See also
Gilbert Robert Boyle
Name:
Gilbert Robert Boyle
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
1889, Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth for Gilbert Robert Boyle
1889, Register Entry for Baptism of Gilbert Robert Boyle
1951, Grant of Administration for Estate of Gilbert Robert Boyle
Birth:
1 Oct 1889
New Southgate, Southgate, Edmonton, Middlesex1
Address: 9 St John's Villas
Baptism:
27 Oct 1889 (age 0)
Saint Paul's Parish Church2
Address: New Southgate, Enfield, Middlesex
Birth Registration:
23 Nov 1889 (age 0)
The Register Office3
Address: Edmonton
Census (living with parents):
31 Mar 1901 (age 11)
1901 Census - living with parents
Census (living with parents):
2 Apr 1911 (age 21)
1911 Census - living with parents
Occupation:
frm 1915 to 1920 (age 25-31)
In the 1911 Census he is described as a clerk working for his father who was an accountant with is own business and in the register entry for his marriage to Violet Crossman in 1919 as an accountant. However, by the time of the 1921 Census he had given up accountancy in to join the firm of C. P. Preston as an Assistant Sales Manager.
Residence:
25 Nov 1919 (age 30)
Tryst, West Borough Road, Westcliffe On Sea7
Occupation:
frm 1920 to 1950 (age 30-61)
In the 1921 he gives his job as an Assistant Sales Mansger working for the C. P. Preston Company who who were motor car accessory dealers and manufacurers. On the birth certificate of his son, Donald Robert Boyce Boyle he is described as a 'merchant motor and electrical'. It is also clear from reports of car accidents that he was a commercial traveller.
Executor:
17 Jun 1933 (age 43)
Gilbert was executor for estate of Robert Boyle
Beneficiary:
17 Jun 1933 (age 43)
Beneficiary in the will of Robert Boyle
Death:
4 Apr 1951 (age 61)
Address: Woodcote, Stone Grove
Administration:
8 Oct 1951
London10
Address: Woodcote, Stone Grove, Edgeware
The estate was worth £612 3s. 7d.. It is assumed that Violet was the sole beneficiary.
Spouse: Lilian Doris Rosam, Q2 1940
Son: Donald Robert Boyce Boyle, 1995, age 62
Spouse:
Children:
Status:
Never Married
1919, Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage between Gilbert Robert Boyle and Violet Wycliffe Crossman
Spouse:
Children:
Marriage:
25 Nov 1919 (age 30)
St Peter's Church11
Address: Demerton, Bedford, Bedford
Robert Boyle was the groom's father and John Wycliffe Crossman the bride's father.
Census for household:
19 Jun 1921 (age 30)
Clapham, London6
Address: 8 Lyndon Road
The household consisted of Gilbert, his wife Violet and their son Derrik.They had 3 rooms and shared the house with another couple who had 6 rooms. Although the return has been filled in and signed by Gilbert to show that he was there on the night of the census his entry has been crossed out in green ink and annotated 'Holiday - Devon - Dawlish'. Presumably Gilbert filled out the form prior to the census and Violet told the enumerator who collected the forms that Gilbert had not been there on the night of the census. Certainly the boxes on the number of persons present which were filled in by the enumerator showed that only Violet and her son were there.
Gilbert is not recorded in Dawlish so he may have been camping - it is known that he liked camping.
Tthey had a son Donald Robert Boyce Boyle. Don as he was known in later life, was born at the house of his Godmother, Nancy Boyce, who was his mother's great friend.
At the time Gilbert was already married although the marriage had been dissolved; whether formally, by mutual consent or by desertion is not known so his parents could not marry although Gilbert maintained contact with his son in the early years. Apparently they all went on a camping holiday together when Don was young. Doris' sister Winifred tried to persuade them to live together so as to give Don 'a home'. Why this didn't happen is not known and Doris and Don lived with Doris' parents (Don's grandparents), William and Emily Rosam, at 10 Grove Road, Thornton Heath, until Don left home in 1950 to join the Royal Marines. Doris continued to work to support her son so in his early years Don was mainly looked after by his grandparents.
How Doris and Gilbert met is not known but Don's birth certificate shows his father to be a 'merchant motor and electrical' and his mother to be a 'private secretary in an electrical company'. Although the term 'merchant motor and electrical' is not fully understood it implies he sold electrical equipment probably as a commercial traveller and so he may well have met Doris when he called on the firm where Doris worked.12
John Harman Judd, Registrar, Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth for Gilbert Robert Boyle, (General Register Office on 30 Oct 1980 in response to Application Number 569D). Custom Id: BXA 611489; Date of birth. Cit. Date: 1 October 1889. Andrew Boyle.
Parish Register for Baptism of Gilbert Robert Boyle, St Paul, New Southgate, Middlesex, 27 October 1889.
John Harman Judd, Registrar, Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth for Gilbert Robert Boyle, (General Register Office on 30 Oct 1980 in response to Application Number 569D). Custom Id: BXA 611489; Date of registration. Cit. Date: 23 November 1889. Andrew Boyle.
1911 England, Wales & Scotland census, 9 Southview Drive, Westcliffe-on-Sea, Essex, head of household: Robert Boyle, National Archives.
Rev. J. E. Gilbert, Rector, Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage Between Gilbert Robert Boyle and Violet Wycliffe Crossman, (General Register Office on 3 Nov 1980 in response to Application Number 569D). Custom Id: MB 233544; Occupation. Cit. Date: 25 November 1919. Pat Ward.
1921 England, Wales & Scotland census, 8 Lyndon Road, Clapham, London, head of household: Gilbert Robert Boyle, National Archives.
Rev. J. E. Gilbert, Rector, Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage Between Gilbert Robert Boyle and Violet Wycliffe Crossman, (General Register Office on 3 Nov 1980 in response to Application Number 569D). Custom Id: MB 233544; Pat Ward.
Harold Edgar Butcher. Registrar for Highbury, Islington District, Certified Copy of an Enty of Birth for Donald Robert Boyce Boyle, (Original copy of Entry No 259 given to Lilian Doris Rosam on 29 March 1933). Custom Id: D2 109741; Father's Occupation. Cit. Date: February 1933. Wendy Boyle.
General Register Office, Civil Registration Index (England & Wales) for Death of Gilbert Robert Boyle, (Ancestry website). Custom Id: Deaths 1951 Q2 Harrow Vol. 5f, Page 286; Cit. Date: Q2 1951. General Register Office. Call Number: Deaths.
Grant of Administration: Gilbert Robert Boyle, 8 October 1951, Principal Probate Registry, 1951 Baalham to Byworth Page 784.
Rev. J. E. Gilbert, Rector, Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage Between Gilbert Robert Boyle and Violet Wycliffe Crossman, (General Register Office on 3 Nov 1980 in response to Application Number 569D). Custom Id: MB 233544; When married. Cit. Date: 24 November 1919. Pat Ward.
P. H. Ward as recorded by J P W Ward, The Rosam Family, (2008/9). Don's parents and their relationship. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
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