Ernest Randall

Ernest was the eldest son of Herbert and Alice Randall (née Foulds). His father Herbert was born in Mansfield in about 1868, the son of Henry Randall, a shoe maker, and his wife Ellen. In 1891 the family was living on Wood Street, Mansfield; Herbert was an iron moulder (iron foundry). His mother Alice was also born in Mansfield in about 1868, the daughter of Charles and Ann Foulds. In 1891 Alice, a cotton doubler, was living with her family on Stockwell Gate, Mansfield; two of her brothers were shoe makers. Herbert and Alice were married in 1891 and had two sons who were both born in Mansfield: Ernest b. 1895 bap. SS Peter & Paul 10 September 1895, and Herbert b. September 1901. At the time of Ernest's baptism in 1895 his parents were living at Primrose Cottages which were probably on Sutton Road, Mansfield. Their address on the 1901 Census was given as 99 Sutton Road: Herbert, Alice, Ernest (5) and two boarders, Herbert's sister Clara Randall, a cotton spinner, and Alice's brother Walter Foulds, a labourer. Herbert and Alice, their two sons and Walter Foulds were still living at Primrose Cottages in 1911. Ernest's father died in 1936. In 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled, his widow Alice was living at 194 Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, with her son Herbert, a greengrocer and smallholder, and his wife Eliza (née Simms, m. 1925). Alice died in 1949.