Harry LOMAS, 18881973 (aged 85 years)

Name
Harry /LOMAS/
Birth
Story
Baptism
4 July 1888 (aged 21 days)
Map
Census
1891 (aged 2 years)
Census
1901 (aged 12 years)
Census
1911 (aged 22 years)
Marriage
Birth of a daughter
Baptism of a daughter
Birth of a son
Census
1921 (aged 32 years)
Family Photo
Census
1939 (aged 50 years)
Work
Photo
Song
Family Photo
Death of a wife
Burial of a wife
Death
30 October 1973 (aged 85 years)
Obituary
Burial
5 November 1973 (6 days after death)
Family with Bessie EDMONDSON
himself
18881973
Birth: 13 June 1888Derby
Death: 30 October 1973Derby
wife
18901966
Birth: 26 June 1890 29 29 Derby
Death: 18 October 1966Long Eaton, Derbyshire
Marriage Marriage17 June 1914Derby
20 months
daughter
19162002
Birth: 16 February 1916 27 25 Derby
Death: 10 September 2002Breaston, Derbyshire
4 years
son
19202002
Birth: 10 March 1920 31 29 Derby
Death: 18 February 2002Derby
Shared note

His tree can be found in FTM 2019 file "Lomas", on ancestry "Lomas of Brington" https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/120950135/family

Born at 26 Barrow St, Derby, 13 Jun 1888.
Barrow St no longer exists, it was located between the modern Osmanton Road and London Road, and Bateman St and Bloomfield Close.
Baptised 4 Jul 1888 at St Andrews, which was demolished in 1971, but was located on London Road, just in front of Hulland St, so very close to Barrow St.
In the 1891 census, the family has moved to 54 Princes Rd, close to 82 Pear Tree St, where Harry lived nearly all his life.
In 1901, they are already in Pear Tree St.
Married 17 June 1914 at St Thomas's Church, Derby to Bessie Edmondson.
2 children, Walter John b 10 Mar 1920, Bessie (Bep) b 16 Feb 1916.
Worked for 50 years as a Grocery Assistant at The Derby Cooperative Society, mainly in Park Street.
He possessed a very good tenor voice and was a leading singer in various Church choirs, mainly St James', Dairy House Road, Derby. His main songs were "Take a pair of sparking eyes", "For You Alone", "Nirvana". A recording of him singing "For You Alone" in 1961 is available.
Died at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary 30 Oct 1973.
Cremated at Markeaton Crematorium, Derby, 5 November 1973.