Birth: 16 January 1898 St George Hanover Square, London, UK
Father: Albert Ernest Matthews 1867-1925
Mother: Kate Adela Gray 1869-1922
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1925 St George Hanover Square, London, UK
Wife: Harriet (Harriett, Hettie) Halls 1889-1963
Death: February 1989 Canterbury, Kent, UK
Albert E Matthews 1919-1962
Harvey Matthews 1922-2004
Willliam Henry Matthews 1922-1973
Sylvia Mclaughlin Matthews [Duca] 1927-2006
Birth of Percy Robert Matthews in FreeBMD in January-March 1898 in St. Geo. H. Sq (1a 457).
In the 1901 census as Percy Matthews aged 2, born in Kennington, London, and living with his parents (Albert E and Kitty), four brothers (Albert, Archibald, Fred and William), and sister (Lily) at 10 Cleaver Building, Kennington St James, Lambeth, London. The ages of Fred and Percy seem to be the wrong way round as Fred was born in December 1898.
In the 1911 census as Percy Robert Matthews aged 11, born in Kennington, and living with his parents (Albert Edward and Bitty), three brothers (Albert John, Archibald Claude and William Ernest), and two sisters (Gertrude and Lily Elizabeth) in four rooms at 64 Regency Place, Kennington, Lambeth, London S E.
Marriage of Percy R Matthews and Clara E Hale (sic - on the typed original) in FreeBMD in January-March 1925 in St.Geo.H.Sq. (1a 626).
His son was born in Fulham in 1931.
There are five entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Percy Robert Matthews address 52 Chaldon Road SW6 Fulham in 1929 to 1933, other occupants Clara Emma Matthews (wife?) and Miss Lily May Rose, and 108 Westbury Avenue, Uxbridge, Hillingdon in 1933 to 1935, other occupant Clara Emma Matthews (wife?).
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Percy Robert Matthews, born on 16 January 1898, in February 1989 in Canterbury (16 218).
Percy Robert Matthews was my half second cousin once removed.
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