William Crow Stenson

William Crow was the son of William Stenson Crow (later Stenson) and his wife Mary (née Wall). His father William Stenson Crow was born in Old Basford in 1860. He was recorded on the 1861 Census living in Basford with his mother Mary Crow who was head of household and described as 'soldier's wife', and his older sister Sarah Ann. It is likely that in 1871 at the age of 11 he, and possibly a younger brother Joseph (9), were inmates at Basford Union Workhouse. William Crow married Mary Wall at Basford Register Office in 1882 (A/M/J Basford) and had at least five children, one of whom died in infancy. The births were registered as 'Crow' (mother's maiden name Wall): Ethel b. Basford 1883, Mary b. 1886 d. 1886, William b. Basford 1887 bap. 4 August 1887, Bernard b. Basford 1891 and Clara b. Bulwell 1898 (reg. J/F/M). There are records that all the children except Bernard were baptised at Basford St Leodegarius a few months after their births (surname Crow). Acording to the baptismal records, William and Mary were living in Basford on Thurlow Street in 1883, Wilton Terrace in 1886 and Wilton Street in 1887 then in Bulwell in 1898. However, on the 1891 Census the family was recorded using the surname Stenson. William (31) a chemical furnace stoker, and Mary (27) were living at 44 Vernon Avenue, Basford, with their children Ethel (8) and William (3); their daughter Mary had died five years previously. By 1901 William (Stenson) was a grocer with a beer off licence at 71 Dorset Street, Radford. In the home on the night of the census were his wife Mary and their four children Ethel, William who was a milk boy, Bernard (9) and Clara (3). William jnr. attested in the King's Royal Rifle Corps (6372 Rifleman) in February 1905 but was discharged ('Misstatement') the following month. William snr. died on 4 September 1907; the probate record gave his address as 71 Dorset Street, occupation grocer and provision merchant. His widow Mary died three years later on 23 June 1910. In 1911, Bernard, a colliery banksman labourer, and his sister Clara were living at 55 Croydon Road, Old Radford, with their married sister Ethel Lamb (m. 1905, Stenson-Lamb), her husband John Mills, a miner, and their three children. William had married Agnes Elizabeth Spencer (b. 1888) in 1910 and he and his wife with their infant daughter Constance Mary were living at 50 High Street, Basford, with his wife's parents Hill and Hannah Spencer and their six children. William and Agnes had two more daughters, Winifred May (b. 1913) and Ida Maud (b. 1915). The family later lived at 103 Whitemoor Road, Basford, and was still at the same address at the time of William's death in 1916. In 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled Agnes Elizabeth and her unmarried daughter Ida, were living at 107 Whitemoor Road, Basford. Her two other daughters were married and Ida married in 1940. Agnes died in 1968. William's brother Bernard served in the war with the Leicester Regiment and was killed in Mesopotamia in January 1916.