Herman Ainley Holroyd
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1885, Huddersfield
Knighton
Private 119748
47th Batalion, Machine Gun Corps
Private 230618
Army Service Corps, Mechanical Transport
11 West Street, Knighton
Woollen Manufacturing
28th March 1918, Died of wounds, Military General Hospital, Rouen, France.
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission
British War Medal Victory Medal
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Eliza (nee Harrison)
George
Jack Harrison
George
Sarah Ann (nee Ainley)
Frederick Beaumont
Maude
Emily Ann
1st July 1883 - Huddersfield, Yorkshire
22nd May 1909 - Huddersfield, Yorkshire
18th July 1915 - Knighton, Radnorshire
1851 - Stainland, Yorkshire - died 12 December 1921, 116 Church Street, Paddock, Huddersfield
1853 - Huddersfield, Yorkshire
1877 - Huddersfield, Yorkshire
1881 - Huddersfield, Yorkshire
1888 - Huddersfield, Yorkshire
In 1901 Herman is at home with his parents living at 1, Mount, Longwood, Huddersfield. His father, George, is a dealer in woollen cloth. On this census Herman is a Jewellers Apprentice.
In 1902 Hermans brother Frederick Beaumont married Annie Gledhill in Halifax. After their marriage they went to live in Lhergy Grawe, Laxey, Lonan, Isle of Man.
Herman Ainley Holroyd married Eliza Harrison in 1907 in Huddersfield.
Herman's sister, Maude, married James Smith, also in 1907, in Halifax.
In 1911 Herman, Eliza and their son George are at 11 West Street, Knighton. Herman's occupation is Woollen Manufacturing. He is in business with his father George, brother Frederick and a Fred Moseley running the Knighton Flannel and Clothing Manufactory, Silurian Mill, Mill Green, Knighton.
THE LONDON GAZETTE, 26 SEPTEMBER, 1911.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the under signed, George Holroyd, Frederic Beaumont Holroyd, Herman Ainley Holroyd and Fred Moseley, carrying on business as Woollen Manufacturers, at Silurian Mills, Knighton, in the county of Radnor, New-road, Laxey, Isle of Man, and 10, Station-street, Huddersfield, in the county of York, under the style or firm of GEORGE HOLROYD AND SON and HOLROYD, SONS AND MOSELEY, has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the 18th day of September, 1911. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said George Holroyd, Frederic Beaumont Holroyd and Herman Ainley Holroyd.— Dated the 18th day of September, 1911.
GEORGE HOLROYD.
FREDERIC BEAUMONT HOLROYD.
HERMAN AINLEY HOLROYD.
FRED MOSELEY.
Herman's sister, Emily Ann, married Horace Ainley Roberts in Halifax in 1914.
On 29th April 1915 the Knighton Bowling Club appointed a management committee Herman was one of the eight appointed.
Although Herman died on 28th March 1918 the administration of his finances wasn't dealt with until 10th January 1923. It was left to Eliza, his widow, to sort out his financial affairs, the value of which was £246
Eliza and her son Jack were still living at 11, West Street in 1939. Jack's profession was a Clerk, Public Assistant.
11, West Street, Knighton