John William Hyde

John William (known as William) was the son of William Henry Hyde and Fanny Hyde (née Bachelor). His father William Henry was born in Little Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in about 1854. His mother was also born in Little Grimsby and was probably baptised at the parish church on 30 May 1852 (parents Joseph and Jane Bachelor). William and Fanny and were married in the parish church of Little Grimsby on 15 May 1873 (A/M/J Louth). According to the 1911 Census they had had five children of whom four were still living. Their five children were: Mary Jane b. Little Grimsby 1873 (O/N/D Louth Lincs) bap. Little Grimsby 28 September 1873 d. 1897, Fanny b. South Willingham birth registered 1875 (J/F/M Louth) bap. North Willingham 24 December 1876, John William b. Hanthorpe Lincs 25 December 1875 (1876 J/F/M Louth) bap. North Willingham 24 December 1876, Annie Elizabeth b. Newbold Lincs 1881 (J/A/S Lincoln) and Joseph b. Humby Lincs 1888 (O/N/D Grantham). In 1881 William (27), an agricultural labourer, and Fanny (28) were living in Newball, Lincolnshire, with their three children Mary (7), Fanny (6) and William (5). Also in the household was a 'nurse child', Isabel Heaven (13 b. Hessle Yorkshire). Isabel Elizabeth Heaven was born in 1868 (A/M/J Sculcoates/Wilkins) and was still living with the family in 1911 when she was described on the census as 'an imbecile from birth.' By 1891 William Henry (38), a shepherd, and Fanny (38) were living at 50 Town End Cottages, Tollerton, Nottinghamshire, with three of their five children, William (15), a farm servant, Annie (9) and Joseph (2). Isabella Heaven was described on the census as a boarder and of no occupation. Their eldest daughters, Mary Jane (17) and Fanny (16), were housemaids in the household of Thomas Heathcote and his widowed mother at Newton House, Newton, Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Fanny (17) married William Watson Holden (26) at the parish church of Stapleford, Lincolnshire, on 14 June 1892; one of the witnesses was her sister, Mary Jane Hyde. William was a groom (residence Newton Lincolnshire) whose father Thomas lived in Stapleford. Fanny was also living in Stapleford but was not in work. Their parents, William and Fanny, were living at Flash Farm, Town Street, Averham, Nottinghamshire, by 1901. William was a stockman and farm labourer. Also in the home on the night of the census were Isabel, described as a visitor, their son Joseph (13) and Albert Hyde (3) b. Cottingham, Yorkshire (1897 J/A/S Sculcoates Yorkshire), who was also described as their son as he would be on the next census. However, a family history website records that Albert was the son of William and Fanny's unmarried daughter, Mary Jane Hyde, who had died in 1897 (J/A/S Sculcoates) aged 23. Their son William had joined the Royal Navy in November the previous year while Annie (19) was a domestic servant in Newark in the household of Annie Quibell, a widow. William and Fanny had moved to Rolleston, Nottinghamshire, by 1911, where William was a cottager. Only Albert (13), a farm servant, and Isabel Heaven were living with them. Their youngest son Joseph, now a journeyman for a flour mill, had married two years earlier and was living in Fiskerton near Rolleston, with his wife Rosa (20) and daughter Phyllis (2 months). Isabel Heaven died in 1913 (A/M/J Southwell) aged 45. William jnr, a leading stoker serving in HMS Implacable, had married Edith Baggs in Weymouth, Dorset, on 24 December 1910. He was 33 years old and his bride 20. Edith was the daughter of Thomas Baggs, a groom, and lived on Prince of Wales Road, Weymouth. William's father was described as a farmer. William was still serving in HMS Implacable in 1911 and his wife Edith (21) was living at 3 East Row, Chapley Street, Weymouth. Also in the marital home on the night of the census was Edith's sister, Bessie Baggs (10). William and Edith had at least one, and possibly two, sons, William Henry and Francis E. William Henry's birth was registered in 1914 (J/F/M Weymouth, mother's maiden name Baggs) and he was baptised on 3 April 1914 in Weymouth (parents William and Edith Hyde). There is also a record of the birth in 1917 (Weymouth Dorset, Baggs) of a Francis E Hyde. At the time of William's death in March 1917 his wife was living at 3 Seymour Place, Weymouth. William and Fanny's grandson Albert, may have also served in the war. The front page of a Short Service Attestation dated 1915 survives giving his name, age (18 years 189 days), address Rolleston Junction, Newark, and name of father, Henry (sic). William's mother Fanny died in 1921 (Dec Southwell) aged 69 and his father William Henry on 10 October 1924 (Dec Southwell) aged 71.

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