Frederick Henry was the only son of Thomas Henry and Annie Harper (née Kirk).
Both his parents were born in Nottingham, Thomas Henry in 1865 and Annie in about 1862. They were married in 1888 and had four children who were born in Nottingham: Edith Elizabeth Ann b. 1889,
Frederick Henry b. 21 August 1890, Mary Ethel b. 1895 and Madeleine Lilian (also Lilian Madeleine) b. 1899.
In 1891 Thomas, a builder's foreman, and Annie were living on Robin Hood Chase, Nottingham, with their two children Edith (2) and Frederick (7 months). Although Thomas was listed as head of household they may have been living at 118 Robin Hood Chase with Annie's parents, George, a draper, who was also listed as head of household, and Mary Kirk and her brother George (20) a draper's assistant.
By 1901 the family had moved to Gedling Road, Carlton, Nottingham. In the home on the night of the census were Thomas, a building contractor, his wife and four children Edith, Frederick, Mary (6) and Madeleine (1) as well as Annie's widowed father, George Kirk, a woollen draper and smallwear dealer, and Thomas's widowed mother Ann Harper (54) who was living on her own means. Also in the household was a general domestic servant.
Thomas and Annie were still at the same address in 1911. Also in the home on the night of the census were their three daughters, George Kirk and a domestic servant. Frederick, a clerk of works in the building trade and possibly working for his father, was a boarder in an apartment and boarding house on Drummond Road, Skegness, Lincolnshire.
Frederick's parents were still living on Gedling Road, Carlton, when he died in 1918.
His father died in 1950 and his mother in 1956. Their three married daughters, Edith Moss (m. 1914), Mary Clough (m. 1922) and Madeleine Walker (m. 1926) had been appointed executors of their estates.