Harry Kutcher

  • 1887 8th February Born: Whitechapel, London,
    the second of 10 children.
    Name: Kutsher
  • 1891 Census
    Age: 4 years
    Address:
    164 Hanbury Street, Whitechapel.



  • 1912: Marriage to Rose Lewis
    Name: Kutcher
  • 1963 10th Feb: Died aged 76
    Buried: Bushey Cemetry Row 12 Plot 345 (next to Rose)
 

Harry's Career in the Civil Service as published in the Gazette

1902 June -Harry, aged 15, Registered as Temporary Boy Copyist (New Class) with the Civil Service.

These positions were qualified through competitive examination and would certainly be a sought after entry level for a career in the Civil Service. 1 

Description of the job as Temporary Boy Copyist (New Class) in the London Gazette 22nd May 1896 

This Register will contain the names of boys who have satisfied the Civil Service Commissioners that they are of good health and character, and that they are duly qualified under the following regulations (3 and 4).

3. The Limits of age are. 15 to 18.
4. The subjects for Examination are :

~ Handwriting  
~ Orthography  
~ Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions)
~ English Composition  
~ Copying Manuscript  
~ Geography

The fee payable for attending the Open Competitive Examinations will be 2s. 6d.

Boy Copyists, placed on this Register will be summoned for employment in any of the Public Departments as they are wanted. When not wanted, they will have no claim to employment.

These Boy Copyists will usually be engaged and-paid by the week of 39 hours, viz. :—7 hours a day on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and 4 hours on Saturdays ; and they will be paid 14s. per week during the first year of their service. After a year of approved service, an increase of pay to 15s.

They may also be engaged and paid by the hour at the rate of 4d. per hour during their first year of service; at the rate of 5d. per hour during the second or third year of service ;

If any case of infectious disease should occur in the house where a Copyist is living, he must immediately report the fact to the Officer under whom he is employed, and must, if required, at once discontinue his attendance. In cases of such enforced absence from his employment it is in the  discretion of the Head  of the Department in which he has been serving to allow the Copyist full pay at the usual rate for the period for which it is medically certified that his attendance at the office would be likely to be dangerous to his colleagues.

1907 January 31. Harry aged 20 years .  AFTER OPEN COMPETITION

Harry appointed for the Office of Woods as an Assistant Clerk (Abstractor)

1907  May 3  - UNDER CLAUSE VII OF THE ORDER IN COUNCIL OF 4TH JUNE, 1870.

Harry becomes a Customs Assistant Clerk (Abstractor)

1913 February 7. Transfers of Assistant Clerks (Abstractor Class)

Harry is transferred from the Custom and Excise Department to the Supreme Court Pay Office

1918 May 3. UNDER CLAUSE 7 AND CLAUSE 45 OF THE ORDER IN COUNCIL OF 10TH JANUARY 1910

Harry appointed as a Second Division Clerk

London Gazette 1890

And whereas by an Order in Council dated the twenty-first March one thousand eight hundred and ninety it was provided that the Lower Division should thenceforth be called the Second Division and that Second Division Clerks appointed- after the twenty-eighth May one 'thousand eight. hundred and eighty-nine should give a regular attendance of seven hours a day and commence at a salary of seventy pounds rising by annual increments as therein afterj provided

Addresses of Harry, Rose and Family

These were obtained from a mix of Sadie's records and the entries in the ships logs for their holidays and other sources.The dates refer to the date of notification and not necessarily the start / finish dates.

Date of notification

Address

1926

81 Farleigh Rd. Stoke Newington London

1927

Moved from above address - place unknown - Sadie's medical report Nov 10

1928 - 37

49 Woodberry Grove Stoke Newington. Harry 41 , Rosie 39

1932

Mrs. Lewis, Grandmother, noted as living at the above address. [Rose's mother]

1939

57 Kimberley Road Cambridge (evacuated from London)

1945  

20 Wellington Crescent Ramsgate

1947  

94 Gladstone Road, Broadstairs, Kent

1947  

286 Amhurst Road, Stoke Newington N.16

1948, 1949  

118 Beaufort Park, Falloden Way, N.W 11

1952 -1960

 Flat C10, Marine Gate, Rodean,Brighton

 

Holidays abroad from 1926 to 1960

1926. August 20 departure. Ship: "Rajputana". 

Harry and Rose aged 39.
Travelling 2nd class to Marseilles.

1926 Ship: "Narkunda" 

Harry and Rose aged 39.
Returning from Marseilles to Tilbury.
Also see Narkunda's interiors here 

1928  Ship: "Mooltan" 

Harry (41), Rose (40), Betty (14), Phyllis (11)
Travelling 2nd class from London to Marseilles.
They return to England on the Rajputana on September 21st.

Rosie, Betty and Phyllis on the SS Mooltan

1929 Ship: "Rajputana"

Harry (42), Rose (42), Sam (31), Betty (15), Phyllis (13), Isadore (9)
Isadore is Jack.
Travelling 2nd class from London to Marseilles.

1929 Ship: "Razmak" return journey to England from Marseilles arriving September 13th.

  

Bandol: Betty, Phyllis and Jack

Harry, Jack, Rosie, Phyllis and Betty

1930 August 30 Departure. Ship: "Orvieto"

Kutcher  Mr H (43), Mrs. R (42), Miss L. (30), Miss B(16), Miss P (14), Master I (10)
H=Harry
R=Rosie
L=?
B=Betty
P=Phyllis
I=Isadore (Jack)
Journey from England to Gibraltar

1930 Ship: "OramaHarry (45), Rose (44)

Return journey to England from Gibraltar arriving September 25th

1932 Ship: "Moldavia"

Harry (45), Rose (44)
Journey Tilbury to Marseilles departing 12th August

1932 Ship:  "RMS Maloja"

Harry (45), Rose (44), Betty (18), Phyllis (16), Isadore (11)
Journey Marseilles to Tilbury arriving 9th September

1934 Ship: "Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt"

Harry (47), Rose (45), Betty (20), Phyllis (18), Isidore (13)
Journey Southampton to Genoa departing July 27th

1934 Ship "Marnix Van Sint Aldegonde"

Harry (47), Rose (44), Betty (20), Phyllis (18), Isidore (14)
Journey from Genoa to Southampton arriving August 21st

1937 Ship "Viceroy of India"

Harry (50), Rose (49), Phyllis (21), Israel (Jack, 17)
Journey to Port Said (Egypt) from Londondeparting August 23rd

*This is the family visit to Egypt to see Harry's younger sister Elizabeith. Phyllis is noted as being a Civil Servant.

Photo Gallery of the The Kutchers visit Egypt 1937

1937 Ship "Christiaan Huygens"
Harry (50), Rose (49), Phyllis (21), Israel (Jack, 17)
Journey from Port Said (Egypt) to Southampton

1952 Ship: "Arundel Castle"

Harry (65), Rose (65)

1954 August 19th Ship: "Rhodesia Castle"

Harry (67), Rose (67)

1958 April 28th Ship: "Bloemfontein Castle"

Harry D.O.B 8.2.87
Rose D.O.B 25.12.87
Return journey from Las Palmas to England

1959 April 22nd Ship: "Monte Urquiola"

Harry and Rose
Return journey from Canary Islands to the Port of London

1960 April 11th  Ship: "Monte Anaga"

Harry and Rose
Return journey from Canary Islands to the Port of London