George Henry Catchpole

Address in 1908

Victoria Barracks Belfast Occupation soldier

Prisoners of War 1715-1945 Transcription

• First name(s) George Henry
• Last name Catchpole
• Year 1914
• Residence Belfast
• Service number 8139
• Rank Private
• Country of imprisonment -
• Ship or corps - Regiment, 2nd Royal Sussex
• Prison camp or ship Zonnebeke
• Conflict World War 1
• Archive reference WO 161/98
• Record set Prisoners of War 1715-1945
• Category Military, armed forces & conflict
• Collections from Great Britain

Find my Past Transcription

Other information from the entry can be seen in the attached document -

• Home address - 8 Charleville Avenue, Lisburn Road, Belfast.
• Wounded - two bullet wounds in left leg above the knee - bone shattered.
• 6 Nov taken to hospital at Halliun near Menin - there for 1m and 6d until 12th Dec. when taken to Münster in Westphalia.
• Left hospital 2nd Feb 1915 and taken to Münster Lager III
• Remained at the camp from Feb 2nd to 20th May 1916
• Wrote to his wife in Belfast

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WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 for George Henry Catchpole - dated 23 Nov 1920 - Victory Medal and/or British War medal https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/749081#facts

SR District/Reg Area - Belfast

• Party 1 Name GEORGE CATCHPOLE
• Party 2 Name SARAH FRENCH
• Date of Event 30 September 1908
• Group Registration ID 1998471
• SR District/Reg Area Belfast

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1911 Census (attached) Sarah Catchpole aged 23 and her son Frederick aged under 1 month are visitors in the H/H of Samuel Bailie - she married 2 years, 2 children and only one living. Both born County Down.

http://armyservicenumbers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/royal-sussex-regim...

8139 Private J H Catchpole Royal Sussex Regiment 2nd Oct-14 c/o Paymaster, Royal Sussex Regiment, Hounslow Repatriated 1916 B.O.2 1/271 is a two-page, handwritten document. No date or sender.

WWII Civilian Deaths, 1939-1945

POSSIBLE

Catchpole, George Henry, age 52, husband of S Catchpole, of 282 Broad Walk. Injured 7 Sept 1940 at Woolwich Arsenal Shelter; died 8 Sept. 1940, at Royal Herbert Hospital.

Find a Grave - Burial:

• Greenwich Cemetery
• Greenwich
• Royal Borough of Greenwich
• Greater London, England

Probate

Catchpole, George Henry of 282 Broad Walk, Kidbrooke, Kent died 8 Sept 1940 at Royal Herbert Hospital, Greenwich, Kent. Administration Oxford 27 Nov to Sarah Catchpole, widow. Effects £781.

Three possible Children registered

Births Jun 1917

• Catchpole George L French Lewisham 1d 1628 who married Daisy A N Pocock DecQ 1940, Cuckfield Rd Sussex

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Births Sep 1919

• Catchpole Douglas J French Lewisham 1d 1641 who married Joyce Coley MarQ 1942, Maidstone RD Kent

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Births Sep 1922

• Catchpole Cyril H French Lewisham 1d 1801 who married Dora Johnson JunQ 1944 at Woolwich RD Kent

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1891 Census

Household Members:

• John H Catchpole, Head 40 Auxillery Postman born Suffolk, Debenham
• Alice Catchpole, wife M 36 born Ireland
• John P Catchpole, son 15 Stationer's porter born Jersey, Channel Islands
• Alice M Catchpole, daur 14 born Kent Chatham
• Alfred G Catchpole, son 9, Scholar born East Indies
• Frederick A Catchpole, son 7, Scholar born East Indies
• George H Catchpole son 3 born East Indies
• Rose C Catchpole Daur 2/12 born London Rotherhithe

Source Citation Class: RG12; Piece: 382; Folio: 108; Page: 17; GSU roll: 6095492

1901 Census

Peabody Building, Bermondsey, London

• John Henry Catchpole, Head M 50 Miller born Suffolk Debenham
• Alice Catchpole wife M 48 born Ireland
• John Patrick Catchpole, son, S 26 Soldier Royal Reserve Regiment born Jersey
• Frederick Albert Catchpole 17 Leather dresser, dyer born India
• Rose Caroline daur, 10 born London Bermondsey
• George Henry son, 13 Reading Boy - print born India
• Albert Edward Catchpole, 4 born London Bermondsey

1911 Census

108 Milton Street, Southend, Essex - Prittlewell

• John Henry Catchpole Head 60, Dock labourer, Army Pensioner. born Debenham, Suffolk
• Alice Catchpole wife 59 married 37 years, 9 children 7 living, born Waterford, Ireland
• Albert Edward Catchpole son, 14 born Bermondsey, Surrey

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SR District/Reg Area - Waterford

Marriage of JOHN CATCHPOLE in 1874

• Name JOHN CATCHPOLE
• Date of Event 1874
• Group Registration ID N/R
• SR District/Reg Area Waterford
• Returns Year 1874
• Returns Quarter 1
• Returns Volume No 9
• Returns Page No 383 AND
• Name ALICE CRAMPTON
• Date of Event 1874
• Group Registration ID N/R
• SR District/Reg Area Waterford
• Returns Year 1874
• Returns Quarter 1
• Returns Volume No 9
• Returns Page No 383

Research Notes

There is only one marriage for a George Henry Catchpole

Marriages Dec 1908 (Aylsham is in Norfolk)

• BRYANT Edith Maud Aylsham 4b 211
• CATCHPOLE George Henry Aylsham 4b 211
• LANE Robert Thomas Aylsham 4b 211
• REYNOLDS Florence Jane Aylsham 4b 211

George Henry and Edith Maud were living in Buxton, Norfolk in 1911- his birthdate given as abt. 1889 -Coal Corn & Flour Dealer. He died 19 May 1965 - Probate Norwich. Edith also born Buxton Norfolk. There are records for George Henry - Private 1/5 Norfolk Regiment 1637 which rule him out.

George H only 1 before the war and as he writes of corresponding with his wife in the attached document these seem to be the only possibilities.

Marriages Jun 1911

• Catchpole George H Lincoln 7a 1353
• Clapham Charlotte Lincoln 7a 1353
• Hilton Walter Lincoln 7a 1353
• Scott Frances Lincoln 7a 1353

George Henry and Charlotte - tree found with children born 1913, Mar 1915 and 1920 so unlikely but possible - just -as George was in prison 1914 - 1916, but none of the children born in Belfast. This George Henry was a postman at the time of the 1911 Census, born Grimsby, Lincolnshire.