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202. Thomas Henry
HILTON was born on 21 Jun 1902 in 8 Arragon Road, East Ham, London.291,428
He died in 1946 in St.Luke's Hospital Guildford Surrey.428,429 August
or September (September quarter). He was a dockyard train driver.425
He was employed by the Port of London Authority as a Train Driver and Fireman
in the Royal Docks. [In 1923 in his marriage certificate he is described as a
"Loco-Fireman".] He received a commendation for his bravery during
the Blitz. Unfortunately he was the "black sheep" of the family and
he had a weakness for alcohol which often consummed his wages and left his wife
and family hungry. When evacuated to Guildford he worked for British Thomas Huston
who manufactured aircraft parts. He went into St.Luke's Hospital for a hernia
operation where he died at the age of 44. [Daughter Ellen] Thomas Henry HILTON
and Ellen Amelia WINTERFLOOD were married on 4 Aug 1923 in Holy Trinity, Canning
Town/Plaistow.407,430 Ellen Amelia WINTERFLOOD
(daughter of Joseph WINTERFLOOD and Edith Maria MUSPRATT) was born on 24 May
1903 in Custom House, London.291,428 (West Ham Registration District.)
She died on 27 Feb 1975 in Holy Cross Hospital, Haslemere, Surrey.428 She was a Packer.
Ellen was born in 1903 at 135 Janet Road, Custom House. By the time of her marriage
she was living at 50 Berwick Road, Custom House. Her daughter Ellen, my mother,
was told that her parents took rooms or a flat in Custom House where she was
born and her mother's mother helped out a lot. They then moved to Rhea Street,
North Woolwich using downstairs of a house
with an old lady upstairs. This was to be closer to her father's work on the
railway in the Docks for the Port of London Authority.
When Edith Winterflood (nee Muspratt) died aged about 53-4, when daughter Ellen
was aged 10(?), they took over her house in Berwick Rd, Custom House. They moved
to Alnwick Road where there were cows in the fields at the back and during the
war barrage ballons. Her youngest daughter Barbara was born on a Saturday in
1940 during the Blitz, when the German Bombers were targeting the Royal Docks.
The following Sunday night their house was destroyed while they were in the
Anderson shelter in the garden. Before this at one point she and the little ones
were evacuated to Wiltshire leaving Ellen & Joyce behind with their Aunt
Mill but she disliked it and soon returned. Daughter Ivy had already been evacuated
to Bridgwater with her teachers Misses Lennox(Art & needlework) and White
(History & Geography). Stan and Jim also went to Bridgwater. After being
made homeless the family had meals in a school, slept on camp beds and sheltering
in cellars under shops while their mother went to hospital for bed-rest. They
were evacuated to Guildford living with various people until being housed in
a condemned cottage on London Road, Burpham (which still stands!). It had toilets
at the bottom of the garden and was next to a pub. Her father remained working
in London for a while driving trains and fighting fires in the Docks for which
he received a commendation for bravery. Her last home was a flat in Roundhill
Way Westborough Guildford. In her last days she was looked after by 3 of her
daughters: Pam, Barbara & Ellen. Thomas Henry HILTON and Ellen Amelia WINTERFLOOD
had the following children:
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