James Henry FREEBODY (1885-1967)

Name:	James Henry FREEBODY
Sex:	Male
Father:	William FREEBODY (1862-1936)
Mother:	Sarah Alexandra JANAWAY (1863-1925)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	4 Jul 1885	Hungerford, Berkshire.
Death	6 Apr 1967 (age 81)	Brinkworth, Wiltshire

Marriage

Spouse	Dorothy A POTTER (1912-1993)
Marriage	1940 (age 54-55)	Chippenham, Wiltshire

Individual Note

Birth (Register 2c 253), Marriage (Marriage 5a 197), Death (Register 7c 448)

 

1891 Census: At 78, Kent Road, South Stoneham, Southampton, Hampshire with parents and sisters Sophia, and Winifred.

1901 Census: At Pound Street, Bitterne, South Stoneham, Hampshire with parents, brother Sidney, and sisters Sophia, Winifred, and Sarah.

 

BITTERNE ROLL OF HONOUR

A list of Bitterne men who served with the colours in the Great War, in all branches of the Services, August 1914 and onwards up to and including November 1917.

 

Freebody, James H Captain King's African Rifles

Freebody, Sidney H Trooper Hants Yeomanry

 

This would be the same Captain James H Freebody that wrote the book "Heat, Hell, and Humour" published by Sampson Low. In the book, James mentions that his fiancee joined him in Africa, and they were married (possibly Mombasa), also in the book he mentions a daughter, but no names were quoted. He spent time (in more ways than one) in Venezuela, and the African Continent, usually constructing bridges.

 

Misc

Main Sources of Information: Birth Certificate, Death Certificate, BMD Index, Census Returns.

James is buried in Brinkworth Cemetery, Wiltshire.