ROBERT MILLS
Born: 11th September 1885, at Siloam Place, Ipswich.
Mother – Charlotte Mills was a charwoman.
Died: 4th September 1918; age 32; died of wounds received in action.
Residence: 29, Mount Street, Ipswich.
Occupation: with Messrs. Tibbenham’s, of Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 248041
Regiment: Manchester Regiment, 1st/6th Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Reference:
VIII.F.9A.
Le Treport,
Seine-Marine,
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son-in-law of Alice Page.
CENSUS
1901 22, Rope Walk, Ipswich.
Robert was 16 years old, and a Woodcutter. He was living with his mother, brother & niece.
Charlotte Mills, 42, a charwoman, born Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Alfred Mills, 19, a Mantle Workers Porter, born Woodbridge.
Alice May Mills, 3, born Ipswich.
1911 29, Mount Street, Ipswich.
Robert was 26 years old, a Quay Labourer. He was married & living at his widowed mother-in-law’s home.
Alice Mary Clarke (nee Mower), 40, a Field Worker, born Elmsett, Suffolk.
Ethel Maud Clarke, 21, a Factory Hand, born Elmsett.
Nellie Taylor Clarke, 12, born Flowton, Suffolk.
Blanche Alberta Clarke, 10, born Flowton.
Charles Clarke, 3, born Barham, Suffolk.
Gladys Clarke, 6 months, born Somersham, Suffolk.
Lottie Mills, 18.
Dorothy Alice Mills, 1 month.
Robert’s mother, Charlotte Mills, died in 1905, Ipswich and was buried on the 22nd February at Ipswich Old Cemetery.
On Boxing Day, 1910, at St. Peter’s Church, Ipswich, 25 year old Robert, a labourer, married 19 year old Lottie Flora Clarke, born 1893, Hintlesham, Suffolk – daughter of Robert Walter Clarke, a shepherd, and Alice Mary Clarke (nee Mower), of 29, Mount Street, Ipswich.
Lottie and Robert had two children:
Dorothy Alice Mills, born 22nd March 1911, Ipswich and baptised on the 31st May 1911, at St. Peter’s Church, Ipswich – family home at 29, Mount Street, Ipswich.
Gladys Ethel Mills, born 28th May 1913, born Ipswich and baptised on the 22nd March 1914, at St. Peter’s Church, Ipswich – family home at 29, Mount Street, Ipswich.
Robert’s wife Lottie Flora Mills died on the 3rd May 1917, Ipswich and was buried on the 9th May in Section C, at Ipswich Old Cemetery.
Soldiers’ Effects to Alice M. Page – mother-in-law and guardian of his daughters.
In January 1918, at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich, Dorothy and Alice Mills’ widowed grandmother Alice Mary Clarke (nee Mower) married William James Page, a general labourer, born 1876, Ipswich. William and Alice made their home at 164, Handford Road, Ipswich, and became Dorothy and Alice’s guardians.
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