Reuben Benjamin Carpendale

Reuben was the second son of Herbert Wade Carpendale and his wife Anne (also Anna/Annie) nee Carpendale. Herbert Wade Carpendale was the son of Joseph and Susannah Carpendale and born in Ashwell, Rutland, in 1867 (J/A/S Oakham). He was baptised in Ashwell parish church on 9 February 1868. In 1881 Herbert was living with his parents and siblings Benjamin and Mary in Ashwell, Rutland, and employed as a railway messenger. Anne Carpendale was the daughter of Ruth Carpendale and born in Whissendine, Rutland, in 1868 (J/F/M Oakham). She was baptised in Oakham parish church on 16 February 1868. At the time of both the 1871 and 1881 Census Anne was living with her grandparents, Reuben and Elizabeth Carpendale, in Whissendine, Oakham. Herbert and Anne were married in 1886 (O/N/D Oakham, Rutland). Acording to the banns of marriage read on 13 December 1885 in Ashwell parish church, Herbert was 18 years old and a resident of Ashchurch, Gloucestershire, while Anne aged 17 was living in Ashwell, Rutland. The couple had three children: George Herbert b. Whittington Moor, Derbyshire, 1886 (A/M/J Chesterfield) and baptised in the Anglican church, Newbold, Derbyshire, on 3 September 1886; Reuben Benjamin b. Ashwell 1 August 1887 (J/A/S Oakham) and baptised in the parish church of Ashwell on 18 August 1887 and Herbert Bertie b. Ashwell 5 September 1888 (J/A/S Oakham) and baptised in the parish church of Ashwell on 16 September 1888. The birth places of the three boys suggest the family was living in Derbyshire at the time of George's birth in 1886 and in Rutland between 1887 and 1888 when Reuben and Herbert were born in Ashwell. However, by 1891 Herbert and Anne and their three sons, George (5), Reuben (3) and Herbert (2) were living at The Lodge, Langrick Road, 'south of the Witham', Boston, Lincolnshire. Herbert (23) was working as a railway signalnman. By 1901 the family had moved to Sutton-on-Trent, near Newark, and living on the Great North Road. Herbert (33) was still working as a signalman for the Great Northern Railway while George (15) was a baker's assistant, Reuben (13) a grocer's assistant and Herbert (12) was still at school. By 1911 it was likely that none of the boys were living with their parents: Reuben had joined the Royal Navy in 1904 and was serving in HMS Minotaur and George had married in 1907 and was living in Morley, Yorkshire. The youngest son, Herbert, has not yet been traced on the 1911 Census. Their parents were still living on the Great North Road, Sutton-on-Trent, in 1911 and Herbert was still working as a signalman. He and Anne had adopted a child, Doris Barle (7 b. Sutton on Trent). Also in the household was a boarder, John Pell (15) a railway porter. It appears that Herbert Wade and Anne emigrated to New Zealand in 1913 and the CWGC record gives their address as Ann's Street, Tinwald, Ashburton. Herbert probably died in New Zealand in 1953 and Anna (sic) in 1957. Of Reuben's brothers: George Herbert married Alice Maude Bailey in 1907 (A/M/J Isle of Wight) and in 1911 they were living at 21 Hastley Building, Bridge Street, Morley, Yorkshire. George (25) was a railway porter. He and Alice (27) had one child, Robert Herbert (3, b. Sutton-on-Trent), birth registered 1908 (J/F/M Southwell). The family emigrated to New Zealand as their deaths are recorded there: Alice Maud (sic) in 1927, George Herbert in 1963 and Robert Herbert in 1987. Harold Bertie married Nellie Cox (b. 15 March 1891) in 1916 (A/M/J Southwell). They probably had three children: Samuel b. 1917 (J/A/S Southwell), Nellie b. 1919 (A/M/J Southwell) and Dorothy b. 21 January 1921 (J/F/M Bakewell Derbyshire); all the records give their mother's maiden name as 'Cox'. The electoral registers of 1925 and 1926 list a Harold Bertie Carpendale living in Carlton-in-Lindrick, Nottinghamshire, and in Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, in 1928. However, in 1939 at the time of the England & Wales Register, Harold, a jobbing gardener, and Nellie were living at 144 Newgate Lane, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Their youngest daughter, Dorothy, a tin box machinist, was still living at home. Harold death was registered in 1955 (J/F/M Mansfield); he was 66 years old.

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