Does anyone know of a Joseph Henry Sproson who was around in the forties and fifties?

Do you have any more info, which area he was around, his approx age at that time.

Granted it's an obscure name so people may remember, i dont but if knew which area i can ask rellies from there??

Martin

I believe he was from the industrial part of the city and I do know he died in 1956 aged 51.

I believe he was from the industrial part of the city and I do know he died in 1956 aged 51.


There's only half a dozen in the phone book, may be worth a try,
sure there used to be a Henry Sproson at the Royal Oak, Blackburne Road but i think he died in the eighty's.

Does anyone know of a Joseph Henry Sproson who was around in the forties and fifties?

I know quite a few folk in the Chesterfield region with a soundalike, but I'm sure their name has a "w" in it....
Maybe connected, maybe not...

My nan was a Sproson before she married ....... lived in the Attercliffe area when first married ....

I know quite a few folk in the Chesterfield region with a soundalike, but I'm sure their name has a "w" in it....
Maybe connected, maybe not...

My Mrs has just put me right (how unusual....)
It was actually Sproston, with a T as opposed to a W.
Sorry!

On the free BMD there is a Joseph Henry Sproson born Sheffield June 1904

I can confirm this from findmypast.com - a Joseph Henry Sproson was born in Sheffield in April-June 1904. He evidently died aged 52 in Bradford in July-September 1956. He was born too late for the 1901 census, but this lists two east-end Sproson families (in "Attercliffe cum Darnall") - Thomas & Ellen Sproson with six children at 20 Oaks Green, and Herbert & Minnie Sproson at 9 Stevenson Road.

Yes, he was one of the Sprosons from Oakes Green and he was knocked down by a car and killed in Bradford in 1956. As his son I want to know what the heck he was doing in Bradford and I was wondering if anyone older (say 120!) might have remembered what he was like.