Capt. Henry Tryon, KIA WWI, 15 Battalion Rifle Brigade (UK)

Question

I found a find-a-grave memorial when cleaning up some anomalies in my data.   I am hoping someone can identify his DOB and possibly family of origin.   The memorial is to UK soldiers in WWI.

 

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12573092

Comments

Hi Michael

I found this.  The date of death is the same....

http://www.rutlandremembers.org/fallen/445/tryon-captain-henry

 

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Thank you!  That fits the key facts.

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Rather striking -  both he and older brother perished in the war - I did not expect them to be as old as they were.

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Some conflicting data - Rutland Remembers and  another site with a nice biography page for each fallen soldier indicate Henry and Richard as brothers - and that gives us name of the father, also Richard:

http://www.leicestershirewarmemorials.co.uk/war/casualty/view/21358

But another memorial page for Oakham in Rutland gives a different parentage:

http://www.theygavetheirtoday.com/oakham-town-wwi.html

Answer 1

Henry's birrth was registered  in Oakham 1874 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2XZX-BQT)

With his parents living in "The Lodge" Lords Close, oakham in 1881 England census:

Richard Tryon    43
Jane A.L. Tryon    42
Mary L. Tryon    10
Jane M. Tryon    8
Henry Tryon    6
Georgina C. Tryon    5
Jul Tryon    4
Margaret C. Tryon    2
 

Father Richard is listed as being born in Bulwick Park, Northamptonshire; "sheriff" whose income comes land, houses & C.

Henry's mother was Jane Anna L Ewart who married Richard Tryon 1867, (Oundle 3b/348 q June 1867).

In 1901, Henry, a electrical engineer was boarding in the household of Thomas simpson, in Chelmsford, Essex.

Without doubt the parentage giving George Clement Tryon is incorrec, as this 1st. Baron Tryon was born until 1871 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tryon,_1st_Baron_Tryon)