Walter Crowson

Walter was the son of Edmund Hebblewhite Crowson and Sarah Jane Davison (later Crowson).

His father was born in Glinton, Northamptonshire, in 1867, the son of Henry and Sarah Ann Crowson, and baptised at Glinton parish church on 14 July the same year. His mother Sarah Jane Davison was born in 1867 in Nettleham, Lincolnshire.

Walter's birth was registered in 1890 (JFM Horncastle) and he was baptised at Horncastle St Mary on 3 March 1890; his mother's address was given as 'workhouse'. In 1891 Walter Davison (1) was recorded on the census as a 'nursechild' in the home of Charles and Mary Brumfield of High House Farm Cottage, How Hill Lane, Hameringham, Lincolnshire. His mother Sarah Jane was recorded in the household as a visitor. Edmund Crowson, a farm servant, was also living in Hameringham in the household of his employer, a farmer.

Edmund, of Hameringham, and Sarah, of High Toynton, were married at High Toynton parish church, Lincolnshire, on 9 May 1892. Their daughter Ada Annie's birth was registered in 1893 (JFM); she was baptised at Hameringham on 22 Janary 1893. Their son Walter's birth was registered in 1894 (JFM) and he was baptised at Hameringham on 25 March the same year.

The family had moved to Lambley by 1901 when they were living on Town Street; Edmund snr. was employed as a groom/gardener (domestic). Edmund and Sarah were still at the same address in 1911 but none of their children were in the home on the night of the census. Walter had joined the Army four years earlier in 1907, Ada was a domestic servant working for a widowed aunt, Emma Wiles, a shopkeeper (grocery) at Nelson Street, Doncaster, while Edmund, a farm servant, was a boarder in Mapperley, Nottingham.

Sarah completed a form for the Army in April 1919 listing her son Walter's surviving blood relatives. She and her husband and their daughter Annie were now living at the School House, Ringinglow Road, Eccleshall, Sheffield, while their son Edmund was serving with the Army in Cologne, Germany (see 'Extra information').

Edmund, a gardener/caretaker, and Sarah were still living at the School House, Ringinglow Road, Eccleshall, Sheffield, in 1921 along with their son Edmund, a chauffeur (private), who had been discharged from the army in August 1919.

Their daughter Annie had married Harold Kaye in 1918 (reg. JFM Basford). Their son Harold Edmund was born in October the same year and baptised at Christ Church, Chilwell, on 17 November. His father's occupation was given as 'soldier'; his parents were then living on High Road, Beeston. Harold Edmund died in 1919 (reg. JFM Doncaster). Their daughter Frances Mary was born in Doncaster in July 1920 and baptised at Doncaster St James in the August.

Harold Kaye, a barman, and Annie were living at 48 Arthur Street, Doncaster, in 1921. Also in the home was a nephew of Harold's, Horace Kaye, who worked for the Great Northern Railway. Annie Ada Kaye died in 1937 (reg. OND Thorne, Yorkshire). In 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled Harold Kaye, a house painter and decorator, was living at Prospect House, West Bank, Stainforth, Thorne. He probably died in 1970 (reg. Doncaster).

Harold and Annie's daughter, Frances Mary, has not yet been traced on the 1921 Census or the 1939 Register, but there is a record that she married Joseph Womack in 1943 (reg. JAS Thorne Yorkshire). Joseph died in 1946 and Frances married secondly James Kaye at Doncaster St James in September 1948 (father Harold Kaye, painter).

Edmund jnr., a chauffeur/mechanic, married Annie James at Ecclesall, All Saints, in June 1924; Edmund's sister, Annie Kaye, was one of the witnesses. He died in 1957 (reg. Sheffield).

Their father Edmund Hebblewhite died on 19 March 1932 (buried 21 March Eccleshall All Saints). The probate record gave his address as the School House, Ringinglowe Road. His widow Sarah was living at 4 Doncaster Road, Thorne, Yorkshire, in 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled. She died in 1946 (reg. Goole, Yorkshire).