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Note: ey had lived in this area previously, since it is close the to church in Wandsworth where Alfred's parents married, and close too to his mother's brother, Wilfred Cox.
It may have been that he maintained connection with his father's people in Devon, since he and Tudie holidayed at least once in Sidmouth - I would guess from the surviving photograph 1950 or later.
Don Trickey said [16.12.99] that Alfred served his apprenticeship as a grocer in Basingstoke, [perhaps therfore with his mother's Cox family? RQ] saved �50 and bought a business in Portsmouth, thence to Wittering.
He certainly had a shop in Portsea, Portsmouth, of which we have paper bags advertising the shop. My mother thought his mother might have set him up in business. He did well at it anyway, buying another shop, in West Wittering in 1903, where he was to live until the family moved into Bognor on his retirement c.1935?
I know nothing of his first wife's origins; but there is a family called Lambert nearby in 1881. He suffered the tragedy of her death shortly after the death of two children, Ivy and Ruth. His mother died within a few years; they are buried together in the churchyard of W. Wittering.
His mother's brother and sister, Wilfed & Janet Cox, moved at some point from London to the same area. living in a house called Hopedene, opposite the end of Grosvenor Rd, Donnington.
Alfred met Susan Ruth Strudwick through her sister's family, who kept the shop in the next village, Birdham. He was by this time known as "Old Trickey." Some of the publicity material he produced for the Village Stores at W.Wittering survive.
He smoked a pipe, and was very fond of cricket, which he promoted in the village. He set his son Alf up in business with the Sapphire Bus Co., which was eventually sold to Southdown.
Everyone speaks well of him, as a man of great integrity, generous and upright in his business dealings. He enjoyed playing the game Lexicon.
He died of a brain haemorrage, but was ill for some time before, perhaps as a result of a series of small strokes; my mother remembered that he was aware that I was expected.
{His surviving children's lives were not that easy; Doff ran away with her lover, and Alfred travelled the country to find her, eventually finding her [abandoned?] and unhappy. It is said that she was an alcoholic towards the end of her life. Alfred Jnr seems to have lost his mind partly when his wife died in childbirth of Don. It must have reminded him of his own mother's death.}
Alfred had been Anglican, I think, but I have a vague recollection of there having been some difficulty over the burial of his wife and children, after which he became non-conformist. This seems less likely, since I found their grave, and his mother's, in W.Wittering churchyard in 1998. {I wonder if the children were baptized?} More likely, I think, that it was Tudie's influence which led him to worship with her at the little Evangelical chapel in Wittering [now Methodist:] and thereafter at Bognor Baptist Church, where my parents were married.
Note: Born 'on Chelsea Wharf' round the corner from where the Pankhurst's lived on Cheyne Walk. His father died when he was 4. The family moved across the river after this, to Lavender Rd, Battersea, where his mother kept a shop. I wonder if th
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Note: Dwelling: 113 Lavender Rd, Battersea Census Place: Battersea, Surrey, England Source: FHL Film 1341148 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 0642 Folio 109 Page 30 Marr Age Sex Birthplace Celia TRICKEY W 41 F Kensington, Middlesex, England
Rel: Head Occ: Grocer Charles TRICKEY U 19 M Chelsea, Middlesex, England
Rel: Son Occ: Decorator Frederick TRICKEY 17 M Chelsea, Middlesex, England
Rel: Son Ada TRICKEY 15 F Chelsea, Middlesex, England
Rel: Daur Sydney TRICKEY 13 M Chelsea, Middlesex, England
Rel: Son Alfred TRICKEY 8 M Chelsea, Middlesex, England
Rel: Son
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