Birth: 25 March 1895 41 Templar Road, Hackney, London, UK
Father: James Westaway 1865-1924
Mother: Emily (Jane) Davies (Davis) 1866-1919
Christening: 19 July 1895 St John, Hackney, London, UK
Marriage: 28 September 1915 St Mark, Peckham, London, UK
Wife: Edith Maud Mary Luff [Maclean, Macklem] 1897-1988
Death: 31 August 1941 Woolwich, London, UK
Buried: 5 September 1941 Greenwich, London, UK
Edith Jane Westaway 1916-1916
Joan Vivian Westaway [Booker] 1917-1947
James Harry Westaway (Macklem) 1919-2002
Birth of Alfred William Westaway in FreeBMD in April-June 1895 in Hackney (1B 513).
Entry in Ancestry All England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Alfred William Westaway baptised 19 July 1895 in Hackney, Middlesex, parents James and Emily Westaway.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 for Alfred William Westaway on 19 July 1895 at Hackney St John, parents James and Emily Westaway. "Page 96 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Hackney in the County of London in the Year One Thousand eight hundred and ninety five [...] 1895 July 19th No 763 Alfred William born March 25 1895 [parents] James[a] labourer & Emily Westaway [of] 41 Templar Road."
In the 1901 census as Alfred W Westaway aged 6, born in Hackney, London, and living with his parents (James and Emily), two brothers (Charles and John), and two sisters (Edith and Emily J) at 38 Templar Way Hackney, London.
In the 1911 census as Alfred William Westaway aged 16, born in Hackney, a state boy out of work at a skating rink, and living with his parents (James and Emily Jane), two brothers (Charles and John) and sister (Rose) in six rooms at Mill House, 29 Wells Rd, Sydenham SE.
Marriage of Alfred W Westaway and Edith M M Luff in FreeBMD in July-September 1915 in Camberwell (1D 2525).
There are two entries in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Alfred William Westaway and Edith Mary Maud Luff, Banns, 26 September 1915 at Peckham St Mark Southwark "No 219 Banns of the Marriage between Alfred William Westaway, Bachelor, and Edith Mary Maud Luff Spinster, both of this parish were published as follows: 1st, on Sunday Sept 12th 1915, 2d 19th, 3d 26th" Married Sept 28th 1915", and for Alfred William Westaway aged 20, father James Westaway, and Edith Maud Mary Luff, father Henry George Luff, on 28 September 1915 at Peckham St Mark, Southwark. "Page 29 1915 Marriage solemnized at St Mark's Church in the Parish of Peckham in the County of Surrey [No.] 57 Sept 28th 1915 Alfred William Westaway [aged] 20 [a] Batchelor [and] Chef [of] Kirkwood Road [father] James Westaway [a] farmer, [and] Edith Maud Mary Luff [aged] 18 [a] Spinster [of] Kirkwood Road [father] Henry George Luff [a] decorator. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns in the Presence of Us Henry George Luff [and] Thomas George Wood."
Entry in Ancestry British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920 for Alfred William Westaway address 117 Ash Road, Aldershot aged 20 years 8 months, next of kin Mrs Edith Maud Mary Westaway address 14 Pearcefield Avenue, Forest Hill, London married on 28 September 1915, at St Marks Church, Peckham. He was an assistant Manager in a coffee bar, aged 20 years 8 months, height 5 ft 4.25 inches, chest 34+2 inches, weight 114 lbs. Attested on 9 December 1915, joined Army Reserve on 10 December 1915, mobilized on 8 April 1916 No 3801 in 7th Bn Hampshire Regiment for duration of the war, was in Hursley Camp Hospital from 24 April 1916 to 8 May 1916 with German Measles, and was discharged 7 July 1916 due to problems with his heart.
There is an entry in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Alfred William Westaway address 8 Pearcefield Avenue, Forest Hill, Lewisham in 1918 (his wife's family were living at No 14), for Alfred W Westaway address 14 Pearcefield Avenue in 1922, other occupant Henry George Luff (father-in-law?) and 97 Dartmouth Road, Sydenham, Lewisham in 1920.
In the 1921 census as Alfred William Westaway born in Hackney, London in 1895 and living with Edith Maud Mary Westaway (wife?), James Harry Westaway (son?) and Joan Vivian Westaway (daughter?) in Lewisham, London, Kent.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Confirmation Records, 1838-1923 for Alfred William Westaway on 6 March 1921 in Christ Church, Lewisham. "Roll of Persons Confirmed from the Parish of St Paul, Forest Hill [...] Confirmation held by the Bishop of Woolwich at St Paul on the 6th day of March 1921 [...] No. 35 Alfred William Westaway [of] 14 Pearcefield av. [First Communion] Easter 1921 Married". Edith Maud Westaway (wife?) and Kathleen Ida Luff (sister-in-law?) of 5 Pearcefield Av were confirmed at the same time.
There are twenty six entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Alfred William Westaway addresses 26 Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, Lewisham from 1924 to 1926, other occupants Henry Luff (father-in-law?) and another family in 1924, and Ada Westaway (relationship unknown) in 1926, and 6 Willenham Road, Woolwich, SE18 from 1933 to 1939, other occupants another family in 1933, Edith Maud Westaway (wife?) from 1934 to 1936, Frederick Arthur and Kathleen Ida Sigward (brother-in-law and sister-in-law?) from 1933 from 1936, and 169 Plaxton Road, Woolwich SE18 from 1938 to 1939, other occupants Edith Maud Mary Westaway (wife?), and Joan Vivian Westaway (daughter?) in 1939.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Alfred W Westaway born 25 March 1895, married, a a trench inspector at Woolwich, and living with Edith M M Westaway (wife?), James H Westaway (son?) and Joan V Westaway (daughter?) at 169 Flaxton Street, Woolwich, London.
Death of Alfred W Westaway in FreeBMD in July-September 1941 aged 46 in Woolwich (1D 949).
Entry in Deceased Online for Alfred William Westaway died on 31 August 1941 and buried in Greenwich on 5 September 1941.
There are twenty nine entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Alfred William Westaway.
Alfred William Westaway was the husband of Edith Maud Mary Luff, my half third cousin.
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