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John Thomas Rigby was born on the 18th September 1874 at Newton Heath in Manchester, the son of Richard and Mary Ann Rigby (nee Preston), his parents married in St. George`s Church in Wigan on the 4th September 1865. John had at least four surviving siblings; Mary Alice (1873), Richard (1876), Nancy (1878) and James […]
John Jackson was born at 3 Irvin Street in Preston and was baptised on the 14th October 1891 at St. Luke`s Church in the town. His parents John James and Ellen Jackson (nee Nuttall) married at St. Thomas` Church in Preston on the 19th July 1886 and after their marriage the couple moved into 16 […]
Albert Worthington was born in Chorley on the 23rd January 1896 to John Thomas and Martha Jane Worthington (nee Fishwick). John Thomas and Martha Jane married in the Church of St. Lawrence on the 14th April 1888 and Albert was the only son of the four children born to his parents, the others being; Margaret […]
James Brogden Makinson was born in Horwich near Bolton in the September quarter of 1894 to Robert and Emily Makinson (nee Farrington), his parents married in Holy Trinity Church in Horwich in 1892. James had four sisters although sadly one died in infancy; Mary E. (1892), Susannah (1896-1897), Edna (1901) and Emily (1902). In the […]
201474 Private Joseph William Marsden “B” Coy 2/4th Battalion
Joseph was born in Preston in 1893 to Alice Ann Worden, a young lady from Moon`s Mill, now known as the village of Higher Walton. Four years after Joseph was born Alice Ann Worden married James Marsden in the church of St. Peter in Preston on […]
Herbert Duckworth was born in Burnley in 1895 the youngest of four surviving children born to his parents Eli and Elizabeth Duckworth (nee Peacock). This was Eli Duckworth`s second marriage, his first marriage was to Dinah Noddle in 1880 but sadly she died in the same year. Eli and Elizabeth married in St. Paul`s Church […]
Thomas Wareing was born on the 1st March 1885 in Preston the eldest child of Thomas and Catherine Wareing (nee Worthington). Thomas` parents married on the 27th January 1884 in the Church of St. Mark in Preston. Thomas had three sisters although one died in infancy; Elizabeth Ellen (1884-1884), Elizabeth Ellen (1886) and Ann (1888). […]
Thomas Tinsley was born on the 17th March 1896 in Preston and baptised at All Saints Church on the 10th May 1896 the son of Robert and Jane Tinsley (nee Robinson). Robert and Jane married in St. Thomas`s Church in Preston on the 12th May 1894 and they went on to have four children, three […]
James Porter was born in Preston in 1890 the son of a grocer and provision dealer Charles Porter and Sarah Jane Lancaster. Charles and Sarah Jane married in Preston in 1880 and they went on to have nine children including James, all of whom survived; Thomas (1881), Margaret (1882), Charles William (1884), Mary (1886), Fred […]
William Broad was born in the September quarter of 1891 at 17 George Street in Preston to John and Alice Broad (nee Bamber). His parents married in St. Paul`s Church in Preston on the 10th August 1879 and they went on to have twelve children, nine of whom survived; Mary Ann (1879), Alice (1881), Sophia […]
Fred Marsden was born at number 23 Spring Gardens in Leyland on the 14th December 1892 to Daniel and Ann Marsden (nee Blundell). His parents married in the church of St. James in Leyland on the 10th September 1881. Later information states that Daniel and Ann Marsden had twelve children and of those only four […]
Corporal James Smith
Civilian Occupation: Avenue MillJames Smith was 35 years old when he died at Guillemont on 08/08/1916.
His sacrifice is recalled at DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL and he is recorded in the Chorley Memorial Album in Astley Hall on page CMB/I/205b.
Notes of his life and service include:
Served on the Belgian […]
Clive William Cranshaw Whittle was born and brought up in Ashton on Ribble in Preston and he was baptised in the parish church of St. Andrew in Ashton on Ribble on the 17th August 1893. He was the son of auctioneer and newspaper proprietor John Whittle and Alice (nee Ward). His parents married in St. […]
Herbert Smalley, born in Lostock Hall on 11 October 1892, was the son of John Smalley (b. 1865 in Penwortham, a locomotive engine driver) and Elizabeth Ann (née Ratcliffe, b. 1861 in Preston). Herbert had an older sister, Mary Ethel b. 1891 who died before her first birthday, and three younger siblings: Cecil b. 1897, […]
Walter Wilson Barnish was born in Preston in 1892 and he was the son of James Wilson and Clara Margaret Barnish (nee Meredith). Walter`s parents were originally from Crewe in Cheshire and they had married in Nantwich in 1883.
James and Clara moved to Preston shortly after they were married and they had nine children […]
Frank Naysmith Wilcock was born in 1895 in Preston. He was the son of Edwin Harold and Ellen Wilcock (nee Neale).
Edwin Harold Wilcock and Ellen Neale were married on 11 September, 1887 in St. Paul`s Church, Preston. They had four other children namely, Edwin Hindle (1887), Elizabeth (1888), Charles Harold (1890) and Helen (1897).
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