Howard as a young child
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Howard as a young child
Howard Andrew Hingston = Ann(ie) May Watson1
Married 11 October 1911, Barrow-in-Furness2
Howard Andrew Hingston:
Howard in about 1910
Born 21 September 1877, Smethwick3
Baptised 1 March 1886, St John's East Harborne4
Died 29 May 1946, Grange-over-Sands
Occupation: Engineering Draughtsman
Howard began work at Tangye's as an office boy at a tender age, and described in the 1901 census as a mechanical engineer, in which year he moved to Vickers shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness as an engineering draughtsman. He remained there until he retired in 1943.
Howard in 1945
Ann(ie) May Watson:
Alias Ann(ie) May Hingston (11 October 1911)
Born 19 December 1883, Ulverston
Died 27 December 1961, Stockport, Manchester
Occupation: nurse
Annie (as she was consistently known throughout her life) was working as a dressmaker at the time of the 1901 census, but was determined to escape the shackles of home life and insisted on training to become a nurse allegedly for that reason. She is said to have shown equal insistance in marrying, but she made a success of both and ended her working life running a nursing home at Grange-over-Sands.
Born 1 May 1913, Barrow-in-Furness
Elizabeth Hingston
Born 1916
James Andrew Hingston
Born 23 May 1918, Barrow-in-Furness
Treeby Watson Hingston
Born 1920
Died October 1985, Northallerton
Honor Hingston
Born 1922
1 : Annie is the form she always used and appears on her marriage certificate.
2 : Marriage certificate. Married at St Paul's Church, Parish of Newbarns and Hawes.
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