Augustus Henry Aldworth

Biography
Mr. Augustus Henry Aldworth was born in early 1877 in Hendred, Berkshire, England. He was the son of farmer Boaz Aldworth (1839 - 1899) and his wife Mary Frewin (1840 - ?) who had eight children. Augustus' siblings are; Edith Eliza (1864 - ?), Mary Jane (1865 - ?), Walter (1868 - ?), Euphimia Elizabeth (1870 - ?), Naomi Frewin (1872 - ?), Ruth Janet (1875 - ?) and Ethel Annie Frewin (1880 - ?).

August first appears on the 1881 census living with his family at an unspecified address in East Hendred yet by the time of the next census, in 1891, the family have moved to Foreman's Lane Cottage in Reading, Berkshire, England. Augustus is seen as a fourteen-year-old farm labourer. After his father Boaz died in 1899, Augustus changed career to work for wealthy families in London. In the 1901 census, he is seen working as a footman for Henry G. Thompson's family at 19 Portman Square in London.

In 1907, Augustus got married to Eleanor Alice Byford (1882 - February 21st, 1936), a woman from Enfield, Middlesex, England. Together, they had a daughter, Alice Mary (December 16th, 1907 - 1981). The little family appears on the 1911 census living at 3 Quebec Mews in London and Augustus is listed as a domestic chauffeur, serving for William Ernest Carter, his wife Lucile Carter and their two children Lucile Polk Carter and William Thornton II Carter. Making Augustus the driver of the infamous 25 Horsepower Renault automobile. He was employed by the rich family from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States, along with Alexander Milne Cairns and Augusta Jeanne Serreplaà, their servants.

The family had been in England to participate in the coronation of King George Frederick Ernest Albert V and his wife Mary De Teck and the London season. They ended up remaining in England because William wanted to attend hunting season but, in March 1912, were finally ready to return home. They had already made plans to travel aboard the R.M.S. Olympic who was meant to leave port on April 3rd, 1912, but they changed their plans at the last minute and booked passage on the R.M.S. Titanic instead. The Carter couple bought a passage in second class for August with the ticket 248744, which costed them £13. The family and their servants would travel in first class along with their two dogs. They boarded the ship in Southampton on April 10th, 1912. Augustus perished in the sinking and his body, if recovered, was never identified.

His estate, worth £1043 14s was paid to a tool manufacturer named Walter Farrow on June 9th, 1913, though the relationship between the two men remains unknown. His wife Eleanor never remarried and continued to live with the couple's daughter in England.