Arthur David Alexander DEANS

  Noted events in his life were:

• Baptism, 1886, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Baptised Roath St Margarets 3/3/1886 living 64 Adeline St

• Census, 1891, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 12 Helen Street - scholar

• Census, 1901, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 6 Helen Street, foundry worker

• Marriage Banns, 1904, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. St David's R.C. Cathedral

• Census, 1911, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 8 Helen Street, Roath. Married 8 years 3 children Railway servant, coal tipper

• Military Service, 1913, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 454938 610th Milford Havend Field Company Royal Engineers
Corporal Arthur David Alexander Deans (Fort Coy)
19 Blanche Street Cardiff enlisted 30 April 1913 Discharge 13 February 1919

Muscular Rhuematism attrib less than 2 o???
Allowance granted 4/1o for five children Catherine Maud 30/4/04, Violet Mary 15/8/06, Lilian 3/11/09, Eileen 29/12/11 and Wm Bernard 27/12/14
engine driver skilled 1/4 sub sapper engaged 4 years from 30/4/1913 reengaged Acting Lance Corporal 1/7/1917, Pembroke Dock
appointed Corporal II Pembroke Dock, 1/3rd Glamorgan (E.L.) or R.E. occupation cards despatched Pennar Barracks Pembroke Dock
3rd Milford Haven Fortress Company appointed Acting Corporal Pembroke Dock
15/1/1919 O C 610th co RE proceeded to Oswestry Pennar Barracks Pembroke Dock
Dispersal area 4B Pembroke Dock
NoK wife Alice Deans (Crossed through after death) 8 Helen Street Roath Cardiff
Served Western Command Defence Electric Lights N.C.O. Rheumatics January 1918 exposure Angle Hospital Angle Pembrokeshire
National Health Approved Society Amalgamated Railway Servants No 5 Branch
Last employer Cardiff Railway Company Bute Docks Cardiff Coal tipper
Disabilities Muscular rheumatism suffers severe pain right shoulder spent 3 days in Angle Hospital Scar of an old operation for right empyema

• Residence, 1918, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 8 Helen street - family residence at time of wife Alice's death. Arthur is a Corporal R.E. 454938 (coal tipper)

• Census, 1921, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 38 Shakespeare Street (The White Swan)licenced victualler with second wife Alice - just married. Living with daughters Kitty assistant, Violet waitress at Park Hotel and Lili at school. Census states for Violet and Lily that both parents are alive but this Alice is step mother

• Residence, 1922, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. White Swan Hotel, 38 Shakespeare Street

• Census, 1939, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. 38 Shakespeare Street Licensed victualler White Swan Hotel

• Burial, 1944, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Probable burial date is 4 October 1944 Cathays R3374

Arthur married Alice Maud DONOHUE, daughter of William DONOHUE and Catherine MURPHY, on 12 Mar 1904 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire. (Alice Maud DONOHUE was born on 22 Apr 1880 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, died on 29 Oct 1918 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire and was buried on 5 Nov 1918 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire.)

Arthur next married Alice Lydia DAVIES in 1921 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire. (Alice Lydia DAVIES was born in 1880, died on 16 Aug 1944 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire and was buried on 19 Aug 1944 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire.)