Stanley Humphrey Tremelling was born in Southwark on 26 Oct 1892, the son of James Humphrey Tremelling and his second wife Lucy Maria Blundell who married in 1891. The Tremellings were a family from Phillack in Cornwall; Humphrey and James were frequently used names. The male Tremellings had worked as carpenters, cabinet makers then pattern makers at the copper foundries in Phillack and Hayle since the 1700s. Stanley's father James Humphrey Tremelling was born in 1848 in Phillack and moved to London sometime between April 1871 and Oct 1875. James & Lucy had a daughter, Nellie, in 1896 but she died the same year and according to the 1911 census a third child I have yet to identify.
In 1901 Stanley & his family were living at 6 Gladstone St with 3 French boarders & 1 American lodger; his father James died in 1906. In 1911 Stanley was aged 18, a machine ruler living with his paralysed widowed mother & half sister Hilda in Milkwood Rd Lambeth. Stanley enlisted in Kennington with the 24th (County of London) Battalion (The Queen's) and went to France on 16 Mar 1915; he was killed 2 months later on 26 May 1915 at the battle of Festubert. His name is inscribed on the Le Touret Memorial, Richebourg-L'avoue, Pas de Calais, panels 46 & 47 and he is also remembered on the Stockwell War Memorial, London.
After his death a nephew born in 1918 [my mother's brother] was called Stanley in his memory.
