- Surnames starting with the letter N. 

H. (Arthur) Nightingale

Number:F44472
Name of Rgt or Ship:Royal Navy
Grave Photo:No
Cemetery or Memorial:XXX
Town Memorial:Sale
Extra Information:
Born on the 13th February 188, the birth being registered during the March
quarter 1881 in the Ashton under Lyne R.D. - ref: 8d/490, the son of
William &  Ann Nightingale (nee Adams).

1881 Census - 18 Ryecroft Street, Ashton under Lyne.     Son - aged: 7
weeks - born: Ashton unde Lyne.   Head of household - William Nightingale -
Married - aged: 27 - occ: Commercial Shipping Clerk - born: Lancashire.  
Also Ann Nightingale - Wife - aged: 28 - born: Ashton under Lyne.   Plus 2
elder siblings.

1891 Census - 18 Ryecroft Street, Ashton under Lyne.     Son - aged: 10 -
Scholar - born: Ashton under Lyne.   Head of household - William
Nightingale - Married - aged: 38 - occ: Commercial Clerk - born: Tockholes,
Lancashire.   Also Ann Nightingale - Wife - aged: 39 - born: Ashton under
Lyne.   Plus 2 elder siblings.

1901 Census - Mersey Road, Ashton upon Mersey.    Son (Arthur Nightingale)
- aged: 20 - occ: Commercial Clerk - born: Ashton under Lyne.  Head of
household - William Nightingale - Married - aged: 47 - occ: Merchant's
Clerk - born: Lancashire.   Also Ann Nightingale - Wife - aged: 48 - born:
Ashton under Lyne.   Plus 1 elder sister.

Married Milly Wallwork during the September quarter 1908 in the Bucklow
R.D. - ref: 8a/442.

1911 Census - Holly Villas, Mersey Road, Ashton upon Mersey.   Son in Law
(Arthur Nightingale) - Married - aged: 30 - occ: Clerk - born: Ashton under
Lyne.   Also - Millie Nightingale - Wife (daughter to the Head of household
- Emma Jane Wallwork) - aged: 27 - born: Sale.   Plus their son - Enos
Nightingale - aged: 1 - born: Ashton upon Mersey.

Enlisted into the Mercantile Navy on the 27th December 1917.   He was 5
feet 6 3/4 inches in height with Brown hair, Brown eyes.and Fresh
complexion.   Posted to HMS President II.  Posted to Rockhampton
Gloucestershire on the 29th December 1917 where he served until the 31st
March 1918 when he transferred into the R.A.F.  The record confirms that he
was born at Ashton under Lyne on the 13th February 1881.

NOT COMMEMORATED BY THE CWGC.

I believe this is the  'H' Nightingale commemorated on the Sale War
Memorial.    Possibly transcribed from a badly written 'A' Nightingale???


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