Arthur Day

Arthur was born in 1876 in Newark and was the son of the late John Day an iron moulder and Rachel Day née Marson of 7 Mount Pleasant, Mill Gate, Newark. His father John was born in 1846 in Mansfield, his mother Rachel Marson was born in 1852 in Otteringham, Yorkshire. They were married in 1873 in the Southwell Registration District and had 6 children, sadly however two of these children were to die in infancy or childhood prior to 1911, their surviving children were :- Robert William b1874 Newark, Arthur b1876 Newark, John Thomas b1878 Mansfield and Leonard b1889 Newark. However in 1905 their son Robert William died in Newark aged 31 yrs. In 1906 John Day died aged 62 yrs in Nottingham, and in 1910 their son Leonard was also to die in Newark aged 22 yrs. In the 1911 census what was left of the family were living at 7 Mount Pleasant, Mill Gate Newark, and are shown as :- Rachel Day 59 yrs a widow, she is living with her two sons Arthur 35 yrs a labourer in a plaster pit and John Thomas 33 years a grounds man at a golf course. Both brothers Arthur and John Thomas enlisted during the Great War however both were to die Arthur died on 13th February 1916 and John Thomas died 21st February 1917. Their mother Rachel died in 1925 in Newark aged 73 yrs.