Birth: July 1895 North Cockerington, Lincolnshire, UK
Father: (John) George Houlden 1870-1960
Mother: Frances Ann (Annie) Chapman 1870-1952
Marriage: 7 February 1927 Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Wife: Mary Heard (Herd) 1909-1985
Death: March 1980 Farnborough, Kent, UK
Edward Joseph Houlden 1931-2003
John Henry Holden 1934-2013
David P Houlden 1940
Madge K Houlden 1942
Michael R Houlden 1943
Birth of Joseph Henry Houlden in FreeBMD in July-September 1895 in Louth (7a 608).
In the 1901 census as Joseph H Houldon aged 5, born in Nth Crockeington, Lincolnshire, and living with his parents (John G and Frances A), three brothers (Benjamin, Charles, George W and John Tom C) and sister (Joy May) in four rooms in Ludborough, Lincolnshire.
In the 1911 census as Joseph Houlden aged 15, born in Howdales Sth Lockington, Lincolnshire, working among sheep, and living with his parents (John George and Frances Ann), three brothers (Bertie, Charles and Tom), and three sisters (Frances, Gerte and Ivy May) in five rooms in Waithe Grimsby, Lincolnshire.
Entry in Ancestry British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 for Joseph H Houlden, Cpl Lincolnshire Regiment 1219, 63796 Victory and British Medals.
Entry in Ancestry UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 for Joseph Henry Houlden Corporal 63796 Lincolnshire Regiment, previously 1219. 10/Linc. R. Cpl., 1219. 7/Linc. R., 1219. 6/Linc. R., 1219. 1/4. Linc. R., 1219. 2/Linc. R.
Entry in Ancestry Army Returns Marriages 1926-1930.for Joseph H Houlden and Heard in Lucknow 1927 page 128.
Entry in Ancestry India, Select Marriages, 1792-1948 for Joseph Henry Houlden aged 39, father John Houlden, single, and Mary Heard on 7 February 1927 in Lucknow, Bengal, India.
His first son was born in 1931 in India?, the last four children in Bromley in 1934 to 1943, John's mother's maiden name spelt Herd, the others Heard.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Joseph H Houlden address 87 Churchfields Road, Clock House, Beckenham in 1964, other occupants Mary Houlden (wife?) and David P Houlden (son?). Two other families were living at the same address.
There are eleven entries in Ancestry British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for J H Houlden address 123 Birkbeck Road, Beckenham number 01-659-3703 in 1971 to 1983.
Death of Joseph Henry Houlden, born - July 1985, in FreeBMD in March 1980 in Bromley (11 1362).
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Joseph Henry Houlden born in July 1895 in North Cockerington, Lincolnshire, parents John George Houlden and Frances Annie Chapman, his marriage to Mary Herd in 1928 in India, one gives the date as 7 February 1927 in Lucknow with surname Heard, three or five children, and his death in Farnborough, Kent in March 1980. Two more confuse him with the husband of Ida Kathleen Scott born in Sleaford in 1908, but who also died in March 1980.
Joseph Henry Houlden was the father of John Henry Holden, husband of Joyce Edith Fullick, my fourth cousin once removed.
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