Died
21 Mar 1917 • Borough Mental Hospital Leicester, Leicestershire, England.[3][4]
Buried
Mar 1917 • Welford Road Cemetery Leicester, Leicestershire, England.[5][1]
Residence:
3 Apr 1881 • 54 Braunstone Gate "Freemasons Arms" Leicester St Mary, Leicestershire, England. Scholar. S/o William and Sarah Granger as William James Granger b: Leicestershire 1873.[6]
5 Apr 1891 • 54 and 56 Braunstone Gate St Mary, Leicester, Leicestershire, England. Clerk to Brewer. S/o William and Sarah Granger as William J Granger b: Leicester 1873.[7]
31 Mar 1901 • 22 Equity Road Leicester formerly St Mary, Leicester, Leicestershire, England. Traveller Woollen and Cotton Goods. H/o Catherine T Granger as William J Granger b: Leicester 1873.[8]
2 Apr 1911 • Borough Mental Hospital Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, England. Commercial Traveller. Patient with others as married William James Granger b: 1873.[9]
Research note
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Sources
↑England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915; Name: William James Granger, Registration Date: 1872, Quarter of the Year: Oct-Nov-Dec, Registration Place: Leicester, Leicestershire, England, Volume: 7a, Page: 232.
↑England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915; Name: William James Granger, Registration Year: 1896, Registration Quarter:
Oct-Nov-Dec, Registration district: Blaby, Inferred County: Leicestershire, Volume: 7a, Page: 91.
↑England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007; Name: William J Granger, Death Age: 44, Birth Date: 1873, Registration Date: Jan 1917, Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar, Registration district: Leicester, Inferred County: Leicestershire, Volume: 7a, Page: 340.
↑England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1861-1941; Name: William James Granger, Death Date: 21 Mar 1917, Death Place: Leicestershire, England, Probate Date: 27 Jun 1917, Probate Registry: Leicestershire, England.
"GRANGER, William James of 36 Fosse-road south Leicester retired commercial traveller died 21 March 1917 at the Borough Mental Hospital Leicester Probate Leicester 27 June to Catherine Teresa Granger widow and George Edward Wheeldon book keeper. Effects 1467 19s. 8d."
↑UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current; NameWilliam James GrangerDeath Date21 Mar 1917CemeteryWelford Road CemeteryBurial or Cremation PlaceLeicester, Leicester Unitary Authority, Leicestershire, England, URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172410985/
↑1911 England Census; The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172410985/william-james-granger : accessed 31 May 2022), memorial page for William James Granger (unknown–21 Mar 1917), Find a Grave Memorial ID 172410985, citing Welford Road Cemetery, Leicester, Leicester Unitary Authority, Leicestershire, England ; Maintained by Jackie Marsh (contributor 48544813)
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