Birth: 9 November 1902 Margate, Kent, UK
Father: William John Akhurst 1878-1954
Mother: Florence Jessie Sinclair 1879-1956
Christening: 14 December 1902 St. John the Baptist, Margate, Kent, UK
Marriage: April-June 1924 Thanet, Kent, UK
Wife: Dorothy Lilian Thorne 1904-1934
Death: October-December 1939 Thanet, Kent, UK
Doreen P Akhurst (Hackhurst) [Harris] 1925-a1957
George W Akhurst 1926
Dorothy Lillian Akhurst [Bettles] 1928-2011
Arthur Cyril James Akhurst 1932-2004
Birth of William John Akhurst in FreeBMD in October-December 1902 in Thanet (2a 999).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for William John Akhurst christened on 14 December 1902 at St. John the Baptist, Margate, Kent, parents William John and Florence Jessie Akhurst.
In the 1911 census as William John Akhurst aged 8, born in Margate, Kent, and living with his parents (William John and Florence Jessie), two brothers (Arthur Albert and Thomas James Sindair) and three sisters (Edith May, Florence Elsie and Violet Ethel) in four rooms at 11 Fairlight Glen, College Road, Margate, Kent.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services, 1848-1939 for William John Akhurst J99205 born 9 November 1902 in Margate, Hant (sic), a stoker, height 5 ft 5.5 in, chest 32 in, brown hair and eyes, dark complexion, first service 2 September 1920 Vivid III Boy I, discharged as unsuitable 27 October 1920.
Marriage of William J Akhurst and Dorothy L Thorne in FreeBMD in April-June 1924 in Thanet (2a 2391).
His four children were born in Thanet in 1925 to 1932.
His wife died in Thanet 1n 1934.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as William J Akhurst born 9 November 1902, widowed, incapacitated (TB) and living with William J and Florence J Akhurst (parents?) at 25 College Road, Margate, Kent.
Death of William J Akhurst in FreeBMD in October-December 1939 aged 37 in Thanet (2a 2882).
There are fourteen entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William John Akhurst.
William John Akhurst was the grandnephew of Sarah Jane Gill, wife of my great grandfather George William Payne.
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