Individual Summary for Percy Thomas Glew
23 Apr 2000
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Event
Date(s)
Place
Description
Born
1
29 Aug 1902
Clive Rd, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK 
Christened
2
21 Sep 1902
St Mary's Ch, Sidlesham, WS, UK 
Died
3
11 May 1989
St Itha Rd, Selsey, West Sussex, UK 
Buried
Church Norton, Selsey, WS, UK 
Nickname: 
AKA: 
Married Name: 
Sex:
M
ID:
13
AFN:
Created:
4 Sep 1999
Last Changed: 3 Oct 1999
Parents
Father
Mother
Allen Glew
Rosa Harding
Marriages
Spouse
Marriage Date/Place
30 Jun 1923
St Peter's Ch, Selsey, West Sussex, UK
Marie Jenner
4,
5
29 Aug 1962
Registry Office, Chichester, West Sussex, UK
Christina Dorothy Ambrose
Notes
Percy Thomas was christened in the parish of Sidlesham on 21 Sep 1902. He was born the previous month on 29 Aug in Portsmouth as the family 
were living at that time at 159 Clive Rd, Fratton, this was because his father was in the Royal Navy. Percy was the youngest of 3 boys, his elder 
brothers being Sidney and Jack. He married Marie Jenner in Selsey by banns on 13 Jun 1923, he was 20 and Marie was 24. They had 6 children over 
the next 14 years, Winifred (b.1924), Edward (b.1926), Percy Basil (b.1927), Betty (b.1929), Arthur Roy (b.1935) and Reginald (b.1937). The 
family initially lived in rented accommodation in Selsey at Lynton Villas, West St. where Winnie was born but sometime between Jan 1924 and Mar 
1926 they moved to Lewis Cottage, Lewis Rd; a house that Percy had built with help from his father. Allen helped all 3 of his sons with their 
property, it's not known exactly how, either he bought the land for them or gave them a deposit or perhaps by some other means. Both Edward and 
Percy Basil were born in Lewis Cottage but the repayments on the loan were such that the family had to temporarily move out into rented 
accommodation again and let their house. They moved to the Coastguard Houses West St. where Betty was born in 1929. The rent they received 
from Lewis Cottage was sufficient to pay their rent and help towards the loan repayments on Lewis Cottage. By the time Arthur Roy was born in 
1935 the family was back in Lewis Cottage. Percy was a self-employed Painter and Decorator all his working life. His business was PT Glew & Sons,
 the sons being his 2 younger ones, Roy and Reg, who took over the business when Percy retired. I remember well Pop's tradesmen's bicycles with 
their advertising panel beneath the crossbar and the handcarts he used to transport his equipment around Selsey. When we moved from 28 Beach Rd 
to 30 Church Rd in the Autumn of 1959 Dad borrowed a handcart from Pop to move the furniture. I also borrowed Pop's handcarts in the run up to 
bonfire nights. His wife, Marie, died suddenly on 2 Feb 1962 aged 63 and Percy remarried later that year to Christina Ambrose. Soon after he moved 
from Lewis Cottage into a bungalow at East Beach and then to a flat at 1A St Itha Rd where he died on 11 May 1989 aged 86. He was a Freemason 
which was passed on to him by his father, he in turn passing it on to his youngest son. At the time of his death his property belonged to 4 of his 5 
surviving children to whom he had sold it some years earlier, his remaining effects were shared equally between those 4 of his children with the 
exception of $250 each to his grandchildren Dawn and Alan and $500 to his son Ted. His will was not proven in law consequently a registered copy 
does not exist at Somerset House. Percy Thomas was cremated at Chichester crematorium, his ashes interred at Church Norton cemetery with his 
wife and daughter Betty. His gravestone inscription reads:
   IN / MEMORY OF / BETTY JEAN MARIE PARR / (NEE GLEW) / DIED 5TH OCT 1952
   AGED 23 / ALWAYS IN OUR THOUGHTS / ALSO OUR DEAR MOTHER / BELOVED WIFE
   OF / PERCY THOMAS GLEW / WHO FELL ASLEEP / ON FEB 2ND 1961 / 11TH MAY
   1989 / PERCY THOMAS GLEW
Sources
1. 
Sidlesham Parish Baptism Register, MF1249, PAR173/1/2/2, Frame 009821, Page 126,Entry 1001, 1876/1942, WSRO, Chichester.
2. 
Sidlesham Parish Baptism Register, MF1249, PAR173/1/2/2, Frame 009821, Page 126,Entry 1001, 1876/1942.
3. 
Certified Copy of an Entry of Death, Cet No IZ232532, Entry 122, 12 May 1989.
4. 
Selsey Parish Marriage Register, MF1247, PAR166/1/3/3, Frame 008199, Page 28, 1917/1929, WSRO, Chichester.
5. 
Selsey Parish Marriage Register, Banns - MF1247,PAR166/1/4/2; Frame 008623, Page 21, 1916/1926.