FRANK BENJAMIN EVANS
Born: 1863, St. Matthew’s, Ipswich.
Baptised: 10th May 1863, at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich.
Died: 4th March 1902; age: 39; KiA at Molen River Bridge, Gauteng, South Africa.
Residence: Ipswich.
Occupation: Hair Dresser.
Rank: Gunner; Service Number: 16612.
Regiment: Royal Horse Artillery, ‘P’ Battery, South Africa Field Force.
Clasps Awarded: Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, Relief of Kimberley + South Africa 1901 medal & South Africa 1902 medal – issued 4th January 1904.
CENSUS
1871 Church Lane, St. Matthew’s, Ipswich.
Frank was 8 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
John Evans, 55, a Schoolmaster, born Woolwich, Kent.
Eliza Evans, 52, born Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
Anne Eliza Evans, 23, a Schoolmistress, born Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Katharine Evans, 20, born Ipswich.
Frederick George Evans, a Pupil Teacher, born Ipswich.
Emily Caroline Evans, 17, born Ipswich – died 1884, Ipswich.
Leonora Ellen Evans, 14, born Ipswich.
Eleanor Marian Evans, 12, born Ipswich.
Henry Arthur Evans, 10, born Ipswich – died 1882, Ipswich.
1881 St. James’ School, Regency Square, Lambeth, South London.
Frank was 18 years old, a Hair Dresser. He was living with his brother & sister.
Frederick, 29, a Schoolmaster – Head.
Eleanor, 22.
1 visitor.
In 1899, Ipswich, Frank married Emily Sarah Scoggins, born 1879, Ipswich.
They had 1 daughter:
Ethel Emily Evans Scoggins, born December 1898, Ipswich.
On the 1901 census Frank’s wife, 22 year old, Emily and 2 year old daughter, Ethel are living with his widowed father-in-law and widowed brother-in-law – 4, Kentish Terrace, Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
Edward Scoggins, 66, an Engineer Fitter, born Stowupland, Suffolk.
Walter Scoggins, 44, a Gas Stoker, born Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Emily Evans – widow.
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