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Their 7 children were: Their 10 children were: Their 11 children: Thomas (1741-1741), John (1742-1815), Sarah (1744-1783), Jane (1746-?), Frances (1749-?), Their 7 children were: Their 4 children were: Their 13 children were: Their 8 children were: Their 11 children were: Their 3 children were: |
He started work as a telegraph boy based at the Head Post Office in Southampton. However there was very little chance of promotion and he left to go to sea as a steward on various liners. He served on ships that went to North and South America and to South Africa. Sid married Frances Ethel Clark at St. John's Church, Hedge End, Hampshire, England on the 6th July 1933. The wedding was attended by seven bridesmaids, Daisy Tidridge, Amy and Mabel Barfoot, Ella Farmer, Florence Sawyer (a friend), and two small children, Peggy Goodall and Myra Farmer. The Best Man was George Tidridge. The reception for 150 guests was held at St. John's Room. Sid and Ethel spent their honeymoon at Sway, Hampshire. The wedding was reported, with a photograph of the bridal party, in the Southern Evening Echo. Sid and Ethel had three children, John Walter Francis, Jean Ann and Ivan Charles. They spent most of their married life at 17 Treeside Avenue, Totton, near Southampton. In their later years they moved to a retirement flat at Locksheath and then to a retirement home, Littlebrook House, 101 Brook Lane, Warsash, Hampshire. Sid was taken ill with pneumonia in September 1990 and was taken into the St. Mary's Hospital at Portsmouth where he died on the 22 nd of September 1990. He was cremated at the Southampton Crematorium at Bassett. Ethel remained at Littlebrook House but eventually fell ill and was taken into the Cottage Hospital at Ashurst, Hampshire. She died on Christmas Day in 1991, and was also cremated at the Southampton Crematorium . |
A gallery of pictures has been composed; to view click here Pictures include copies of certificates and Sid's 'days at sea'. The 'days at sea' reveal a little of the other Sid!
Not too much of Sid's sea life is known by John Tidridge. John Tidridge is grateful to his sister, Jean When speaking to his son, Steve, many years ago John Tidridge was surprised to discover he was not the democratic dad he thought he was... he certainly believed he had surpassed Sid in this department. ... |
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The pictures above show a different side of my Dad, not often seen around the house.... but then we Tidridge males seem to major on being curmudgeons, even if we are not! ....and, notices of his death . |
John Tidridge return-ed from the Middle East in 1957 in this ship. He arrived at his home port, along with the rest of the battalion, only to find that the dockers (stevedores) were on strike. This meant a further night on board |
John Tidridge
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