Aldborough Gravestone 3
Aldborough Gravestone
Elinor Pendrill born Oct 29th 1870 Died Nov 29th 1955
Alfred James Edgar Pendrill born September 12th 1896 Died May 11th 1940. Accidentally killed on board the ship Rangitata at Auckland Harbour, New Zealand and buried at Waikennete Cemetery.
Alfred was living at 133 Pembroke Road, Seven Kings at the time. His wife Beatrice Amelia Pendrill, nee Jennings, married 1927, departed for New Zealand the next year from Liverpool on February 27 1941 aged 47 [christened at Christ Church, Preston, Lancs]and no further trace remains of her. They seem to have had no children.
I think it's meant to be WAIKUMETE cemetery where he is rather informally named on the gravestone as "Alf Pendrill"
His father was Alfred George Pendrill - married 1895 in Holborn. died 1966 in Redbridge, aged 93 at Chadwell Heath Hospital, while living at 53 Meads Lane, Seven Kings.
During World War II, in 1940 Rangitata sailed from Liverpool with 113 evacuated children under the Children's Overseas Reception Board CORB scheme on 28 August 1940,bound for New Zealand through the Panama Canal in convoy OB-205, with SS Volendam (carrying children bound for Canada, which was torpedoed), with 113 CORB children arriving safely in New Zealand.
The SS Rangitata, built 1929, operated as a troop ship in WW2
Sister ship the Rangitane was sunk off New Zealand by a German boat in late November 1940, one of the largest passenger vesels to be sunk in WW2
www.london-medals.co.uk/index.php?route=blog/post&pos...
see Elizabeth Ann Plumb, 28 Dunbreck Road, Eltham died 1969.
Yet more colloquialism - the New Zealand grave - peeked here -
billiongraves.com/pages/record/Alf-Pendrill/11773103
describes his wife as "Beat Pendrill"!
An "A. Pendrill" a butcher's mate migrated to New Zealand in 1934, departing London on the SS Remuera [sunk incidentally in the North Sea in 1940 off Kinnaird Head, Scotland, a former regular ship to Pitcairn Island]] and 1932 on the Tamaroa - he may well have been an on-board shp's butcher.
Interestingly, Alfred Pendrill enlisted for the first world war into Australian Forces in Sydney. Next of kin, his mother Elinor nee Webb.
Aldborough Gravestone 3
Aldborough Gravestone
Elinor Pendrill born Oct 29th 1870 Died Nov 29th 1955
Alfred James Edgar Pendrill born September 12th 1896 Died May 11th 1940. Accidentally killed on board the ship Rangitata at Auckland Harbour, New Zealand and buried at Waikennete Cemetery.
Alfred was living at 133 Pembroke Road, Seven Kings at the time. His wife Beatrice Amelia Pendrill, nee Jennings, married 1927, departed for New Zealand the next year from Liverpool on February 27 1941 aged 47 [christened at Christ Church, Preston, Lancs]and no further trace remains of her. They seem to have had no children.
I think it's meant to be WAIKUMETE cemetery where he is rather informally named on the gravestone as "Alf Pendrill"
His father was Alfred George Pendrill - married 1895 in Holborn. died 1966 in Redbridge, aged 93 at Chadwell Heath Hospital, while living at 53 Meads Lane, Seven Kings.
During World War II, in 1940 Rangitata sailed from Liverpool with 113 evacuated children under the Children's Overseas Reception Board CORB scheme on 28 August 1940,bound for New Zealand through the Panama Canal in convoy OB-205, with SS Volendam (carrying children bound for Canada, which was torpedoed), with 113 CORB children arriving safely in New Zealand.
The SS Rangitata, built 1929, operated as a troop ship in WW2
Sister ship the Rangitane was sunk off New Zealand by a German boat in late November 1940, one of the largest passenger vesels to be sunk in WW2
www.london-medals.co.uk/index.php?route=blog/post&pos...
see Elizabeth Ann Plumb, 28 Dunbreck Road, Eltham died 1969.
Yet more colloquialism - the New Zealand grave - peeked here -
billiongraves.com/pages/record/Alf-Pendrill/11773103
describes his wife as "Beat Pendrill"!
An "A. Pendrill" a butcher's mate migrated to New Zealand in 1934, departing London on the SS Remuera [sunk incidentally in the North Sea in 1940 off Kinnaird Head, Scotland, a former regular ship to Pitcairn Island]] and 1932 on the Tamaroa - he may well have been an on-board shp's butcher.
Interestingly, Alfred Pendrill enlisted for the first world war into Australian Forces in Sydney. Next of kin, his mother Elinor nee Webb.