See also

Family of George Hector HUNTRISS and Gertrude Emma SPRIGINGS

  • Husband:

  • George Hector HUNTRISS (1895-1965)

  • Wife:

  • Gertrude Emma SPRIGINGS (1891-1951)

  • Marriage:

  • Jun 1924

  • Birkenhead

Husband: George Hector HUNTRISS

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George Hector HUNTRISS, 1918, age 23

Wife: Gertrude Emma SPRIGINGS

  • Name:

  • Gertrude Emma SPRIGINGS

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Sprigings ( - )

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 11 Jun 1891

  •  

  • Death:

  • 9 May 1951 (age 59)

  • Wirral

Note on Husband: George Hector HUNTRISS

 

1901 census - living at "rockcliff", Warren Drive, Wallasey

 

1911 Census - at Uppingham school

1921 Census - wih parents at 20 Warren Drive

 

1926 Electoral Register - Living at 1 Larchwood Drive, Rock Ferry

 

See cuttings from local papers re WWI

 

Hector survived the war - but not without incident. I have been contacted by Jennifer, his niece, who told me "Uncle Hec's tin hat used to hang on the wall of the sitting room, with a hole right through it where a bullet cut a groove in the top of Hector's head."

 

Hector's war-time experience had other long-term effects. He came across the monastery where; he partook enthusiastically - and awoke in a sewage farm. He did not touch another drop of that liqueur again!

 

According to the 1939 register, He lived at 1 Kingsway in Gayton in 1939

Note on Wife: Gertrude Emma SPRIGINGS

Lived at 1 Kingsway, , Heswall; died at "Elgin", Gayton Lane Heswall".

Sources

1.

GRO (via Simon Giles).

2.

England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1900.

3.

FreeBMD.

4.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 1983.