Person:George Gorringe (1)

George Gorringe was born 22 Mar 1878 at 85 Clarendon Street, Paddington, the sixth (and last) child of coal porter James Gorringe and Jane Stringer. Jane died on 31 Jan 1880 at the age of 32 from acute pneumonia when George was just two years old. In the 1881 census James, now a widower, was still living at 85 Clarendon Street with his five young children.

James married his second wife, charwoman Sarah Ann Kelley, when George was three. Sarah already had a son, Charles Frederick Kelly, when they were married. James and Sarah had two sons and one daughter together. George's two older brothers, three older sisters, two younger half-brothers and one younger half-sister became or married mail sorters, labourers, furnace stokers, railway carmen, warehousemen, porters, and factory hands.

In the 1891 census 13 year-old George was living with his father, stepmother, 2 older brothers and 2 younger half-brothers at 3 Enbrook Street, Chelsea. He worked as an errand boy at the port. In 1901 George was 23 and living at 21 Cobbold Road, Willesden with his sister Penelope and her husband, Henry Hopkins. In 1903 he was witness to his adopted/half-brother Charles Kelly Gorringe's marriage to Emily Field. George's father James died 11 Jan 1910 at the age of 66 from bronchitis.

George must have met his future wife Elizabeth Delowery by 1903, when he was a witness to his future sister-in-law Annie Eliza Delowery's marriage to Henry Joseph Bowers. In fact George was living with Elizabeth's mother Eliza and stepfather Alfred Hannington at 52 Quainton St, Neasden in the 1911 census. Alfred was a boiler maker, and George was a boiler makers assistant, so he probably learned the trade from his future step-father-in-law.

In 1913 George was living at 31 Tidemore Street in Wandsworth with Elizabeth Delowery. George and Elizabeth were married June 29th 1913 at St George's Church in Battersea, London. They had two sons: Alfred Victor George, b. 10 Sep 1913 at 4 Swete Street, West Ham, and Stanley Edward James, whose birth was registered in West Ham but baptised at St. Jude's Church, Kensal Green on 11 Mar 1917. At the time of Stanley's baptism their address was given as 24 Enbrook St, which is where George's adopted/half-brother Charles Kelly Gorringe lived with his wife and children.

George worked as a railway boiler makers assistant from 1901 to his death at the age of 46. He died at 105 Ranelagh Road, West Ham on 26 May 1924 from heart disease and bronchitis.

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1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Registrar General. Birth Certificate
   birth certificate for George Gorringe, born 22 Mar 1878; citing 1a/18/200, Apr-Jun quarter 1878, Paddington registration district, Saint Mary sub-district.
   George Gorringe birth certificate
2. ↑ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Birth Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
   entry for George Gorringe, volume 1a, page 18, Apr-May-Jun quarter 1878, Kensington district.
3. ↑ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Marriage Index. (London, England: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
   entry for George Gorringe, volume 1d, page 739, Apr-May-Jun quarter 1913, Wandsworth district.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} London, England. 1881 Census
   St Mary Paddington, folio 47, page 43; citing PRO RG 11/3.

   Household members:
   Name:
   James Gorringe 37
   Emily Gorringe 12
   Kate Gorringe 10
   Annie Gorringe 8
   Robert Gorringe 4
   George Gorringe 3

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} London, England. 1891 Census
   Chelsea, folio 97, page 42; citing PRO RG 12/56.

   Household members:
   Name Age
   James Gorringe 48
   Sarah A. Gorringe 43
   Charles Gorringe 17
   Robert Gorringe 15
   George Gorringe 13
   John Gorringe 9
   William Gorringe 5

6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Middlesex, England. 1901 census of England
   Willesden, folio 52, page 26; citing PRO RG 13/1213.

   Household members:
   Name Age
   Henry Hopkins 28
   Penelope Hopkins28
   William Hopkins 1
   George Gorringe 23

7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1 General Register Office. Marriage Certificate
   marriage certificate for George Gorringe and Elizabeth Delowery, married 29 June 1917; citing 01d/739/473, Apr-Jun quarter 1913, Wandsworth registration district.
   George Gorringe m. Elizabeth Delowry
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Battersea, London, England. St. George the Martyr, Parish Registers
   "London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921," George Gorringe m. Elizabeth De Lowery, 29 Jun 1913.
9. ↑ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
   entry for George Gorringe, volume 4a, page 67, Apr-Jun quarter 1924, Essex district, West Ham sub-district; citing the General Register Office's England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for George Gorringe, died 26 May 1924; citing 4a/67/125, Apr-Jun quarter 1924, West Ham registration district, Plaistow sub-district.
    George Gorringe death certificate
11. ↑ Middlesex, England. 1911 Census of England
    52 Quainton Street, Neasden N W; citing RG 78, RG 14 PN 152, registration district (RD) 129, sub district (SD) 1, enumeration district (ED) 64, schedule number (SN) 152.
12. ↑ London, England. Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010)
    St. Jude (Kensal Green, London, England), Baptisms, 1917 pg 050.

    Stanley Edward James Gorringe bap. 11 Mar 1917