ERNEST WILLIAM ABRAM
Ernest is remembered on the Memorial to the Missing, at the Field of Honour, Ipswich Old Cemetery.
Born: 17th January 1877, Bermondsey, London.
Died: 15th October 1914; age: 37; Lost when ship torpedoed by German submarine in the North Sea.
Enlistment Location: Chatham; occupation: Messenger. Signed up for 12 years – 17th January 1895 – height: 5ft 3ins. In 1907, height – 5ft 7ins. Swarthy complexion, brown eyes & dark brown hair.
Service:
Boscawen – Boy 2nd Class – 21st May 1892
Boscawen – Boy 1st Class – 1st July 1893 – 22nd January 1894
Pembroke – Boy 1st Class – 23rd January 1894 – 4th May 1894
Immortalité – Boy 1st Class – 5th May 1894 – 25th May 1894
Blenheim – Boy 1st Class – 26th May 1894
Blenheim – Ordinary Seaman – 17th January 1895 – 23rd May 1895
Pembroke I – Ordinary Seaman – 24th May 1895 – 9th September 1895 – on the run – recovered deserter sent to Chatham to be dealt with.
Pembroke I – Ordinary Seaman – 5th February 1896 – 21st April 1896
Grafton – Ordinary Seaman – 22nd April 1896
Grafton – Able Seaman – 1st July 1897 – 20th October 1897
Tamar – Able Seaman – 21st October 1897 – 14th September 1899
Powerful – Able Seaman – 15th September 1899 – 8th June 1900
Pembroke I – Able Seaman – 9th June 1900 – 11th October 1900
Thunderer – Able Seaman – 12th October 1900 – 30th October 1900
Pembroke – Able Seaman – 31st October 1900 – 8th January 1901
Wildfire – Able Seaman – 9th January 1901 – 4th September 1901
Pembroke – Able Seaman – 5th September 1901 – 16th September 1901
Amphitrite – Able Seaman – 17th September 1901 – 10th March 1902
Pembroke I – Able Seaman – 11th march 1902 – 20th March 1902
Amphitrite – Able Seaman – 21st March 1902
Amphitrite – Leading Seaman – 1st April 1904 – 11th August 1905
Pembroke – Petty Officer 2nd Class – 12th August 1905 – 24th October 1905
Acheron – Petty Officer 2nd Class – 25th October 1905
Acheron – Petty Officer 1st Class – 12th February 1906 – 21st September 1908
Minerva – Petty Officer – 22nd September 1908
Minerva – Petty Officer – 13th October 1910 – 17th October 1910
Pembroke I – Petty Officer – 3rd April 1911 – 20th April 1911
Ganges II – Petty Officer – 21st April 1911 – 11th June 1913
Pembroke – Petty Officer – 12th June 1913 – 16th June 1913
Hawke – Petty Officer – 17th June 1913 – 15th October 1915.
Rank: Petty Officer; Service Number: 167361.
Regiment: Royal Navy, H.M.S.’Hawke.’
Medals Awarded: Defence of Ladysmith, Victory, British War & 1914 Star.
Memorial Reference:
Panel 1.
Kent.
Relatives Notified & Address: Husband of Harriet Abram, of 8, Shotley High Street, Shotley, Suffolk.
CENSUS
1881 37, Crane Grove, Islington, London.
Ernest was 4 years old and living with his paternal grandparents, aunt & uncle.
William Audley Abram, 49, a Traveller, born Canterbury, Kent.
Hester Ann Abram (nee Bullinger), 49, born Canterbury.
Rosa Eliza Abram, 22, a Machinist, born Canterbury.
Harold Ethelbert Abram, 21, a Clerk, born Canterbury.
1891 20, Arthur Street, Deptford, London.
Ernest was 14 years old, a Cable Works Messenger. He was living with his widowed father & siblings.
Ernest Price Abram, 37, a Railway Ticket Collector, born Canterbury.
Edith Hester Catherine Abram, 12, born Bermondsey.
Eveline Rosa Jessie Abram, 10, born Deptford.
Catherine Louisa Abram, 8, born Deptford.
Maria Elizabeth Abram, 6, born Deptford.
Zillah Ellen Abram, 4, born Deptford.
Alfred Alma Abram, 2, born Deptford.
Annie Bard (nee Payne), 27, the Abram family’s housekeeper.
Thomas Bard, 27, a Driller & Fitter (husband of housekeeper).
1901 At No. 21 Buoy, Sheerness Harbour, Kent.
Ernest was 24 years old, an Able Seaman for the Royal Navy, H.M.S. ‘Wildfire,’ a battleship 2nd class.
1911 1, Unity Cottage, Gardiner Street, Gillingham, Kent.
Ernest was 34 years old, a Petty Officer 1st Class for the Royal Navy. He was married and Head of the Household.
Harriet, 39.
Ernest, 9.
Alfred, 3.
Ernest’s mother was Catherine Abram (nee Archer), born 1859, Southwark, Surrey – died 1889, Greenwich.
On the 23rd June 1900, at Christ Church, Greenwich, London, 23 year old, Ernest, an Able Seaman, married 28 year old, Harriet Sarah Bray, born November 1872, Bermondsey, London.
They had 2 sons:
Ernest William Henry Abram, born August 1901, Greenwich.
Alfred Robert James Abram, born December 1907, Gillingham, Kent.
In December 1900, at a sale of Stamps & Coins, at St. Martin’s Town Hall, Charing Cross, by Messrs. Ventom, Bull and Cooper, a silver watch presented through the Admiralty to Ernest, of Her Majesty’s ship ‘Powerful’ was sold – £3 17s 6d.
Harriet Abram and her sons moved to Ipswich towards the end of the war.
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