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WR/504018
Spr Joseph Harrod Royal Engineers
Inland Water Transport
B 1891
Medal card Awarded Victory and British medals.
He received them in July 1922.
   
Service record DoB 1891
Marriage date 19 Feb 1916
Residence: 2 Water Mill Yards, Newark
Joined: Royal Engineers, Inland Waterways and Dock Companies
Was posted abroad to BEF in December 1916 and later raised to a “superior” pay rate, and again in September.
Whilst on 14 days leave in the UK he was demobilised on 13 February 1919.
Spouse: Annie Cowdell
Son: Ralph (faint writing)
Daughter: Irene Rose
AVL AVL Address: Slater's Cottage, Fisher Lane
Not listed on roll of honour

Family history etc

  Joseph Harrod    
1891 Born Newark    
Census 1911 Living in James Row, Milllgate, Newark with:
Father: George,, b. 1852 South Witham – widower
Sister: Alice, b. 1889 Newark
Brother: George b. 1895 Farndon

Gardener
 
Census 1911 Living at 2 Water Mill Yard, Mill Gate, Newark with:
Father: George Harrod, b. 1852 South Witham – widower
Sister: Alice Bentley, b. 1889 Newark
Brother-in-law: George Bentley, b. 1887 Lowdham
Niece: Edwina Bentley, b. 1910 Newark
Boatman on a barge
Gardener


Farm Labourer
single
1911 Census
(Cowdell Family)
Annie living in Fisher Lane, Bingham with:
Father: William, b. 1870 Westwood
Mother: Elizabeth, b. 1864 Bingham
Herbert, b. 1890 Bingham
William, b. 1900
Nellie, b. 1902
Frank, b. 1906
And
[Elizabeth’s sister]: Ellen, b. 1846 Bingham
Domestic servant
Farm Labourer

Farm Labourer



Herbert KiA WW1
1916 Joseph married Annie Cowdell Mar qtr, Newark 7b 837 in Newark
Children:
Ralph b Bingham Mar 1917
Irene Rose b Bingham Dec1918
Joan I b Bingham Sep 1922
Terence RC b Southwell 1935
   
1939 Register The Lock House, Hazleford Bleasby, Southwell:
Joseph Ives Harrod, b. 11 Oct 1891, married
Annie Harrod, b. 5 Jan 1893, married
Four closed records

River Lock Keeper
Unpaid domestic duties
presumably Ralph, Irene, Joan and Terence
1966 Annie died at Southwell aged 69 in Sep qtr 1966 v3c p415  
1974 Mar qtr Joseph Ives Harrod died Newark aged 82
 

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