FORRESTER, Joseph

13100359 Private, Pioneer Corps

Born 08/04/1903

Died 21/08/1943, Age 40, at Liverpool

Buried 26/08/1943

Son of John James Forrester (1866-1910) and Mary Forrester (nee Mooney) of Cleethorpes (1868-1942), married 1886)

Brother of Jane (b.1887), John J (b. 1888), Elizabeth (b. 1890), Annie (b.1892), Henry (b. 1894), Thomas (b. 1896), Mary (b. 1899), Susannah (b. 1901), Emily (b. 1907) and Martha (b. 1909)

Joseph’s father died in 1910 and the 1911 census shows that the family had split up. Widowed Mary was working as a fish cleaner and living at the back of Smith’s Buildings in Hope Street, with Tom, Henry and Elizabeth. Mary junior, Susannah, Emily and Martha were all inmates at Nazareth House, Old Lenton, Nottingham. The Nazareth House provided accommodation for the elderly poor and for destitute or orphaned children, primarily of the Roman Catholic faith.

Joseph and older brother John were two of four boarders at 5 Orwell Street, the home of William Henry Pickersgill, his wife and daughter. John was working as a fish house labourer.

School admission records show that Joseph attended St Mary’s School and Holme Hill Junior and Senior Boys Schools.

Occupation (1939) – Fish Packer, living with his brother Thomas, a fish smoker, at 87 Daubney Street, Cleethorpes

Address at time of death: 87 Daubney Street