WOODFORDs
 

 

Family 40

**George Henry HOWELL**   b. 07.06.1883, Birmingham. 1891, 1901 census, with Mum and Dad. A railway clerk in 1901.A picture of George and Agnes and three of their children can be found here
  Married December quarter, 1907
**Agnes May GELSTHORPE**   b. 27.02.1886. d. 24.12.1975. She later married Philip Thompson after the death of George. A picture of her with her sons, Fred (on the left) and George (on the right) can be found here
  They had  
Agnes   b. 24.01.1909. m. James Hazlewood. They had one surviving child, Sylvia, who married and had two children that are known of
**George**   b. 17.01.1910 d. 31.08.1970
Walter   b. 18.10.1913. Married Helen Varney. They had three children who died within days of birth and ended up adopting a girl and a boy, Susan and Philip

Frederick

 

  b. 08.08.1918. d. 12.09.1944 in the Far East. His Debt of Honour Register entry is here Married Joan in 1941. The ship he was on, as a prisoner of war, the Rakuyo Maru  was torpedoed by the USS Sealion.  Details of the sinking can be found here