Pettipher, George H

George was baptised at St Paul’s in Warwick on January 26th 1898. At the time his parents were living at 48 Stand Street. By 1901 they had moved to 14 Upper Cape.

At the time of the census in 1911, George was living with his parents, John and Sarah and his 5 siblings at 14 Upper Cape, Warwick.  John Pettipher worked as a cemetery labourer for the burials board.  George, aged 13, was at school but working as a retail draper’s errand boy out of school hours. He had 3 sisters, Rose (14), Annie (11) and Winifred (8) and 2 brothers, William (4) and John (1).

George’s maternal grand father, Charles Smith, a widower, was also living in the household both in 1911 and in 1901. He was a butcher/pig killer on his own account.