masters

UK Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 on ancestry.co.uk

Name:Edward Walter Masters
Birth Place:Mile End
Residence:Mile End
Death Date:8 Oct 1916
Death Location:France & Flanders
Enlistment Location:Bethnal Green
Rank:Private
Regiment:London Regiment
Battalion:3rd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers)
Number:6056
Type of Casualty:Killed in action
Theatre of War:Western European Theatre

1901 Census on ancestry.co.uk has the following likely entry:

Name:Edward W Masters
Age:26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1875
Relation:Head
Spouse's Name:Mary A Masters
Gender:Male
Where born:Mile End, London, England
Civil parish:West Ham
Ecclesiastical parish:St Andrew
County/Island:Essex
Country:England
Street Address:
Occupation: Tailor's assistant
Registration district:West Ham
Sub-registration district:Plaistow
ED, institution, or vessel:46
Household schedule number:167
Piece:1575
Folio:51
Page Number:31

Household Members:
NameAge
Edward W Masters26 - head
Mary A Masters23 - wife
Emma Masters1 - daughter

His number dates to the second half of March 1916.

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Having had a second look, think that you’re right about a birth year of 1875 being incorrect.
I’ve seen the Free BDM entry for a birth in the second quarter of 1890.
As such, the best match I’ve found in the census’ is as follows;
Born 1890, the 1891 census records him one year old and living with his parents William Thomas [b.1866 Clerkenwell, London d.1945 London] and Emily Maria nee Wells [b.1866 Stepney, London. d.1897] whom he had married at St John’s Bethnal Green on 25th December 1886, and older brother William Jnr. [b.1888 Mile End, London]. His father is the licensee of the Crown Inn [Beer House] 59 Alderney Road. [his grandfather had also been a publican].
The 1901 census records him still living at the same address with his father, his father’s second wife Vera [Hannah Vera] [b.1875 Steeple, Essex] whom he had married in the second quarter of 1899, Bethnal Green, and his sister Ethel Emily [b.1894] and a four year old nephew. George Pudney
The 1911 census records the family still living at the Crown Inn, Alderney Road, along with his father, father’s[second] wife, and the second wife’s mother Hannah Heard Pudney [b.1839 Essex]. Edward’s employment is recorded as Bar Assistant so is working in his father’s business.
The premises of the Crown Inn still survives although no longer a pub.

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