Frederick William Grove was the fifth child of Frederick Grove & Alice born April-June 1873 at Croydon, Surrey.
In 1881 and 1891 he was living with his mother and father, brother and sisters, first at Union Road, Croydon, then at Beulah Road Croydon. In 1891 he was a plumber’s labourer.
By 1901 he was still unmarried & living with his widowed mother Alice
& sisters Olive & Ethel & brother Charles. He was a plumber.