George Henry Hutchinson

George Henry was the son of George Hutchinson and Mary Ann Higginbottom. Both his parents were born in Nottingham, George Hutchinson in 1843 and Mary Ann in 1857, the daughter of Henry and Lucy Higginbottom. No record of their marriage has yet been traced but they had at least four children who were probably born in Radford: Louisa b. 1883, George Henry b. 1885, Lucy b. 1890 and Esther b. 1894. The 1881 Census recorded George and Mary (status married) living at 13 Cavendish Street, Nottingham; both were lace dressers. By 1891 George, who was still working as a lace dresser, his wife, a lace clipper, and their three children, Louisa, George and Lucy, were living at 34 Bloomsgrove Street, Radford. Their fourth child, Esther, was born three years later in 1894. The family had moved to 52 Bloomsgrove Street, by 1901; Louisa was a cigar maker and George an apprentice lace draughtsman while Lucy and Esther were school age. Mary Ann Hutchinson died in 1908 (buried 11 March). Her husband George has not yet been traced on the 1911 Census and probably died in 1917 (reg. O/N/D). By 1911, Louise had married Alfred Henry Green (m. 1908), a fitters' labourer, and they and their son, Alfred (1) were living in Clayton's Square, Nottingham. Also in the household was Louise's sister, Esther, a cigarette packer. Their sister Lucy had married Henry Walter Diggle in 1909 and she, her husband and their two young children were living on Vincent Terrace, Hyson Green. Also in the home were her husband's married sister, Clara Truman, and her two children. Their brother George Henry had married Alice Joynes at Meadows St Saviour in April 1909. Alice was born in Retford in 1884 (baptised St Swithun 12 May 1884). The daughter of Samuel Joynes and Jane Beedham (née Blagg m. 1879), Alice had at least four siblings, Samuel b. 1880 (d. 1907), Sarah b. 1881, George b. 1882 and John Beedham b. 1886 (J/A/S). Alice's mother died in 1886 (O/N/D), shortly after the birth of her youngest son, and her father probably died the following year. In 1891, aged seven, Alice was a boarder living with an umarried dressmaker in Clarborough, near Retford, who also had the care of another young girl. By 1901 Alice was living on Florence Street, Nottingham, with her married maternal aunt, Sarah Elizabeth Toms (née Blagg, m. 1883 Robert H Toms). Alice's brother Samuel was an inmate at the Union Workhouse at Clarborough in 1891 (described on the census as an 'idiot') and died in 1907, while John had gone to live with his paternal uncle, Joseph Bannister Joynes, and his wife with whom he was still living in 1911. Sarah and George have not yet been traced on the census between 1891 and 1911 although John named George as his next of kin when he attested in 1915. George Henry and Alice Hutchinson had four children: Ethel b. 1909, Alice b. 1911, Stanley b. 1913 and Lucy b. 1914. In 1911 George, a lace maker twisthand, his wife and their first child Ethel were living at 13 Plimsoll Street, Denman Street, Hyson Green. The family was living at 24 Wyville Street, Nottingham, when George was killed in 1917 but the later CWGC record gave his widow's address as 7 Connaught Street, Radford. In 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled, Alice was living on Stansfield Street, Nottingham, with three of her children; Ethel a ladies' robe finisher, Stanley an engineers' labourer and Lucy a hosiery machinist. Her daughter Alice was living at Barnsley Terrace, Nottingham, with her husband Frederick Taylor (m. 1935). Alice Hutchinson snr. died in 1968. George Henry's brother-in-law, John Bennett Joynes, attested in November 1915. He was aged 29, lived in Retford and named his brother George of Newton, Hyde, Cheshire, as his next of kin. John served with the Royal Flying Corps (400152), transferring to the RAF on 1 April 1918, and probably served at home throughout the war.