HMS Captain 1870         

 

Information and Memories from Descendants (cont)
 

Up John Collier Peter Baldwin T G Beenham John Bremner Thomas Butcher C W Dyer J Ellis George Fisher Wilfred Glanville John Gribble Albert Grover George Habens Walter Hedger Robert Herd John Hermitage Tom W Ivey Thomas Kernan RJ Magawley William May Robert Mayne Francis Merryman GH Payne Edmund Powell Alfred Ripley Anthony Spiller Arthur Tregaskiss John Walker

 
Alfred Grover - stoker
 
When I was young, my father told me that our name was in St Pauls on a plaque. When my father died there was a bible with the names of my ancestors in it.

Alfred was born on the 10th July 1834 may be Fobbing (or Corringham?) Essex. His father was John Grover, and mother Elizabeth (maiden name unknown). He had a sister June or Jane, also an uncle whose name was Alfred.

He married Sarah Livermore (who was born in Radwinter, Essex) at St James Church, Plumstead, Lewisham, London, on the 4th November 1860. They had 3 children: Alfred J born 1862; William L born 1867; and Henry T born 1870.

(Elizabeth re-married in 1871 to Joseph Stannard. After the marriage the boys surname was changed to Stannard, but when they got married they changed back to Grover 

At the time of his marriage Alfred was a brewer; when on HMS Captain he was a stoker.

 

Peter Grover – possible great-grandson