Day, William

William Day was born in Stow-on- the-Wold in 1893 to William and Jane Day (nee Lake).

Jane had previously married John Lock in 1883 but he had died in 1891 aged 75.  Jane was born in 1853 so John Lock was about 45 years older than Jane.  They had a daughter, Julia born 1885.

Jane then married William Day (born 1860) in 1895, two years after William junior’s birth.

At the time of the 1901 census William was living with his parents and half-sister, Julia, in a terrace off Back Walls, Stow.  There was a child, Albert Edward Lock (9 months) who was recorded as William Snr’s grandson – so Julia was Albert’s mother.

By 1911, the family had moved to Shottery, in Stratford-upon-Avon.  William Snr was working as a cowman on the farm and William Jnr as a general farm labourer.  Albert was now 10 years old.  Also in the household on census night were Julia Lock and her four daughters: Annie (5), Maud (4), Kate (2) and Emily (1). The recorder has noted that Julia was single and that she was an out of work housemaid.

William was in the Warwickshire Regiment in 1914 so he survived three years of the war.

His mother died in in Warwick aged 84 in 1937 – perhaps explaining the connection to Warwick.