Walter Howes

1866 - 1915  (48 years)

• Name	Walter Howes  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
  Birth	Abt 1865	Norwich, Norfolk   [13]
  Birth	Abt 1866	Norwich, Norfolk   [5, 7, 8]
  Birth	Abt 1866  [5]
  	age 23 at marriage
  Born	30 Jul 1866	St Michael's Alley, Norwich, Norfolk   [10]
  		Walter Howes BC
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Abt Aug 1866	Norwich, Norfolk   [11]
  Birth	Abt 1867	Norwich, Norfolk   [1]
  Birth	Abt 1868	Norwich, Norfolk   [14]
  Residence	2 Apr 1871	Boarded Entry Yard, Ber Street, Norwich, Norfolk   [13]
  Occupation	3 Apr 1881  [7]
  	Railway Dray Boy
  Residence	3 Apr 1881	Houghton's Yard, Ber Street, St Michael at Thorn, Norwich, Norfolk   [7]
  	living with George & Charlotte Moore, who had brought him up
  Occupation	25 Dec 1889
  	Dairyman
  Residence	25 Dec 1889	St Michael at Thorn, Norwich, Norfolk
  Occupation	1891
  	Dairy man
  Residence	1891	Newman's Yard, St John de Sepulchre, Norwich, Norfolk
  Occupation	1 Oct 1892
  	Milkman
  Occupation	13 Nov 1892  [15]
  	Labourer
  Residence	13 Nov 1892	42 Horn's Lane, Norwich, Norfolk   [15]
  Occupation	16 Feb 1898
  	Hawker
  Occupation	5 Jul 1899
  	Hawker
  Occupation	1901
  	Wood chopper
  Residence	1901	42 Mariners Lane, St Julian, Norwich, Norfolk
  Occupation	7 Dec 1901  [4]
  	Wood hawker
  Occupation	20 Jul 1902  [3]
  	Hawker
  Occupation	2 Apr 1911
  	Hawker
  Residence	2 Apr 1911	Waterfield's lodging house, 5 Quay Side, Norwich, Norfolk   [14]
  Occupation	30 Nov 1912  [12]
  	Fisherman
  Service	1915
  	Seaman, Royal Navy
  Service No.	1915
  	6231A
  Died	3 Feb 1915	HMS Clan MacNaughton
  	Age: 48y
  	Ship went down in a storm in the Atlantic. Possibly she was top-heavy and possibly she struck a mne
  Buried	3 Feb 1915	At sea
  	Memorialized at Chatham
  Occupation	25 Jan 1924  [12]
  	Sailor
  Death	Bef Jul 1948  [2]
  Name	Walter Moore  [13]
  Occupation	Jul 1948  [2]
  	Seaman, Royal Navy
  Notes	Describes himself as Orphan in 1881 census, but as son of George on Marriage Cert living apart from wife in 1911 New Information: March 2016: Birth certificate proves Walter to have been the son of Thomas & Charlotte Received with grateful thanks from great-granddaughter, Janet Rands: Walter Howes and Ellen Howes Gell A Mr and Mrs Moore living in a cottage near to a large prosperous foundry by the name of HOWES where Mr Moore was employed as a foreman opened their front door one morning in1866 to find a basket on the doorstep containing a baby boy. He was well dressed with a label attached to the basket that gave his name as Walter Howes and his date of birth. The couple took him in and brought him up. They received an anonymous payment regularly to pay for the child. He was educated privately and turned out to be very bright. The Moores doted on him and spoilt him but as he grew up he became quite a wild person. When he was still underage he courted and seduced a simple housemaid by the name of Alice Gell. Alice gave birth to a daughter whom she named Ellen. Walter did marry Alice but not until about a year later making Ellen illegitimate. She was ashamed of this for the rest of her life as in those days she could not take her fathers name even though Walter did insist his name be added to her birth certificate. Ellen was a very pretty child and at first her father was very proud of her. He bought her a velvet coat and bonnet and sat her on his milk cart to show her off to his customers. Walter had several crazy sorts of jobs, at one time he was a black faced minstrel on a boat called the 'Jenny Lynd' which sailed up and down the local river. The milk cart was another short lived occupation. The family grew rapidly,Ellen had 5 brothers that lived and numerous other siblings who died at birth and at only months old. The payments made to the Moores were diverted to Walter on leaving education but on his marriage to Alice stopped so this is when his numerous unsuccessful attempts at earning an income started. Walter took to drinking and when he was drunk he became violent. He blamed Ellen for his downfall and came to hate her. Each time Alice was confined Ellen would have to miss school to help. The school was just across the road so the teachers could see what was happening and Walter was sent to prison for a spell because of it. Thereafter he would get drunk more often and arrive home gunning for Ellen, he would chase her with an axe and shout 'where's that Rachael I'll murder her' he called her Rachael as he said she had Jewish looks. The neighbours would alert her mother and she would rush Ellen round to the next door where she would hide in their bed. The house they occupied had only two bedrooms so at the age of 14 years old Ellen had to the home to her 5 brothers. Ellen or Nellie as she became known had to leave the family home and support herself. She was close to her mother and always kept in touch but had no further contact with her father. She met and married David Cutmore from Norwich. David was the son of another David Cutmore who owned a large Bakery. Ellen was 20 years old at the time of her marriage. On the marriage certificate she is named as Ellen Gell and father deceased. Walter was still very much alive, her mother did not attend the wedding which took place in Yarmouth as it was kept secret from Walter so mother could not be missing for a day. Eventually Alice procured a small house back in Norwich for the newly weds to set up home. In 1910 after two years of marriage their first child was born - a boy who they named David followed 2 years later by Edward then 2 years later by Marjorie. On hearing of the birth of Ellen's third child Walter decided he wanted to make peace with his daughter he persuaded Alice to take him to visit Ellen, her husband and family. Alice was very nervous about the meeting but it all went off quite well Walter behaved very well and caused David to say to Ellen ' I didn't know your father was a gentleman' Who was his father? At the beginning of the war in 1914 Walter Howes falsified his age by a few years and enlisted in the navy. He was lost when his ship the Clan Mcnaughton was sunk in the Western approaches in 1915. His name is on a memorial in Chatham Shipyard. Ellen and David went on to have a further daughter Joan and another son Stanley. Their second child Edward was my - Janet Rands - father. Walter my great grandfather.
  Person ID	I24293	ONS
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Thomas Benjamin Howes,   b. 7 Jan 1828, St Augustine, Norwich, Norfolk ,   d. 18 Oct 1913, Great Hospital, Bishopgate, Norwich, Norfolk  (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Charlotte Smith,   b. Abt 1829, Norwich, Norfolk ,   d. 9 Mar 1907, 1 Cow Yard, Cow Hill, St Giles, Norwich, Norfolk  (Age ~ 78 years)
  Married	22 Oct 1847	Register Office, Norwich, Norfolk   [5]
  		Norwich, Norfolk Register Office
  		Thomas Benjamin Howes / Charlotte Smith MC
  Witness	22 Oct 1847  [5]
  	Henry Howes
  Witness	22 Oct 1847  [5]
  	Mary Ann Howes
  Married	Abt Nov 1847	Norwich, Norfolk   [16]
  Family ID	F6434	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice Gell,   b. 9 Oct 1868, Norwich, Norfolk ,   d. 21 Jul 1948, Norfolk & Norwich Hospital, St Stephen's Road, Norwich, Norfolk  (Age 79 years)
  Married	Abt Nov 1889	Norwich, Norfolk   [6]
  Married	25 Dec 1889	St Michael at Thorn, Norwich, Norfolk   [5]
  		Walter Howes / Alice Gell MC
  Witness	25 Dec 1889  [5]
  	Charles Bell
  Witness	25 Dec 1889  [5]
  	Elizabeth Bell
  Children	+ 1. Ellen Howes,   b. 29 Dec 1888, Norwich, Norfolk ,   d. Abt Aug 1970, Kettering RD, Northamptonshire  (Age 81 years) + 2. Ernest Walter Howes,   b. 18 Feb 1891, Norwich, Norfolk ,   d. 9 Sep 1916, Somme, Picardie, France  (Age 25 years) + 3. Walter Ernest Howes,   b. 1 Oct 1892, Norwich, Norfolk ,   d. 28 Apr 1959, 725 Jervis Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada  (Age 66 years) + 4. Henry James Howes,   b. Abt May 1894, Norwich, Norfolk ,   d. Abt Nov 1936, Erpingham RD, Norfolk  (Age ~ 42 years) + 5. Herbert Howes,   b. 16 Jan 1898, Norwich, Norfolk ,   d. 11 Oct 1945, Norwich, Norfolk  (Age 47 years)   6. George Howes,   b. 1 Apr 1899, Norwich, Norfolk ,   d. 2 Jan 1900, 42 Horn's Lane, Norwich, Norfolk  (Age 0 years)   7. Alice Gertrude Howes,   b. 31 Jul 1900, Norwich, Norfolk ,   d. 7 Dec 1901, 42 Horn's Lane, Norwich, Norfolk  (Age 1 years)   8. James Frederick Howes,   b. 4 Oct 1901, Norwich, Norfolk ,   d. 20 Jul 1902, 42 Horn's Lane, Norwich, Norfolk  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	6 Mar 2016
  Family ID	F9317	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Abt 1865 - Norwich, Norfolk Birth - Abt 1866 - Norwich, Norfolk Born - 30 Jul 1866 - St Michael's Alley, Norwich, Norfolk Birth - Abt Aug 1866 - Norwich, Norfolk Birth - Abt 1867 - Norwich, Norfolk Birth - Abt 1868 - Norwich, Norfolk Residence - 3 Apr 1881 - Houghton's Yard, Ber Street, St Michael at Thorn, Norwich, Norfolk Married - Abt Nov 1889 - Norwich, Norfolk Residence - 25 Dec 1889 - St Michael at Thorn, Norwich, Norfolk Married - 25 Dec 1889 - St Michael at Thorn, Norwich, Norfolk Residence - 1891 - Newman's Yard, St John de Sepulchre, Norwich, Norfolk Residence - 1901 - 42 Mariners Lane, St Julian, Norwich, Norfolk Buried - 3 Feb 1915 - At sea  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S6] 1901 Census - England & Wales. [S461] Death report - spouse. [S458] Death report - son. [S601] Death report - mother. [S50] Marriage cert. [S475] BMD register (England & Wales) - marriages - multiple sources. [S4] 1881 Census - England & Wales. [S5] 1891 Census - England & Wales. [S611] Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. [S11] Birth cert. [S476] BMD register (England & Wales) - births - multiple sources. [S218] Marriage record - son. [S542] 1871 Census - England & Wales. [S156] 1911 Census - England & Wales. [S62] Parish Register - baptisms. indicates that we have seen the original parish register, microfilm/fiche or a scanned image [S475] BMD register (England & Wales) - marriages - multiple sources. available online from various sources