Robert Salter Bristow

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This is going to be a long one! The main thing missing is 1881 and 1911 census entries but he was most likely at sea, perhaps on a foreign-registered vessel.

Name - "official" name and what they were known as Robert Salter Bristow
Date and place of birth 8th October 1862 at Elmers End, Beckenham, Kent. His original birth certificate said Elmore End but he had it corrected on the 4th March 1912; I haven't found out why yet. Nor have I found out what his mother was doing at Elmers End!
Names of parents John Bristow and Elizabeth Mary nee Ferrier
Date and place of baptism - 16 November 1862 St John, Penge, Surrey. Again, I don't know why he was baptised there
Details of each of his or her marriages - 3rd October 1899 married Alice Queenie Brown at Hampstead Register Office. Witnesses George H Bryant and Benjamin Single Hill
Occupation(s) - worked his way up from mariner to Master Mariner. The index to the Captains' Register of Lloyds of London suggests he became a Master Mariner in 1902 but he is listed as a captain on the 1901 census.
Military service - not exactly, but he was a Master Mariner in the Merchant Navy during WW1
Addresses where they lived - 1871 census - 279 High Street, Pancras, London
1881 census - not found, presumably at sea
1887 67 Ellerdale Street, Lewisham
1891 - 17 Bingfield Street, Islington
1891 Scottish census - second mate on the "Gannet", lat 53 deg 25 ' N long 0 deg 49' E
1894 - 51 Richmond Road, Islington
1899 - gave address on marriage certificate as 25 Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, but this was his brother's address
1901 census - 31 Hornsey Road, Islington, with "wife" Jessie and children
1908 onwards - 79 Mildenhall Road, Lower Clapton, London
1911 census - not found, presumably at sea
Date, place and cause of death 30th September 1917 the "Heron" was torpedoed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay 500 miles W. of Belle Ile by the German submarine U 90 whilst on a voyage from Tyne to Oporto with a cargo of coal. 22 lost including Master.
Date and place of burial / cremation None as he died at sea. .
Details of will / administration of their estate - probate granted 15th December 1917 to Reginald Charles Hassett, gross value of estate £397-1-5, net value nil.
Memorial inscription - Memorial is the Tower Hill Memorial, south side of garden of Trinity Square, London