Joseph KINGSMAN

10th May 18981,2 - 17th Dec 19773

Hospital Porter

Life History

10th May 1898	Born in Holborn, Middlesex (King Street #23).1,2
3rd Jun 1898	Baptised in Holborn, Middlesex (St Luke, Old Street).1 s/o Charles and Mary Ann, Letter founder of 23 King Street, born 10 May 1898
31st Mar 1901	Recorded in census in Finsbury, Middlesex (Leage Street #23).2
1922	Occupation Labourer
1922	Resident in Hackney, Middlesex (Overbury Street #46)
21st Jan 1922	All Souls
21st Jan 1922	Married Caroline Rebecca SELLEN in Hackney, Middlesex Joseph Kingsman married Caroline Rebecca Sellen on the 21st January 1922 at the local church of All Souls in Hackney, London. He was a 23 year old bachelor, a Labourer, living at the family home of 46 Overbury Street, Clapton, Hackney. Caroline was a 20 year old spinster of 19 Overbury Street, Hackney. The couple had most probably spent their older school days together at the local school in Manderville Street. Caroline's father Wallace Moncar Sellen was a Shoemaker. The couple were married by Licence and the witnesses were her father Wallace Moncar Sellen and William Rent Card Elson, Joseph's sister Jane?s husband, (William Elson?s second name was actually Rutland according to his marriage certificate.)
1923	Birth of son Joseph H KINGSMAN in Hackney, Middlesex
1926	Birth of son Kenneth R KINGSMAN in Hackney, Middlesex
1926	Death of son Kenneth R KINGSMAN in Hackney, Middlesex
1929	Birth of son Roy W KINGSMAN in Hackney, Middlesex
1930	Death of son Roy W KINGSMAN in Bethnal Green, Middlesex
1931	Birth of son William R KINGSMAN in Hackney, Middlesex
1931	Death of son William R KINGSMAN in Hackney, Middlesex
1936	Resident in Clapton, Middlesex (Overbury Street #53a)
1938	Birth of son Terrence KINGSMAN in Hackney, Middlesex
1938	Death of son Terrence KINGSMAN in Hackney, Middlesex
1943	Death of son Joseph H KINGSMAN in Hackney, Middlesex
1946	Occupation Labourer
1977	Resident in Clapton, Middlesex (Kirkstead Court #5, Manderville Street)
17th Dec 1977	Died in Hackney, Middlesex (Hackney Hospital).3 Cardiac arrest

Other facts

	Occupation Hospital Porter
	Birth of child Robert Kenneth KINGSMAN
	Birth of child Peggy KINGSMAN

Notes

Joseph Kingsman was born on the 10th May 1898 at 23 King Street, in the Registration District of Holborn in the Sub-district of City Road, London, Middlesex. His mother Mary Ann Kingsman registered the birth on the 22nd June 1898 and signed the register with a cross, as she couldn?t write her name. His father Charles was recorded as a Type Founder.

Joseph was living at 53a Overbury Street, Lower Clapton in 1936 and 1937. There was an entry in Kelley?s Directory which noted him as a Confectioner.

Joseph spent most of his life in Hackney. He took the photograph of the Kingsman family in the garden at Overbury Street, Clapton, Park, Hackney and developed the photographs in his own cellar.

He died on the 17th December 1977 at the Hospital in Hackney aged 79 years old where he had been a Hospital Porter during his working life. His usual address was 5 Kirkstead Court, Mandeville Street London E5. He died of a Cardiac Arrest with Ischaemic Heart Disease, Diabetes and Chronic Bronchitis Emphysema. His son Robert Kenneth Kingsman of 116 Summit Estate, Portland Avenue London N 16 registered the death on the 19th December 1977

Sources

1. Parish Register
2. Census 1901 Finsbury, Middlesex RG13/259/27/17
3. Death Certificate