Birth: 1 August 1901 Camberwell, London, UK
Father: Frederick Chessell 1872-1920
Mother: Emma Louisa Wright [Mulcahy] 1876-1964
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1924 Farnham, Surrey, UK
Wife: Celia Florence Edith Plumbly (Plumbley) 1898-1974
Death: 28 May 1943 Northolt, Middlesex, UK
Judith Louise Margret Chessell [Colville] 1924-1995
John Richard Chessell 1928-1980
Edward Anthony George Chessell 1931-1948
Gillian Katherine Mary Chessell [Beard, Morris] 1934-2010
George F M Chessell 1937-a1977
Birth of George Harold Chessell in FreeBMD in July-September 1901 in Camberwell (1d 959).
In the 1911 census as George Chessell aged 10, born in London, and living with his grandparents (James and Mary Wright), uncle (George Wright), his wife (Edith), two cousins (Sydney and Ethel Wright), two brothers (Frederick and Sydney) and a visitor (Kate Searles aged 25, born in Takeley, Essex, single and a kitchenmaid) in seven rooms at 27 Bournemouth Road, Peckham SE, London.
Marriage of George H Chessell and Celia F Plumbly in FreeBMD in January-March 1924 in Farnham (2a 270).
His first three children were born in Farnham and last two in Aldershot, but Farnham included Aldershot until 1932.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as George H Chessell born 7 August 1901, married, a waiter in the Officer's Mess, and living with Celia F Chessell (wife?), Edward A G Chessell, George H Chessell and John R Chessell (sons?), Judith L M Chessell (daughter?), Edwin E A Plumbly (father-in-law) and two others at 163 Lower Farnham Road, Aldershot, Hampshire.
Death of George H Chessell in FreeBMD in April-June 1943 aged 41 in Uxbridge (3a 114).
There are fourteen entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for George Harold Chessell adding his death on 28 May 1942 at Northwold. Both the year of death and place of death are incorrect in these entries.
George Harold Chessell was the husband of Celia Florence Edith Plumbly, first cousin three times removed of George Marden, husband of Elizabeth Hall, my second great grandaunt.
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