Category Archives: Great Western Railway

Winchcombe, Robert Charles (1876-1956)

Born in 1876 at Canney Cottages, Chiseldon, Wilts (one cottage out of four)

1881 Census, age 5, scholar, living at Draycott Foliatt, Wiltshire

1891 Census – age 15, agricultural labourer, living at Draycott Foliatt, Wiltshire

1901  Census, age 24, General Labourer at Railway Works. Single.                                     Boarder at 40 Haydon Street, Swindon.

1911 Census, age 34, general labourer, Locomotive Department Railway Company, living in Chiseldon, Swindon

1915 married Florence Lawrence at St Paul’s Church (now demolished), Swindon

Date of death: 1956

Worked for Great Western Railway, Swindon, as a Storekeeper.