Stoker 1st Class SS 113339 Henry Rockliffe
Regiment/Unit: Royal Navy - H.M.S. Vivid II
Theatre of War: Home
Previous Reg/Num: Vivid II, Stoker 2nd class, 30 Jan 1913 - 16 Sep 1913 Lion, Stoker 2nd class, 17 Sep 1913 Lion, Stoker 1st class, 27 Feb 1914 - 6 Apr 1917
Age at death: 24
Date of death: 3rd of December 1918
Born: Lathom, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
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Burial / Memorial: Burscough St John The Evangelist Roman Catholic Churchyard -
BMD details:
Marriage: 27/07/1916 Henricum ROCKLIFFE to Henriettam SEDDON at Derbyshire Hill St Vincent RC. Birth index suggests that Henry and Harriet had two children, Ethelreda P Rockliffe, born 3rd quarter 1917, and Monica Rockliffe, born 1st quarter 1919, both registered in Prescot. Sadly, the death index suggests that Harriet and the two children all died soon after Henry. His cause of death was chronic brights disease (osteo arthritis was the cause of his discharge).
Census details:
1901 census - 7 year old Henry Rockliffe is living at Ring o Bells Bridge, Lathom, with his father Edward (33, a boatman), mother Mary J (26), and five younger siblings: Margaret J (5), Ethel M (3), Elena M (3), Martha A (2) and Edward (8 months). 1911 census - 17 year old Henry is a farm labourer living at Ring o Bells, Lathom, with his father Edward (42), mother Mary Jane (35), and eight younger siblings: Margaret Jane (15), Ethel May (13), Elena Maud (13), Martha Ann (12), Mary Alice (5), William Langton (4), Edward (2) and Rose Ellen (9 months); also his widowed grandmother Jane Langton (67), and a lodger, Charles James Smith (30).
Notes:
Not on CWGC. Brother [url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2353448/ROCKLIFFE,%20CHARLES%20BERESFORD]Charles Beresford Rockliffe[/url] Died in WW2
Not on CWGC. Brother [url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2353448/ROCKLIFFE,%20CHARLES%20BERESFORD]Charles Beresford Rockliffe[/url] Died in WW2
[i](Photos and Research by PaulC)[/i]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/113339_Henry_Rockliffe.jpg[/pic][caption]Ormskirk Advertiser, 28 January 1915.[/caption]
[pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/NPCHenry_Rockliffe1.jpg[/pic][caption]Ormskirk Advertiser 12/12/1918[/caption]
[pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/NPCHenry_Rockliffe2.jpg[/pic][caption]Ormskirk Advertiser 19/12/1918[/caption]
[pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/Henry_Rockliffe_Prob.jpg[/pic][caption]Probate Calender[/caption]
[pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/Rockliffe_Mem_Window.jpg[/pic][caption]Henry Rockliffe is depicted in the East Window of St John the Baptist Church[/caption]
[pic]imgs/sppics/burscoughandlathamwm.jpg[/pic][caption]Henry's name on the Burscough and Latham Memorial[/caption]
[pic]imgs/sppics/stjohnroh.jpg[/pic][caption]Roll of honour at St Johns parish church in Burscough[/caption]
