Birth: January-March 1883 Alton, Hampshire, UK
Father: Frederick (Frederic) James Cole 1855-1890
Mother: Mary Jane Store [Shrubb] 1852-1931
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Unknown
Death: After 1901
Unknown
Birth of Edgar Cole in FreeBMD in January-March 1883 in Alton (2c 170).
His father died in 1890.
In the 1891 census as Edgar Cole aged 8, born in Chere, Surrey and living with George and Samuel Cole who were also born in Chere (and I assume his brothers) and 28 other boys at a branch of the Southwark Boys Orphanage, St Lawrence, Ramsgate, Kent run by George and Mary Greenway. His mother was living with her widowed father and her son John in London.
In the 1901 census as Edgar Cole aged 18, born in Churt, Frensham, Hampshire, single and an ordinary seaman on HMS Prince George, a first class battleship in the Channel Squadron, in Gibralter Bay. HMS Prince George was a Majestic Class battleship of the Royal Navy laid down in September 1894, launched 22 August 1895 and completed November 1896 in Portsmouth Dockyard at a cost of £965,604. She served with the Channel Squadron until 1906 after which she transferred to the Home Fleet as Flagship until 1909. She collided with HMS Shannon in December 1909 and was later refitted and in June 1912 became part of the 7th Battle Squadron. She became flagship to the 7th Battle Squadron stationed in the Channel in 1914 and later served at the Dardanelles taking damage from Turkish gunfire. Prince George had a lucky escape when a torpedo which failed to explode struck her off Cape Helles. She was briefly renamed Victorious II in 1918 until February 1919 and foundered in 1921. Her armament was four 12 inch guns, twelve 6 inch guns, sixteen 12 pdr guns, twelve 3 pdr guns, 2 maxims, two 2pdr boat guns and five torpedo tubes. Other details: displacement 14,900 tons, speed 16.5 knots and complement: 757.
Edgar Cole was the son of Mary Jane Store, wife of Abraham Shrubb, my second cousin twice removed.
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