William (Billy) Ingram

William (Billy) Ingram (1894 - 1962)

FATHER:	MOTHER:	SPOUSE:	OFFSPRING:
William Ingram (b.1860)	Mary Eleanor Davison (b.1865)	Wilhelmina Johnson (b.1895)* Ethel Tinmouth * not married but he fathered her eldest child	Frederick Johnson (b.1914) Ethel Ingram Mary Ingram (b.1923) John Tinmouth Ingram Unknown Ingram Unknown Ingram Unknown Ingram Unknown Ingram Unknown Ingram Unknown Ingram Unknown Ingram

BIRTH:	7 March 1894 - Co-operative Store Buildings, Ryhope, Sunderland
MARRIAGE:	2 October 1920 - Ryhope, Sunderland
DEATH:	12 March 1962 - Ryhope, Sunderland

KNOWN ADDRESSES:

None known

BIOGRAPHY:

William was born on 7 March 1894 in the co-operative buildings, Ryhope, Sunderland. His parents were William and Mary Ingram. His father worked for the 'co-op' and William eventually got a job there, probably in approximately 1910.

At the age of twenty William's girlfriend, Wilhelmina Johnson, fell pregnant with his child. Wilhelmina gave birth to Frederick Johnson in May 1914 but never married William. William married Ethel Tinmouth in October 1920 and they had ten children together.

Although William had no contact with Frederick apart from paying support, which Frederick had to collect from a solicitors in Newcastle, William is likely to be at least partly responsible for getting Frederick a job as a dividend collector for the co-op in approximately 1930.

IMAGES: (click to enlarge)

William's birth certificate

William, listed as seven years old in the 1901 census

William at the wedding of his daughter, Ethel

William's gravestone, in Ryhope Cemetary. The inscription reads:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
A DEAR HUSBAND AND FATHER
WILLIAM INGRAM
DIED 12TH MARCH 1962 AGED 68 YEARS

HISTORICAL EVENTS:

1894 – ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE, EARL OF ROSEBERY (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister.
1895 - ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNE-CECIL, MARQUIS OF SALISBURY (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister for the third time.
1899 – BRITAIN ENTERS THE BOER WAR in South Africa against Dutch and German forces. The war lasts until 1902. Popular opinion at home is against the war and the effect is that further colonial expansion is not favored.
1901 – EDWARD VII ASCENDS THE THRONE following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria, Britain’s longest serving monarch. Edward is the eldest son of Victoria and Albert and marks the start of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1902 – ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1905 – SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister.
1908 – HERBERT HENRY ASQUITH (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister.
1910 – GEORGE V ASCENDS THE THRONE following the death of his father, Edward VII. George is Edward’s second son.
1914 – BILL GRANTING HOME RULE TO IRELAND BECOME LAW.
1914 – WORLD WAR I, the Great War, starts.
1916 – DAVID LLOYD GEORGE (Liberal) becomes Prime Minister.
1917 – GEORGE V CHANGES THE NAME OF THE ROYAL HOUSE FROM SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA TO WINDSOR.
1918 – UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ACT PASSED giving the vote to women over thirty years old.
1918 – WORLD WAR I ENDS.
1920 – GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND ACT PASSED, superseding an earlier unacceptable act. Six of the nine counties of Ulster are to be known as Northern Ireland while the other three and the provinces of Connaught, Munster and Leinster are to form the Irish Free State. Northern Ireland is given its own parliament and permitted to send representatives to Westminster while the Irish Free State is given a similar status to that of Britain’s commonwealth. The Irish Free State ceases to be part of the United Kingdom from early 1922.
1922 – ANDREW BONAR LAW (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1923 – ALBERT EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY discards the concept of absolute motion and instead treats only relative motion between two systems or frames of reference. One consequence of the theory is that space and time are no longer viewed as separate, independent entities but rather are seen to form a four-dimensional continuum called space-time. Einstein also sought unsuccessfully for many years to incorporate the theory into a unified field theory valid also for subatomic and electromagnetic phenomena.
1923 – STANLEY BALDWIN (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1924 – JAMES MACDONALD (Labour) becomes Prime Minister.
1926 – DECLARATION MADE AT THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE stating that all the nations of the British Commonwealth of Nations, notably UK, Canada, Australia, the Irish Free State, South Africa, New Zealand and Newfoundland, were equal in status, each independent of the others but uniting under a common crown.
1928 – UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE FINALLY ACHIEVED IN 1928, when women were given exactly the same voting rights as males.
1929 – GREAT DEPRESSION EFFECTS BRITAIN after a long period of economic stagnation after the war.
1935 – STANLEY BALDWIN (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1936 – EDWARD VIII ASCENDS THE THRONE following the death of his father George V.
1936 – EDWARD VIII ABDICATES THE THRONE TO MARRY MRS SIMPSON. Edward becomes the Duke of Windsor.
1936 – GEORGE VI ASCENDS THE THRONE following the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII.
1937 – ARTHUR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1939 – GERMANY INVADES POLAND AND GREAT BRITAIN ENTERS WORLD WAR II.
1940 – WINSTON CHURCHILL (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1940 – BATTLE OF BRITAIN FOUGHT.
1941 – ATLANTIC CHARTER SIGNED OFF NEWFOUNDLAND whereby the United States gave “all aid short of war”.
1941 – JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR precipitates American entry into the war.
1941 – BRITAIN LOSES MANY OF IT’S PACIFIC STRONGHOLDS TO THE JAPANESE, most notably Singapore, Burma, Malaya and the British Western Pacific Islands.
1942 – ANGLO-AMERICAN LANDINGS IN NORTHWEST AFRICA start to increase the pressure on German forces. Similar landings in Sicily in 1943 have the same affect.
1944 – D-DAY LANDINGS IN NORMANDY, FRANCE, pushes the Germans back.
1945 – WORLD WAR II ENDS as Germany surrenders in May 1945 and Japan in September 1945.
1945 – CLEMENT ATTLEE (Labour) becomes Prime Minister.
1945 – GREAT BRITIAN IS SEVERELY AFFECTED BY THE WAR. It has lost 360,000 servicemen, 60,000 civilians, 4.5 million dwellings and 3/5 of its merchant fleet.
1946 – NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ACT nationalizes hospitals and provides free medical and dental care for all.
1947 – INDIAN INDEPENDENCE IS GRANTED, sparking a religious war between Pakistan and India.
1949 – THE GOVERNMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN IS FORCED TO RADICALLY DE-VALUE THE POUND by decreasing its value against the US dollar from $4.05 to $2.80. This has the dramatic effect of stimulating exports (as UK goods are cheaper) and stifling imports (as overseas goods are more expensive).
1949 – IN THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR, BRITAIN JOINS WITH THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, ITALY AND EIGHT OTHER NATIONS TO FORM THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO), which provides for common defense in the event of Russian aggression.
1949 – THE IRISH FREE STATE SEVERS ALL COMMONWEALTH TIES WITH GREAT BRITAIN and becomes the Republic of Ireland.
1951 – WINSTON CHURCHILL (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister for the second time.
1952 – ELIZABETH II ASCENDS THE THRONE following the death of her father, George VI.
1955 – SIR ANTHONY EDEN (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1956 – SUEZ CRISIS. Egypt, occupied by Britain since 1882, nationalizes the Suez Canal, hitherto controlled by the British, in response to an Anglo-American refusal to assist in the building of the Aswan Dam. The canal is vital to British shipping in providing a sea route to the oil of the Middle East and trade with India. British and French forces attempt to seize the canal but are halted abruptly when world opinion, and lack of US support, become apparent.
1957 – HAROLD MACMILLAN (Conservative) becomes Prime Minister.
1961 – GREAT BRITAIN APPLIES FOR MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET. However, they are declined unless they cut trade with their commonwealth.