England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983 about Ernest Henry Flintham
Name: Ernest Henry Flintham
Year of Registration: 1899
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Mansfield
County: Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire
Volume: 7b
Page: 79

1901 Census shows the Flintham Family visiting and staying that night with the Appleby family - probably Ann Appleby's parents?

1901 England Census about Ernest Flintham
Name: Ernest Flintham
Age: 2
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1899
Relation: Visitor
Gender: Male
Where born: Westhouses, Derbyshire, England
Civil Parish: Louth
Ecclesiastical parish: St Michael
County/Island: Lincolnshire
Country: England
Street address: 19 Stewton Lane
Occupation:
Condition as to marriage:
Education:
Employment status:
Registration district: Louth
Sub-registration district: Louth
ED, institution, or vessel:12
Household schedule number:
Household Members: Name Age
Charles Appleby 23
George Appleby 59
George Appleby 24
Hannah Appleby 62
Alice Flintham 2 months
Annie Flintham 29
Ernest Flintham 2
Harry Flintham 28
Beatrice Spendlow

1911 England Census about Ernest Henry Flintham
Name: Ernest Henry Flintham
Age in 1911: 12
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1899
Relation to Head: Son
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Westhouse, Derbyshire, England
Civil parish: Blackwell
County/Island: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Street Address: Alfreton Rd Westhouses
Occupation: School
Registration district: Mansfield
Registration District Number: 428
Sub-registration district: Blackwell
ED, institution, or vessel: 6
Piece: 20305
Household Members: Name Age
Henry Flintham 38
Ernest Henry Flintham 12


When the family moved to Stockport they lived at 37 Langham Road, Off Didsbury Road, Heaton Mersey in a Council House.The family then moved to 5 Merton Road, Cheadle Heath a rented house and then to 5 Hythe Road Cheadle Heath which was bought.

Ernest had an accident when he was very young. One story is that he was with his father in the pits when the accident happened and he was trapped. Uncle Harold thinks that the accident happened on the railway when Ernest was lifting the heavy chains that linked railway carriages and he suffered a stomach rupture. I think the second story is more likely to be the correct one as we don’t know that his father was down the mines. After the accident he had to wear a metal plate across his stomach because he refused to have surgery. This is thought to be the reason that he didn’t go into any of the armed forces during the wars.

Ernest worked on the railways. For a time he lodged at Rowsley in Derbyshire before moving to Stockport. He worked at Adswood Sidings, Cheadle Sidings, Jubilee Sidings nr Belmont Bridge from where he retired. One of his jobs was to check labels on wagons to see where they were going before linking them to the correct trains.

UK, Railway Employment Records, 1833-1963 about E H Flintham
Name: E H Flintham
Residence Date: 19 Jun 1942
Station: Cheadle Heath
Company: London, Midland and Scottish
Class Number: 426
Piece: 6
Description: Register of scale advances (adults other than 5th grade) 1941 - 1945

Salary 1942 £210
Salary 1944 £230

There was a story that he financially helped a nurse when she passed her exams. The story from Kenneth is that during WW2 Canadians and Americans were based in the UK. Albert Mason brought a US soldier called Allen to meet Ernest and he was supposedly engaged to Elaine Mason in Canada. They were based at Burtonwood Nr Warrington. Allen hooked up with a nurse who he called Margo but was known as Margaret on one visit. Margo was a trainee nurse from Warrington Hospital. Ernest encouraged her to pass her exams and when she did he gave her some cash - it may have only been a very small amount. She kept in touch with Ernest after the war and she was from Scarborough. Allen disappeared and did not maintain contact with Elaine Mason. Margaret later married a taxi driver who died young. She became a snr nurse. Kenneth says that she was something like a matron but she may have been an area manager.


England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2006 about Ernest Henry Flintham
Name: Ernest Henry Flintham
Birth Date: 14 Jan 1899
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1973
Age at Death: 74
Registration district: Stockport
Inferred County: Cheshire
Volume: 10a
Page: 1470

Probate Records show he left the value of £6886.