Frederick Froggatt

Frederick was the son of George Froggatt and his second wife Ellen (née Gregory). His father George was born in Sutton cum Duckmanton, Derbyshire, on 12 August 1852, the son of George and Mary Froggatt. He was baptised at Duckmanton St Mary on 12 September 1852. The family was living in Teversal by 1871 and on 31 August 1875 George jnr. married Sarah Robinson at St Katherine's church. They had two children, Harriett Ada b. 20 September 1876 and Henry (Harry) b. 15 July 1878, both of whom were born in Sutton in Ashfield where their parents kept the Woolpack Inn on Forest Street. Sarah died in 1881 (J/F/M) and on the 1881 Census George was recorded as the innkeeper at the Woolpack Inn. In the home were his two children and Elizabeth Walker (71), his housekeeper. George married secondly Ellen Gregory of Sheffield who in 1881 was living at 7 Nelson Street, Chorlton on Medlock, Lancashire, with her widowed aunt, Sarah Cumming, a boarding house keeper. Ellen married George at Chorlton upon Medlock St Saviour on 5 January 1882. She was 22 and he 29; the address of both was 7 Nelson Street. Ellen and George had eight children of whom five survived infancy or childhood: George b. Sutton in Ashfield 1 February 1884 bap. St Mary Magdalene 1 February 1884; Sidney Bertram b. 1889 (J/F/M) bap. Skegby St Andrew 6 March 1889; Millicent Annie b. Teversal 20 January 1891; Alfred b. Teversal 1892 and Frederick b. Teversal 1896. The family was still at the Woolpack Inn in 1884 when George was baptised but living in Skegby when Sidney was baptised in 1889. However, by 1891 George (38), a locomotive engine driver (probably at the colliery), and Ellen (31) were living at Silver Hill Cottages, Silver Hill, Teversal, with his son Harry (12) and their three children, George (7), Sidney (2) and Millicent (under one year). George's daughter Harriett has not yet been traced on the 1891 or 1901 Census. The famiy was recorded at the same address in 1901 and 1911. In 1901 only George's five children by his second marriage were in the home: George, a colliery banksman, Sidney, Millicent, Alfred (8) and Frederick (4). Only four were in the home in 1911: Sidney a miner, Millicent of no occupation, Alfred a banksman and Frederick a pit pony driver/miner. Also in the household was Anita Claudia Coulton (12), Harriet Ada's daughter. Harriet had married Arthur Claude Coulton at Mickleover All Saints, Derbyshire, in 1901 (J/F/M) and Anita, who was probably their only child, was born in Derby in 1902 (m. 1934, surname Rumsey). Anita was baptised at Derby St Andrew on 21 September the same year; Arthur, a toy and fancy goods dealer, and Harriett lived at 3 Midland Road, Derby. However, by 1911 Harriet was recorded on the census as a widow and working as a hospital nurse at Rotherham Workhouse and Infirmary on Alma Road, Rotherham. She is recorded on the 1931 UK & Ireland Nursing Register as qualifying on 21 July 1922 and in 1931 living in Sutton in Ashfield (prob. died 1948, reg. Surrey). Her brother Harry had married Sarah Ann Hodgkinson in 1904 and they were living off Alfreton Road, Nottingham, by 1911 with their daughters Sarah A. Grace and Winifred. He was still working as a coal miner (shotfirer). He and Sarah (b. 14 September 1877) were living in Sherwood when the 1939 Register of England & Wales was compiled. Henry died on 1 November 1948. The CWGC record gives Frederick's parents address as 6 Glen Street, Stoneyford Road, Sutton in Ashfield. However, it is possible that his mother had died before the move to Sutton in Ashfield as she died aged 60 on 1 July 1919 and was buried in Teversal (St Katherine) churchyard. George married Lavinia Yale in 1931 and in 1939 they were living in Sutton in Ashfield; George was described on the register as an old age pensioner. He died in 1941. George's brother Sidney also served in the war, initially in the 9th Bn Sherwood Foresters (24241 Private) and then in the Connaught Rangers (6520 Private). He was discharged on 5 March 1919 to his home at Stanton Hill. Sidney had married Beatrice Henry in 1913. He died in 1950.