Herbert Jesse Spratt 1894 - 1978

A hotel manager and licensee and the child of Charles Spratt (a smack owner and fish salesman) and Susannah Thunder, Herbert Spratt, the first cousin twice-removed on the father's side of Nigel Horne, was born in Ramsgate, Kent, England on 16 Aug 18941,2, was baptised there at Christ Church, Vale Square on 7 Oct 1894 and married Ethel Challis (a hotel manageress with whom he had 3 children: Frederick Charles, Douglas Norman and Laurence Herbert) at Registry Office, Blean, Kent, England on 28 Dec 19145.

During his life, he was living at 44 Addington Street, Ramsgate on 31 Mar 19016 and on 2 Apr 19117; at 2 Sutherland Road, Deal, Kent on 29 Sept 19391; at St Mary's Road, Mortimer Common, Berkshire, England in 1965; and at 18 College Piece, Mortimer, Berkshire in 1978.

He died on 26 May 1978 in Wokingham, Berkshire3,4. He served in the military in France on 13 Jul 1915 (royal Engineers 54214; 2nd Lt).

Citations

1. 1939 Register - Findmypast (was the head of the household)
2. England & Wales births 1837-2006 - Findmypast
3. England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1858-2019 - Findmypast
4. England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 - Findmypast
5. England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005 - Findmypast
6. 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census - Findmypast (was age 6 and the son of the head of the household)
7. 1911 Census for England & Wales - Findmypast (was age 16 and the son of the head of the household was age 16 and the son of the head of the household)

To be done

Residence record for 1978 contains no citation

Residence record for 1965 contains no citation

Listed in the residence for 1965, but spouse Ethel Challis is not

Listed in the residence for 1978, but spouse Ethel Challis is not