Birth: 8 April 1882 Bradfield, Berkshire, UK
Father: Ephraim (Frank) Rumbold 1859-1953
Mother: Lydia Beagley 1859-1950
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 17 July 1909 St Mark, South Farnborough, Hampshire, UK
Wife: Etheldred (Edith, Ethelreda) Page 1881-1941
Marriage: April-June 1942 NW Surrey, UK
Wife: Bessie Sansom 1891-1973
Death: June 1970 Poole, Dorset, UK
By Etheldred
Frances Rumbold 1920
Birth of Walter Herbert Rumbold in FreeBMD in April-June 1882 in Bradfield (2c 348).
In the 1891 census as Walter Rumbold aged 9, born in St Georges Reading, Berkshire, and living with his parents (Ephraim and Lydia), three brothers (Alfred, Charles and Frank) and sister (Daisy) at District Depot Royal Berks Regt Militiary Barracks, Oxford Road, St Mary, Reading, Berkshire.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Railway Employment Records, 1833-1956 for Walter Herbert Rumbold born on 8 April 1882, entered service in May 1897 at Reading Station, Great Western, as a Messenger for Reading Telegraph paid 6/-.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services, 1853-1928 for Walter Herbert Rumbold born on 8 April 1882 in Reading, Berkshire, a labourer, height 5 ft 4.5 in, black hair, hazel eyes, fair complexion, scar on side of face and two scars on forehead, signed on 8 April 1900 for 12 years, but served on Caledonia from 25 January 1898 and based on numerous stations or ships until 1 July 1908 when he went ashore by purchase. He joined RYR on 2 August 1914, and served in King Alfred until 15 October 1914, Victory from 16 October 1914 to 30 September 1915, Research from 1 October 1915 to 14 February 1919, and Victory from 9 April 1921 to 6 June 1921.
Marriage of Walter Herbert Rumbold and Ethelred Page in FreeBMD in July-September 1909 in Hartley W (2c 413).
Entry in Ancestry Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1937 for Walter Herbert Rumbold aged 27, father Frank Rumbold, and Etheldred Page, father John Page, on 17 July 1909 in South Farnborough, St Mark, Surrey. "1909 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church of South Farnborough in the District of Hartley Wintney in the County of Southampton. No. 74 July 17th 1909 Walter Herbert Rumbold [aged] 27, [a] Bachelor [and] Billiard Marker [of] Clarence Villa, Winchester Street, [father] Frank Rumbold, [a] Labourer, [and] Etheldred Page [aged] 28, [a] Spinster [of] 126 Peabody Row, [father] John Page [a] Gardener. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England after banns [...] in the Presence of us Ernest Sansom [and] Eva Beagley."
In the 1911 census as Walter Rumbold aged 28, born in Reading, Berkshire, a billiard marker, and living with his wife (Etheldred), a boarder (William French aged 28, born in Holybourne, Hampshire, single and a blacksmith) and a visitor (Marion Manktelow aged 22, born in Sevenoaks, Kent, single, and a cook) in five rooms at 7 York Road, South Farnborough, Hampshire.
His daughter was born in Hartley Wintney in 1920.
There are eight entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Walter Herbert Rumbold address Royston, Coleford Bridge Road, Frimley, Farnham from 1932 to 1939, other occupants Ethelred Rumbold (wife?) and one or two other families in some entries.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Walter H Rumbold born 8 April 1882, married, a gatekeeper, and living with Etheldred Rumbold (wife?) and one other (daughter?) at 39 Coleford Bridge Road, Frimley and Camberley, Surrey.
His wife died in NW Surrey in June 1941 named Etheldreda Rumbold in the Register of Deaths but as Edith Rumbold in the Index of Wills where she died on 5 April 1941 at Royston Coleford, Bridge Road, Mytchett, Frimley, Surrey and left effects of £223 15s to Walter Herbert Rumbold storeman.
Marriage of Walter H Rumbold and and Bessie Sansom in FreeBMD in April-June 1942 in Surrey NW (2a 1145).
There are two entries in Ancestry Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Walter H Rumbold address 39 Coleford Bridge Road, Frimley, Farnham from 1945 to 1946, other occupant Bessie Rumbold (wife?).
Death of Walta (sic - on the typed original) Herbert Rumbold, born on 8 April 1882, in FreeBMD in June 1970 in Poole (7c 325).
There are five entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Walter Herbert Rumbold.
Walter (Walta) Herbert Rumbold was the husband of Etheldred Page, grand neice of Harriet Dudman, wife of Charles Croucher, my second great grandfather, and second great grandmother of Frederick George Deadman, husband of Ruth Croucher, my aunt, and of Sylvia Irene Deadman, wife of Leonard Croucher, my uncle.
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