Richard Thomas Southall (1917 - 1963)

Born 12 Nov 1917 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Irene Margaret (Scott) Southall — married 29 Jul 1942 in Greenwich or Blackheath, London, England

Died 28 Nov 1963 at age 46 in Whitmas Hill Coppice, Cradley, Herefordshire, England

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Biography

• Richard Thomas Southall was born in Worcester, Worcestershire, England, on November 12, 1917 -- a son of Thomas Joseph Southall and Frances Mary Owden Southall.
• By 1939 Richard is listed in the 1939 Register of England and Wales as an "Engineering draughtsman and manager's assistant" (working for his father)
• On July 29, 1942, he married Irene Margaret Scott (probably in Blackheath or Greenwich, in south-east London, England); the marriage was registered at Lewisham.
• By 1950, Irene and Richard were living in a small cottage in a village called Mathon (near to Colwall and Great Malvern) in Worcestershire, England; I remember that when one wanted to have a bath this was executed in a tin tub on the floor in the kitchen!
• By 1955 they had moved to Fernhill, a big house just outside the village of Cradleigh (again near Malvern) in Worcestershire, England.
• Richard became the managing director of a family-owned iron and steel works in Worcester; it was not a job that he was cut out for, and he became increasingly depressed by the job and the associated responsibilities.
• Sadly, in 1963, Richard took his own life in a bout of severe depression related to work and Southall family issues.

Sources

• Direct personal acquaintance and knowledge (Richard Thomas Southall was the husband of a paternal aunt of the profile manager).
• Detailed information about this individual is accessible on Ancestry (see http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/19962126/person/875687797).
• "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008" (see https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2FBV-FRS)
• UK census data for 1921
• 1939 Register of England and Wales
• England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005" (see https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV8R-4RRX)
• Death, as reported in The Birmingham Post & Birmingham Gazette on November 30, 1963 (see p. 5)
• England and Wales Death Registration Index, 1837-2005" (see https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVCV-SRT5)
• "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995" (see https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1904/images/32858_635001_2120-00297)