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Robert Jude was born in Beverley the 13 Feb 1889 and he was baptised at St Mary’s Church, Beverley the 1 Mar 1889. He was the son of John Jude a labourer who later worked for the Beverley Corporation. John Jude originally from Norfolk and worked as a farm labourer. Robert’s mother was Margaret Ford who married John in 1886 after the death of his first wife, Harriet Bales. Robert was one of four children from the second marriage and had nine half brothers and sisters from the first. The family was brought up in Trinity Lane then Chantry Lane, Beverley.
Robert worked as a labourer, though his marriage certificate describes him as being a “dealer”. On 22 Feb 1915 he married Alice Hunsley of 12 Norwood, born in 1888, and the daughter of a cowkeeper, at St Mary's Church, Beverley. Their first child, John, was born the 19 Aug 1915. They had three further children, the last, Harry, born in 1924.
Robert served in the Royal Field Artillery as a driver and served in France. The inscription accompanying his photo in the Beverley Guardian of 3 Jun 1917 notes that he was “in training”, which suggests that he had in fact enlisted in 1916. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals.
On his return to Beverley Robert became a cowkeeper and is recorded in the 1939 Register as a “milk salesman”, he and his family were living at 14 Central Avenue, Beverley. They later moved to the Driffield/Bridlington area. Robert died aged 69 in 1959. Alice died in 1968.
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