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From petty criminal and school admission records we learn that Arthur Bakes Bradbury was born on the 5^th December 1888 in Hartlepool . His birth was registered in the March qtr 1889, Hartlepool as Arthur Bradbury. He was the son of Arthur Bakes Bradbury and Ellen Moore who had married at All Saints, Stranton in 1881.

In 1891 the family were living at 1 Thompson Square , Stranton and Helena Bradbury, 33, was a Sailor’s wife born West Hartlepool . There were four sons, William 8, John 6, Charles 4 and Arthur 2, all born West Hartlepool . A newspaper cutting of June 1895 states that Arthur Bakes Bradbury of Musgrave St West Hartlepool is not responsible for any debts his wife Ellen Bakes Bradbury may contract after June 1895. It therefore appears that they possibly parted.

1901 finds them at 6 John Street , Clee, Grimsby- Eleanor Bradbury, 40, sons William 19, John 17, Charles 15, Arthur 12, Ernest 7, all born West Hartlepool, Samuel 4 born Bradford and Joseph Baden 1 born Grimsby .

According to the record from Castle Howard Reformatory School,in 1902 and 1903 young Arthur Bradbury seems to have fallen in with bad company. However this 1906 record (shown) provides amazing information which any family historian would be delighted to find.

By 1911 they are living at 124 Stanley Street , Grimsby  but by now Arthur Bakes Bradbury must have been elsewhere but his father was at home with Helen (Ellen) again.

The1911 census shows Arthur Bakes Bradbury Head 53, Engineman (Fishing Industry) born Bramley, Yorkshire ,

Helena, wife 51, married 30 years, who had given birth to 9 children, 2 of which had died and she was born at Seaton Carew. Children shown were Ernest Bakes Bradbury, Samuel Bakes Bradbury and Joseph Bakes Bradbury. They all seem to have adopted the Bakes as a middle name by 1911.

 From Stand Boys’ School Grimsby Admission Records – Arthur Bakes Bradbury was admitted on the 29^th May 1899 and was born on 5^thDecember 1888. His father was Arthur, Address John Street , Grimsby . Last School attended was Bradford Board School. He left Strand Boys’ School on 19^thDecember 1902.

Arthur married Elsie H Mudd in the June qtr 1912 in Grimsby reg district. From select marriages on Ancestry Arthur Baker Bradbury married Elsie Harriett Jane Mudd (born c1893) in Cleethorpes, Lincs, in 1912. Arthur and Elsie had a son Arthur B Bradbury whose birth was registered in the September qtr 1912, Grimsby reg district.

 Elsie Harriet Jane Bakes Bradbury then went on to marry William Parrish on the 25 October 1916 at St. Andrew, Great Grimsby , Lincs after Arthur’s death.

Arthur Bakes Bradbury died on the 6^th September 1914. He was a 2^nd Engineer on the trawler Ceylon. The deaths at sea records state his address as 25 Clerke Street , Cleethorpes.