18 Aug 2023
Husband: Henry William Huckle
Born: ABT 1886 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire Census: 1911 in Cardiff (see note 1) Occupation: 1911 Teacher, Commercial School Resided: 1914 in Cambridge Occupation: 1914 - 1917 Chief Clerk, Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board 1,2 Military: 1914 - 1918 3 Resided: 1915 - 1917 at Tourmaline, Shelford Road, Trumpington 1 Died: 5 Sep 1918 in France 4 (see note 2) Father: Mother: Media link: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/1998653 Media desc: Lives of the First World War
Wife: Mary Ann Elizabeth Porter Married: 2 Sep 1914 in Trumpington (see note 3)
Born: 4 Oct 1880 in Cambridge 5 Census: 1891 at Quy Villa, Cambridge Road, Trumpington (see note 4) Census: 1901 at Quy Villa, Cambridge Road, Trumpington (see note 5) Census: 1911 at Quy Villa, Cambridge Road, Trumpington (see note 6) Resided: 1915 - 1963 at Tourmaline, 182 Shelford Road, Trumpington 6,1,5 Census: 1921 at Quy Villa, Gazeley Road, Trumpington (see note 7) Died: 1965 in Gloucester 7 (see note 8) Buried: 1965 in Trumpington 8 (see note 9) Father: Thomas Humphrey John Porter (1857 - 1936) Mother: Sarah Minnie Creger (1857 - 1899)
F Child 1: Minnie Elizabeth Huckle Born: 21 Jun 1915 in Trumpington 5,9 (see note 10) Christened: 5 Sep 1915 in Trumpington (see note 11) Census: 1921 at Quy Villa, Gazeley Road, Trumpington (see note 12) Resided: 1937 - 1963 at 182 Shelford Road, Trumpington 6 Occupation: 1939 Shorthand Typist 5 Died: 2009 in Devon 10 Husband: Raymond G Thompson Married: 1974 in Gloucestershire 9 (see note 13)
F Child 2: Betty Mary Huckle Born: 31 Mar 1917 in Cambridgeshire 9,5 (see note 14) Christened: 22 Apr 1917 in Trumpington (see note 15) Census: 1921 at Quy Villa, Gazeley Road, Trumpington (see note 16) Resided: 1938 - 1947 at 182 Shelford Road, Trumpington 6,5 Occupation: 1939 Veterinary Student 5 Died: 2000 in Surrey 7 (see note 17) Husband: Wilfred Fishwick b. 1918 d. 2011 Married: 29 Mar 1947 in Trumpington (see note 18)
Sources: (1) Baptism records of children. (2) Newspaper report. (3) Roll of Honour, in Trumpington Village Hall. (4) Roll of Honour website. (5) 1939 Register. (6) Electoral Register. (7) Index on ancestry.co.uk. (8) Ken Fletcher pers.com. (9) FreeBMD website. (10) Ancestry family tree.
Event Notes Note (1) Age 24, born Hitchin. Teacher, Commercial School Note (2) 2nd Lt. 1st Bt. Cambridgeshire Regiment, killed in action 5/9/1918, age 32, buried: PERONNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France. Son of Henry and Emma Elizabeth Huckle, of Hitchin; husband of M. A. E. Huckle, of Tourmaline, Trumpington, Cambs. Henry was born in 1886 in Hitchen and in 1911 was working as a teacher in Cardiff. In 1914 he married Mary Ann Elizabeth Porter in Trumpington. Mary Porter, born Cambridge 1881, was the daughter of Thomas Porter a solicitor living in Quy Villas. The Parish Record show two possible children and MAEH dying in 1963 when she would have been 80. Formerly Private 765792, 28th Battalion, London Regiment. Commissioned 26th February 1918. Entitled to the Victory and British War Medal. See also Hitchin War Memorial Note (3) Sep 2 HUCKLE Henry William 28 bac clerk of 4 Warkworth Street Cambridge son of Henry confectioner PORTER Mary Ann Elizabeth 33 sp [blank] of Quy Villa Trumpington dau of Thomas Humphrey John solicitor's managing clerk wits: Thos H J PORTER, Frederick HUCKLE, Thomas H PORTER Note (4) Age 10, born Cambridge, with parents Note (5) Age 20, born Cambridge, with father and family Note (6) Age 30, born Cambridge, with father, stepmother and family Note (7) Age 40, born Cambridge, widow with two children, all visiting her father and stepmother Note (8) Mar 1965 Gloucester City 7b 519 age 84 Note (9) Residing in Gloucester Note (10) Sep 1915 Chesterton 3b 716 mothers surname Porter Note (11) Sep 5 HUCKLE Minnie Elizabeth of Henry William & Mary Ann Elizabeth of Tourmaline, Shelford Rd, Trumpington clerk Note (12) Age 5, born Trumpington, with mother and sister Betty, all visiting her grandfather Note (13) Jun 1974 Cheltenham 22 1398 Note (14) Jun 1917 Chesterton 3b 621 mothers surname Porter Note (15) Apr 22 HUCKLE Betty Mary of Henry William & Mary Ann Elizabeth of Tourmaline, Shelford Rd, Trumpington clerk Note (16) Age 4, born Trumpington, with mother and sister Minnie, all visiting her grandfather Note (17) Nov 2000 Kingston born 31 Mar 1917 Note (18) Mar 29 FISHWICK Wilfred 28 bac student of Old Vicarage Fen Ditton son of William Alfred cotton merchant (deceased) HUCKLE Betty Mary 29 sp vetinary surgeon of 182 Shelford Rd dau of Henry William clerk (deceased) by lic wits: Mary Anne Elizabeth HUCKLE, Alice FISHWICK Copyright © Trumpington Local History Group 2023 Email TLHG Return to TLHG introduction page Name Index