Joseph ROBINSON (1895-1941)

Joseph's Death Certificate

Joseph's Marriage certificate

Personal Details

Marriage and Family Details

Other Details

In the 1901 census Joseph and his parental family were living at 17 Clock Passage, Southwark. In the 1911 census they were living at 60 Thurlow Street, Walworth. In the certificate of his marriage to Jessie, his address is given as 118* South Street (presumably in the parish of St Stephens, Walworth where they were married). At the time of his death Joseph and Jessie were living at 29 Phelp Street, Walworth, Southwark, which from his marriage certificate appears to be Jessie's family home.

Joseph was my maternal grandfather. I never knew him as he died in 1941 when my mother was just 8 years old. Her only recollection of her father was that he was a baker and worked in a bakery next door to their home, on the corner of Phelp Street. He worked nights, baking bread for the next morning and therefore slept most of the following day. Her recollection was that her father went into hospital for an operation (which she belives was for a hernia) and never came out. Having obtained his death certificate, it confirms that his cause of death was a "Strangulated Femoral Hernia" which even in these modern days can be a deadly affliction possibly causing a great deal of pain.

Regretfully, all of my mother's family photo's were held by her sister, (Doreen) following the death of their mother, and when Doreen died, they were retained by her surviving husband, and on his death they could not be found, so regretfully we have no known pictures of Joseph. You will see from above that Joseph had 11 siblings,and research on these individuals is still ongoing. My hope is that somewhere there may be family members who still hold documents and photographs.

[* The address on the certificate could also be read as 1/8 South Street]