Richard Ingall

Richard was the eldest surviving son of Frederick and Rebecca/Rebeckah Ingall (née Siggee).

His father Frederick was born in Little Hale, Lincolnshire, in about 1856 and his mother Rebecca in Upwell, Cambridgeshire, in about 1858, the daughter of Richard and Elinor Siggee.

Frederick and Rebecca were married in 1879 (reg. AMJ Sleaford) and had nine children, one of whom died in infancy: Mary Emma b. 1880 (AMJ), William b. 1881 (AMJ) d. 1882 (JAS Nottm.) and Richard b. 1882 (AMJ) who were born in Little Hale (reg. Sleaford), and Eleanor birth registered 1884 (JFM), Rebecca b. 1885 (OND), Frederick b. 1887 (OND), May b. 1890 (AMJ), Rosa b. 1892 (AMJ) and Alice b. 1893 (JAS) who were born in Nottingham.

Frederick (25), an agricultural labourer, and Rebecca were living in Little Hale, Sleaford, in 1881 with their two children Mary (1) and William (u/1y). Their third child, Richard, was born in Little Hale the following year (reg. AMJ 1882) but soon after his birth the family moved to Nottingham where the couple's infant son William died before the year end (reg. JAS).

Frederick, a wheelwright, and his wife were living at at 766 Woodborough Road, Mapperley, Nottingham, in 1891. Also in the household were their seven children: Mary (11), Richard (8) and Eleanor (7), Rebecca (5), Frederick (3), Annie (2) and May (u/1) who had been born in Mapperley. Two daughters, Rosa and Alice, were then born between 1892 and 1893.

Frederick snr. died in January 1894 aged 38, home address Eaton Street. He was buried in Nottingham St Catherine churchyard on 27 January

His widow Rebecca married Charles Hanford, who was probably a widower, in 1897. In 1901 she and Charles (63 b. Stanton, Derbyshire), a general labourer, were living at 788 Woodborough Road with five of Rebecca's children: Richard a sugar boiler, Frederick a baker, and May, Rosa and Alice who were school age.

Rebecca and Charles (73), now retired ('OAP'), were living at 31 Eaton Street, Mapperley, in 1911. In the home on the night of the census were Rebecca's widowed mother, Eleanor Siggee (75 d. 1918), and three of Rebecca's daughters, May and Rosa, who were both laundresses, and Alice, a frilling machinist for a blouse manufacturer. There was also a fosterchild, George Waterfield (6).

Charles Hanford died later that year (AMJ) aged 63 and his widow Rebecca married Arthur Ridgard in 1917 (OND).

Rebecca and Arthur Ridgard were living at 792 Woodborough Road in 1921 together with her daughters May (31), a chemist's assistant (Boots the Chemist), and Alice Selby and her husband Leonard, a gardener (own account), who had married in 1920.

Rebecca Ridgard died in June 1923 aged 65 and was buried in Redhill Cemetery, Arnold, Nottingham.

Of Frederick and Rebecca's children:

Mary Emma married George Penn (b. Ambrosden Oxon) in 1899 (JAS Nottm.). He was a former soldier having joined the 16th Lancers (3213) at the age of 18 in 1890. In 1901 George, a carter (brickworks), and Mary were living on Bennet Street, St Ann's with their daughter Winifred Audrey, 5m). They had moved to 21 Gladstone Terrace, Hyson Green by 1911; George was now working as a brewer's labourer (G Hooley, brewery). The couple had had eight children but three had died in infancy or early childhood. Their surviving children were Winifred, Constance May (7), Frederic James (4), George Stanley (3) and William Ingall (6m). Mary Emma and George Penn have not yet been traced after 1911.

Richard, a ship's steward (White Star Line), was recorded on the 1911 Census at Park Avenue, Fazkerley, Liverpool, a visitor in the home of his married sister, Eleanor Hartley, and her husband William. Richard was living with his mother at 792 Woodborough Road when he enlisted in 1915 in the Royal Army Service Corps and was demobilized on 1 July 1919. He married Annie Froggatt at Daybrook parish church in 1918 (JFM) and they were living at 28 Southwark Road, Basford, at the time of his death in 1920. Richard was buried in Redhill Cemetery, Arnold, Nottingham. (See 'Extra information'). His widow Annie was living with her parents, Eli and Harriet Froggatt, at 28 Southwark Street in 1921. She married in 1925 Charles Frederick Pendleton, a widower (m. Jessie Maria Mallett 1898, d. Nov. 1918). In 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled, Annie Pendleton and her husband were living on Clarges Street, Nottingham, with three of his four children. Annie died in March 1955 and was buried in Northern Cemetery, Bulwell; she was survived by her husband Charles (d. 1968 buried Northern Cemetery).

Eleanor married William Hartley in 1903 (OND Nottm.) and was living in Fazkerely, Liverpool, in 1911 with their three sons, Norman (6), William (5) and John (2m) who were all born in Liverpool. William snr. was a dairyman (own account). Eleanor and William, a retired coal merchant, were still living in Liverpool in 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled. Also in the home were their son Norman, a coal merchant, and Eleanor's widowed sister, Rosa Woodcock. Eleanor died in 1976 (JFM reg. Liverpool). Her sister Rosa Woodcock died a few months later (JAS Fleetwood Lancs).

Rebecca married Fred Plant in 1910 (AMJ). Fred (42 b. Highgate London), a house painter, Rebecca and their son Ronald Frederick (1m), were living on Glengall Road, Kilburn, London in 1911. Rebecca died in 1933 (reg. JAS Hendon Middx).

Frederick, a miner, married Elizabeth Jane [Jane Elizabeth] Pemberton at Sutton in Ashfield St Mary in August 1907. In 1911 Frederick (23), a coal mining corporal (underground labourer), and his his wife were living at 4 Hastings Street, Carlton Hill, Nottingham, with her illegitimate daughter, Jessica Pemberton (b. 1907 AMJ Nottm). In 1921 his widow and daughter Jessica, 'father dead', were living at 10 Eaton Terrace, Easton Street, Nottingham. Jessie Ingall (sic) married Leonard Brownlow (b. 1910) in 1932 and in 1939 Leonard, a plumber and ARP warden, Jessie (b. April 1907) and her widowed mother, Jane E Ingall, were living on Moore Road, Carlton. Frederick's widow has not yet been traced after this date.

May has not yet been traced after 1921 when she was living with her mother Rebecca and stepfather Charles Hanford at 792 Woodborough Road.

Rosa married John George Woodcock in 1917 (JAS Nottm.). John served in the Royal Field Artillery and died in France from pneumonia in 1919. (See 'Extra information'). Rosa did not remarry and in 1939 was living in Liverpool with her married sister, Eleanor Hartley. Rosa died in 1976 (JAS Fleetwood Lancs.) a few months after the death of her sister Eleanor.

Alice and her husband Leonard Erasmus Selby (b. 1893), who had been living with her mother in 1921, were recorded on the 1939 England & Wales Register at Sixth Avenue, Liverpool. Leonard's occupation was given as jobbing gardener. Alice died in October 1981 (reg. Nottm.); her husband had predeceased her (1967 reg. Blackpool).

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