Alfred Hale

[*Sandra*]

Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for blood relatives of Pte Alfred Hale. died 11 July 1918 at home - South Staffordshire Regiment - reg no:- 18870 - buried Tipton Cemetery.
Research has shown Pte Hale is buried at Tipton Cemetery. The Commission are in the process of producing a headstone to mark his grave.

FIND A GRAVE

Tipton Cemetery
Tipton, Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands.
PLOT C. "C." 113b.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/263160618/alfred-hale

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/75467522/alfred-hale/

If you are related or know of someone who is, CWGC would like to hear from you.

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

A little genealogy info from the Tipton Remembers Site.............

Birth of Alfred Hale registered September quarter 1882 in Dudley.

Alfred Hale’s father, Thomas Hale, died in 1891. Alfred’s mother, Esther, re-married in 1898 to William Smith.

1901 Census
1 Court 4 House, Albion Street, Tipton, Staffs.
William Smith (50, Coal Miner – Pikeman, born Tipton), his wife Esther (50, born Tipton), 2 of William’s children: Joseph Smith (24, Coal Miner – Labourer, born Tipton) and William Smith (21, Coal Miner - Pikeman, born Tipton), Esther’s son: Alfred Hale (18, Groom, born Tipton), and William and Esther’s son: Albert (7, born Tipton).

Marriage of Alfred Hale and Jane Pursell registered September quarter 1902 in Dudley.

1911 Census
1 Court 4 House, Albion Street, Tipton, Staffs.
Alfred Hale (28, Horse Keeper for General Carrier, born Tipton), his wife Jane (28, born Tipton), and their 4 children: Arthur (8, School, born Tipton) Thomas Alfred (4, born Tipton), James (3, born Tipton), and Sarah (1, born Tipton).
A further 4 children were born: Florence Eva born 3rd February 1912, Esther born 21st April 1913, Bert born 28th December 1915, and John born 30th July 1917.

https://www.tiptonremembers.net/index.php/hale-alfred

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Pension Card record shows :-

His pension card records that the cause of his death was Pulmonary Tuberculosis which had been contracted whilst on Active Service. Alfred was buried in Tipton Cemetery on 17th July 1918.

son Thomas Alfred Hale born 1906

Thomas Alfred Hale - 23 July 1906 - 1988 (aged 81 years)
Registration district   Sandwell   West Midlands
Volume   33 Page   1152

married - Thomas A Hale - 1929
Registration district   Dudley Worcestershire
Spouse    Harriet Holloway
Volume Number   6b Page number   2447

Harriet Hale - 30 June 1907 - 1994  (aged 87 years)
Registration district   Sandwell West Midlands
Register Number   A48 - District and Subdistrict   0701A
Entry Number   228

A son born 1931 and died 1932   

Births Jun 1931 
Hale    Thomas A    Holloway    Dudley    6b   1437

Death 1932
Hale    Thomas A    0    Dudley    6b   1131   

Could be a 1939 birth for a son "B J Hale"

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Messages sent to a couple of ancestry tree owner, sounds like a near relative. Fingers crossed.

Sadly the 1939 birth for Bertram J Hale passed 1977 

Bertram Hale -   Death 1977 Staffordshire.
Registration district   Newcastle-Under-Lyme

spouse passed in 2013 -

Marriages Mar 1961   
HALE    Bertram J    BOWATER    Wednesbury    9b   1750

FIND A GRAVE


Gornal Wood Cemetery and Crematorium
Gornal Wood, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands.
PLOT Section X, Grave 15022

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219386776/pauline-joan-bowater

Possible 4 births in the W. Bromwich Area - 1962/1965/1969/1973


Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Still trying - reply states - Thank you for getting in touch. Alfred Hale is not a blood relative, he is connected to my husband by marriage. 

Sandra