Harry Robinson (1890-1944/58)

Dates

Birth: April-June 1890 30 Greenside Road, Wortley, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Edwin Robinson 1860-1927
Mother: Annie Foster 1860-1936

Christening: Unknown

Marriage: 18 Dec 1915 Farnley, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK
Wife: Alice Maude (Maud) Ellis 1891-1977

Death: January-March 1944 or July-September 1958 Leeds, West Riding, Yorkshire, UK

Children

None known

Notes

Birth of Harry Robinson in FreeBMD in April-June 1890 in Bramley (9B 389).

In the 1891 census as Harry Robinson aged 10 months, born in Leeds, and living with his parents (Edwin and Ann), two brothers (Joseh and Tom), two sisters (Annie and Ethel), and grandmother (Martha Foster) at 30 Greenside Road, Wortley, Leeds, Yorkshire.

In the 1901 census as Harry Robinson aged 10, born in Leeds, and living with his parents (Edwin and Anne), two brothers (Joseph F and Tom), and three sisters (Annie, Emily and Ethel) at 2 Elmfield Grove, Armley, Yorkshire.

In the 1911 census as Harry Robmson (sic - in the index, Robinson on the original), aged 20, born in Worsley, Leeds, Yorkshire, a mechanic at Leeds tramway Depot, and living with his parents (Edwin and Ann), and two brothers (Joseph Foster and Tom) in five rooms at 31 Lowtown, Pudsey, West Riding, Yorkshire.

Marriage of Harry Robinson and Alice M Ellis in FreeBMD in October-December 1915 in Bramley (9B 670).

Entry in Ancestry West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935 for Harry Robinson aged 25, father Edwin Robinson, and Alice Maud Ellis, father John William Ellis, on 18 December 1915 at Farnley, St Michael, Yorkshire. "Page 82 1915 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the parish of Farnley in the County of Leeds [No.] 163 Dec 18th 1915 Harry Robinson [aged] 25 [a] Bachelor [and] Mechanic [of] Pudsey [father] Edwin Robinson [a] Cloth Drawer, [and] Alice Maud Ellis [aged] 24 [a] Spinster [and] Tailoress [of] Wortley, Leeds [father] John William Ellis (deceased) [a] Mechanic. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church [...] in the Presence of us Annie Ellis and Herbert Lowley".

Entry in Ancestry British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920 for Harry Robinson aged 25 years 7 months, address Aotes? Hall Pudsey changed to 75 Salisbury Road, Armley, a motor mechanic on a tramway, enlisted as 316317 ASC at Grove Park on 6 December 1915, transfered to Army Reserve, mobilised 24 April 1917 age 26 years 11 months, height 5 ft 5 in, girth 35 + 2 inches, next of kin his wife Alice Maud Robinson of 20 Bangor Terrace, Leeds, married in Farnley Leeds on 18 December 1915, maiden name Ells and a spinster, joined 25 April 1917at Mechanical Transport Depot, Army Service Corps, Grove Park, Lee, London, appointed a/cpl 10 May 1919, a/Sgt 24 March 1919, T/Sgt 1 November 1919, In Salonica 18 October 1918 to 7 Dececember 1919 demobilised 28 January 1920 in Woolwich, received a pension for Malaria 9/4d + 2/- for wife from 29 January 1920, no children.

Entry in Ancestry UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 for Harry Robinson M/316317 Transport Sergeant, Army Service Corps, previously R.A.S.C. M/316317 Private. British War Medal and Victory Medal

In the 1921 census as Harry Robinson born in Leeds, Yorkshire in 1891 and living with Alice Maud Robinson (wife?), and Herbert and Annie Lowley in Armley & Bramley, Yorkshire.

Ethel Thomas (sister) died on 27 December 1932 at the General Infirmary, Leeds and left effects of £482 1s. 10d. to Harry Robinson garage foreman and Joseph Foster Robinson butcher.

In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Harry Roinson born 12 May 1890, married, a supervisor in a bus garage, and living with Alice M Robinson (wife?) at 22 Ryedale Avenue, Leeds, Yorkshire (West Riding).

Death of Harry Robinson in FreeBMD in January-March 1944 aged 53 in Leeds (9B 511) or July-September 1958 aged 69 in Leeds (2C 326).

There are seventeen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Harry Robinson.

Relationship

Harry Robinson was Felicity's half first cousin twice removed.

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