Birth: July-September 1885 Bexley, Kent, UK
Father: Richard Fisher 1861-1924
Mother: Mary Ellen Thompson 1861-1954
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1911 St. George Hanover Square, London, UK
Wife: Kate Paton c1876-a1918
Death: 8 April 1918 Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Burial: P. IX. C. 13B St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
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Birth of William Hales Fisher in FreeBMD in July-September 1885 in Dartford (2a 447) which included Bexley.
His sister was born in Northfleet in 1889.
In the 1891 census as William H Fisher aged 5, born in Bexley, Kent, and living with his parents (Richard and Mary E), sister (Margery H) and a servant (Ada Knight aged 21, born in Northfleet, Kent and single) at 10 The Hill, Northfleet, Kent.
In the 1901 census as William H Fisher aged 15, born in Bexley, Kent, and living with his parents (Richard and Mary E), sister (Margery H) and a servant (Harriet L Johnson aged 23, born in Hartley, Kent and single) at 10 The Hill, Northfleet, Kent.
Marriage of William H Fisher and Kate Paton in FreeBMD in January-March 1911 in St Geo H Sq (1a 703).
In the 1911 census as William Hales Fisher aged 25, born in Bexley, Kent, a commercial clerk at a cement manufacturer, and living with his wife (Kate) in six rooms at 46 Darnley Rd, Gravesend, Kent.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 for William Hales Fisher of Bexley, Kent L/Sergeant No. 242495 in Gloucestershire Regiment 2/5th Battalion (Territorial) who died of wounds on 8 April 1918 in France and Flanders.
Entry in the Commonwealth War Graves Commision for William H Fisher, aged 32, Son of Richard and Mary Fisher, of Northfleet, Kent; husband of Kate Fisher, of 47, Highland Rd., Southsea, Hants, Serjeant 242195 in the Gloucestershire Regiment 2nd/5th Bn. who died on 8 April 1918 and was buried at P. IX. C. 13B St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
His wife was born in Deal, Kent in about 1876 from the 1911 census.
Nina Willow has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Hales Fisher born in September 1885 in Sidcup, Kent, mother Amy Elizabeth Woods. Libby Holmberg adds his father as James Fisher, and his death on 8 April 1918 in France & Flanders. Both of these peobably refer to William Howard Fisher born in Sidcup in 1883.
William Hale Fisher was the first cousin of Stoddart Thompson, husband of Lily Alice Botell, mother of Eric Botell, my brother-in-law.
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