Ernest Samuel George Pile

Ernest Samuel George was the son of James John and Alice Ann Pile (née Pile). His father James John was born in Sussex in about 1857, the son of George Pile, a clerk. His mother Alice Ann was born in Honiton, Devon, on 1 August 1860, the daughter of Samuel Pile a farmer. James and Alice were married at Honiton parish church on 28 August 1882; James was living at Bures St Mary, Suffolk, where he was a school master and Alice in Honiton. They had two children who were born in Bure St Mary: Reginald James b.22 October 1885 and Ernest Samuel George birth registered 1893 (J/F/M Sudbury). James John Pile was a certificated school master at Bures St Mary National School, Suffolk, at the time of both the 1891 and 1901 Census when he and his wife were living at the School House, Nayland Road. In their household in 1891 were their son Reginald (5), Ellen Clampin (13) a general domestic servant and a boarder, Thomas Goodger (26), an elementary school teacher. In 1901 there was only James, Alice and their two sons Reginald and Ernest (8) in the home. By 1911 James (54), a retired head teacher, and Alice (50) were living at 33 Waverley Road, Exmouth, Devon, with their son Ernest, a draper's assistant. Their eldest son Reginald had married Myra Kate Chard (b. 30 August 1885) on 12 April 1909 (A/M/J Honiton) and they were living on Prospect Place, Exeter Road, Exmouth; Reginald was an ironmonger shopkeeper (employer). Their son Derrick James was born four years later on 23 May 1915 (J/A/S St Thomas Devon). Ernest married Ethel Elizabeth Harrington in 1914 (Basford registration district). They had one child, a daughter Muriel Alice who was born on 22 January 1916 (J/F/M Weymouth). The family lived at 16 Byron Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham. Ethel married secondly William F Tann in 1925 (A/M/J Basford). In 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled they were living in Merton, Wiltshire; William (b. 21 July 1896) worked for a printing ink manufacturer. Also in the home was Ethel's daughter Muriel, an architect's secretary. The record of one member of the household remains closed, but may have been William and Ethel's son, William H., who was born in1927 (O/N/D Kingston Surrey, Harrington). Ernest's father, James John, died on 10 April 1925; he was still living on Waverley Road, Exmouth. Ernest's widowed mother Alice was living with her son Reginald and his wife Myra in Newton Abbott, Devon, in 1939. Reginald was a manager (builders' merchant and ironmongers). His son Derrick was a local government officer and living in Lymington Hampshire. Alice Ann Pile died in 1948 (A/M/J Honiton). Her son Reginald died in 1956 (J/A/S New Forest Hants).

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