General Notes

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Albion George Jennings was born in Plymouth, Devon 18 Sept 1870. He was the son and only child of Albion Jennings (a marine) and Sarah Ann (Beer). His Mother died when he was just eight years old. His Father remarried just three months later. Although on the 1881census for Stonehouse Plymouth he is living with his stepmother and his six month old half brother, William, we know that he later ran away from home and was brought up by another family. He did not see his Father again until he was grown up. By then there were other half  brothers and sisters.
Albion married Martha Hendra 15 Apr 1895 at the Methodist chapel in Tremar Coombe, St Cleer, Cornwall, where her family lived. They had several children but only four survived into adulthood. He worked at the Victualling Yard but suffered continual ill health with a bronchial complaint and was often unable to work. There was no social security in those days so the family knew hard times and Martha had to feed the family by scrubbing other peoples floors. Despite illness he did live until he was 72, surviving Martha by just one month. He died in October 1942 and is buried at Efford Cemetery Plymouth.