A Dartmouth MITCHELMORE family
Fifth Generation
5.10 Frederick Charles PILLAR (Caroline MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born on 12 Jan 1879 in Dartmouth, Devon. He died on 3 Jan 1963 in Cardiff, Wales.
In 1901, Frederick
was
a marine engineer living in St John, Cardiff, one of the busiest ports
in the world at that time. For his part in a rescue during a hurricane
in 1903, he was awarded a gold medal by the US Government and the
silver medal and diploma of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society.
In 1908 he moved to Cardiff permanently. By 1955, he and his wife were
living in Ladysmith Road, Penylan.
Frederick left the
navy in 1936 to join a team which founded the Navigators and Engineer
Officers Union and was joint district secretary in the Bristol Channel
office until he retired in 1947. On his death, his ashes were scattered
in the Bristol Channel.
Frederick married Eliza Hingston PROWSE
on 7 Aug 1905. Eliza was born on 19 May 1879 and died in Mar 1963 in
Stoke Fleming. She was a daughter of John PROWSE and his wife Mary
Jannette née HANNAFORD.
 Eliza PILLAR née PROWSE (standing,
right) with her mother-in-law Caroline PILLAR
née MITCHELMORE , Caroline's mother-in-law Amelia PILLAR
née CAME, and Eliza's son Robert John. Taken in Dartmouth, 1909.
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 Frederick PILLAR and his wife Eliza née PROWSE in 1955 (from a Golden Wedding announcement) |
A memorial in Stoke Fleming Parish Churchyard commemorates the lives of Frederick and Eliza as well as their son Robert and his wife Edith:
Frederick and Eliza had the following children:
5.11 Robert Henry Mitchelmore PILLAR (Caroline MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ), known in the family as Harry, was born on 28 May 1881 in Dartmouth and died there on 16 May 1950.
In 1901, Harry was a carpenter living at Newington, London. He eventually became a civil engineer and is said to have helped design the Bank of England.
Harry married Mabel Mildred Annie LEANEY on 26 Sep 1906 in Greenwich, London. Mabel was born on 13 Jan 1881 in Hampton on Thames and died on 10 Oct 1960 in Clevedon, Somerset. Harry and Mabel had the following children:
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Lorna Mabel PILLAR
was born on 29 Jun 1907 in Thornton Heath, Surrey, and died on 10 Jan
1995 in Poole,
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Winifred Florence PILLAR was born on 13 Aug 1909 at Thornton Heath and died on 10 Jul 1942 at Sutton, Surrey. She married Arthur Douglas TAYLOR on 1 Jun 1935. |
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Lionel Henry PILLAR was born on 28 May
1917 in Thornton Heath and died on 3 Sep 1998 in Westonbury-sub-Mendip,
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5.13 William Thomas (1) PILLAR (Caroline MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born on 20 Jun 1886 in Dartmouth. He died on 15 Jun 1960 in Dartmouth Hospital.
William (or Bill, as he was known) was a builder by trade, having joined his father's business as a young man. On his father's death in 1931, Bill took it over and ran it as "R. T. Pillar & Son, builders" until 1945. He also inherited his father's house at 21 South Embankment, where he lived until his death.
Bill enlisted in 1914 in the Royal Artillery, seeing active service on the Western Front and being wounded in the Battle of Passchendale. He was given his commission in the Royal Artillery and retired at the end of the war with the rank of Lieutenant.
Bill entered Dartmouth Town Council in 1921 and served for nearly 30 years. He became an alderman, and was unamimously elected Mayor for the Coronation Year 1937. The photograph below, published in the Times of 7 April 1937 and the Western Times of two days later, shows him holding a tree planted by his daughter Helen, who acted as his mayoress. Bill held many other public offices and was made a freeman of Dartmouth. He was also a Past Master and Treasurer of Hauley Lodge of Freemasons and a Vicar's Warden at St. Barnabas Church, Dartmouth.
In 1945, Bill was found guilty of obtaining money from Government contracts by false pretences and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. However, he was released after 3 months due to illness, paid back all the money and continued to play an important part in the public life of Dartmouth. His obituary reports that seven former mayors walked as pallbearers at his funeral.
Bill married Lily WOOLNOUGH in 1912. Lily was born in 1887 in Cleethorpes and died in June 1932 in Dartmouth. Bill and Lily had the following children:
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Elliott Horne PILLAR was born in 1913. He died on 2 Aug 1940 and was buried in Townstall, Devon. He was awarded the King's medal for bravery. |
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Robert Charles PILLAR was born in 1916 and died in 1992. |
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William Thomas PILLAR was born on 24 Feb 1924 and died on 18 Mar 1999. |
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5.14 Langmead Casey PILLAR (Caroline MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born on 28 Jan 1888 in Dartmouth and died on 8 Mar 1926 in Devonport.
Langmead served in the Royal Navy and survived World War 1, but died later in a flu epidemic.
Langmead married Lillian Blanche PESTER
in 1915. Lillian was born on 24 Aug 1888 in Devonport and died on 14
Jan 1955 in Plymouth. She was the daughter of Devonport confectioner
John PESTER and his wife Elizabeth.
Langmead and Blanche had one child:
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Stuart Langmead PILLAR died in Jan 2003. |
5.16 Winifred Frances PILLAR (Caroline MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE, John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born on 22 Sep 1891 in Dartmouth and died on 26 Oct 1970 in Galmington, Somerset.
Winifred married William Arnold CLEMENTS on 16 Apr 1921. William was born on 7 Jun 1893 in Birmingham, England, and died on 19 Jul in Taunton, Somerset. Winifred and William had the following children:
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5.19 Kate Eleanor MITCHELMORE (William Henry (2) MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE, John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born in 1882 in Dartmouth and died about 1969.
Kate lived with her parents until her marriage.
Kate married Frank NEILL in 1901. Frank, a boatbuilder, was born in Dartmouth in 1879. In the photograph below, taken in 1911, Frank is the second man standing on the right. It is possible that Kate is also on the photograph.
Kate and Frank had one child:
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5.22 Annie Gertrude
MITCHELMORE (William Henry (2)
MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE
, John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born in 1887 in Dartmouth and
died on 15 Jun 1964.
Annie Gertrude MEW née MITCHELMORE
Annie
married William James MEW, son of Plymouth
labourer William James Pascoe MEW and his wife Clara Jane Snell née
LAVER, in 1908 in Plymouth. They had the following children:
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Dorothy Joan MEW was born in 1912 in Plymouth and died on 8 Jun 1958. She married Horace SEARGENT. Horace was born in Plymouth in 1909 and died on 20 Mar 1959. |
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5.23 John Percy
DECENT (Eliza MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ), known in the family as Jack, was
born in 1886, either in Dartmouth or Brixham.
Jack ran the family drapery business in
Fore Street, Brixham, after his father retired.
Jack met his wife Ida while
she was working at Derry & Toms in London. They had the following
children:
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5.24 May DECENT (Eliza MITCHELMORE , William
Henry (1) MITCHIMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE
, John (2) ) was born on 25 May 1887 in
Brixham and died there on 14 Jan 1940.
May married Thomas
BANFIELD,
a fish merchant, in May 1911 in Brixham. Thomas was born on 9 Jan 1887
in Brixham and died there on 10 Apr 1961. They had the following
children.
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Thomas Arthur BANFIELD was born on 9 Jun 1913 in Brixham and died on 2 Apr 2002 in Woodford Green, Essex. |
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Margaret Amy BANFIELD was born on 25 Nov 1916 in Brixham and died on 19 Oct 1991 in Kingsand, Cornwall. |
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5.26 Amy DECENT
(Eliza MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born in 1892 in Brixham.
Amy married Cyril
HOSKINS in 1918 in Brixham.
Any and Cyril had the following children.
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5.27 Elsie DECENT
(Eliza MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born in 1895 in Brixham. She
married J SOLOMON
and they had the following child:
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5.29 Francis DECENT
(Eliza MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born in 1901 in
Brixham. He married Gwynneth
and they had the following children:
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5.30 William Henry Aysh HAWKE (Kate Mary MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born in June 1882 in Dartmouth. He married Eveline Elizabeth in 1902 in Devonport. William and Eveline had the following child:
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Godfrey Alger HAWKE was born in South Brent and christened there on 18 January 1903. |
5.40 John SEWELL (Edith Augusta MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born in 1907 in Finchley, Middlesex and died in 1984 in Solihull, Warwickshire.
John married Kathleen Lavina WARD about 1938. Kathleen was born in Fulham in 1909 and died in Solihull in 1997.
John and Kathleen had the following children:
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5.41 Frederick
Atherton MITCHELMORE (Frederick George
(1) MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1)
MITCHIMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born on 28 Jul 1895 in
Dartmouth and died in 1981 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Frederick married Elsie Irene THOMAS in 1922 in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. Elsie was born on 5 Nov 1890 in Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire, and died in 1980 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Frederick and Elsie had the following child:
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Guy Atherton MITCHELMORE was born in 1924 in Burton-on-Trent and died in August 1999 in Burton-on-Trent. He married Emily SPEIGHT. |
5.42 George Deane
MITCHELMORE (Frederick George (1)
MITCHELMORE , William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE
, John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born on 11 Feb 1900 in
Dartmouth and died on 3 Feb 1982 in Gosport, Hampshire.
Go back to Frederick George (1) MITCHELMORE for a photograph of George as a young man. He always maintained that he joined the Machine Gun Corps in 1918, was wounded and taken to Netley Hospital near Southampton¾but there is no mention of this in his service record. That record shows that George joined the machine gun section of the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1919. He made a name for himself as a marksman with a pistol, winning 8 or 9 cups in India about 1925. George left the army in 1933 at the rank of sergeant and got a job as a male nurse in a mental hospital near Basingstoke, Hampshire. There he met and married his first wife, who was a cook in the same hospital.
George was recalled to the army in 1939; he was offered his old rank of sergeant in the machine gun section of The Sussex Regiment, but preferred to take up a safer position with the Military Police. He then spent the Second World War in various establishments in England on guard duty, but also traveled back and forth across the Channel after ‘D’ Day for a period as a Dispatch Rider. Leaving the army in 1946, he returned to the Basingstoke mental hospital.
After his first wife died, he married a nursing sister in the same mental hospital. In 1954, he changed his job to a stores assistant at the Aldermaston Atomic Research Establishment. Then in 1960 he decided to pack it all in and move to a cottage in Cornwall. George lived there alone (apart from a cat) after his second wife died, but after having a couple of strokes moved up to live with his son Brian in Gosport in 1980 and lived there until his death.
George married (1) Mary Jane WILLIAMS on 7 Oct 1933 in Basingstoke. Mary was born on 4 Jun 1901 in Dowlais, Glamorganshire, and died of cancer on 2 Mar 1951 in Basingstoke. George and Mary had the following children:
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Deanna Magretta
MITCHELMORE was born on 24 Oct 1937 in
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George married (2) Harriet CROSSLEY in 1952 in Basingstoke. Harriet was born on 12 Nov 1905 in Lancaster, Lancashire, and died on 12 November 1973 in Bugle, Cornwall.
5.46 Frederick Thomas Nathaniel MITCHELMORE (Charles Frederick MITCHELMORE , Nathaniel MICHAMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born on 16 Mar 1888 in Dartmouth, Devon, and died in 1959 in the Totnes district.
Another name transposition: This son was called "Nathaniel Frederick Thomas" in his mother's bible and always known as "Nat" within the family.
Nat joined the Royal Navy on 9 Apr 1910, shortly before his marriage, and had become Chief Engine Room Artificer (in charge of the Engine Room Department) by 1918. In World War I, he served aboard the battlecruiser HMS Lion in the same squadron as his cousin Enos. His ship was twice severely damaged by enemy action. Since HMS Lion was on active service on 15 April 1918, he must have obtained special leave to attend his father's funeral two weeks later. A detailed account of the majority of his navy career is given here.
When he was not at sea, Nat lived in Plymouth. He was recorded as living in Keyham, Devonport, in 1911 and 1918.
HMS Lion
Nat married (1) Minnie May BURNELL on 1 Aug 1910 in Dartmouth. Minnie was born about 1880 in Paignton and died in 1943 in Plymouth. She was a daughter of Customs Officer William BURNELL and his wife Mary Ann née MAY.
 Nat Mitchelmore as a young seaman |
 Minnie MITCHELMORE née BURNELL with their son Frederick George |
Nat and Minnie had the following children:
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Frederick George (2) MITCHELMORE was born on 16 Sep 1911 and died on 10 Sep 1982. |
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Edwin Charles Burnell MITCHELMORE was born on 5 Dec 1918 and died on 16 Jun 1992. |
Frederick married (2) Gladys STRINGER née LAKE in 1947 in Plymouth. Gladys was born in 1900, the daughter of mineral water works labourer Charley LAKE and his wife Elizabeth. No details of her first marriage have yet been found. After Nat's death, Gladys married Edwin Thomas John JONES on 25 Mar 1961 in Plymouth.
5.47 William Charles John MITCHELMORE (Charles Frederick MITCHELMORE , Nathaniel MICHAMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born in Dartmouth on 14 Oct 1889 on “Monday evening at half past 7 o'clock” (according to his mother's bible) and died in Norwich in 1959.
In World War I, William was a driver with the Army Service Corps.
William married (1) Millie Eliza WHITEMORE in 1910, probably in Dartmouth. Millie was born about 1888 and died in early 1943.
William and Millie had the following children:
William married (2) Dorothy Pretoria M. FROST in late 1943. Dorothy was born on 28 May 1900 and died in January 1986 in the Norwich district.
5.48 Albert Ernest MITCHELMORE (Charles Frederick MITCHELMORE , Nathaniel MICHAMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born in Dartmouth on 24 Nov 1892 “at 20 minutes to 6 o'clock”. He died of a heart attack on 2 Oct 1968 in Bristol.
Albert was apprenticed as a painter to his father Charles in 1906 and worked in the family business. He fought in the Worcester Regiment in World War I, reaching the rank of Corporal. He was shot through the knee at Ypres, France, and taken prisoner, but news of his survival did not reach Dartmouth until shortly after his father's death in 1918. On returning from the war, Albert and his brother Arthur ran the family business on behalf of their mother for two years, but then she sold out. Albert was a journeyman painter for the rest of his life, working in Dartmouth for his uncle Ernest and then for his cousin Frank, and later for Bristol Council.
Albert learned the clarinet in the Royal Navy Military Band and played for many years in the Dartmouth Town Band. The band would practice during the week in a hall in Market Square and play every Sunday morning in the bandstand in the New Ground.
Dartmouth Town Band, about 1930. Albert
Mitchelmore is seated,
holding his clarinet, fourth from the left in the front row.
Albert lived in his father's house in 15 Newcomin Road until after his marriage, at which time he moved to Ivy Cottage, Ivy Lane. The young family moved to Avery's Meadow (221 Victoria Road) in 1927 and then to 73 Victoria Road in 1932. They often took in bed and breakfast guests, especially around Regatta time. (The present owners of 73 Victoria Road run it as a permanent bed and breakfast business, having joined two of the ground floor rooms together as a dining room.)
In 1949, Albert & Louise moved to 129 Gilda Crescent, Bristol, in order to bring them nearer to their sons Leonard and Stanley, to give their son Michael the chance of a better education, and to take Louisa away from a climate where she was developing bronchitis. Both Albert and Louisa died in this house.
Albert married Louisa Katherine SAUNDERS, daughter of Dartmouth chimney sweep William James Pepperell SANDERS and Ann Maria née PHILLIPS, on 4 Mar 1922 in Dartmouth Congregational Church. Louisa was born on 28 Apr 1896 in Dartmouth and died on 15 Oct 1973 in Bristol . For further details on Louisa and her family history, please transfer to the SAUNDERS line.
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Albert and Louisa Mitchelmore with their sons
Leonard (back right), Stanley (back left) and Michael.
In the centre are Leonard's wife Joyce and their daughter Kathryn.
Taken in Dartmouth in about 1949.
5.49 Arthur Edward MITCHELMORE (Charles Frederick MITCHELMORE , Nathaniel MICHAMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born in Dartmouth on 9 Mar 1896 “on a Monday morning 10 minutes to 3”. He died in Jan 1988 in Bridgewater, Somerset.
Like his brother Albert, Arthur was apprenticed to his father as a painter. Just before the start of World War I, he had a bad accident when he fell through the glass roof of the Park Hotel, Paignton, while painting it. After the war, in which he served as a corporal in the Royal Field Artillery, Arthur and Albert ran the family business on behalf of their mother for two years, but then she sold out. Arthur was a painter for the rest of his life, including three years in Adelaide in the 1960s.
Arthur married (1) Nora BAILEY in 1922 in Tavistock, Devon, the marriage ending in divorce. Nora died in 1989. They had the following children:
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Charles Arthur MITCHELMORE was born on 28 Jan 1923 in Tavistockand died in Sep 1997 in Plymouth. |
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George Brian MITCHELMORE was born on 31 Dec 1927 in Tavistock and died on 19 Jan 2004 in Torquay. |
Arthur married (2) Thelma B. HODGSON in 1961 in Wood Green.
5.50 Ivy Elizabeth MITCHELMORE (Charles Frederick MITCHELMORE , Nathaniel MICHAMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born in Dartmouth on 18 Jan 1900 “at ten minutes to 11 at night”. She died on 8 May 1977 in Paignton, Devon.
Ivy married Henry Charles Thomas PIKE on 30
Jul 1921, their "quiet but pretty wedding" being reported in the Dartmouth
Chronicle a few days later. By 1930 the couple had moved to
Paignton, where they lived for the rest of their lives.
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5.51 Gertrude
Florence Muriel
MITCHELMORE (Alfred Ernest MITCHELMORE , Nathaniel MICHAMORE , John
(1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ), known in
the family as Muriel, was born on 18 Aug 1898 and died on 22 Aug 1975.
Muriel married Frederick HAINES in 1927. Frederick was born on 10 Mar 1901 and died on 23 Jan 1978. They had one child:
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5.53 Mabel Valerie Irene MITCHELMORE (Alfred Ernest MITCHELMORE , Nathaniel MICHAMORE , John (1) MICHELMORE , John (2) ) was born on 1 Aug 1902.
Mabel married Sydney J. FERRIS on 1 Nov 1933. They had one child:
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