WILLIAM FREDERCK WEBB

Born: 24th May 1875, Ipswich.

Died: 20th November 1918; age 43; died of Influenza and Pneumonia at 26, Victory Street, Sheerness, Kent.

William’s widow, Margaret Webb, of 26, Victory Street, was at his bedside.

Residence: 26, Victory Street, Sheerness, Kent.

Occupation: serving with the Royal Navy.

Enlistment Details: Location: Chatham; signed up for 12 years – 13th October 1896; Occupation: Seaman. Height: 5ft 7 1/2inches, fresh complexion, grey eyes & brown hair. Tattoo – R.BROWN. LOVE; anchor & figure – left arm. Scar on thumb – left hand.

Service:

Victory II – Stoker 2nd class – 13th October 1896 – 3rd June 1897

Prince George – Stoker 2nd Class – 4th June 1897

Prince George – Stoker – 10th March 1898 – 10th January 1900

Duke of Wellington II – Stoker – 11th January 1900 – 17th January 1900

Pembroke II – Stoker – 18th January 1900 – 18th April 1900

Argonaut – Stoker – 19th April 1900

Argonaut – Leading Stoker 2nd Class – April 1902

Argonaut – Leading Stoker 1st Class – 1st April 1903 – 16th February 1904

Pembroke II- Leading Stoker 1st Class – 17th February 1904 – 20th April 1904.

Shore By Purchase – Character – Very Good.

Re-enrolled – 22nd May 1909 – for 5 years.

Royal Arthur – Stoker Petty Officer – 2nd August 1914 – 2nd December 1914

Pembroke II – Stoker Petty Officer – 3rd December 1914 – 31st December 1914

Wildfire – Stoker Petty Officer – 1st January 1915 – 20th November 1918.

Rank; Petty Officer Stoker; Service Number; 283774

Regiment: Royal Navy, H.M.S. ‘Wildfire’

Burial service held on the 27th November.

Grave Reference:

BA.2.94.

Ipswich Old Cemetery,

Ipswich.

Relatives Notified & Address: Husband of Mrs Margaret Webb, of 26, Victory Street, Sheerness.                                                          

CENSUS

1881   Siloam Place, Duke Street, Ipswich.

William was 4 years old and living with his parents, sisters & maternal cousin.

George Webb, 46, a Seaman, born Harwich, Essex.

Charlotte Webb (nee Arnold), 35, born Ipswich.

Alice Webb, 2, born Ipswich.

Lily Webb, 9 weeks, born Ipswich.

Frederick Arnold, 8, born Ipswich.

1911   28, Unity Street, Ipswich.

William was 34 years old, a Boatman – Mooring Vessels – own account. He was married & Head of the Household.

Margaret, 32.

& wife’s nephew Edgar Goodrum, 19.

In 1904, in Ipswich, William married Margaret Cook (nee Goodrum), born 1876, Fundenhall, Norfolk – daughter of Charles Goodrum, an agricultural labourer, and Charlotte Goodrum (nee Atkins), of Church Lane, Fundenhall.

Margaret was first married to James Arthur Cook, a general labourer born in Ipswich in 1867. Margaret and James made their home at 4, Porter’s Cottages, Grey Friars Road, Ipswich. James Cook died in Ipswich in April 1903, aged 38, and was buried on 20th April at Ipswich Old Cemetery.