Frederick Parsons was born in Wivelsfield in 1869, to Belinda and Thomas Parsons, a railway labourer/platelayer.
By age 22 (1891) he was already bookstall manager in Oxted where he met Hannah Dilnot, a Kent girl working as domestic staff for an architect. They married in 1893 and in 1901 they were still living in Oxted, and he continued to manage the railway bookstall. By 1911 Frederick was a clerk for a bookseller/newsagents [WHSmith’s] they were living at 54 East Ham Road, Littlehampton with Hannah and their only child George, a newsagents’ assistant.
In 1921 census Frederick was still manager of a railway bookstall and even specified WHSmith’s Littlehampton Railway station. He’d lost Hannah by 1939’s identity card register and was living with the Burt family at Parkside Avenue, Littlehampton.
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