J.+HATTON

Hatton, Joseph, Private, 69257, 11th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Born Spondon, Derbyshire Died 25th November 1918 aged 37 Husband of Elizabeth A. Hatton, of 38, Church Hill, Spondon Buried in Spondon Cemetery, Derbyshire

Joseph born on 28 May 1887, the son of Joseph (1852-1896) and Lucy (née Longden, 1857-1900) Hatton. He had an older brother, William Longden (b. 1880) and two older sisters, Jancy (b. 1881) and Alice Mary (b. 1885) as well as 3 younger brothers – Thomas (b. 1889), Fred (b. 1892) and Ernest (b. 1896). He was living with the family in Church Street, Spondon in 1891 and attended Spondon School; by 1901 he was a farm servant at Elvaston. In 1910, he married Elizabeth Ann Swift at St Werburgh’s Church and a year he was a Corporation labourer when they were living at 39 Church Hill. They had 4 children – Frederick Edward (1911-1989), Marjorie Jane (1912-1955, married George Burton in 1940), George William (born 1916 but died within a year) and Thomas (born 1917). He died of wounds in Toxteth Military Hospital, Liverpool on 25 November 1918 and was buried in Spondon Cemetery 5 days later. According to the Derby Daily Telegraph of 30 November, he had served ‘in the East’. His widow married Walter Thompson at Long Eaton in 1930 but was a widow again 7 years later. In 1939, she was living at 77 Cambridge Street and died in 1948 at the age of 68.
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