RANSOME, Frank
As Francis Ransome, he was born at 46 Duke Street, Ipswich on 3 March 1857, but used the name of Frank, son of Robert James Ransome (27 June 1830-3 June 1891), an ironfounder, and his wife Charlotte Louisa Taylor (27 September 1832-6 June 1911), daughter of William Taylor, shipbuilder of Woodbridge, who married at Ipswich on 3 May 1854. In 1871, Francis and brother William were at Framlingham College, Suffolk when their parents, 40-year-old Robert James, was an engineer employing 140 men and the founder of Ransomes of Ipswich, was living at [Old] Foundry Road, Ipswich with his 38-year-old wife Charlotte and their five younger children, Louisa 11, Edith 9, Helen 8, Jane 4 and Robert 1. Frank was educated at Framlingham College and followed in his father's footsteps as an engineer. He married in the City of London on 17 July 1883, Marion Deane (1860-26 April 1934) and in 1891, a 34-year-old engineer, living at Claydon, Ipswich with his 30-year-old wife Marian,who was born at Derby and their 5-year-old son Frank Deane Ransome, who was born at Ipswich. A partner, with Tom Drew Bear and Edwin Hollis Perk, in the engineering firm of Drew Bear, Ransome & Perks of Princes Wharf, Commercial Road, Lambeth whcih was incorporated in 1892. On 22 November 1894 he withdrew from Drew Bear, Ransome & Perks from when he worked on his own account and about which time he moved to 61 Granville Park, Lewisham where he was living in 1901, with the addition of two daughters 9 year old Enid, who was born at Claydon, near Ipswich and 6 year old Elizabeth who was born at Staines. An amateur artist and as Frank Ransome of Claydon, near Ipswich, a member of Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1891 but does not seem to have exhibited. Francis Ransome died at Blackheath, Windsor, Berkshire on 2 July 1902, aged 44, and buried in Ipswich Cemetery. His son Frank Deane Ransome (6 October 1885-24 June 1851) became a professional singer, and another daughter Sybil Dorothea [later Burgoyne-Johnson] (25 November 1892-1977) became a costume model and in 1911 were living with their widowed mother at 20 Chatsworth Gardens, Acton.