War Memorials - Surnames V

William Morris Vincent was born on 1 July 1890 in the West Ham registration district to William and Elizabeth Mary Ann Vincent, nee Morris. His parents had married in the West Ham registration district in 1889. On the 23 July 1890 he was christened in Leytonstone, Essex.

Elizabeth, aged 25, and her young son William, who was under 10 months old, were staying with Elizabeth's parents George and Annie Morris at 25 Eversfield Place Hastings, where her father was an auctioneer and valuer in the 1890 census. This record shows William as being born in Manstead, Essex, but this may have been misheard and should have been Wanstead.

William was not with his family in the 1901 census. His father William, a 38 year old solicitor, his mother now aged 34, his brother Harold aged 9 and sister Maud aged 5 were all recorded as living with his maternal widowed grandfather George Field Morris at his home in "Maderia" Cambridge Park Wanstead Essex.

William's whereabouts in the 1901 census has not been found as yet but in the 1911 census he was living with his parents at Southchurch Road Southend where he was working as a solicitors articled clerk, possibly for his father.

As to when the family moved to Epsom is uncertain but William married Florence Marianne Grellier in the December quarter 1915 in Epsom. Florence's brother Gordon Harley Grellier was also to lose his life during the war.

William's military records, as yet, have not been researched.

CWGC states that William was killed in Palestine on an attack on Gaza on 26 March 1917. Listed on the Jerusalem Memorial, Palestine.

Son of William and Elizabeth Vincent, Ebbsfleet, Epsom and husband of Florence Marianne Vincent Epsom.

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