• Born: 27 Jun 1871, Plumstead, Kent, England.
   
• Marriage: 26 Sep 1895, Florence Sarah Elizabeth Chick
   
• Died: 19 Feb 1947, Gillingham, Kent, at age 75

   Notes:

In the 1881 census William was 9 and living at the Royal Patriotic School for Girls, Wandsworth, Surrey
with his father, William, age 44, engine fitter, born Shaldon, Devon
mother Martha, age 48, born in Shotwick, Cheshire
siblings Emma, 19 and Mary Ellen, 1, both born in Plumstead, Kent.
(National Archives Reference RG 11, piece 660, folio 97, page 10)

In the 1891 census William was 19, an engine fitter and was a border at 3 Brewery Road, Plumstead.
(National Archives Reference RG 12, piece 538, page 8)

On 26 Sep 1895 William married Florence Sarah Elizabeth Chick, daughter of William Chick and Sarah Susannah Fenn, in Plumstead, Kent. (Florence Sarah Elizabeth Chick was born in 1870 in Plumstead, Kent and was christened on 4 Sep 1870 in Plumstead, Kent.)

In the 1901 census William was 29, a steam engine maker fitter and living at 8 Ripon Road, Plumstead
with his wife Florence, age 30, children Walter, age 4 and May, 7 months. Everyone in the family had been born in Plumstead.
(National Archives Reference RG 13, piece 571, page 6)

In the 1911 census the family had moved to 6 College Avenue, Gillingham, Kent and William was a gun fitter.

William died 19 February 1947, at age 75, still living at 6 College Avenue, Gillingham, Kent.