Birth: 14 March 1876 Peckham, Surrey, UK
Father: Charles Grocock 1842-1890
Mother: Mary Jane Backhouse 1835-1906
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1905 Camberwell, London, UK
Wife: Annie Elizabeth Luff 1877-1931
Death: 18 May 1915 The Croydon Mental Hospital, Chelsham, Godstone, Surrey, UK
Gladys Grocock [Musto] 1905-1994
Doris Grocock [Jordan] 1908-1994
Birth of Harold Backhouse Grocock in FreeBMD in April-June 1876 in Camberwell (1d 823).
In the 1881 census as Harold Backhouse Gracock (sic - in the index, Grocock on the original), no age in the index and the original page is illegible, born in Peckham, Surrey, and living with his parents (Charles and Mary Jane), two brothers (Arthur Backhouse and Edgar Charles), and two lodgers (Shatders aged 62, born in Holt Town ?, Norfolk and a tea traveller, and Henry ... Bradley aged 38, born in Ipswich, Suffolk, and a brokers clerk) at 41 Hanover St, Camberwell, London.
His father died in 1890.
In the 1891 census as Harold B Grocock aged 15, born in Peckham, London, a commercial clerk, and living with his widowed mother (Mary J), three brothers (Arthur B, Edgar C and Horace B), and two lodgers (Louisa Phillips aged 68, born in West Indies and widowed and her neice neice Frances A Rosenthal aged 26, born in Exeter, Devon, single and both living on their own means) at 47 Lyndhurst Road, Camberwell, London.
In the 1901 census as Harold Grocock aged 26, born in Peckham, London, single, a stationer, and living with his widowed mother (Mary J), brother (Arthur), and a boarder (Henry G Moore aged 27, born in Highgate, London) at 47 Lyndhurst Road, Camberwell, London.
Three entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Harold Grocock 1 bed and sitting rooms 1st and 3rd floors, furnished at 47 Lyndhurst Road, Lyndhurst, Dulwich, owned by Mrs Grocock of the same address in 1901, and by Mary Jane Grocock of the same address in 1905 and 1906.
Marriage of Harold Backhouse Grocock and Annie Elizabeth Luff in FreeBMD in April-June 1905 in Camberwell (1d 1483).
His widowed mother died on 10 September 1906 at 47 Lyndhurst Road, Peckham and left effects of £99 15s. 1d. to Harold Backhouse Grocock, a commercial clerk.
Two entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Harold Groocock (sic - on the typed original) address 47 Lyndhurst Road, Peckham in 1906 and 1909.
In the 1911 census as Horold (sic - in the index, Harold on the original) Grocock aged 35, born in Peckham, London, a printer's clerk, and living with his wife (Annie) in five rooms at 47 Lyndhurst Road, Peckham, London S E. I cannot find any entry for the children who later were living with his brother Horace.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1912 for Harold Grocock on 14 March 1912 in Croydon, Cambridgeshire (sic - in the index) died 18 May 1915 in Cambridgeshire (sic - in the index). "57968 Grocock Harold 14 March 1912 Croydon 18 May 1915 died".
Death of Harold Grocock in FreeBMD in April-June 1915 aged 39 in Godstone (2a 356).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 for Harold Backhouse Grocock died 18 May 1915 in Surrey probate 22 June 1915 in London. "Grocock Harold Backhouse of The Croydon Mental Hospital Chelsham Godstone Surrey died 18 May 1915 Administration London 22 June to Nancy Grocock widow. Effects £431 17s. 10d."
There are eighteen entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Harold Backhouse Grocock.
Peckham was in Surrey until 1889 when it became part of London.
Harold Backhouse Grocock was the husband of Annie Elizabeth Luff, my half second cousin once removed.
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