Samuel DOUBLEDAYAge: 88 years1890–1979
- Name
- Samuel DOUBLEDAY
Birth | 16 June 1890 |
Death of a wife | Bertha KENYON 7 October 1961 (Age 71 years) |
Cremation of a wife | Bertha KENYON October 1961 (Age 71 years) |
UID | 01B1DC566BB6D91196D28E90050AF442BAAC |
Death | 11 May 1979 (Age 88 years) |
Cremation | May 1979 (Age 88 years) |
Family with parents |
father |
James Henry DOUBLEDAY Death: |
mother |
Maria BENTLEY Death: |
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himself |
Samuel DOUBLEDAY Birth: 16 June 1890 — 34 Leigh Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire. Death: 11 May 1979 — Oldham & District General Hospital |
Family with Bertha KENYON |
himself |
Samuel DOUBLEDAY Birth: 16 June 1890 — 34 Leigh Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire. Death: 11 May 1979 — Oldham & District General Hospital |
wife |
Bertha KENYON Birth: 29 September 1889 39 36 — 54 Boston Street, Oldham, Lancashire Death: 7 October 1961 — Oldham & District General Hospital |
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Death | from Bronchopneumonia, general thrombosis & arterioschlerosis, Y |
Note | Sam Doubleday served as a Soldier in the first World War and was badly w ounded, losing a leg. He was a founder member of the Oldham Branch, Bri tish Limbless Ex Servicemen Association (BLESA) and actively involved w ith the Association all his life. He was National President of the Asso ciation 1935 to 1936 and was a representative and speaker at a protest a ssembly in London, to draw Parliaments attention to the inadequate valu e of the war pension in 1952. After the death of his first wife in 1961, he married again to Edith Me llor. He was living at 6 Lynmouth Avenue, Oldham until becoming ill and w ent into Oldham General Hospital, where he died. He was cremated in Hol linwood Cemetary |