottingham and served with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment).
He entered theatre (BEF France]) after 1 January 1916, possibly having been conscripted under the Derby Scheme.
There is no indication from the military records that his death was as a result of wounds or injury so he was probably taken ill during the Battalion's winter occupation of front line trenches near St Pierre Division along the River Ancre (Somme). Ernest would have been transferred through the casualty clearing line and, in Ernest's case, was medically evacuated to a hospital in the UK. He died of nephritis in Duston War Hospital, Northamptonshire.
Nephritis: inflammation of the kidneys and usually a reaction to a recent simple infection, such as a sore throat; it can result in ‘acute renal failure’. (Source NHS website)
Duston War Hospital was formerly the county's lunatic asylum (opened 1876), one of 24 asylums requisitioned during the war. It closed in 1919. (northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/13429/1/AsylumsatWar)
Ernest was buried in Nottingham General Cemetery on 20 April 1917 (grave 3341).
CWGC Additional information: Son of Mrs. Emily Scattergood, of 18, St. Ledger Terrace, Westminster St., Nottingham.
CWGC headstone personal inscription: 'Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away'
Registers of Soldiers' Effects: died of nephritis at Duston War Hospital. His mother Emily was his sole legatee.
WW1 Pension Ledgers: named his mother, Emily Scattergood, address Main Street, Burton Joyce, Nottingham.
Additional research and information Peter Gillings. Further research/record updated RF (Jan. 2026)
Ernest Charles Scattergood grave
Buried in Nottingham General Cemetery. Photograph Mick McCann, British War Graves project.
CWGC Headstone of Private, Ernest Charles Scattergood.
CWGC Headstone of Private, Ernest Charles Scattergood in Nottingham General Cemetery by Gary Crosby on the 14th January 2026.