GEORGE TYE COBBOLD
Image from the Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury newspaper – July 1918.
Born: 1887, Ipswich.
Died: 30th November 1917; age 30; Died of Wounds received at the Battle of Cambrai – at No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station.
Enlistment Location: Lower Edmonton.
Occupation: Iron Moulder – Foundry.
Rank: Gunner; Service Number: L/41996.
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, ‘A’ Battery, 26th Brigade.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Reference:
- C. 23.
West Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of George Cobbold; husband of Alice Elizabeth Cobbold, of 45, Tanner’s Lane, Ipswich.
Brother to JAMES EDWARD COBBOLD.
CENSUS
1891 ‘Long Lane’ In Yard, St. Clement’s, Ipswich.
George was 4 years old and living with his paternal grandparents, his aunt and uncle. He was recorded as George Tye.
George Cobbold, 52, a Tobacco Pipe Maker, born Stowupland, Suffolk.
Mary A. Cobbold, 51, born Ipswich.
James Cobbold, 16, a Canvas Sack Maker, born Ipswich.
Eliza Cobbold, 14, born Ipswich.
1901 29, Gibson Street, Ipswich.
George was 14 years old and an Errand Boy. He lived with his parents and siblings and was recorded as George Cobbold.
George William Cobbold, 36, an Iron Foundry Labourer, born Ipswich.
Ellen Jane Cobbold (nee Tye), 33, born Ipswich.
John William Cobbold, 12, born Ipswich.
Ethel Maud Cobbold, 10, born Ipswich.
Ellen May Cobbold, 5, born Ipswich.
Arthur Joseph Cobbold, 10 months, born Ipswich.
1911 14, Handford Cut, Ipswich.
George was 24 years old, an Iron Moulder – Foundry. He was married and Head of the Household.
Alice, 25.
Beatrice, 2.
George’s mother, Ellen Jane Cobbold, died in 1907, Ipswich.
In 1908, Ipswich, George married Alice Elizabeth Miles, born October 1885, Ipswich – daughter of Thomas Edward Miles, an iron turner and fitter, and Alice Miles (nee Prentice), of 142, Handford Road, Ipswich.
Alice and George had one daughter:
Beatrice Ellen Cobbold, born 1909, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Alice Potkins – widow.
George is also remembered at The Mission Free Church, Ipswich, Curriers Lane, and the Orwell Works Memorial, Ransomes Sims & Jefferies, Ipswich.
One Comment
Hi I’m a relative of this man though his uncle william father george cobbold to mary ann cobbold nee king nee firman, william born 17 march 1867.
Need to find out if george his dad married again as 1881 census shows george as a widow aged 40 with grorge and william and james aged 7
if you can help email
regards
Paul