Family Tree of Pete Bradshaw and Wendy Offen, Durham, England
William Whyatt
1879
Male
Person 00000529
Born 02/02/1879 at Newnham, Cambridge (PC)
Father: Robert Whyatt (1834)
Mother: Rebecca Skerman (1843)
at 1 Summerfield
1881 at Newnham, Cambs (C)
scholar age 2 at home
1891 at Cambridge (C)
scholar, 12
1896 at Cambridge (S)
on GPO British Postal Service Appointment Book as Paid Learner
then later at a higher grade as PO Engineer
1901 at Cambridge (CP)
PO sorting clerk and telegraphist age 22 with family.
Post Office engineer at Hills Road
Deacon & Treasurer at Eden , Cambridge
from 04/06/1903 at Cambridge (P)
lived at 30 Blinco Grove from marriage until retirement
Married 04/06/1904 at Cambridge (PR)
to Kate Wilderspin (1879)
3b/1127
1911 at Cherry Hinton, Cambs (C)
30, Blinco Grove (6 room house)
age 32, Post Office Clerk (Engineering Dept) - Telegraph service, with wife, 2 kids and sister in law Ethel
between 1917 and 1918 at Bedford (PS)
served in Signals Corps in Bedford 1917-8
Royal Engineers Signal Section - service number 377493. Attestation 10/12/1915 at Cambridge. Service from 4/12/1917; not fit for
active service but useful as a Grade 2 Telegraphist; Class W., Army Reserve for signal Service; "A" Signal Depot R.E. Bedford
1921 at Cambridge without (C)
1924 at Cambridge (W)
post office clerk
1939 at Cambridge (C)
with wife, daughter and grandson
from June 1939 at Cambridge (P)
retired to 7, Leys Road , Cambridge June 1939
between 1940 and 1945 at Stapleford, Cambs (P)
Secretary of Stapleford Particular Baptist Chapel 1940-5
1957 at Cambridge ()
wife died
after 1958 at Chesterton, Cambs (P)
lived in Langdon House Old People's Home in Chesterton after wife died in 1958
Died 08/01/1965 or 05/01/1965 at Cambridge (P)
Children
Kathleen Mary Whyatt (1908)
Ronald Robert Whyatt (1910)
Last updated 07/11/2023
Source Key: A=Baptist records B=Burial register C=Census F=Family H=Christening register I=IGI L=Letter M=Marriage register P=Personally known R=Registry office (certificate or index) S=Website T=Tombstone W=Will Y=Boyds marriage index
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