WILLIAM EDWARD NORBURY
Born: 1919, Featherstone, Yorkshire.
Died: 22nd November 1946; age: 27; died of Paralytic Ileus, a partial gastrectomy and duodenal ulcer, at the Ipswich Borough General Hospital, Ipswich.
The informant of the death was William’s widow, Mrs. Yvonne Amy Norbury.
Residence: 44, London Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: Machine Operator – Radiator Manufacturers.
Rank: Gunner; Service Number: 868599.
Regiment: Royal Artillery, 129 Field Regiment.
Grave Reference:
E.28.30.
Ipswich.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Mr. & Mrs. John Henry Norbury; husband of Yvonne Amy Norbury, of Ipswich.
Father: John Henry Norbury, born September 1886, Barnsley, Yorkshire – a Miner.
Mother: Emily Norbury (nee Brown), born 1893, Streethouse, Yorkshire.
Stepmother: Sarah Norbury (nee Withington (1st marriage Brain)), born October 1884, Lydbrook, Gloucestershire.
CENSUS
1921 43, Albert Street, Featherstone, Yorkshire.
William was 2 years old and lived with his parents, brother, stepsiblings and paternal uncle.
John Norbury, 34 years & 9 months old, a Coal Miner – Hewer for the Sharlston Colliery, Sharlston – died February 1930, Ackworth, Yorkshire.
Emily Norbury, 27 years & 7 months old, Home Duties.
Rosie Norbury, 13 years & 2 months old, at School, born Hemsworth, Yorkshire.
Albert Norbury, 11 years & 1 month old, at School, born Hemsworth.
John Henry Norbury, 8 years & 6 months old, at School, born Featherstone.
Alfred Norbury, 1 month & 3 weeks old, born Featherstone.
Albert Norbury, 30 years old, a Colliery Worker – Boiler Scaler for Ackton Hall Colliery Co., of Featherstone, born Outwood, Yorkshire.
William’s mother, Emily Norbury, died in November 1921, in Featherstone.
In 1924, William’s father, John Henry Norbury, married widow Sarah Brain (nee Withington).
In 1940, in Ipswich, William married Yvonne Amy Carden, a laundry worker, born 8th March 1920, Ipswich – daughter of George James Walter Carden, an engineer’s packer, and Bessie Sarah Carden (nee Ellis), of 17, Prospect Road, Ipswich.
Yvonne and William had two daughters:
Patricia J. Norbury, born 1942, Ipswich.
Shirley A. Norbury, born September 1946, Ipswich.
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