William Ralph Gomme

William Ralph Gomme was the son of John Gomme, engineer and iron founder, born 1865 and Alice Frances, nee Butt, born 1865 Westbourne Park, London.

William Ralph's parents John and Alice Gomme lived on Mill Road (later called Main Road) Lacey Green. They had 6 children, as follows ----

John Gomme 1890-? Emigrated to Canada. Returned in 1956 for a two month visit to Harrow, where his widowed mother and sister Dorothy were living.

William Ralph Gomme 1891-1915. Emigrated to Canada. William Ralph Gomme died 8th May 1915 WW1. Private, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)

Memorials Ypres, (Menim Gate) Leper, Belgium. Panel 10-58. Also Loosley Row Baptist Chapel Cemetery and Lacey Green Parish Church.

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Clarence Gomme 1894 Married 1917 Florence Louisa Ives. 1939 Register states for no1 Prospect Cottages, Loosley Row---Clarence & Florence with four daughters --- Elsie Florence, 1920-1968, forewoman at printing factory (she married 1942 Philip James Attridge). Doris Frances,1921-2014 chair upholsterer. (she died at 2 Prospect Cottages, Loosley Row. Olive Gwendoline, 1925-1997. Married 1949 Dennis George Munday. Evelyn Rose,1927-2000, machinist at printing factory. Married 1950 Bernard Gerald Smith, 1927-1996.

Walter Francis Gomme 1896-1979. Married Evelyn Ethel Davey 1888-1944.

Dorothy Alice Gomme 1901-1978. Married Frederick Leslie Stafford 1893- 1973. Died at Harrow

Thomas John Gomme 1904-1915. Died at Chipping Sodbury, Glous.

Deaths of parents, John and Alice. John 1917, Lacey Green. Alice 1940, Harrow, Middlesex.