Henry Benjamin Bouldstridge

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Henry Benjamin Boulstridge
• GRO Birth Index: 1852; St. James Westminster 1d - 306
• Miltary Service: Between 1875 and 1891; 12th Lancers
• Residence: 1881, Northgate, Canturbury, Kent, England; The Barracks
• Residence: 1891, Hulme, Manchester, Lancashire, England; The Barracks
• Residence: 1901, 86, Ellen Sreet, Hockley, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: 1901; Annealer (Jewellry)
• Residence: 1911, 65, Crabtree Road, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: 1911; Warehouseman (Iron Founders)
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1921; Birmingham 6d - 425 Age 68

Notes:

Edward Francis and Charlotte had two sons: Edward, who was born in 1846 and who inherited the family business, and Henry Benjamin, born in 1852, who, according to his great-granddaughter Gillian Beverley Smith, of Droitwich, was not attracted to the business, but wished for adventure and ran away and enlisted in the 12th Lancers. She says that Charlotte and Edward bought him out twice but to no avail. He was determined to have an army career and this he achieved, serving some time in India, He married Eugenia Elizabeth Baker at Canterbury, where he was stationed, in 1880. In the Regimental records, during the 1880s, his name was given as Bouldsbridge, but, when he and his family subsequently settled in Birmingham they were sometimes known as Bouldstridges and sometimes as Boulstridges When he died, in 1921, he was recorded as an army pensioner and caretaker at a jewellers. One of Henry's grandsons, Henry Victor Bouldstridge, who was born in 1905 and died in 1981, was a company director and sometime President of the Birmingham Engineering and Building Centre. Henry Victor's brother, Cyril Edward, was honoured, as the founder of music libraries, by being included in a civic reception for 100 Great Brummies, arranged as a part of the city's centenary celebrations in 1990.
(The Bolstridges alias Bulstrodes of Bedworth - 1986 Prof. N Dudley)
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1881 Census " The Barracks " Northgate Canterbury
St Mary Northgate, Kent, England
RG11/ 0960 Folio 85 Page 2
Henry BOULSTRIDGE M29 MLondon, Middlesex, England
Rel:Head
Occ:Soldier Private
Ellen BOULSTRIDGE M 27 F Manchester, Lancashire, England
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1891 Census Hulme Calvalry Barracks, LAN
Boulstridge Family in Barracks
Henry 39 Private Lance rs b. London; MDX
Euginia 37 b. London MDX
Cora 12 Monitress Army School b. Canterbury; KNT
Charlotte 10 b.Canterbury
Henry8 "
Walter7 "
Clara5 "
Euginia 4 b. Colchester
Ellen 2 b. Hounslow
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1901 Census RG13/2847 Folio 143
86 Ellen Street Hockley Birmingham
NameAge Born Occupation
Henry BOULSTRIDGE Head 48 London Annealer
Eugenie Boulstridge 42 London
Cora Boulstridge 22 Canterbury Warehouse Clerk
Charlotte Boulstridge 19 Canterbury Jewellers Clerk
Henry Boulstridge 11 Canterbury Engraver
Walter Boulstridge 15 Canterbury Jeweller
Clara Boulstridge 14 Canterbury Jeweller
Eugenia Boulstridge 13 Colchester
Nellie Boulstridge 11 Hounslow
Fred Boulstridge 7 Warws B Ham
Lucy Boulstridge 1 Warws B Ham
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1911 Census 65 Crabtree Road Birmingham
BOULDSTRIDGE, Henry Head Married M 59 1852 Warehouseman London
BOULDSTRIDGE, Eugenia Wife Married 32 years 12 Children 9 survived F 55 1856 London

BOULDSTRIDGE, Cora Daughter Single F 30 1881 Clerk Canterbury Kent
BOULDSTRIDGE, Walter Son Single M 27 1884 Packer Canterbury Kent
BOULDSTRIDGE, Clara Daughter Single F 25 1886 Polisher Canterbury Kent
BOULDSTRIDGE, Eugenia Daughter Single F 23 1888 Card Board Box Maker Colchester Essex
BOULDSTRIDGE, Ellen Daughter Single F 21 1890 Clerk Hounslow Middlesex
BOULDSTRIDGE, Frederick Son Single M 17 1894 Silversmith Make Up Brush And Mirrors Smethwick Staffs
BOULASTRIDGE, Lucy Daughter Single F 11 1900 School Birmingham
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Henry married Eugenia Elizabeth Baker in 1880 in Canterbury, : Registration District, England. Eugenia was born in 1854 in London, England; died in 1941 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Cora Bolstridge
• Occupation: Between 1901 and 1911; Warehouse Clerk (Metal Goods)
• GRO Death Index: Sep 1943; Birmingham 6d - 383 Age 64

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Euginie Bolstridge
• GRO Birth Index: Mar 1881; Canterbury 2a - 847
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1881; Canterbury 2a - 486 Age 0

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Charlotte Bolstridge
• Name: Lottie Bouldstridge
• GRO Birth Index: Jun 1882; Canterbury 2a - 803
• Occupation: 1901; Jeweller's Clerk
• Residence at marriage: 1905, 65, Crabtree Road, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England

Charlotte married John Arthur Swann on 16 Aug 1905 in All Saints, Hockley, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. John (son of John Swann and Eliza Rhodes) was born in 1874. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Henry Bolstridge
• Occupation: 1901; Engraver
• Residence: 1915, 6, Yew Tree Villas, Sheffield Road, Erdington, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
• Miltary Service: Between 1915 and 1919; Royal Berkshire Regiment
• Service Number: Between 1915 and 1919; Private 27414
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1959; Sutton Coldfield 9c - 800 Age 75

Notes:

Abstract of WW1 Service records (Badly Damaged)
Occupation Jeweller Enlisted 10 Dec 1915 At Reading Royal Berkshire
Next of Kin Emily Bouldstridge Wife 6 Yew Tree Villas, Sheffield Road, Erdington B'ham
Married at B'ham Registrars Office 1 11 1904 Emily Fielding Spinster
Children Henry Victor 9/1/1905 b. St Georges B'ham
Cyril Edward 19 2 1911 Sutton Coldfield Aston
Wounded 3 times and mentioned in dispatches 9/5/1917
Discharged 5 9 1919 Service No 388659
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Henry married Emily Fielding on 1 Nov 1904 in Registrars Office, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Emily (daughter of Albert Fielding and Emma Martin) was born on 28 Feb 1883 in Aston Manor, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; died in Jun 1972 in Sutton Coldfield, : Registration District, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Walter Edward Bolstridge
• GRO Birth Index: Sep 1885; Canterbury 2a - 793
• Occupation: 1901; Jeweller Gold
• Occupation: 1911; Packer (Drapery)
• Miltary Service: Between 1914 and 1916; Army Service Corps 2nd Ammunition Park
• Service Number: Between 1914 and 1916; Private CMT - 2969
• Service Number: 1918; Chelsea Pensioner (59678 - D)
• GRO Death Index: Jun 1918; Birmingham 6d - 246 Age 32

Notes:

Casualty Details WW1
Name: BOULDSTRIDGE, WALTER EDWARD
Initials: W E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: Army Service Corps
Unit Text: M.T.
Age: 32
Date of Death: 27/04/1918
Service No: CMT/2969
Additional information: Son of Eugenia Bouldstridge, of 24, Regent Place, Birmingham, and the late Henry Benjamin Bouldstridge. Born at Canterbury.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: B12. 426.
Cemetery: BIRMINGHAM (LODGE HILL) CEMETERY

The First World War saw four important hospitals - besides many smaller - posted at Birmingham: the 1st Southern General (3,500 beds) was in the university and other buildings, with a section at Stourbridge; the 2nd/1st Southern General (1,800 beds) in the Dudley Road Infirmary and in billets; the 1st Birmingham War Hospital (1,000 beds) at Rubery Hill Asylum and the 2nd Birmingham War Hospital (900 beds) at Hollymoor Asylum. Military hospitals were at Birmingham again during the Second World War, including No 7 Canadian Hospital at Marston Green. Birmingham and Coventry were among the chief manufacturing areas producing materials for the war effort and were subjected to many devastating air raids during the Blitz of 1940-41. BIRMINGHAM (LODGE HILL) CEMETERY contains 498 First World War burials, most of them in a war graves plot in Section B10. The names of those buried in the plot, or in graves elsewhere in the cemetery which could not be individually marked, are inscribed on a Screen Wall. Second World War burials number 125, most of them scattered throughout the cemetery, although there is a small plot in Section 2E. BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL CREMATORIUM stands within the cemetery. In the chapel, there is a bronze plaque commemorating 48 servicemen of the Second World War whose remains were cremated there.

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WW1 Soldiers Records Abstract
No 2989 Army Service Corps Walter Edward Bouldstridge Enlisted 8/6/1914 Bristol
Aged 26 346 Days
Discharged 28 1 1916 being no longer physically fit for service (Effects of Wounds)
Discharged as Totally Disabled TB (Chelsea Pensioner Number 59678/D
Address 24, Regent Place, Birmingham
No Children at Discharge
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Died:
See Notes regarding discharge

Walter married Florence E Jones in 1911 in Birmingham, : Registration District, England. Florence was born in 1886; died in 1915 in Birmingham, : Registration District, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Lilian Griffiths in 1917 in Birmingham, : Registration District, England. Lilian was born about 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Clara Bolstridge
• GRO Birth Index: Mar 1887; Canterbury 2a - 818
• Occupation: 1901; Jeweller Gold
• Occupation: 1911; Polisher (Medallist)

Clara married Charles W Harrison in 1915 in Birmingham, : Registration District, England. Charles was born about 1885. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Eugenie Bolstridge
• GRO Birth Index: Jun 1888; Colchester 4a - 527
• Occupation: 1911; Card Board Box Maker
• Residence at marriage: 1912, 65, Crabtree Road, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England

Eugenie married William Jennings Smith on 7 Apr 1912 in All Saints, Hockley, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. William (son of William Smith) was born in 1887 in Wheeling, Marshall, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Nellie Bouldstridge
• GRO Birth Index: Jun 1890; Brentford 3a - 48?
• Occupation: 1911; Clerk Silversmiths Warehouse

Ellen married Robert Bannister in 1914 in Birmingham, : Registration District, England. Robert was born about 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: William Bolstridge
• Baptism: 30 Jun 1891
• GRO Birth Index: Sep 1891; Chorlton 8c - 206
• GRO Death Index: Jun 1893; Aston 6d - 191

Notes:

Birth:
Army Barracks

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Grace Bolstridge
• GRO Birth Index: Jun 1892; Chorlton 8c - 983
• GRO Death Index: Jun 1895; Birmingham 6d - 126 Age 3

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Frederick Boulstridge
• GRO Birth Index: Dec 1893; King's Norton 6c - 462
• Occupation: 1911; Silversmith (Maker Up Brush and Mirrors )
• Miltary Service: Abt 1916; Royal Army Medical Corps
• Service Number: Abt 1916; Private 35508
• GRO Death Index: Jun 1964; Birmingham 9c - 466 Age 72

Frederick married Doris Alice Coles in 1925 in Birmingham South, : Registration District, England. Doris was born on 27 Jun 1898; died in 1978 in Birmingham, : Registration District, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Lucy Bolstridge
• GRO Birth Index: Dec 1899; Birmingham 6d - 193

Lucy married Joseph Hodson in 1922 in Birmingham, : Registration District, England. Joseph was born about 1897. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1881 Census
All Born Birmingham
John Swann 46 Goldsmith
Eliza Swann 44
Eliza Swann 20 Warehouse Woman
Harry Swann 19 Silversmith
Francis E. Swann 17 Bridle Cutter
James Swann 15 Engin Fitter
Walter Swann 13 Errand Boy
Ada L. Swann 11
Florence Swann 9
** John A. Swann 7 **
Winifred A. Swann
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Other Events and Attributes:

• GRO Birth Index: Mar 1905; Birmingham 6d - 129
• GRO Death Index: Mar 1981; Stratford on Avon 31 - 0476 (d.o.b. 09 Jan 1905)

Other Events and Attributes:

• GRO Birth Index: Jun 1911; Aston 6d - 419
• GRO Death Index: Jul 1994; Birmingham District No 0611K Reg No K62A Ent No 011 Dor 794 d.o.b. 19 2 1911

Cyril married Evelyn Mary Mead in 1938 in Birmingham, : Registration District, England. Evelyn was born on 26 May 1911; died in Dec 1976 in Birmingham, : Registration District, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• GRO Birth Index: Mar 1912; Birmingham 6d - 348 Mother's Maiden Name Bouldstridge

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Terence Frederick Boulstridge
• GRO Birth Index: Jun 1929; Birmingham South 6d - 64
• GRO Death Index: Sep 2003; Redditch 15A Entry number: 285

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]