ROWBOTHAM, Richard Thomas

ROWBOTHAM, Richard Thomas

LT/KX 101287, Engineman, Royal Naval Patrol Service, H.M.S. Pollux

Born 10/11/1907 in Grimsby

Died 18/12/1942, Age 35, at Mearnsketh (Mearnskirk) Hospital, Glasgow

Baptised 29/11/1907 at St John the Evangelist, Grimsby

1911 - living at 152 Stanley Street, Grimsby, with father Thomas Laws Rowbotham (b. 1881

Durham, a marine engine driver), mother Mary Ann Elizabeth Rowbotham (nee Burton, born

1882 Grimsby) and siblings Sarah Alice (b 1903), Ivy (b 1904), Mary (b 1907) and Doris (b 1911),

all born in Grimsby.

Husband of Maud Elizabeth Rowbotham (nee Tyler, born 06/08/1907) and father of Richard L

Rowbotham (b. 1932 Grimsby) and Frederick T Rowbotham (b 1935 Grimsby). In 1939, the

family were living at 28 Manchester Street, Cleethorpes and Richard's occupation was given as fishing trawler  engineer.

Address at time of death given as 25 Ward Street, Cleethorpes

Cause of death given in Scottish records as “Retro-peritoneal Sarcoma indefinite Mestasases in liver and lungs”