1899 Dec 7. Born Peterborough, Northants
1901 census at Peterborough
1911 census in Peterborough
1917 Sep 3. Entered RFC
1919 Mar 1. Discharged from RAF. Commission on discharge
1920 Jul 23. Attested as a Private in Royal Artillery . His father was William T Wilson of Manor House, Dogsthorpe, Northants. He was previously a commissioned officer in RAF
1920 Dec 9. Discharged from RA and went on to join RIC on his RA record
1920 Dec 15. Joined ADRIC with service no 1256. Posted to L Coy
1921 Jun 15. Resignation accepted after 6 months service
1926 Dec 7. Married Ellen Pattinson Winfrey
1920s Ran the family business.
Willson’s Canadian Pig Powders (c.1920s ?) An advertising card issued by Peterborough’s Stephen Willson who was the sole trader of his Canadian Pig Powders that promised to “cure ills, prevent disease and make pigs more profitable” ! The Willson family can be traced back to Alford, Lincolnshire born Stephen John Willson who moved to the city in the 1880s and was operating as a chemist on Park Road in the early 1890s. Stephen’s son William Tate Willson started out as an agricultural labourer before adapting his father’s pharmaceutical skills to establish a cattle medicine manufacturing business at 7 Lime Tree Avenue by the start of the 1900s. The address also claimed to be home to “a big experimental piggery” ! William’s son Stephen Osbert Geoffrey Willson (born 1900) appears to have taken the business on in the 1920s still operating from the same address.
1936 Oct. He has a cigar stolen
1939 Register. Living at 33 Westwood Park Road , Peterborough M.B., Northamptonshire, with wife Ellen. He is a cattle medicine manufacturer
1959 May 19. Died at Peterborough
