Birth: 28 October 1877 Battersea, Surrey, UK
Father: Henry Thomas Rapley 1841-1925
Mother: Maria Ann Dean 1840-1925
Christening: 3 March 1878 Christ Church, Battersea, Wandsworth, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 1:15pm 16 April 1922 St Mark, Battersea Rise, Wandsworth, London, UK
Wife: Mabel Lavinia Pope 1892-1986
Death: January 1950 7 Braeside Crescent, Bexleyheath, Kent, UK
Burial: 2 February 1950 St Paulinus, Crayford, Kent, UK
None known
Birth of Arthur Charles Rapley in FreeBMD in October-December 1877 in Wandsworth (1D 688).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1923 for the baptism of Arthur Charles Rapley on 3 March 1878 at Christ Church, Battersea, Wandsworth, parents Henry Thomas and Maria Ann Rapley. "Page 49 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Christchurch Battersea in the County of Surrey in the Year One thousand eight hundred and 78 [...] 1878 March 3 No. 392 Arthur Charles [parents] Henry Thomas [a] Hatter & Maria Ann Rapley [of] 99 Ingram St Falem Lane [names illegible]".
His brother was born on 28 January 1881 in Battersea, and registered in January-March 1881 in Wandsworth.
In the 1881 census as Arthur C Rapley aged 3, born in Battersea, Surrey, and living with his parents (Henry T and Maria A), four brothers (Alfred E, Frederic J, Walter H and William T) and sister (Emily L) at 90 Heaver Road, Battersea, London. Another family lived at the same address.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911 for Arthur Rapley born 28 October 1877, father Henry a hatter of 50 Mantua Street admitted 8 December 1884 to Mantua Street School.
In the 1891 census as Arthur C Rapley aged 13, born in Battersea, Surrey, and living with his parents (Henry T and Maria D), and four brothers (Alfred E, Frederick J. Walter Hy and William T) at 67 Duffield Street, West Battersea, Battersea, London.
I cannot locate him in the 1901 census but he was not living with his parents.
In the 1911 census as Arthur Charles Rapley aged 32, born in Battersea, London, single, a laundry man and a servant living with some 140 other servants at Gore Farm Hospital, Darenth near Dartford, Kent.
Entry in Ancestry UK, British Army World War I Pension Records 1914-1920 for Arthur Charles Rapley aged 37 years 180 days, a laundry carman, address Southern Hasptle (Hospital?), Dartford, height 5 ft 3.5 in, chest 36.5 in, tattoo spots on forearm, third joint index finger of hand amputated, next of kin Henry Thomas of 13 Harper Road Road, Clapham, attested 17 April 1915 at Woolwich, No. T/4:090387 Horse Transport Army Service Corps, joined at Aldershot, embarked Winifredian in Southampton 10 November 1915, disembarked Salonica 5 December 1915, admitted to St George Hospital Malta with malaria on 29 July 1916, and twice more in Valletta (details illegible), returned to England 7 May 1917, had four periods in hospital, 15 May 1917 to 19 June 1917 at 1st Southern General Hospital, Edgbaston with emphysema and malaria, convalescing at Woodcote Park to 21 June 1917, Dysentery Convalescent Hospital 14 July 1917 to 3 August 1917 with dysentery, and 9 September 1917 to 24 November 1917 at Queens Road, Southport with malaria, discharged 14 December 1918, awarded British War and Victory medals.
Entry in Ancestry UK, British Army World War I Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 for Arthur C Rapley T4/090387 Army Service Corps awarded Victory and British medals with 1915 star having served in Balkans 5 December 1915.
In the 1921 census as Arthur Charles Rapley born in Clapham, London and living in Darenth, Dartford, Kent.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 for the marriage (sic) of Arthur Charles Rapley and Mabel Lavinia Pope on 9 April 1922 at St Mark, Battersea Rise, Wandsworth. "Page 79 [...] No. 237 Banns of Marriage between Arthur Charles Rapley B of this Parish and Mabel Lavinia Pope S of St James, Kidbrook, Woolwich were published as follows :- 1st Time, Sunday Mar 26 [...] 2nd Time, Sunday April 2 [...] 3rd Time, Sunday April 9 [...] Wedding Easter Day 1.15 p.m.".
Marriage of Arthur C Rapley and Mabel L Pope in FreeBMD in April-June 1922 in Wandsworth (1D 931).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 for the marriage of Arthur Charles Rapley aged 42, father Henry Thomas Rapley, and Mabel Lavinia Pope on 16 April 1922 at St Mark, Battersea Rise, Wandsworth. "Page 42 1922. Marriage solemnized at St Mark's Church in the Parish of St Mark, Battersea in the County of London. [No.] 83 April 16 1922 Arthur Charles Rapley [aged] 42 [a] Bachelor [and] Stoker [of] 13 Hater Rd. [father] Henry Thomas Rapley [a] Hatter, [and] Mabel Lavinia Pope [aged] 30 [a] Spinster [and] Laundry Superintendent [of] Brook Hospital Woolwich [father] William Henry Pope [a] Signalman. Married in the Church of St Mark according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of us Frederick James Rapley [and] William Henry Pope.
Two entries in Ancestry Bexley, Kent, England, Electoral Registers, 1734-1965 for Arthur Charles Rapley address 138 Crayford Way, Dartford in 1937 and 1939, other occupant Mabel Lavinia Rapley (wife?).
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Arthur Charles Rapley born 28 October 1877, married, a retired stoker, and living with Mabel L Rapley (wife?), and Leopold and Florence A Hammond (wife's brother-in-law and sister?) at 242 Stafford Road, Beddington and Wallington, Surrey.
Five entries in Ancestry Sutton, Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1931-1970 for Arthur C Rapley address 244 Stafford Road, Beddington, Mitcham from 1945 to 1949, other occupant Mabel L Rapley (wife?) both listed as persons no longer qualified as electors in 1949.
Death of Arthur C Rapley in FreeBMD in January-March 1950 aged 72 in Dartford (5B 532).
Entry in Ancestry Bexley, Kent, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1985 for Arthur Charles Rapley buried 2 February 1950 aged 72 at St Paulinus, Crayford. "Page 127 Burials in the Parish of Crayford in the County of Kent in the year One thousand nine hundred and Fifty. Arthur Charles Rapley No. 1009 [of] 7 Braeside Crescent [on] 1950 February 2 [aged] 72 Years".
There are twenty four entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Arthur Charles Rapley.
Arthur Charles Rapley was the husband of Mabel Lavinia Pope, my fourth cousin once removed.
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