SIDLEY BLOG No 2
An Unlikely Hero - continued... My great grandfather George Thomas Sidley was born in Ealing, Middlesex, England on 4th March 1878. He was the son of George and Elizabeth (Jones) Sidley and was christened at St. Mary’s Church, Ealing, on 8th November 1878 by the Rev. Alfred Relton. St Mary's Church, Ealing, Middlesex, England In the 1881 Census George and Elizabeth and family, including 3 year old George Thomas, were living with his maternal grandmother Charlotte (Powell) Sidley at No 7 Church Terrace, South Ealing and they were still there in 1888. Most of the men in the Sidley family were tradesmen of some sort – George Senior was bricklayer and his brother Benjamin was also one, although he later became a general builder. George Thomas was described as a carpenter when he married Louisa May Chapman on 16 May 1897 at St Peter’s Church, Hammersmith. Their first child Florence Hilda was born just six months later on 22 November 1897, and by then the famil...