Notes:
On the 3 April 1881 census
William E was 6 and living at
11 Commercial Road, West Teignmouth, Devon
with his mother, Sarah, age 32
and brothers John H., age 8, Frederick G., age 4,
Herbert W., age 2 and Laurence 10 months.
His father John who was a mariner would have been 31 and
was not at this address on the day of the census.
At the same address were Thomas and Elizabeth Holland,
husband and wife, comedian and comedienne.
(National Archives Reference RG11, piece 2156, folio 79, page 31)
10 years later on the 1891 census
William was 16, an errand boy, was at the same address with
his father John, 42, a sailor and mother Sarah, 43,
along with siblings Frederick, 14, Herbert, 12, Laurence, 10, Amy, 8 and Reginald, 4.
(National Archives Reference RG12, piece 1693, folio 50, page 5)
5 March 1899 married Alice Hunt. Witnesses were his sister-in-law and brother
Emma Whiteway and and
J H Whiteway
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