Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of William York, a boot and shoe trade pressman, born 1856 in Daventry, Northamptonshire and his wife, Mary York, a machisist, born 1855 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire. Albert Ernest was born in the 2nd quarter of 1888 in Leicester, his siblings were, Louisa Elizabeth, a schoolgirl, born in the 3rd quarter of 1880 and Ethel May, a schoolgirl, born in the 1st quarter of 1885, both his siblings were born in Leicester, in April 1891 the family home was at Argyle Street, Leicester. In March 1901 Ernest was a schoolboy and was residing as a boarder at Cox Lane, Countesthorpe, Leics. In April 1911, Albert was absent from the family home at Cosby Road, Countesthorpe, Leicestershire, residing there was his widowed mother, a foster mother, Albert was employed as a coach builder and was residing at 39, Kingsway, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, this being the family home of his married sister, Louisa Elizabeth Howard and her husband, James Finnemore Howard, an engineers fitter, born Castle Cary, Somerset, and their son, Leonard, born 1909 in Ilkeston, Derbyshire.