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Lockwood Lane Hewson was born in Beverley in Jun 1880, the younger son of Henry Hewson a joiner of Beverley, and his wife Ann (nee Lane) of Walkington. The 1891 census shows that the family moved to live in Hull where Lockwood attended school, and by 1901, still living in Hull, he had become a painter. In 1911 aged 30 he was living in Wood Lane, Beverley with his widowed mother, his occupation given as house painter. He married Edith Louisa Dolley on 17 Aug 1913, at St. Pauls Church, Finchley, Middlesex. Edith Louisa was born in Guildford, but in 1911 she lived at The Gables, Beverley, the home of Edward Starkey Wade, a timber merchant, where she worked as a housemaid. Lockwood and Edith had two children, Edith Dorothy born in 1914, and Thomas Henry born 1920.
Lockwood served with the Royal Engineers, he enlisted on 2 Jun 1916, he was injured and hospitalised in May 1918, and was discharged in Apr 1919. He was awarded the British War and Victory medals, and also a Silver Badge following his injuries. On 15 Jun 1918 the Beverley Guardian reported that:-“…. He is suffering from gunshot wounds (severe) and is in hospital in Boulogne.”
After the war he returned to Wood Lane. Edith died in Beverley in 1928 at the age of 45. The 1939 Register shows Lockwood, still in Wood Lane, living with his two children and working as a painter & decorator, and stated to be “disabled ex-serviceman”. Lockwood died in 1959, aged 78.
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