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Thomas Fiddler was born in Preston in 1871 the son of Thomas and Margaret (nee McCagney). Thomas` father was born in the village of Longton near Preston and his mother hailed from Belfast, the couple married in the Parish Church of St. John in Preston on the 27th August 1859. The 1881 Census shows Thomas […]
Robert William Walton was born in the village of Longton near Preston in 1871 the son of William and Alice Longton (nee Houghton) and his christening was held in St. Andrew`s Church in the village on the 1st March 1871, his parents had married in Warrington the year before he was born. Robert`s mother Alice […]
Lucien Farrar, the youngest of five children was born in the village of Silverdale near Carnforth on the 23rd April 1896 to William and Eleanor Margaret Farrar (nee Collier). William and Eleanor married in the market town of Leyburn in North Yorkshire in the September quarter of 1888. Their first child John William was born the […]
Ewart Creek was born in Morecambe in the June quarter of 1885 the son of Josiah and Louisa Creek (nee Galley). Josiah Creek was originally from Ely St. Mary`s in Cambridgeshire and Louisa was from Bury St. Edmunds and the couple married in Bradford, Yorkshire in the third quarter of 1871. Ewart was the youngest […]
Thomas Briscoe Sumner’s birth was registered in the December quarter of 1872 in Preston by his mother 22 year old Agnes Sumner. Agnes was living at home with her parents Thomas and Alice Sumner at 34 Maudland Bank in Preston when Thomas was born but by 1881 she had moved elsewhere leaving Thomas with his […]
Samuel Lambert was born on the 21st December 1896 in Preston to John and Catherine Ann Lambert (nee Taylor). His parents married in the church of St. Luke in Preston on the 28th June 1891 and according to the 1911 Census they had twelve children, four of whom survived. However, Thomas the eldest of the […]
Mannering Kite Dodson was born in 1870 in Ireland the youngest of five children born to his parents Samuel and Martha Dodson (nee Kite). Samuel Dodson was originally a lace maker from Basford in Nottinghamshire and Martha Kite was from Folkestone in Kent and they were married in the church of St. Mary the Virgin […]
William Hulme was born in Bolton on 19th May 1861 and prior to WW1 had some military service, possibly having been in the Lancashire Fusiliers.
He had married Elizabeth Ann Ryder (a widow) in Wigan on 3rd November 1900 but they had no children together. By 1914 they lived at 34 Charles Street, Bolton and William worked as […]
Harper Riley Ashworth was born in 1873 in St. Austell, Cornwall and was the eighth of eleven children born to William and Mary Ann Ashworth (nee Riley). William Ashworth was originally from Burnley while his wife Mary Ann was from just over the border in Yorkshire and they married in the little parish church of […]
Arthur Jones was born in North Camp, Aldershot in 1874 to Corporal John Jones of the 2nd Battalion Royal North British Fusiliers and Mary Ann (nee Burgess). John Jones who was originally from Liverpool joined the Army in October 1859 which was the same year as his marriage to Mary Ann.
His Battalion moved from […]
Private Peter Abram
Civilian Occupation: Birkacre Colliery
Peter Abram is recorded in the Chorley Memorial Album in Astley Hall on page CMB/II/24b. He attended Sacred Heart, Chorley.
Notes of his life and service include:
Private Peter Abram was number 3632 (this changed to 201246 when the TF were renumbered in 1917). Peter […]
William Saunt was born in Coppull in the last quarter of 1873.
When war broke out William was recalled as a Special Reservist having previously served for two years with the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
At the enlistment office in Chorley on 3rd September 1914 William declared he was 40 years 10 months old and had […]
Charles Frederick Aldridge was born in 1889 in Whittingham Street in Preston to Thomas and Elizabeth Aldridge (nee Nutter). Charles` parents were married in St. Mark`s Church in Preston on 29 February, 1880. Elizabeth was from Preston but Thomas Aldridge came from Harmondsworth in Middlesex and on their marriage record Thomas states that his occupation […]
Joseph Armstrong was born in Morecambe on 12th April 1895. His father was a tailor and he had two sisters and a brother and they were living 3 Westover street in Morecambe.
When Joe was 8 years old his father left home and (possibly) joined the Black Watch. Joe’s family ended up in Lancaster workhouse, his mother […]
Arthur was born on the 10th August, 1891 and was christened at St James the Less Church in Ashted, Warwickshire. His father was Edward George Damsell a Private in the 14th (Kings) Hussars and his mother was Eliza Clarke (nee Glazier).
Arthur`s mother Eliza had previously been married to George Clarke who was also a […]
Richard Norbury was born in Southport on 23rd February 1881. By the age of nine, at the time of the 1891 census, he was living in what was known locally as ‘the doss house’. His mother, Elizabeth had obviously fallen upon hard times, she and her three sons (Thomas, Richard and Arthur) were living […]
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@loyalregiment- RT @DawnMCole: An entry by two soldiers from the @loyalregiment in Clarice’s autograph book. #VAD #Nurse #HistNurse #WW1 https://t.co/0CdF7…
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