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Wenceslas Charles Paveley
ChargemanBiography
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by): Wenceslas Charles Paveley
Gender: Male
Date and Place of Birth: 26th November 1888, Stepney, London
Date and Place of Death: 1963, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: British
Childhood: 9th of 13 children
Parents: Peter Paveley Lodge and Elizabeth Ann nee Noakes
Parent’s occupations: Agricultural labourer
Schools / universities attended and years of attendance: N/K
Occupation: Farm labourer, chargeman at Gretna
Place of residence at Gretna: 35 The Rand, Eastriggs
Job title at Gretna: Chargeman
Marital status: Married Maud Peartling.
Children: 2, one died aged 3
Travels: N/K
Awards/recognitions: N/K
Trivia / any other information:
Wenseslas Charles Paveley was born on 26th November 1888 to Peter Paveley Lodge and Elizabeth Ann nee Noakes at Stepney, London. He was 9th of 13 children.
1891- living at Sevenstones, Waltham Cross. He was 7th child on the census. Father an apprentice labourer on a farm.
1901- same address as 1891, father a farm labourer.
Q4 1910 married Maud Peartling at Stepney.
1911- 15 Tomlins Terrace, Limehouse, East London. Has a 3-month-old baby. 3 rooms. A warehouseman for a paper contractor. This baby boy died in 1914. A daughter was born in 1915.
WW1 – employed at H M Factory Gretna as a chargeman living at 35, The Rand, Eastriggs
1923 – travelled to Winnipeg to help with the harvest as a farm labourer on August 11th. Contact in England was 2 Devonshire Villa, Chingford, London.
Died in Ontario, Canada in 1963.
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