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SEWELL, William aged 61years buried Plumstead Cemetery.
1920mar Woolwich 1D 1476
Three generations of my Sewell family have worked at the RA.
My Grandfather, Thomas Edward Sewell (1885-1954) worked at the RA for over 50
years retiring in 1952. He was first a machinist, then an overlooker in the
laboratory and finally worked in the storeroom. The house that my grandparents
lived in at Eltham was one of many built to RA specifications before the First
World War. It included a bathroom, range, scullery and garden with a green in
the centre of the road between the houses for the children to play.
His father William Thomas Sewell (1858-1920) according to
the census of 1871 at the age of 14 tears was a Cartridge Maker alongside his
two elder brothers. John (Daniel John b.1850) age 20 was a labourer, while
Alfred (William Alfred Jones b.1856) at 15 years was a Bullet Maker. William
Thomas continued working at the RA as a labourer in the Laboratory until his
death in 1920 at the age of 61 years. Their father, Jonathon William
(1824-1881) had moved from Suffolk, where he was born, to the East End working
as shipbuilder and engineering labourer. When the family moved south to
Plumstead in the early 1860's he worked as a labourer at the RA.
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