Individual Details

Henry Harland "Harry" Stainthorp

(17 March 1904 - 3 April 1952)

Events

Birth17 March 1904informant: M. A. Stainthorp, mother - 57, Castlereagh Street, New Silksworth, Tunstall, Durham, England
Residence7 May 1904at the time of his birth - 57, Castlereagh Street, New Silksworth, Tunstall, Durham, England
Baptism11 May 1904St Matthew's Church, Silksworth, Durham, England
Census2 April 191182, Second Street, Horden, Durham, England
Census19 June 192141, Edwards Road, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England
ResidenceFrom 1928 to 1930according to the electoral register - 41, St Oswalds Avenue, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Marriage26 December 1928witnesses: Basil Grant, Norah Crocker - St Paul's Church, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England - Marion Curry
Occupation26 December 1928master butcher
Residence26 December 1928at the time of his marriage to Marion Curry - 41, St Oswalds Avenue, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Residence29 July 1929at the time of the birth of his son William - 41, St Oswalds Avenue, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
PropertyFrom 1936 to 1952butcher's shop - 215, High Street East, Wallsend, Northumberland, England
Residence1936according to a street directory - 96, Links Road, Cullercoats, Northumberland, England
MiscellaneousCa 1936owned a motorcycle and sidecar, registration number VK 7185
Residence11 February 1937at the time of the birth of his son Robin - 96, Links Road, Cullercoats, Northumberland, England
Residence29 September 1939at the time of the 1939 register - 96, Links Road, Cullercoats, Northumberland, England
Military29 September 19391/B/3/11, National Defence Transport Group - Wallsend, Northumberland, England
Miscellaneous9 May 1940had a poem published in a local newspaper, protesting about the honey-trap agents that he believed the Ministry of Food were using to entrap butchers into breaking rationing laws
Miscellaneous19 January 1942had a letter published in a local newspaper, suggesting that metal lamp posts should be collected for scrap metal, after having walked into one during a blackout
Residence15 March 1944at the time of the birth of his son Norman - 96, Links Road, Cullercoats, Northumberland, England
MiscellaneousCa 1946 - 1950owned an Alvis TA 14 shooting brake motor car
ResidenceFrom 1947 to 1952according to the telephone directory - 221, Broadway, Cullercoats, Northumberland, England
ResidenceBef 3 April 1952at the time of his death - 221, Broadway, Cullercoats, Northumberland, England
Death3 April 1952cause of death: asphyxia due to hanging and that he committed suicide whilst the balance of his mind was disturbed; informant: W. J. Potts, assistant deputy coroner - Gentlemen's Toilet, Rockcliffe Tennis Courts, Margaret Road, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England
Miscellaneous5 April 1952was the subject of a coroner's inquest - North Shields, Northumberland, England
Cremation8 April 1952Newcastle Crematorium, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Probate14 June 1952admon - Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England

Families

SpouseMarion Curry (1907 - 1994)
ChildLiving
ChildLiving
ChildLiving
FatherWilliam Stainthorp (1862 - 1924)
MotherMargaret Annie Harland (1859 - 1938)
SiblingMadge Stainthorp (1884 - 1937)
SiblingFrank Stainthorp (1886 - 1918)
SiblingCharles Stainthorp (1887 - 1945)
SiblingVerita Anne Stainthorp (1890 - 1968)
SiblingWilliam Harland Stainthorp (1892 - 1893)
SiblingMillicent Stainthorp (1895 - 1981)
SiblingPhyllys Stainthorp (1897 - 1966)
SiblingWilliam Stainthorp (1901 - 1919)

Notes

Census

At the time of the 1921 census, he was employed by Eastmans Ltd, meat importers, High Street East, Wallsend.

Military

Wartime stories told about Henry Harland Stainthorp include:

1 Throwing hand grenades off Tynemouth Priory.
2 Bringing a bren gun into the house.
3 Seeing a ghost whilst out on patrol.
4 Having one side of his handlebar moustache shaved off whilst asleep, by his mates.
5 Discarding a Smith and Wesson revolver off Tynemouth pier in the 1940s after an amnesty had expired.

Endnotes

1. Birth: England and Wales, birth certificate (certified copy) for , born 7 July 1929; registered September Quarter 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne registration district, volume 10b, page 91; General Register Office, Southport.

2. Birth: England and Wales, birth certificate (certified copy) for , born 9 January 1937; registered March Quarter 1937, Tynemouth registration district, volume 10b, page 327; General Register Office, Southport.

3. 1939 National Registration: England and Wales, Northumberland, Tynemouth C.B., enumeration district GBAE, schedule number 267, Henry H. Stainthorp [household]; image copy, "1939 Register", database with digital images, Findmypast (https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=TNA%2FR39%2F2943%2F2943G%2F020%2F03 : accessed 15 March 2023); citing The National Archives, Kew, archive reference RG 101, piece 2943G.

4. 1939 National Registration: England and Wales, Northumberland, Tynemouth C.B., enumeration district GBAE, schedule number 267, Henry H. Stainthorp [household]; image copy, "1939 Register", database with digital images, Findmypast (https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=TNA%2FR39%2F2943%2F2943G%2F020%2F03 : accessed 15 March 2023); citing The National Archives, Kew, archive reference RG 101, piece 2943G.

5. Birth: England and Wales, birth certificate (certified copy) for , born 8 March 1944; registered March Quarter 1944, Tynemouth registration district, volume 10b, page 378; General Register Office, Southport.

6. Probate: England and Wales, entry in a probate calendar for , probate granted 14 June 1952, page 511; image copy, "Find a will", database with digital images, GOV.UK (https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/ : accessed 15 July 2018); HM Courts & Tribunals Service; citing Principal Probate Registry, London, "Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England".