FENTON CHARLES BANTHORPE
Born: 13th April 1892, at 60, Foundation Street, Ipswich.
Died: 10th November 1918; age: 26; died after a few days’ illness, of Influenza and Delirium, at 7, Botolph Street, Norwich, Norfolk. Fenton’s father, William Banthorpe, of 107, Belle Vue Road, Ipswich, was present at the death.
Residence: 7, Botolph Street, Norwich, Norfolk.
Occupation: Clerk to the Navy and Army Canteen Board, King’s Street, Norwich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Acting Corporal; Service Number: 265367
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 6th Battalion.
Grave Reference:
O. 14. 9.
Ipswich.
Relatives Notified & Address: Only son of W. and C. Banthorpe; husband of Eva Maud Banthorpe, of 37, Old Foundry Road, Ipswich.
CENSUS
1901 32, Cobbold Street, Ipswich.
Fenton was 8 years old and living with his parents.
William Banthorpe, 37, a Woollen Merchant Packer, born Dennington, Suffolk.
Charlotte Elizabeth Margaret Banthorpe (nee Denny), 35, born Radwinter, Essex.
1911 107, Belle Vue Road, Ipswich.
Fenton was 18 years old, an Outfitter’s Assistant – Co-op Society. He was living with his parents & sister.
William, 47, a Woollen Warehouseman.
Charlotte, 45.
Mabel Grace Banthorpe, 9, born Ipswich.
Evening Star – 24th May 1907, reported that Fenton. C. Banthorpe, had passed his English including composition, Arithmetic and Mensuration, Elementary drawing, Geography, History and Citizenship at Smart Street males’ night classes.
Evening Star, 1st September 1908, reported that Fenton had passed his Ipswich Education Committee Book-keeping examination.
On Saturday, 23rd June 1917, at the Museum Street Chapel, Ipswich, Fenton, of 107, Belle Vue Road, Ipswich, married Eva Maud Garnham, born 1891, Ipswich – youngest daughter of Walter Garnham, a domestic gardener, and Julia Emily Garnham (nee Prentice), of 37, Old Foundry Road, Ipswich.
Bertha and Fenton had one son:
Donald Fenton Banthorpe, born 1918, Norwich, Norfolk.
Soldiers’ Effects to Eva M. Banthorpe – widow.
Fenton is also remembered on the war memorial at Museum Street Methodist Church, Ipswich.
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