Walter KENYONAge: 79 years1896–1975
- Name
- Walter KENYON
Birth | 10 January 1896 46 42 |
Death of a maternal grandmother | Ann CARTER 7 September 1899 (Age 3 years) |
Death of a brother | John B KENYON 9 January 1906 (Age 9 years) |
Death of a father | David KENYON 17 October 1917 (Age 21 years) |
Birth of a son #1 | John Secombe KENYON 8 March 1920 (Age 24 years) |
Death of a mother | Lucy RUDGE 20 April 1928 (Age 32 years) |
Death of a sister | Bertha KENYON 7 October 1961 (Age 65 years) |
Cremation of a sister | Bertha KENYON October 1961 (Age 65 years) |
UID | 02D0FCF324ADD91196D2B7C532EABB427970 |
Death | 18 September 1975 (Age 79 years) |
Burial |
Family with parents |
father |
David KENYON Birth: 10 December 1849 35 32 — Roundthorn, Oldham, Lancashire Death: 17 October 1917 — 553 Ashton Road, Oldham, Lancashire |
mother |
Lucy RUDGE Birth: 8 February 1853 28 26 — Furnace Meadows, Aston Manor, Birmingham. Death: 20 April 1928 — 553 Ashton Road, Oldham |
Marriage: 20 November 1872 — Oldham Register Office |
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16 months elder brother |
John B KENYON Birth: 21 March 1874 24 21 — Oldham, Lancashire Death: 9 January 1906 — 496 Ashton Road, Oldham, Lancashire |
14 months elder sister |
Annie KENYON Birth: 5 June 1875 25 22 — 16 Hollins Road, Oldham, Lancashire Death: |
sister | |
elder sister |
Ellen KENYON Birth: 7 June 1877 27 24 — Oldham, Lancashire at 24 Boston Street Death: |
13 months elder brother |
James Willie KENYON Birth: 7 July 1878 28 25 — 24 Boston Street, Oldham, Lancashire Death: |
22 months elder brother |
Fred KENYON Birth: 2 May 1880 30 27 — 24 Boston Street, Oldham, Lancashire Death: |
4 years elder brother |
Albert Edward KENYON Birth: 22 October 1883 33 30 — 24 Boston Street, Oldham, Lancashire Death: 4 September 1887 — 141 Ashton Road, Oldham, Lancashire |
4 years elder sister |
Milly KENYON Birth: 17 March 1888 38 35 — 99 Ashton Road, Oldham, Lancashire Death: |
18 months elder sister |
Bertha KENYON Birth: 29 September 1889 39 36 — 54 Boston Street, Oldham, Lancashire Death: 7 October 1961 — Oldham & District General Hospital |
2 years elder brother |
Edward KENYON Birth: 2 January 1892 42 38 — 54 Boston Street, Oldham, Lancashire Death: |
4 years himself |
Walter KENYON Birth: 10 January 1896 46 42 — 113 Ashton Road, Oldham, Lancashire Death: 18 September 1975 — Kent & Canterbury Hospital |
Family with Emily SECOMBE |
himself |
Walter KENYON Birth: 10 January 1896 46 42 — 113 Ashton Road, Oldham, Lancashire Death: 18 September 1975 — Kent & Canterbury Hospital |
wife |
Emily SECOMBE Birth: 21 August 1893 31 29 — 12 Silk Street, Middleton, Lancashire Death: 7 August 1980 — Bensted House, Faversham, Kent |
son |
Private |
son |
John Secombe KENYON Birth: 8 March 1920 24 26 — 39 Crofton Street, Oldham, Lancashire Death: 27 June 1979 — Three Wents, Old Lenham Road, Wychling, Kent |
Death | due to Rupture of aneurysm of abdominal aorta and atheroma of aorta, |
Note | <b>Walter Kenyon</b> fought in World War I. as a soldier with the Liver pool Regiment in the signal corps. He worked as a Tram Car conductor in 1920, living at 39 Crofton Street, O ldham, where his first son <b>John Secombe</b> was born. Shortly after this, in the early 1920's, he emigrated to Western Austra lia under the assisted passage scheme, leaving <b>Emily</b> and <b>John </b> in England. He worked on the construction of the railway from Pert h to Manjimup, until there were sufficient funds to enter into an agree ment with a mortgage to buy a farm under the Group Settlement Scheme. T he family then followed to the farm about six miles west of Manjimup an d started to run the 100 acre mainly dairy farm, selling the milk for b utter manufacture to the co-operative in Manjimup. The farm was part of G roup One (Location 7697) and also nominated to be the local Post Office , known as Mitcheldean Post Office. In 1929 <b>Dennis</b> was born in the maternity hospital at Jardee, som e miles south of Manjimup. As a consequence of the depression 1929 - 1933, the family had to sell t he farm and return to Britain. They booked passage on the Aberdeen and C ommonwealth Line ship 'Moreton Bay', sailing from Fremantle on 9th Apri l 1932 to Southampton and then by train to Lancashire. Where the family then lived is not clear, probably in Middleton with a r elative. Certainly they lived at 5 Joseph Street, Middleton, Lancashire , on 22nd August 1932. They then moved to a house on Chapel Street, Rho des, near Middleton, about 1935 and then about 1937 bought the house at 1 53 Walker Street, Rhodes, where they continued to live until after <b>W alter</b> retired about 1961. During the period 1835 to 1939 he worked a s a carpenter and joiner building houses for William? Redferne. During t he second world war he was employed by the Air Ministry in the Maintena nce Units near Heywood. Post war he returned to the building trade working on the new estate kn own as Alkrington, Middleton. In 1963 they bought the house at 4 Prospe ct Place, Eastling, Kent, where they lived until their deaths. |