Person:Harry Ripley (2)

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Harry Ripley
b.21 Dec 1874 Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, England
d.17 Oct 1939 Rotherhithe, London, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bet 1862 and 1864
  1. Henry William Ripley1864 - 1868
  2. Samuel Edward Ripley1865 -
  3. Amelia Maria Ripley1867 - 1900
  4. William George Ripley1869 -
  5. George William Ripley1870 - 1949
  6. Maria Ripley1872 -
  7. Harry Ripley1874 - 1939
  8. Thomas James Ripley1874 -
  9. Robert Edward James Ripley1880 - 1966
  10. Joseph Walter Ripley1882 - 1892
  11. John RipleyAbt 1883 -
Spouse and Children
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m. 25 Dec 1906
  1. Harry George Ripley1907 - 1940
  2. Elizabeth Amelia Ripley1909 - 1999
  3. Joseph Walter Ripley1911 - 1913
  4. George William Ripley1913 - 1979
  5. Lilian Harriet Ripley1915 - 1995
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][20][21][22][23][25][26] Harry Ripley
Alt Name[14][15][24] Henry Ripley
Gender Male
Birth[2][7][11] 21 Dec 1874 Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, England13 Alma Road, Mile End Old Town Eastern
Census[6] 1881 Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, England13 Alma Road
Christening[11] 19 Jul 1882 Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, EnglandHoly Trinity Church, Mile End Old Town
Education[28][29] 1887 Tower Hamlets London Borough, Greater London, EnglandSouth Grove school
Census[7] 1891 Stepney, Middlesex, England54 St Dunstan Rd, van guard
Census[8] 1901 Mile End Old Town, London, England54 St Dunstan Rd, general carman
Residence[4][12] 1906 Stepney, London, England230 Bow Common Lane, coalman
Marriage 25 Dec 1906 Mile End Old Town, London, EnglandHoly Trinity Church, Mile End
to Elizabeth Clark
Residence[23] 1907 Mile End Old Town, London, England223 Bow Common Lane
Residence[24] 1909 Mile End Old Town, London, England49 Ropery Street
Census[13] 1911 Mile End Old Town, London, England49 Ropery Street E
Residence[25] 1911 Mile End Old Town, London, England49 Ropery Street E
Occupation[5][13] From 1911 to 1913 paint manufacturer and varnish maker's carman
Residence[26] From 1913 to 1939 Mile End Old Town, London, England267 Bow Common Lane
Residence[9][15][18][19] From 1914 to 1939 Mile End Old Town, London, England267 Bow Common Lane
Census[21] 1939 Stepney, London, England267 Bow Common Lane
Occupation[10][14][21] 1939 carman (journeyman)
Death[20] 17 Oct 1939 Rotherhithe, London, Englandat St. Olave's Hospital
Burial[27] 24 Oct 1939 Tower Hamlets Cemetery, London, England

Harry Ripley was born on 21 Dec 1874, at 13 Alma Rd, Mile End, the seventh child of cattle drover and general labourer Henry Ripley and needlewoman Amelia Eliza Folder Sale. Amelia had married at the age of 23 to "lathe render" Edward Benningfield, and it has not yet been established whether Edward died or the couple simply parted. No marriage record has yet been found for Henry and Amelia so it is possible that they couldn't marry because she was still married to Edward Benningfield. In any case, Henry and Amelia's first child Henry William was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Mile End Old Town in 1865. Henry William died in 1868 (before Harry was born) at the age of 4 years old. Harry's other elder siblings were Samuel Edward, Amelia Maria, William George, George, and Maria. Harry and his brother Thomas James were twins. After Harry and Thomas their siblings Robert Edward James, Joseph Walter, and John were born. The family lived at 13 Alma Rd from at least 1874 until the 1881 census.

Harry and several of his siblings attended South Grove school. Image:South Grove School (former), Mile End 02.jpg


Harry Ripley was baptised along with his brothers Thomas and Robert at Holy Trinity on the 19th of July 1882, by which time the family had moved just around the corner to 12 Wilson St.

By 1890 the Ripley family had moved nearby to 54 St. Dunstan's Rd in Stepney, where Harry lived until at least 1901 and his mother Amelia remained until 1910. Harry's father Henry died in 1893 from pneumonia. The 1890s also saw the marriage of Harry's siblings, with Samuel (now a cattle drover) wedding Emma Taylor in 1894, Amelia marrying painter John Montague in 1896, and George (a bricklayer) marrying Mary Ann Potts in 1899. Harry was listed as a van guard in the 1891 census.

By 1906 Harry was working as a coalman and living at 230 Bow Common Lane with Elizabeth Clark, daughter of blacksmith George William Clark and Harriet Eliza Chipperfield. The Clark family had lived at 230 Bow Common Lane since at least 1897. On 12 Feb 1906 Harry and Elizabeth were witnesses to Harry's brother Robert's marriage to Emily Fisher. Harry and Elizabeth were married on Christmas Day 1906 at the Holy Trinity Church in Mile End, witnessed by George Collender and Florence Clark (Elizabeth's sister-in-law). Harry's twin Thomas married Elizabeth Bailey at St. Thomas' Church in Stepney on the same day, so it must have been a joyous Christmas for the Ripley family.

Harry and Elizabeth briefly lived at 223 Bow Common Lane in 1907 when their first child Harry George was born on 12 Nov. Elizabeth's brother Benjamin Clark and his wife Minnie were living at the same address on 21 Sep 1907 (according to their daughter Florence's baptism record) but Minnie and her children were admitted to Mile End Workhouse on 19 Nov 1907, just a week after Harry George Ripley was born. It's also possible that Elizabeth's brother Henry Clark and his wife & daughter were living at no. 223 at the same time, because they lived at that address from at least 1910 to 1939.

Harry George Ripley was baptised at the same church his father had been, Holy Trinity in Mile End, and the rest of Harry and Elizabeth's children were baptised at St. Luke's Church, Mile End.

By 1909 Harry, Elizabeth and Harry Jr. were living at 49 Ropery Street when daughter Elizabeth Amelia was born 13 Jul 1909 and baptised on 1 Aug. In the 1911 census Elizabeth's widowed mother Harriet was living with the family. A few months later son Joseph Walter Ripley was born on 10 May 1911 and named after Harry's younger brother Joseph Walter Ripley who died aged 10 (Harry was 18 at the time).

In 1911 and 1913 Harry's occupation was listed as being a paint manufacturer and varnish maker's carman.

By 1913 the family had moved to 267 Bow Common Lane, where sadly their son Joseph died on 1 March 1913 aged just 21 months from bronchopneumonia, a common killer of children - two of Elizabeth (Clark) Ripley's brothers, both named Joseph, died from pneumonia before she was born. On a happier note just a few months later Harry & Elizabeth's son George William Ripley was born on 2 Jun 1913.

1914 was a sad year for the Ripley-Clark family, with Elizabeth's mother Harriet passing away on 20 of Sep at the Mile End Infirmary, and Harry's mother Amelia at their home on the 6 Oct. Both mothers had been living with Harry at 267 Bow Common Lane at the time of their deaths. 1915 brought better times with the birth of Harry and Elizabeth's last child, Lilian Harriet, on 5 Jan 1915.

Many of the Clark family lived nearby in Bow Common Lane in the 1910s and 1920s. From at least 1896-1939 Elizabeth's brother and sister-in-law George and Frances Clark and their family lived at 249 Bow Common Lane, and brother Henry lived with his wife Florence at number 223 from at least 1910-1939. By 1922 Elizabeth's nephew George Samuel Clark (son of George William Clark) had moved with his wife to 247 Bow Common Lane. When Harry and Elizabeth's son George William Ripley married Vera "Peg" Young in 1939 he set up house in nearby Lockhart Street. So despite living in one of the largest cities in the world the Ripley-Clark family stayed close geographically, and presumably socially.

One of Harry's granddaughters says that Harry was a quiet sort of man who was more likely to be at home reading while his wife Elizabeth was at the pub. He worked in delivery for a brewery. Harry lived to see his son George marry in September 1939 but died before his eldest son Harry was killed in the war in 1940. Harry suffered a brain injury when he fell into a cart, and the horse returned with him in the cart to the depot. The coroners inquest (held 20 Oct 1939 by WH Whitehorse, coroner for London S E District) reported that he died on 17 Oct 1939 at St. Olave's Hospital in Rotherhithe of a cerebral haemorrhage due to natural causes. He was buried at Tower Hamlets Cemetery on 24 Oct 1939.


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  1. ↑ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Birth Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    entry for Harry Ripley Ripley, volume 1c, page 589, Jan-Feb-Mar quarter 1875, Mile End Old Town district.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Registrar General. Birth Certificate
    birth certificate for Harry Ripley, born 1 Dec 1874; citing 1c/589/119, Jan/Feb/Mar quarter 1875, Mile End Old Town registration district, Mile End Old Town Eastern sub-district.
    Harry Ripley birth certificate
  3. ↑ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Marriage Index. (London, England: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    entry for Harry Ripley, volume 1c, page 718, Oct-Nov-Dec quarter 1906, Mile End Old Town district.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 General Register Office. Marriage Certificate
    marriage certificate for Harry Ripley and Elizabeth Clark, married 25 Dec 1906; citing 01c/718/192, Oct-Dec quarter 1906, Mile End Old Town registration district.
    Harry Ripley and Elizabeth Clark marriage certificate
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Registrar General. Birth Certificate
    birth certificate for George William Ripley, born 2 June 1913; citing 01c/762/94, Jul-Sep quarter 1913, Mile End Old Town registration district, Mile End Old Town, North Eastern sub-district.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 London, England. 1881 Census
    Mile End Old Town, folio 172, page 44; citing PRO RG 11/485.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 London, England. 1891 Census
    Mile End Old Town, folio 28, page 49; citing PRO RG 12/312.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 London, England. 1901 Census
    Mile End Old Town Eastern, folio 26, page 43; citing PRO RG 13/337.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for Amelia Elizabeth Ripley, died 6 Oct 1914; citing 01c/477/407, Oct-Dec quarter 1914, Mile End Old Town registration district, Mile End Old Town, North Eastern sub-district.
    Amelia Elizabeth Sale Benningfield Ripley death certificate
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 General Register Office. Marriage Certificate
    marriage certificate for George William Ripley and Vera Isabel Young, married 30 Sep 1939; citing 1c/875/41, Jul-Sep quarter 1939, Stepney registration district.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, England. Mile End Old Town, London, England. Holy Trinity Church Parish Registers
    "London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906," Harry Ripley, bap. 19 Jul 1882.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, England. Mile End Old Town, London, England. Holy Trinity Church Parish Registers
    "London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921," Harry Ripley m. Elizabeth Clark, 25 Dec 1906.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 London, England. 1911 Census
    49 Ropery Street E; citing RG 78, RG 14 PN 1640, registration district (RD) 21 (Mile End Old Town), sub district (SD) 2 (Mile End Old Town North Eastern), enumeration district (ED) 24, schedule number (SN) 161.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for Elizabeth Ripley, died 6 Jun 1960; citing 5d/727/465, Apr-Jun quarter 1960, Wandsworth registration district, Tooting sub-district.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 London, England. Electoral Registers, 1835-1965
    vol. 1914, Tower Hamlets, Mile End Division, Polling District 4, Mile End Old Town S. E. Ward: 206, Henry Ripley.
  16.   London, England. Electoral Registers, 1835-1965
    vol. 1890 Tower Hamlets, Mile End, Div. 1, East Ward Polling District: 106, Henry Ripley.
  17.   London, England. Electoral Registers, 1835-1965
    vol. 1894 Tower Hamlets, Mile End, Div. 3, East Ward Polling District: 174, Amelia Ripley.
  18. ↑ London, England. Electoral Registers, 1835-1965
    vol. 1918, Tower Hamlets, Stepney, Mile End Old Town Division 1, Polling District F: 206, Henry Ripley.
  19. ↑ London, England. Electoral Registers, 1835-1965
    vol. 1936, Tower Hamlets, Stepney, Polling District F: 23, Ripley family at 267 Bow Common Lane.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    Harry Ripley, died 17 Oct 1939; citing 1d/121/279, Oct-Dec quarter 1939, Bermondsey registration district, Rotherhithe sub-district; General Register Office, Southport. .
    Harry Ripley death certificate
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 General Register Office. London, England. 1939 Register
    piece 0546D, image 003, 267 Bow Common Lane, Stepney, Ripley houshold.
  22. ↑ General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
    death certificate for Joseph Walter Ripley, died 1 Mar 1913; citing 1c/8/539, Jan-Mar quarter 1913, Mile End Old Town registration district, Mile End Old Town, North Eastern sub-district.
    Joseph Walter Ripley death certificate
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 London, England. Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010)
    Holy Trinity (Mile End Old Town, London, England), Baptisms, 1907 pg 48, Harry George Ripley b. 12 Nov 1907 bap. 8 Dec 1907.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 London, England. Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010)
    St. Luke (Limehouse, London, England), "Baptisms, 1909 pg 267," Elizabeth Amelia Ripley b. 13 Jul 1909 bap. 1 Aug 1909.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 London, England. Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010)
    St. Luke (Limehouse, London, England), Baptisms, 1911 pg 141, Joseph Walter Ripley b. 10 May 1911 bap. 27 May 1911.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 London, England. Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1916. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010)
    St. Luke (Limehouse, London, England), Baptisms, 1913 pg 62, George William Ripley b. 2 Jun 1913 bap. 21 Jun 1913.
  27. ↑ London, England. City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Registers, 1841-1966
    Harry Ripley bur. 24 Oct 1939, Grave R4393, bur. by J.N. Sykes.
  28. ↑ London, England. School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911
    South Grove School, Tower Hamlets, Admission and Discharge Register, Hy Ripley b. 21 Dec 1875 adm. 10 Jan 1887.
  29. ↑ London, England. School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911
    South Grove School, Tower Hamlets, Admission and Discharge Register, Hy Ripley b. 21 Dec 1875 adm. 19 Jan 1883.
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