Sidney Herbert KNAPTON [26620]

  General Notes:

Births
Sidney Herbert Knapton
Registration Year: 1882
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district: Shaftesbury
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: Dorset
Volume: 5a
Page: 236

Marriages
Sidney Herbert Knapton
Registration Year: 1900
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration district: Christchurch
Hampshire
Volume: 2b
Page: 993
Records on Page:
Name
Sidney Herbert Knapton
Louisa Sims

WWI Pension Records
Sidney Herbert Knapton
Document Year: 1919
Regimental Number: 18526
Regiment Name: Devonshire Regiment
Form Title: Cover for Discharge Documents
Number of Images: 12

The family lived for many years at 47 Lincoln Road in Bournemouth

1939 Register.
Sidney H Knapton
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 17 Jun 1882
Residence Year: 1939
Address: 47 Lincoln Ave
Residence Place: Bournemouth, Hampshire, England
Occupation: Motor Driver
Line Number: 34
Schedule Number: 72
Sub Schedule Number: 1
Enumeration District: EAAS
Borough: Bournemouth
Registration district: 94/1
Inferred Spouse:
Louisa Knapton.

Passenger List.
Mr Sidney H Knapton
Departure Age: 70
Birth Date: abt 1883
Departure Date: 19 Sep 1953
Departure Port: England
Ship Name: Mataroa
Shipping Line: Shaw Savill Line
Destination Port: Wellington, New Zealand
Master: R G James

Passenger List
Sidney Knapton
Arrival Age: 73
Birth Date: 17 Jun 1882
Port of Departure: Wellington, New Zealand
Arrival Date: 2 Sep 1955
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ports of Voyage: Wellington; Pitcairn Island and Curacao
Ship Name: Rangitoto
Shipping Line: New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd
Official Number: 7711/01

Colin Sellwood writes 2021: I do clearly remember meeting him (Sidney Herbert) in Luckham Road in the early 1950's, and he subsequently sailed to New Zealand at least once, and perhaps twice, in the late1950's before returning to England.

Deaths
Sidney H Knapton
Death Age: 85
Birth Date: abt 1883
Registration Date: Jun 1968
Registration district: Poole
Inferred County: Dorset
Volume: 7c
Page: 105

  Other Records

1. Census: England, 5 Apr 1891, Gillingham DOR. Sidney is recorded as a son aged 9 born Gillingham

2. Census: England, 2 Apr 1911, Bournemouth HAM. Sidney is recorded as head of a 5 room house aged 29 married 11yrs a Corporation carter born Gillingham DOR

Sidney married Louisa SIMS [26633] [MRIN: 4968], daughter of Eli SIMS [26904] and Catherine (Kate) LOCKYER [27403], 1st Qtr 1900 in Christchurch HAM. (Louisa SIMS [26633] was born on 3 Apr 1880 in Bournemouth HAM and died on 12 Jan 1943.)