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Name: RIDDIOUGH, W. E.
Birth Date: 1871 Crosshills, Keighley, Yorks.
Death Date: 1947 Manchester
Nationality: British
First Date: 1895
Last Date: 1895
Profession: Lay missionary, United Methodist Free Church; architect
Area: Jomvu
Married: 1. In Derby 1896 Ada Furniss b. 1864 Derby, d. 1930 Macclesfield (div. 1917); 2. In Brentford 1918 Gertrude Carrie Goddard b. 23 Sep 1885 Brighton, d. 11 Feb 1962 Battersea
Children: 2. Betty (Brambles) (1920 Blackburn-2 Mar 2006 Ottawa)
Book Reference: North
General Information:
North - United Methodist Free Church - Lay missionary - arr. Zanzibar from Europe 30/4/1895, dep. for Mombasa 4/5/1895; Jomvu Mission; left Mission and returned to England about Aug 1895
Ancestry Family Tree: Pleaded guilty to fraud 21 Oct 1903 • Old Bailey, London. WILLIAM ERNEST RIDDIOUGH (32) , to fraudulently converting to his own use, money entrusted to him by Charles Hook Stephens, Charles Frederick Drake, Henry James Hawkins, Seigfried Kiehl, and John Henry Greenwood. Six months. Left Gertrude and Betty 1933. Finally disappeared, had been a poor husband disappearing for long periods (perhaps in jail for some of it) and drinking heavily (info from Lindsay Brambles). Feb 1942 • Rochdale locked up for deception. The RAF “son” he alludes to may have something to do with his daughter. Early in the war she was engaged to a bomber pilot, but he was killed before she left for Washington. (Info from Lindsay Brambles).