Birth: 18 December 1901 Wandsworth, London, UK
Father: Algernon Hobby 1861-1935
Mother: Sarah Ann Edwards 1866-1940
Marriage: 31 March 1929 St Mary, Battersea, London, UK
Wife: Eva Alice Leigh 1903-2000
Death: January-March 1966 Lambeth, Greater London, UK
Frederick Sidney Hobby 1931-1989
Ronald Hobby 1936
Margaret Hobby 1938
Birth of Sidney Herbert Hobby in FreeBMD in January-March 1902 in Wandsworth (1d 588).
His two sisters were born in Battersea in 1905 and 1908.
Entry in Ancestry UK, British Army World War I Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 for Sidney H Hobby D/32793, 391737 1st Dragoon Guards (King's) SS Med &Clasp Iraq.
In the 1921 census as Sidney Hobby born in Middlesex in 1901 and in the Army.
Entry in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Sidney Herbert Hobby address 26 Gwynne Road, Church, Battersea, Wandsworth in 1929, other occupants Algernon and Sarah Ann Hobby (parents?), Lily Agnes Hobby (sister?) and another family.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the marriage (sic- banns) of Sidney Herbert Hobby and Eva Alice Leigh on 31 March 1929 at St Mary, Battersea, Wandsworth "Page 57 The Year 1929 No. 169 Banns of Marriage bewteen Sidney Herbert Hobby of This Parish Bachelor and Eva Alice Leigh of This Parish Spinster were published as follows:- 1st Time, Sunday March 3rd [...] 2nd Time, Sunday March 10th [...] 3rd Time. Sunday March 17th Married March 31 1929".
Marriage of Sidney H Hobby and Eva A Leigh in FreeBMD in January-March 1929 in Wandsworth (1d 621).
Two entries in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 for the marriage of Sidney Herbert Hobby, a female (sic) aged 27, father Algernon Hobby, and Eva Alice Leigh on 31 March 1929 at St Mary, Battersea, Wandsworth. "Page 195 [...] 1929 Marriage solemnised at The Parish Church in the Parish of [blank - Battersea in the previous entry] in the County of [blank - London in the previous entry] [No. 390 31st March 1929 Sidney Herbert Hobby [aged] 27 [a] Bachelor [and] Packer [of] 26 Gywnne Road, [father] Algernon Hobby [a] Sugar Refiner (Retired), [and] Eva Alice Leigh [aged] 25 [a] Spinster [of] 52 Gyynne Road [father] George Leigh [a] Wheelwright (deceased). Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after banns [...] in the Presence of us Sidney Leigh [and] Frederick Hancock".
Seven entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Sidney Herbert Hobby addresses 10 Octavia Street, Church, Battersea, Wandsworth in 1930, other occupants Eva Alice Hobby (wife?) and Florence Frost, 13 Trott Street SW11, Church, Battersea, Wandsworth from 1933 to 1938, other occupants Eva Alice Hobby (wife?), Henry Sidney Hobby (brother?) and Maud Ethel Hobby (sister-in-law?).
His two sons and daughter were born in Battersea from 1931 to 1938.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Sidney N (sic - partially erased on the original) Hobby born 18 December 1901, married, a labourer at a carbon manufacturer heavy worker, and living with Eva A Hobby (wife?), Frederick S Hobby (son?) and two others (daughters?) at 13 Trott Street, Battersea, London.
Sixteen entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Sidney H Hobby address 13 Trott Street SW11, Church changing to St Mary's Park in 1964, Battersea, Wandsworth from 1947 to 1965, other occupants Eva A Hobby (wife?), Henry S Hobby (brother?), Maud E Hobby (sister-in-law?), Frederick S Hobby (son?) from 1952 to 1955, Ronald Hobby (son?) from 1957 to 1962, and Margaret Hobby (daughter?) in 1960.
Death of Sidney H Hobby in FreeBMD in January-March 1966 aged 64 in Lambeth (5d 206).
There are seventeen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Sidney Herbert Hobby.
Note that part of Wandsworth became Battersea in 1930.
Sidney Herbert Hobby was the father of Frederick Sidney Hobby, husband of Joan M Dixon, daughter of Albert George Dixon, husband of Edith Olive Mitchell, wife of Omar Leslie Macklem, husband of Edith Maud Mary Luff, my half third cousin.
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