T/Const Frank Henry Freeman

 

1884 Oct 20. Born Lambeth, London

1891 census A Pupil at Reedham Orphanage, Coulsden. The Reedham Trust fulfills the original intent of the asylum by funding a boarding school education for children who through loss or incapacity of their parents, need to attend a boarding school. Their focus "is on boarding need rather than educational need". The trust is run from the former lodge building of the orphanage

 

1902 Oct 20 Enlisted in RN

1905 Feb 27 Bought himself out of Navy

 

1908 Sep 16 Married Camberwell to HEFFERNAN Esther Teresa (or WARREN Louisa Alice (1911 census shows it was not Warren)

1910 May 28 Grace Elizabeeth born

1911 census his wife is staying with his mother in Merton, Surrey. There is a child, but the father is not there

 

1914 Apr 8. Enlisted in 3/1 Herts Yeomanry

1916 Apr 5 Discharged Herts Yeomanry

1916 Apr 6 Enlisted in RAF

1916 Nov 21. A child Peter Cuthbert Freeman was born in 1916 in London Mother Cuthbertson. He had clearly left his first wife . 2 more children were born to Gertrude Cuthbertson. Margaret M in 1925 and Alan in 1928

1919 Feb 21 Transfers to RAF Reserve

 

1921 Jun 7. RIC no 81363 & Adric (772) ex-Soldier & Motor Engineer

1921 Jun 16 Posted to H Coy

1921 Aug 3 to Aug 17 on Leave

 

1939 Register living at 266 St Margarets Road, Richmond Upon Thames. He is a London Bus Driver. with wife Gertrude

Gertrude Cuthbertson did not in fact marry him until 1959. I assume he had separated from his first wife, but had not divorced, and so waited until she died)

1941 Local Politics

1959 Married Gertrude Cuthbertson, with who he had been living since before 1939. Esther Teresa Freeman, his first wife had died in Surrey in 1958

1966 Died Hounslow aged 82

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