Henry Rigney

Census Address: 2 Empingham Road
Place of Birth: Nottingham
Date of Birth: 1895
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Henry Rigney – 2 Empingham Road

In 1911 Henry was living with his uncle and aunt, John & Lucy Rippey, and 3 or their 4 children at 2 Empingham Rd in Stamford. Ten years earlier he was also living with them at 10 West St so he probably grew up in their family.
Henry’s mother Charlotte, John’s sister, had grown up in Stamford and worked for some time as a housemaid at 2 Rutland Terrace. In 1892 she married William James Rigney, a soldier in the 12th Lancers, in the Nottingham area where (William) Henry was also born and baptised in 1895. It is impossible to know how much time his parents spent together but Charlotte certainly had a career as a nurse working in workhouses and this is presumably why Henry grew up Stamford. In 1901 she was a Leicester Workhouse and by 1911 she was a widow working at a workhouse in Kent.
John Rippey was a wheelwright for a carriage builder and in 1911 Henry was a 16year old apprentice in the same trade. Early in the War he joined the Royal Field Artillery and in November 1915 he was posted to France where he was a Signaller. He was awarded the British and Victory medals and the 1915 Star.
After the War he married Doris McDonald at Oldham in 1922 and their son, Bernard was born at Saddleworth in the West Riding in 1923. He worked as a coach painter in the 1930s and he was working at the Morris Motor Works in Oxford when he died in 1949. His son was a car assembler quite possibly at the same place.
Charlotte, his mother, returned to Stamford and was living at 2 West End Villas when she died in 1931.

RIGNEY – 2 Empingham Road
In 1911 Henry was living with his uncle and aunt, John & Lucy Rippey, and 3 or their 4 children at 2 Empingham Rd in Stamford. Ten years earlier he was also living with them at 10 West St so he probably grew up in their family.
Henry’s mother Charlotte, John’s sister, had grown up in Stamford and worked for some time as a housemaid at 2 Rutland Terrace. In 1892 she married William James Rigney, a soldier in the 12th Lancers, in the Nottingham area where (William) Henry was also born and baptised in 1895. It is impossible to know how much time his parents spent together but Charlotte certainly had a career as a nurse working in workhouses and this is presumably why Henry grew up Stamford. In 1901 she was a Leicester Workhouse and by 1911 she was a widow working at a workhouse in Kent.
John Rippey was a wheelwright for a carriage builder and in 1911 Henry was a 16 year old apprentice in the same trade. Early in the War he joined the Royal Field Artillery and in November 1915 he was posted to France where he was a Signaller. He was awarded the British and Victory medals and the 1915 Star.
After the War he married Doris McDonald at Oldham in 1922 and their son, Bernard was born at Saddleworth in the West Riding in 1923. He worked as a coach painter in the 1930s and he was working at the Morris Motor Works in Oxford when he died in 1949. His son was a car assembler quite possibly at the same place.
Charlotte, his mother, returned to Stamford and was living at 2 West End Villas when she died in 1931.