Life History

Notes

• A fighter ace from the first world war and mentioned on several web pages on the net.
  Birth registered in Blything ref 4a 970 Sept Q 1895
  
  From: "Elaine Marshall" <<email address>>
  To: "Les Sullivan" <<email address>>
  Subject: Henry Winslow Woollett
  Date: 30 April 2004 19:53
  
  Dear Les,
  Further to our recent emails re the above I have now received a Birth
  Certificate for Henry Winslow Woollett, and I enclose as an attachment a
  copy of this certificate. As you can see his mother and father were Sidney
  Winslow Woollett and Mary Ann Isabelle Woollett (nee Pittis) Henry was born
  on the 5th August 1895 at Wymering House, Southwold and his father was a
  Surgeon. His parents married in Fareham in 1884, but sadly his mother Mary
  Ann Isabelle Woollett died at the age of 37 in 1897 in Guildford (which is
  where her sister in law Jessie Woollett lived) - Henry Winslow Woollett
  would have only been two years old at the time. His father married again in
  1902 - either to an Eliza Spooner or Flory Hotchkiss (according to Freebmd
  records).
  In the 1881 census, Henry's father Sidney was given as being born in
  Chiselhurst in 1857 and at that time was a Surgeon at Peckham House Lunatic
  Asylum.
  I believe that Sidney was the son of my Charles Henry Woollett and Mary
  Woollett (nee Winslow) as they were married in 1852 and their other children
  were born in Peckham and in Chiselhurst, Kent - which is too much of a
  co-incidence - however Sidney's birth certificate would be needed to verify
  this. It also makes Henry Winslow Woollett cousin to the Woollett sisters
  Elsie and Jessie who were my guardians during my childhood.
  I hope this helps you with your Woollett history.
  All the best
  Elaine.