IRVING, Ernest Copeland
Ernest Copeland Irving was born at Ipswich in 1865, second son of William Irving, a cement merchant's clerk, and his first wife Roseanna Maryann Hadgraft (1836-January 1868), widow of Francis Corbel, who married at Ipswich in 1864. In 1871, Ernest was a 5-year-old, living at Peabody Villas, Spring Road, Ipswich with his 37-year-old widowed father and his father's mother and two sisters. His father married secondly at Ipswich in 1880, widow Maria Susannah Tinsley and in 1881, Ernest was a 15-year-old apprentice woollen draper, living at 7 Great Whip Street, Ipswich with his 47-year-old father William, now a millstone manufacturer, his 42 year old step-mother Maria, with two Field step-siblings Clara M. 16, who was born in Essex and Jane L. 14, who was born at Ipswich, with three Tinsley step-children William 11, May 8 and Nora 3, all Ipswich born. In 1880, he won a certificate and prize for freehand drawing at the Ipswich School of Science & Art. Ernest married at St Matthew Kingsdown, Bristol on 6 September 1902, his stepsister May Tinsley (1872-4 April 1955) and in 1911, a 46-year-old signal engineer, living at 8 Aldermary Road, Bromley, Kent with his 38-year-old Ipswich born wife May and their four children, Ernest Douglas 7, Evelyn May 5, Elsie Nora 3 and newly born Emily May, who were all born at Bromley. Ernest Copeland Irving was of Cardon, Elmstead Woods, Chislehurst, Kent when he died at King's College Hospital, Camberwell, Surrey on 7 May 1931, leaving a widow.