STOCKS, SAMUEL EDWARD MILLER GRO Reference: 1887 D Quarter in BIRKENHEAD Volume 08A Page 528
Cheshire Birth indexes for the years: 1887 STOCKS Samuel Edward Tranmere Wirral TRA/47/49
Name: Samuel Edward Stock Gender: Male Baptism Date: 22 Sep 1888 Baptism Place: St. Pauls, Tranmere, Cheshire, England Father: Samuel Stock Mother: Sarah Ann Stock FHL Film Number: 1656718 Reference ID: p170
Deaths Mar 1913 (99%) Stocks Samuel E 25 Birkenhead 8a 670
General Notes
Born: Tranmere, Birkenhead
Living with parents and family at 194 Peel Street, Tranmere, Birkenhead in 1891 (as a single household).
Samuel Edward Stocks (Official Number: 227798), born 28 Nov 1887 at Rock Ferry first served in the RN on the Black Prince in 1903 when he was almost 16. He left the Navy service on 9 Jan 1908 after serving on Vivid I.
In 1911, he was in the Wirral Union Workhouse (now Clatterbridge hospital) and single at Spital, Bebington, aged only 23, formerly a sailor.
There was a Samuel Edward Stocks who had three children christened in Tranmere in 1904, 1908 and 1908 (mother Sarah Ann Stocks), and the children's names were those of his nearest siblings. Perhaps he was married.