{"id":220,"date":"2020-10-14T21:25:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/?page_id=220"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:54:35","slug":"william-jubb-1880-1961","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/index.php\/william-jubb-1880-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"Jubb &#8211; William (1880-1961)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-uagb-section uagb-section__wrap uagb-section__background-color uagb-block-abf36d58\"><div class=\"uagb-section__overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-section__inner-wrap\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Life Events :<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Born :  <\/strong>24th March 1880<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Married : <\/strong>4th January 1902 to Eliza Giblin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Died : <\/strong>16th September 1961. Cause of death : Stomach cancer and bronchitis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Children :<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Charles &#8211; 1903-1933<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eliza &#8211; 1904-1993 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Margaret &#8211; 1906-1979<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jessie &#8211; 1910-1994<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>William &#8211; 1914-2007<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marion (Mary) &#8211; 1915-2008<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Annie &#8211; 1920-2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rose &#8211; 1922-2002<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>John &#8211; 1925-1925<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gilbert &#8211; 1927-2006<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Parents : <\/strong>Charles Jubb and Eliza Stringer<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William Jubb was my grandfather, I never met him because sadly both he and my grandmother had died the year before I was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William was born in 1880, the ninth child of eleven to his parents Charles and Eliza. Queen Victoria was still on the throne and would be for another 20 years. It was the year of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elementary_Education_Act_1880\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elementary_Education_Act_1880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1880 Education act<\/a>, making school attendance compulsory for children aged between 5 and 10. This also meant it was illegal for children under the age of 10 to be employed, thus ending child labour. So the prospects were certainly a little bit brighter for William and his peers than it had been for his older siblings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was born at 19 John&#8217;s Place, Chapman Street, Hull and I have been told that he attended Chapman Street School. which was built in 1885 to accommodate 866 pupils. I remember the housing being demolished in the 1970s and the school was demolished some years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/chapman-street-board-school-1889-78f545.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1461 size-full lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/chapman-street-board-school-1889-78f545.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1461 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/chapman-street-board-school-1889-78f545.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/chapman-street-board-school-1889-78f545-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapman Street Board School 1889 &#8211; drawing by F.S. Smith<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William&#8217;s brother Samuel was born in 1884 but sadly died as an infant and brother Robert came along in 1887, eight months after the death of their father Charles from Bronchitis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time of the 1891 census, William is 10 years old and living with his mother Eliza and five of his siblings, two of whom are working and bringing in an income. Still in Chapman Street but at 3 Mary&#8217;s Place, Chapman Street was typical housing for the working classes, terraced two up-two down houses with outside and often shared lavatories. Times must have been hard for Eliza being widowed and with a family to feed and I wonder if her older children, now with homes and families of their own were in a position to help her at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1901, William is shown on the census as lodging, along with his brother John with their sister Lizzie Wilkinson and her husband and family at number 6 Cleveland Street.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His job at the time is a nightsoil cartman! A family story is that the horse he had in this job was called Jessie and that he named his daughter Jessie for the horse! I&#8217;m a bit sceptical about that one though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A nightsoil cartman can&#8217;t have been a very pleasant job, it involved going through peoples houses to empty the toilets and carry the ashes and waste back through the house to the cart to be taken away to be disposed of. I found this wonderful letter, complete with drawings, in our local newspaper The Hull Daily Mail of 11th March 1903, from &#8216;a poor ratepayer&#8217; suggesting a new method of collecting the waste. I&#8217;ll let you read it yourself and I don&#8217;t know about you but I think it&#8217;s a very clever suggestion! I wonder if it was ever acted upon by the sanitary committee!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"966\" height=\"2131\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt1-1.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1454 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"966\" height=\"2131\" src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt1-1.jpg 966w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt1-1-136x300.jpg 136w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt1-1-464x1024.jpg 464w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt1-1-768x1694.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt1-1-696x1536.jpg 696w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt1-1-928x2048.jpg 928w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"948\" height=\"2280\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt2-1.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1455 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"948\" height=\"2280\" src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt2-1.jpg 948w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt2-1-125x300.jpg 125w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt2-1-426x1024.jpg 426w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt2-1-768x1847.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt2-1-639x1536.jpg 639w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hull_Daily_Mail_11_March_1903_letter-about-night-soil-collection-pt2-1-852x2048.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1904 he married my grandmother, Eliza Giblin. She was a factory worker at Reckitts and lived in St Mark&#8217;s Street, just around the corner from where William had been living with the Wilkinsons on Cleveland Street so they were practically neighbours before they met and married. They were married at St Mary&#8217;s Catholic Church on Wilton Street, again close to where they lived but to my knowledge neither of them were Roman Catholic so I&#8217;m unsure as to why they would be married in that particular church. I was brought up RC and attended both the school and the church of St. Mary&#8217;s, both buildings were demolished in the 1980s, I don&#8217;t have fond memories! The couple lived in York Terrace, Sutton Bank and had their first son Charles in May of 1903. Charles was baptized at St Mark&#8217;s church, which was C of E.  Next came Eliza (known as Lal) in August 1904 and Margaret in Jun 1906.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/St-Marys-Wilton-Str-Hull.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1462 size-full lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/St-Marys-Wilton-Str-Hull.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1462 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/St-Marys-Wilton-Str-Hull.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/St-Marys-Wilton-Str-Hull-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St. Mary&#8217;s RC Church, Wilton Street, Hull.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 1908 the family had moved to Engine Terrace in Kent Street, Hull where baby Ellen was born in March, sadly she died later that year sometime between June and September as her death was registered in quarter 3 of the year. By the time their next daughter Jessie (she of the horse&#8217;s name) was born in 1910, the family lived in Sidney Street in the area of Hull know as Groves, it was tiny terraced housing and they would live here for the next ten years at least, as I know my mother to be born there in 1920. Looking at the baptisms of the children born here though, the house number changed at least once, so possibly they moved to a slightly larger house at some point. Below is a picture and description from the book &#8216;Forgotten Hull&#8217; by Graham Wilkinson and Gareth Watkins, showing Sidney Street prior to demolition in the 1930s. The book is a fascinating selection of photographs from the Hull Corporation Health Department taken between 1890s and 1930s. They were taken by the then Inspector of Unhealthy Dwellings to be used in cases for slum clearance following the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Housing_of_the_Working_Classes_Act_1890\">1890 Act &#8211; Housing for the working classes<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"937\" height=\"729\" data-src=\"http:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sidney-Street.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1470 size-full lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"937\" height=\"729\" src=\"http:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sidney-Street.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1470 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sidney-Street.jpg 937w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sidney-Street-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sidney-Street-768x598.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 937px) 100vw, 937px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sidney Street was one of the seven streets which ran north from Jenning Street to connect with Lime Street. Six were named after Royal Navy Admirals, Benbow, Rodney, Hood, Jervis, Duncan and Sidney. The seventh was the strangely named Spittle Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This view is looking north towards Lime Street and shows the house numbers 16 to 24 on the east side of the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the property in the Groves was compulsorily purchased by the council and demolished during the 1930s<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although these houses were tiny and the conditions were unsanitary, I&#8217;m struck by how clean the actual street looks. My mum used to say that grandma, like most women of the time used to take pride in their homes, cleaning not only inside but outside as well, windows, door steps and the footpath directly outside to avoid &#8216;tramping in dirt&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, the family are living in Sidney Street, Jessie, Bill and Marion all being born there between 1910 and 1915.  Then came along the Great War, the war to end all wars! Like all men of his age group, my grandfather was caught up in the conflict. I don&#8217;t know if he signed up or was conscripted after conscription started in January of 1916. The fact that he wasn&#8217;t in the East Yorkshires &#8211; he was in the Hampshire Regiment, suggests conscription to me, being sent where ever men were needed most, but I am certainly far from a WW1 expert so am speculating. William&#8217;s brother, Robert, like a lot of men from Hull was in the East Yorkshire Regiment, which was decimated at the battle of Oppy Wood in May 1917, Robert was killed on 3rd May 1917 and I visited his war grave many years ago which was very moving. The simple fact is that I probably wouldn&#8217;t be here now writing this had William joined the war with his brother!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had discovered that William was in the Hampshire Regiment from his war medals, which shows his service number of 56612. The medals were in the possession of my Uncle Bill who showed them to me many years ago when I first started my family history research. Sadly since Uncle Bill passed away I have no idea as to the whereabouts of those medals now. Knowing the regiment, I now needed to find out which battalion he was part of so that I could look for a war diary to find out what exactly he would have been involved in and where he would have been sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the help of a researcher on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatwarforum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Great War Forum<\/a> who kindly looked for information for me, I now know that William was in the 11th Battalion Pioneers and had been transferred there on 18th June 1918, probably from another UK based Regiment or Reserve Battalion, I haven&#8217;t been able to find out which but am advised that it would probably have been a local labour corps, until the army decided where the need for men was greatest and sent them there. The Pioneers were mostly medical grade B II (B2) and from &#8216;Home Service&#8217; Labour Companies, who were unfit for combat but they still would have been trained in infantry, including fighting with bayonets. They would have come under enemy fire and were capable of fighting on a defensive basis but were not destined for attacking. The role of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longlongtrail.co.uk\/the-pioneer-battalion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pioneer units<\/a> was digging trenches, road and railway laying etc. Whilst in France, he was transferred in October of 1918 to the Labour Corps. The aforementioned wonderful chap from the forum also found me the War Diary of the 11th Bn. which was interesting reading. You can download the diary yourself from The National Archives website <a href=\"https:\/\/discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/details\/r\/C7352839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> but you do need to set up an account with them first, it&#8217;s free to set up an account and free to download the diary. Bear in mind though that he was only with the regiment from June to October 1918, just long enough for training and to be shipped to France. The volume covering William&#8217;s time with the regiment is in volume 4 and I&#8217;ve summarised the activities as diarised by Capt. Molyneux below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Between 21st June and 1st July 1918 the regiment was based in Lowestoft, England taking in drafts. Total strength of regiment on 1st July was 776. The men were being trained in gas and drill.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3rd July they were marched and entrained (put on railway trains) to Twesledown Camp near Aldershot were they remained for the rest of that month.  They undertook rifle, drill and marching training and also went through an influenza disinfecting marquee. Many of the men were declared unfit as they were falling out during route marches. I&#8217;m assuming falling out mean collapsing!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1st August, the regiment left Aldershot and sailed from Folkestone to Boulogne on the SS Onward. Before boarding, they&#8217;d been sent at 4:30am to billets and were given breakfast. On arrival in Boulogne the men were marched to Ostrohove rest camp, it was &#8220;very hot and the men were very tired walking up the steep hill&#8221;.  The men were put in tents but enemy aircraft attacks during the night had them moved from the tents into shelters. There were no casualties but imagine how frightening it must have been on their first night in France.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2nd August &#8211; heavy rain, train to Samer and then marched to Menty where they were billeted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4th August &#8211; heavy rain, men were marched in full battle order to Bernieulles where they were billeted<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Between 5th and 10th August, the men were taking part in parades, route marches and digging trenches and drains.  Weather was mostly fine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>12th August &#8211; a Sgt May from the Army gym staff was attached to the regiment for a week to help with bayonet training<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>16th and 17th August saw the Battalion horse show and a concert by the men which were both enjoyed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>18th August &#8211; orders received for move to Sailly Labourse, 60 miles away. Battalion sports held in the afternoon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>20th &#8211; 22nd August &#8211; marched to Doubeauville and then on to Desvres, two very hot days and the men were hot and tired and several fell out on march to Desvres where they would be taken by buses to Sailly Labourse <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>23rd August &#8211; Arrived in Sailly Labourse where they remained until early October.  They were involved in trench digging, railway repairs and training. There was a fair bit of enemy activity but no casualties until 30th August when two men were wounded with gas fumes from an old shell hole and one man sustained a gun shot wound.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1st September &#8211; a large number of white balloons were seen overhead and were dropping what looked to be papers. However the wind blew these away from our lines so none were recovered.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The diary goes on to describe the daily activities, weather and enemy action including shelling and bombs being dropped. The men seem to have been mostly labouring, digging trenches and building\/repairing roads. At some point William was transferred to the Labour Corp and given a new number of 630180. I&#8217;m told that the batch of numbers were issued on 2nd October 1918.  There is nothing in the diary to mention men being transferred.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thankfully William escaped the horrors of war unscathed physically, I don&#8217;t know of any effects on his mental health but I&#8217;m sure getting back to normal life afterwards was challenging, especially with the loss of his brother Robert on his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 1921 census shows William working as a labourer at British Extracting, which was a seed crushing mill on the banks of the River Hull a subsidiary company of B.O.C.M. (British Oil and Cake Mills). The building, although mostly derelict still exists today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"422\" height=\"640\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/British_Extracting_Company_Hull_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_275078.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1464 size-full lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"422\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/British_Extracting_Company_Hull_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_275078.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1464 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/British_Extracting_Company_Hull_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_275078.jpg 422w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/British_Extracting_Company_Hull_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_275078-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">British Extracting Company Ltd, Hull<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After his return from war, William and Eliza would have four further children, Annie, my mother in 1920, Rose in 1922, John in 1925 who sadly died as an infant and finally Gilbert in 1927 when Eliza was 44. By all accounts Gilbert was a very large baby and my grandmother almost died during his birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time of the 1939 register, which was taken in lieu of a 1941 census, the family were living at 70 Alaska Street, across the road from son Bill and his wife Norah who had married in 1938.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1939 war loomed again and this time it was William&#8217;s son, William Jnr, always known as Bill who would be sent off to fight. How must it have felt as parents, watching your son&#8217;s and the husbands and sweethearts of your daughters having to go off to fight in a war after going through it all yourselves only 20 years earlier. Bill thrived and whenever I spoke to him, he spoke very enthusiastically about his time in the deserts of North Africa serving under &#8216;Monty&#8217;.  Below is a newspaper article about his being awarded the Military Medal for his act of bravery driving a truckload of explosives across the Wadi Zigzaou. I&#8217;m sure his mam, dad and his wife Norah were incredibly proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"522\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Uncle-Bill-MM-HDM-9June1943-image1.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1458 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Uncle-Bill-MM-HDM-9June1943-image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Uncle-Bill-MM-HDM-9June1943-image1.jpg 468w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Uncle-Bill-MM-HDM-9June1943-image1-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"624\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Uncle-Bill-MM-HDM-9June1943-image2.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1459 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Uncle-Bill-MM-HDM-9June1943-image2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Uncle-Bill-MM-HDM-9June1943-image2.jpg 556w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Uncle-Bill-MM-HDM-9June1943-image2-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"361\" height=\"539\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Uncle-Bill-MM-HDM-9June1943-image3.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1460 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"361\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Uncle-Bill-MM-HDM-9June1943-image3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Uncle-Bill-MM-HDM-9June1943-image3.jpg 361w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Uncle-Bill-MM-HDM-9June1943-image3-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At some time during the 1940s the family moved to a brand new house, rented from the Hull Corporation, number 6 Endymion Street. This one would have been luxurious to them, with an indoor bathroom and toilet, the first house they&#8217;d lived in with such facilities. It was on a corner plot so also had a large garden.  It was from this house that my mother was married and my grandparents lived until their deaths in 1961. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wish I could have known my grandparents, I&#8217;ve heard lots of amusing anecdotes over the years. One such as during the wartime when my mum and her sister Rose used to go out dancing with soldiers and airmen and would be &#8216;walked home&#8217; by their dates, their father used to sit in the living room with them, never leaving them alone together, then at some point he would say, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s time all good people were in bed so best be off with you now son&#8221;. This of course was a polite way of saying bugger off.  One time a young man who&#8217;d taken a shine to my mother had cycled to visit her from the camp he was stationed at, Leconfield which is a good hour&#8217;s cycle time. When he arrived, my mum asked &#8220;Father, can he come in, he&#8217;s biked from Leconfield to see me&#8221;. Grandad&#8217;s response was &#8220;he&#8217;s biked from where? He must be bastard daft&#8221;.  Not, oh he must really think a lot of my daughter to cycle such a long way, just that he must be daft to cycle all that way to see a girl! haha. My sister Ann used to tell me about when she and my brothers used to go round to see grandma and grandad, usually because they knew they&#8217;d be given a few pennies or sweets.  They&#8217;d hear grandad grumbling, &#8220;oh who&#8217;s this? It&#8217;s our Annie&#8217;s kids, what do they want?&#8221;  Grandma&#8217;s response &#8220;oh shut up you miserable old bugger, they&#8217;ve come to see me not you anyhow!&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the bickering, they were truly devoted to each other and they died eighteen months apart. Grandma on 13th May 1960 followed by Grandad on 16th September 1961. My mum and aunties all said that grandad died of a broken heart after my grandma had died. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here they are on the occasion of their Diamond Wedding Anniversary in 1952, a photograph from the local paper, the Hull Daily Mail <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"1022\" data-src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/William-and-Eliza-Jubb-Golden-wedding.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1465 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"1022\" src=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/William-and-Eliza-Jubb-Golden-wedding.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/William-and-Eliza-Jubb-Golden-wedding.jpg 730w, https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/William-and-Eliza-Jubb-Golden-wedding-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Jubb was my grandfather, I never met him because sadly both he and my grandmother had died the year[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","wpm_timeformat":"","_wpm_styles":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-220","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"poseidon-header-image":false,"poseidon-thumbnail-small":false,"poseidon-thumbnail-medium":false,"poseidon-thumbnail-large":false,"poseidon-thumbnail-single":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/jillcuth\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"William Jubb was my grandfather, I never met him because sadly both he and my grandmother had died the year[...]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dongates.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}