Biography of George Osborne BARRATT
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Biography of George Osborne BARRATT
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George Osborne Barratt was born on 5 October 1883 at Wood Green Villas in Mayes Road, Wood Green, Middlesex. He was the son of Frank and Clara Barratt and was the third member of the Barratt family to carry that name. He had an older sister Clara.
The census of 1891 shows George living at home with his parents and sister at 1 Wood Green Villas. In 1901 when the census was taken, George was at the home of his uncle Edgar Drewett in Guildford. It is not known if George was staying there or just visiting. By that time he was working for the Barratt's company as a confectioner.
George married 19 year old Ida Maud Hawtin at Edmonton Register Office on 24 Octoer 1908. She was one of the five children of Frederick and Sarah Hawtin, having been born in Northampton. Daughter Clara was born in 1909.
In 1910,George was summoned to court for motoring offences which resulted in his being fined 10 shillings.
The 1911 census shows the family living at 14 Endsleigh Terrace, Green Lanes in Palmer's Green, Middlesex. The household supported three servants, general servant Nellie Caine, nurse Priscilla Vaughan and hospital nurse Caroline Johanna Wild. George and Clara's daughter Eileen Marcella was born in 1912.
Sadly, the marriage did not go well as Clara had an affair with a man called George Carlton late in 1916. Four assignations were recorded between 2 and 11 December that year, the second occasion being at the marital home at Ash Lawn, Chase Side, Old Southgate in Middlesex. George filed for divorce on 16 December. His case was proven and Decree Nisi was granted on 2 April 1917. Decree Absolute followed six months later. George was ordered to pay Ida alimony at the rate of three pounds per week from 19 December 1916 and the children were placed in his care.
On 14 June 1918, George married Minnie Louisa Rylatt, née Booth, at Edmonton Register Office. She had been divorced from George Walter Rylatt who had been unfaithful and violent towards her. They had no surviving children. For reasons unclear, George had registered his profession on the marriage certificate as Fitter & welder.
In January 1919, George's first wife Clara made an application to the court requesting access to the children but that was dismissed. She remarried later that year.
The 1921 census records George living at 92 Chase Side in Southgate, Middlesex with his new wife and the children from his first marriage. George and Minnie did not have any children together. George's aunt Harriett was visiting at the time of the census. Also present was domestic servant Annie E Dickerson.
George and Minnie had moved to "Dormers" in Cockfosters Road, New Barnet, Middlesex by the time his name was listed in a 1930 street directory. The 1939 register confirms that address and that George is now in retirement. It also lists other occupants of the house being cook and housekeeper Amy Heald and gardener Stanley Storey with his wife Margaret.
George made his Will in 1951, having it witnessed by his housekeeper, A Heald. He died at home on 13 August 1956 leaving an estate of £50,061 3s 2d. His wife Minnie survived another twenty years.