HENRY PERCIVAL SHAPLAND

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HENRY PERCIVAL SHAPLAND (1880-?)

Henry was born in Barnstaple, Devon on 5th October 1880.   He was the second of three children of  William and Caroline Shapland.  His older sister was Alice Mary and younger brother was Theodore.

It is interesting to note that the Censuses 1881 – 1911 show Henry living with his birth family only in 1881.   In 1891 he is a boarder in a small school in Carisbrooke with his brother and sister.  In 1901 he is recorded  being in Islington as a visitor and then in 1911 he is visiting Alice Mary, now Steel, her husband Charles Steel and their children, back in Barnstaple.

Henry became an Architect/Editor of Technical Journal and when he applied for exemption from military service to Hornsey Tribunal on 24^th August 1917 he was living at 29 Hornsey Lane, Highgate.   His application as a conscientious objector was made on the grounds that he belonged to the Plymouth Brethren.   Whether he had already applied in 1916 we do not know.

He was given exemption from combatant service on condition that he undertook Work of National Importance with the Friends Ambulance Unit.   He is recorded as being part of the FAU General Service (Agriculture) from 3^rd September 1917 until 1^st February 1919, working on a farm in Hampshire.

I can find no marriage or death records for Henry.  We do know that between 1908 and 1914 he lived at 45 Canonbury Square in Islington, renting the first floor front furnished room from a Mr. and Mrs. Steer.  We find him again on the Electoral Rolls of 1926, 1928 and 1929 living at 8 Meadway, Barnet.   The other voter living there is Alice Mary Shapland.   Is this a wife with the same name as Henry’s sister?  Or has his sister, for some reason (perhaps widowhood) reverted to her maiden name and moved to live with her brother?

Sadly this is all we know at the moment of Henry Shapland.

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Jennifer Bell