Person:Joseph Rice (29)

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Joseph Rice
b.14 Mar 1863 Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland
d.1 Oct 1938 Minster in Sheppey, Kent, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. 5 Dec 1850
  1. Margaret Rice1852 - 1933
  2. Peter Rice1854 - 1922
  3. James Rice1857 - 1913
  4. Mary Rice1860 - 1926
  5. Joseph Rice1863 - 1938
  6. John Rice1865 - 1920
Spouse and Children
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m. 1895
  1. Lilian Mary Rice1896 - 1958
  2. Winifred Amor Rice1899 - 1953
  3. Douglas James Rice1904 - 1990
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Facts and Events
Name Joseph Rice
Gender Male
Birth[1] 14 Mar 1863 Whithorn, Wigtownshire, ScotlandSheddock
Christening[2] 22 Mar 1863 Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, ScotlandOur Lady and St Ninian's Catholic Church
Census[3] 2 Apr 1871 Whithorn, Wigtownshire, ScotlandSheddock Cottages No.1
Census[4] 3 Apr 1881 Whithorn, Wigtownshire, ScotlandCastlewigg Bothy 2
Census[5] 5 Apr 1891 Islington, London, EnglandPolice Station, Upper Street
Marriage 1895 Kent, Englandto Catharine Eleanor Amor
Census[6] 31 Mar 1901 Erith, Kent, England34 Police Quarters, Harrow Manor Way
Census[7] 2 Apr 1911 Erith, Kent, EnglandPolice Quarters (Govt Magazine Barracks), Harrow Manor Way, Abbey Wood
Death[8][9] 1 Oct 1938 Minster in Sheppey, Kent, England

Joseph Rice was born on 14th March 1863 at Sheddock in the parish of Whithorn in Wigtownshire, Scotland. He was the fifth of six children of Jane Rice, formerly Lemon, and her husband James Rice, a ploughman. Both Joseph's parents had been born in Ireland, but had moved to Scotland before they married in 1850. Joseph appears in the 1871 census living at Sheddock with his parents and siblings in a one roomed house.

By 1881 Joseph had left home and was working as a gardener in Whithorn. Some time between 1881 and 1890 Joseph left Scotland and moved to the London area, where he joined the Metropolitan Police in 1890 at Old Scotland Yard. Back in Whithorn, his mother died that same year. The 1891 census finds Joseph working as a police constable and living at Islington Police Station.

With sisters Mary (standing) and Margaret, probably early 1920s at Margaret's house at 5 Peploe Rise, Kensal Rise, Willesden.
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With sisters Mary (standing) and Margaret, probably early 1920s at Margaret's house at 5 Peploe Rise, Kensal Rise, Willesden.
In 1895, aged 32, Joseph married a music teacher named Catharine Eleanor Amor, known as Kitty. They married on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent; she was from the island. They returned to London, having two daughters in Plumstead, then a son in Erith. Both the 1901 and 1911 censuses find the family living at the police quarters on Harrow Manor Way in the Abbey Wood area of Erith. For a time in the late 1890s and early 1900s Joseph's father James came to live in London too, where five of his six children had settled. James returned to Scotland where he died in 1907.

In 1917, Joseph retired from the Metropolitan Police. He was described as being 5'10" tall, with grey hair and brown eyes. He was entitled to a pension of £69 11s 6d per year. He had been working most recently at the magazines on Plumstead Marshes at the expense of the War Department, and been wounded in the face and suffered shock after a gas explosion. When Joseph retired from the police he was living at 134 Rochdale Road in Plumstead.

In 1919, after the First World War, Joseph's eldest daughter was married in Plumstead. Joseph was described on his daughter's marriage certificate as a timekeeper. His first grandchild was born the following year.

Some time after 1911 Joseph and Kitty moved to the Isle of Sheppey, where they lived at 'Yoredale', Glenwood Drive, Minster. Joseph died on 1st October 1938, aged 75. Kitty outlived Joseph by nearly seven years.

References
  1. ↑ Birth certificate, in General Register Office for Scotland. Civil Registration.

    1863. BIRTHS in the District of Whithorn in the County of Wigtown
    No.22
    Name: Joseph Rice
    When and where born: 1863 March fourteenth, 0h 30m AM, Shaddock
    Sex: M
    Father: James Rice, Farm Labourer
    Mother: Jane Rice, M.S. Leman
    Parents' marriage: 1850 December 5th, Craiglemine, Parish of Glasserton
    Informant: James Rice, His X Mark, Father
    Registered: 1863 March 21st at Whithorn, Robert Anderson, Registrar

  2. ↑ Roman Catholic Church. Newton Stewart Catholic Parish Registers. (Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Catholic Archives).

    Year: 1863
    Name: Joseph
    Law[ful]
    Parents: James Rice & Jane Lamont
    When born: March 17th
    When baptized: March 22nd
    Sponsors: John Linneham & Maryann Linneham
    Name of clergyman: Patrick Thos. O'Gorman

  3. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1871 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
    900/00 002/00 003, 2 Apr 1871.

    Address: Sheddock Cottages No.1, Whithorn, Wigtownshire
    1 room with windows
    James Rice, head, married, male, 42 [1828/9], Ag lab, b. Armagh, Ireland
    Jane Rice, wife, married, female, 44 [1826/7], b. Tyrone, Ireland
    Peter Rice, son, unmarried, male, 16 [1854/5], Farm Servant, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
    James Rice, son, male, 13 [1857/8], Scholar, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
    Mary Rice, daughter, female, 10 [1860/1], Scholar, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
    Joseph Rice, son, male, 8 [1862/3], Scholar, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
    John Rice, son, male, 5 [1865/6], Scholar, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire

  4. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
    900/00 005/00 007, 3 Apr 1881.

    Address: Castlewigg Bothy 2, Whithorn, Wigtownshire
    3 rooms with windows
    Joseph Rice, head, unmarried, male, 18 [1862/3], Gardener Domestic Serv, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
    James Gilmour, fellow serv, unmarried, male, 28 [1852/3], Gardener Domestic Serv, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire

  5. ↑ England. 1891 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
    Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
    The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
    Class RG12; Piece 172; Folio 48; Page 9, 5 Apr 1891.

    Address: Police Station, Upper St, Islington, London
    5 or more rooms occupied
    Joseph Davies, head, married, male, 42 [1848/9], Inspector Metropolitan Police, employed, b. Penally, Pembrokeshire
    ...Inspector Davies' wife and seven children and eighteen Constables in the Metropolitan Police, all male, aged between 22 and 40, including...
    Joseph Rice, lodger, single, male, 28 [1862/3], Constable Metropolitan Police, b. Scotland

  6. ↑ England. England. 1901 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
    Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
    The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
    Class RG13; Piece 700; Folio 24; Page 12, 31 Mar 1901.

    Address: 34 Police Quarters, Harrow Manor Way, Erith, Kent
    3 rooms occupied
    Joseph Rice, head, married, male, 38 [1862/3], Police Constable Met. Police Force, b. Scotland
    Catharine Rice, wife, married, female, 31 [1869/70], b. Sheerness, Kent
    Lilian Rice, daughter, single, female, 4 [1896/7], b. Plumstead, Kent
    Winifred Rice, daughter, single, female, 1 [1899/1900], b. Plumstead, Kent

  7. ↑ England. 1911 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), (formerly the UK General Register Office.))
    Class RG14; Piece 3761; Schedule 9999, 2 Apr 1911.

    Address: Police Quarters (Govt Magazine Barracks), Harrow Manor Way, Abbey Wood, Erith, Kent
    Joseph Rice, head, male, 48 [1862/3], married, Police Constable - Metropolitan Police, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland
    Catharine Rice, wife, female, 40 [1870/1], married 15 years, 3 children born, 3 children still living, b. Sheerness, Kent
    Lilian Rice, daughter, female, 14 [1896/7], School, b. Plumstead, Kent
    Winifred Rice, daughter, female, 11 [1899/1900], School, b. Plumstead, Kent
    Douglas Rice, son, male, 7 [1903/4], School, b. Erith, Kent

  8. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

    d. Joseph Rice, December Quarter 1938, Sheppey Registration District, Vol. 2a, page 1395, aged 75 [1862/3]

  9. ↑ England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).

    1938
    RICE Joseph of Yoredale Glenwood Drive Minster Sheppey Kent died 1 October 1938 Probate London 17 December to Catherine Eleanor Rice widow. Effects £225.

  10.   London, England. Metropolitan Police Pension Registers, 1852-1932.

    Summary:
    Joseph Rice, Police Constable, resigned 5 Feb 1917, entitled to pension of £69 11s 6d per year.
    Born Wigtown 13 Mar 1863
    Age 53 / Height 5'10.75" / Hair: Grey / Eyes: Brown / Complexion: Fresh
    Date of Joining the Police: At Old Scotland Yard on the 28th April 1890.
    Particulars of Service: On appointment joined N Division Transferred to 4th Division 15 6/91 and to 1st D 22 8/95. Employed at the Magazines Plumstead Marshes, at the cost of the War Department.
    If Injured in the Service, state nature of Injuries: Wound on face, & shock from Gas Explosion
    Married
    Next of Kin: Catharine Rice (wife)
    Address: 134 Rochdale Road, Plumstead

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