My Family Tree

provided month of birth.For Christening.
Albert was a Salesman at Heinz and rose to the level of head salesman leading a section of some ten men. He loved to bred and raise birds of all kinds. ÒHe had left his church school at Ilfracombe at the age of 11, with excellent handwriting and spelling, a good command of English, a well ordered and neat way of keeping his accounts and other records, a knowledge of geography and a rather sketchier grasp of history. Like the Duke of Wellington, he was never completely at ease with Ôall those damned dotsÕ, popularly regarded as essential to the decimal system. But he could grapple with fractions and percentages easily enough, and tot up columns of pounds, shillings and pence quickly and accurately. that was all that was really needed in business.Ó
ÒHis brothers Will, Stan and George - and no doubt their sisters Flo and Alice - all left school at an early age; the contributions they could make towards the family income were badly needed. Their father Nicholas (for five generations, ever since 1716, the eldest son had been given the name) had left Ilfracombe for America in 1892, when the eldest of his sex surviving children, Florrie was only 16 and the youngest, Stan, still a baby.Ó
Ò.... enlisted as a trooper in the Westminster Dragoons.Ó Participated in World War I.