Trafford

Born during the June quarter 1874 in the Neath R.D. - ref: 11a/687, the son
of John & Jane Ridd (nee Ireland).

1881 Census - The Gove, Higher Llansamlet, Glamorganshire.    Son - aged: 6
- Scholar - born: Llansamlet, Glamorganshire.     Head of household - John
Ridd - Married - aged: 49 - occ: Storekeeper - born: Challacombe, Devon.   
Also - Jane Ridd - Wife - aged: 49 - born: Westdown, Devon.  Plus 6
siblings.

1891 Census - Brunswick Place, Sketty, Swansea Higher and Lower, Sketty,
Glamorganshire.    Son - aged: 16 - occ Tailor's Apprentice - born:
Llansamlet, Glamorganshire.    Head of household - John Ridd - Married -
aged: 59 - occ: Roadman - born: Challacombe, Devon.   Plus 2 elder
siblings.   On the night of the census, his mother - Jane Ridd - Married -
aged: 60 was visiting her sister and husband at 23 Cwmfelin Fach,
Llangyfelach, Clase, Swansea.

Married Ethel Pattie Gent during the March quarter 1900 in the Swansea R.D.
- ref: 11a/1135.

1901 Census - 17 Glanmor Crescent, Swansea, Glamorganshire.    Son -
Married - aged: 26 - occ: Tailor - born: Llansamlet, Glamorganshire.   
Head of household - John Ridd - Married - aged: 69 - occ: Roadman Labourer
- born: Challacombe, Devon.   Also - Jane Ridd - Wife - aged: 69 - born:
Westdown, Devon.    Plus George's new wife - Ethel P. Ridd -
daughter-in-law - born: Paddington, London.

1911 Census - 91 Shrubland Street, Leamington, Warwickshire.     Head -
Married - aged: 36 - occ: Journeyman Tailor - born: Llansamlet,
Glamorganshire.     Also - Ethel Ridd - Wife - aged: 36 - born: Paddington,
London.    Plus 4 daughters, the youngest - Kathleen Grace Ridd, then aged:
8 months, was also killed along with her father in 1940.

1939 National Registration - 133 Clifton Street, Stretford.   George Ridd -
Widowed - born on the 1st June 1874 - occ: Tailor (Retired).   Kathleen G.
Ridd - Single - born on the 23rd June 1910 - occ: Secretary (General
Merchant).  Ellen E. Elwell - Single - born on the 7th May 1909 - occ:
Housekeeper.   George Heaps - Married - born on the 30th July 1912 - occ;
Carpenter (Builder).

His wife - Ethel Pattie Ridd died on the 20th March 1930

CWD Report No. 28.   Died as a result of blast & falling debris at 133
Clifton Street, Old Trafford, from where his body was recovered at 18.30
hrs on the 31st December 1940 and taken to the City Road Mortuary, Old
Trafford.     His body was identified by his son-in-law - Thomas Harthill,
19 Rosslyn Road, Firswood, husband of his daughter Lora (Lorna) and
released for burial to the Council's Undertaker Contractor - R. Pepperdine,
31 Ayres Road, Old Trafford.   Employed as a Tailor.

Buried 06/01/1941 - Burial No. 17,919.

Killed due to the explosion of a Land Mine.

Story related in 2004 by Julie Wickham - We were lucky because a parachute
mine had landed at the end of Clifton Street and several houses had
collapsed into the cellars, including our previous house, 61.  It was never
rebuilt and the site is now part of the playing field for a new school,
built after the war. 

CWGC - of 133 Clifton Street, Old Trafford. Husband of the late Ethel
Pattie Ridd. Died at 133 Clifton Street.