JOHN FREDERICK GROOM HALL
Born: 1876, Whitechapel, Middlesex.
Died: 28th December 1919; age 43; died of Tuberculosis of the lungs, at 4 Woodhouse Street, Ipswich. John’s wife, Rose, was at his bedside. Served 5 years & 127 days.
Residence: 4, Woodhouse Street, Ipswich.
Occupation: a Cabinet Maker – Journeyman.
Enlistment Location: Walthamstow; date: 24th August 1914; religion: CofE. Height: 5ft 8 1/2ins, dark complexion, dark eyes, dark hair. Tattoo: 2 hearts on left forearm.
Date of Entry Therein: 19th June 1915 – Egypt.
Rank: Sergeant; Service Number: 227120
Regiment: Royal Engineers.
Formerly Private, 10670, Gloucestershire Regiment.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star.
Grave Reference:
BA.2.68.
Ipswich.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Thomas & Robina Rose Hall, of 18, Dorkin Street, St. Clements, Ipswich; husband of the late Elizabeth C. Hall.
CENSUS
1881 17, Kennington Road, Bethnal Green.
John was 4 years old and living with his parents & brother.
Thomas Hall, 27, a Cabinet Maker, born Strood, Kent.
Robina Rose Hall (nee Pearce), 27, born Bethnal Green, Middlesex.
Frederick Richard Hall, 13 days old, born Bethnal Green.
1891 12, Montague Terrace, Hackney, Middlesex.
John was 14 years old, a Carver. He was living with his parents & siblings.
Thomas, 37, a Cabinet Maker.
Robina, 37.
Thomas William Hall, 16, a Cabinet Maker, born Whitechapel, Middlesex.
Frederick, 10.
Lucy Hall, 7, born Walthamstow, Essex.
Edwin Thomas Hall, 6, born Walthamstow.
Annie Mary Hall, 1, born Hackney Wick, Middlesex.
1901 7, March Hill, Hackney, Middlesex.
John was 24 years old, a Cabinet Maker. He was living with his parents & siblings.
Thomas, 46, a Cabinet maker.
Robina, 46.
Thomas, 26, a Pianoforte Maker.
Lucy, 18, a Mattress Tuft Cutter – Upholsterer.
Edwin, 17, a Cabinet Maker.
Annie, 12.
Arthur Harold Hill, 9, born Haggerston, London.
1911 51, Handford Road, Ipswich.
John was 35 years old, a Cabinet Maker – own account – at home. He was married and head of the household.
Elizabeth, 33.
Frederick, 6.
Thomas, 1.
1 boarder.
On the 26th September 1887, John’s father Thomas Hall, of 38, Ford Street, completed the admission forms for John and his brother Thomas, born 5th March 1875, to attend Monteith Road School, Tower Hamlets. Previously, they had both attended Walthamstow School.
On Christmas Day, 1901, at All Souls’ Church, Clapton Park, 25 year old John, a cabinet maker, of 7, Marsh Hill, Hackney, married 20 year old Elizabeth Charlotte Slate, born 1878, Bethnal Green, Middlesex – daughter of Edward Slate, a spinner/upholsterer, and Elizabeth Slate (nee Forster), of 9, Mandeville Street, Lower Clapton.
Elizabeth and John had three children:
Lilian Elizabeth Harriet Hall, born November 1902, Shoreditch, London and baptised on the 7th December 1902, at St. Columba Church, Haggerstone, London – family home at 137, St. John’s Road, Hoxton.
Frederick John Hall, born December 1904, Shoreditch.
Thomas William Hall, born July 1909, Ipswich.
John’s wife, Elizabeth Charlotte Hall, died on the 17th November 1918, in Suffolk and was buried at Section D, Ipswich Old Cemetery.
Elizabeth and John’s children were loved and cared for by their paternal grandparents, Thomas and Robina Hall, at their family home, 18 Dorkin Street, Ipswich.
In 1919, in Ipswich, John married Rose Edith Neal (nee Moye), born November 1876, Ipswich – daughter of Charles Moye, a corn weigher, and Mary Ann Moye (nee Lambley), of Ipswich.
Rose’s first husband, 39 year old Francis John Neal, born in Fermoy, Ireland, a Sergeant for the Royal Field Artillery, died on the 29th April 1916, at the Military Hospital, Forest Row, East Sussex and was buried at the Forest Row Cemetery, East Sussex. He is not remembered on any war memorial in Ipswich.
Rose and Francis had three children, all born in Ipswich.
John is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Clement’s Church, Ipswich.
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