Harold Dobson (1899 - 1963)

Born 4 Aug 1899 in Horton, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

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Died 16 Jan 1963 at age 63 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

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Harold Dobson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England.

Harold Dobson was the eldest son of William Henry and Emma Dobson. His twin sister Lillian died at three months of age.

Harold served in the Great War in the trenches in France, after the war he worked hard and married my grandmother, Victoria May Fricker.

Brian Dobson described his memory of visiting the home of his grandparents with his father Harold when he was a child; it was a large, dark back to back house.

January 1963, Brian describes, was the coldest winter on record for Bradford. There was so much snow ^[1]

Harold had a fatal heart attack getting on the bus to work on January 16, 1963. He died right then and there. Heart disease persists in the Dobson family.

Jacqueline Dobson, 8 January 2023

Harold Dobson is a Military Veteran.
Served in the British Army 1914-1918 during the Great War.

Harold was born in 4 August 1899 and served in the Great War. Harold married Victoria May Fricker in 1925. They had one child, Brian, born in 1940. Harold was a cobbler. He died suddenly on a very cold winter's morning in January 1963 going to work on the bus.

Harold, child of William Henry & Emma, was baptised on 24 December 1899 in Great Horton, St John, Yorkshire, England.^[2]

In the 1911 census Harold (age 11), At School, was the son of William Henry Dobson at 82 Havelock Street, Bradford, England.^[3]

Harold married Victoria May Fricker on 26 December 1925 in Manningham, St Paul, West Yorkshire, England.^[4]

Harold died on 16 January 1963 in Bradford and his estate passed probate on 21 February 1963 in London, England.^[5]

Harold was buried at the Union Croft Chapel in Ambler Thorn, Queensbury with his father, mother and twin sister Lillian. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/tahistory/10317804.bradford-district-was-gripped-by-weather-in-march-1963/
2. ↑ Baptism: "West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910"
   West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2252 #10633960 (accessed 10 February 2022)
   Harold Dobson baptism on 24 Dec 1899 (born 4 Aug 1899), child of William Henry & Emma, in Great Horton, St John, Yorkshire, England
3. ↑ 1911 Census: "1911 England Census"
   The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2352 #37624928 (accessed 11 February 2022)
   Harold Dobson (11) son, At School, in household of William Henry Dobson (46) at 82 Havelock Street. Born in Gt Horton, Bradford.
4. ↑ Marriage: "West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935"
   West Yorkshire Archive Service; Leeds, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2253 #50018435 (accessed 11 February 2022)
   Harold Dobson marriage to Victoria May Fricker on 26 Dec 1925 in Manningham, St Paul, West Yorkshire, England.
5. ↑ Probate: "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995"
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1904 #17743918 (accessed 11 February 2022)
   Harold Dobson probate on 21 Feb 1963 in London, England. Died 16 Jan 1963 in Bradford.
6. ↑ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Union+Croft+Independent+Chapel+Ambler+Thorn+Queensbury/@53.76128,-1.8597683,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xde4efddfefe069e1!8m2!3d53.761253!4d-1.8597716

• Original birth certificate held by grand-daughter Jacqueline Dobson suggests entry 336 register book 199 on 28 August 1899 in Horton sub-district of Bradford West Yorkshire

• Written documentation in family bible. Currently in possession of Brian Dobson. Includes names, birth, and death dates of family members from 1780 to 1970.