Personal Details Known as Thomas Evanson, born in Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire in 1887, the only son of John and Jane Evanson of The Hollows, Prees Green, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Thomas was a house painter before enlisting in the military. Regiment : … 
Personal Details Born: In 1890 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Family: He was the eldest child born to Andrew McLaren Clelland, a bread vanman, and his wife Margaret (nee Stewart). He had at least one sister, Margaret; identification of further siblings …
Personal Details Born: 19 November 1892 in Picton, New South Wales, Australia. Family: He was the eldest of seven children born to William Bamber, a cheese factor and his wife Eva May (nee Stafford). He married Alice Beatrice Smith in …
Personal Details Born: 2 March 1869 in Stockton, Shropshire and baptised on 21 March the same year in Stockton parish church. Family: He was the seventh of eight children born to Thomas Billingsley, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Emma. …
Personal Details Born: 9 August 1890 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 29 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch and known as Jack. Family: He was the third of six children born to Arthur Joyce, a …
Personal Details Born: 23 August 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 28 October the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Norman had a twin brother Arthur Bernard. Norman was named in the civil birth, marriage and death …
Personal Details Born: 26 November 1866 in Wigan, Lancashire. Family: He was the fourth of nine children born to Thomas Parker, a grocer, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Gwendolen Williamson (nee Thomas) in 1915 in Nantwich, Cheshire and together …
Personal Details Born: 15 September 1883 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the son of William Povah and his wife Mary, nee Pace. He married Harriet Jean Easton in Canada. They had a daughter, Dorothy. Residence: In 1891 he was …
Personal Details Born: 11 April 1870 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 8 June the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of nine children born to William Venables, a grocer and his wife, Sarah …
Personal Details Born: 4 December 1896 in Ash, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of six children born to John Riley, a chauffeur (later a farmer in Canada) and his wife Helena Annie, nee Ely. He married Caroline Emily Marsh …
Personal Details Born: 12 January 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 19 February 1886 at St. Michael`s Parish Church, Marbury, Cheshire. Family: He was the third of five children born to Colonel Charles Edward Wynne-Eyton and his wife Aline Mary, …
Personal Details Born: 2 August 1887 in Halghton, Hanmer, Flintshire and baptised on 28 August 1887 at Hanmer Parish Church. Family: He was the sixth of seven children born to Samuel Gardiner Rolfe, a joiner and his wife Mary Ann, …
Personal Details Born: 8 July 1886 in Ingatestone, Mountnessing, Essex and baptised on 25 July 1886 in Essex. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to John Riley, a coachman (later a farmer in Canada) and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 12 June 1890 in Prees, Shropshire and baptised at St.Chad`s Church, Prees. Family: He was the younger of two sons born to Elizabeth Ann Furber. At the time of his birth she was unmarried. His mother subsequently …
Personal Details Born: 26 March 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 11 October 1887 at St Alkmund`s Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of six children born to Thomas Nunnerley, a farmer and his wife Mary Ann, nee …
Personal Details Born: 29 April 1889 in Moreton Say, Shropshire and baptised on 26 May 1889 in Moreton Say Parish Church. Family: He was one of six surviving children born to Henry Roberts, an agricultural worker and his wife Martha. …
Personal Details Born: 4 November 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 4 December 1889 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of five surviving children born to Daniel Maddock, an engine cleaner and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 25 July 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to Joseph William Fleet, an ironmonger’s manager and his wife Elizabeth Helen, nee Tims. He married Jessie Alice Docker on 5 November …
Personal Details Born: 18 August 1885 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of nine children born to Thomas Powell Higginson, a butcher and his wife Elizabeth. He married Mabel Michelhausen on 14 May 1915 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. …
Personal Details Born: 18 July 1885 in Tushingham, Cheshire. Family: He was the sixth of seven children born to Samuel Taylor, a coachman and his wife Ann. No marriage can be found for him. Residence: In 1889 his family were …
Personal Details Born: 8 February 1890 in Calverhall, Shropshire and baptised on 13 April 1890 at Holy Trinity Church, Calverhall. Family: He was one of seven surviving children born to Benjamin Nicholls, a coachman and gardener and his wife Alice, …
Personal Details Born: 14 August 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Frederick John Letheren, a master tailor and his wife Nellie, nee Candlin. He married Lillian Leona Hammond on 26 January 1921 …
Personal Details Born: 12 January 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 3 February 1886 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of nine surviving children born to William Crewe, a labourer in a foundry and his …
Personal Details Born: Henry, known as Harry, on 27 July 1879 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 13 August 1879 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of nine surviving children born to William Crewe, a labourer …
Personal Details Born: 3 May 1879 in Whitchurch,Shropshire and baptised on 25 June 1879 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of nine surviving children born to John Crewe, a labourer and his wife Margaret. He married …
Personal Details Born: 26 October 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 22 November 1893 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of nine surviving children born to William Crewe, a labourer and his wife Ann, nee …
Personal Details Born: 27 July 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 20 September the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to Thomas Henry Wyatt, an engineer and his …
Personal Details Born: 25 July 1886 in Wybunbury, Cheshire and baptised on 20 August 1886 at Wybunbury Parish Church, Wybunbury, Cheshire. Family: She was the youngest of six surviving children born to Charles Roper Whitton, an agent for cattle food …
Personal Details Born: 13 March 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of ten children born to Michael Joseph O`Neill and his wife Emily, nee Henshall. Alfred did not marry. Residence: In 1881 his family were living in …
Personal Details Born: He was born James Worthington Mercer on 3 September 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 28 October 1887 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of seven children born to Walter Edward …
Personal Details Born: 16 August 1889 in Bettisfield, Flintshire and baptised on 1 September 1889 at Hanmer Parish Church, Hanmer, Flintshire. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to John McHugh, a publican and his wife Anne Elizabeth, …
Personal Details Born: 9 May 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 31 May 1896 at the United Reformed Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Frederick J Letheren, a tailor and his wife Nellie, …
Personal Details Born: 12 February 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 6 August 1887 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of five children born to Walter Conway Joyce, a clock manufacturer and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 31 January 1891 in Whixall, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of eight children born to John Fowles, a farmer and his wife Sarah, nee Batho. He married Edith Mary Skelton on 11 August 1919 in Kamloops, …
Personal Details Born: 25 December 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 26 January 1887 at St. Alkmunds Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of five children born to Samuel Evans, a stonemason and his wife Eliza, nee …
Personal Details Born: 8 May 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child born to William John Brownrigg Bookey, a naval surgeon and his wife Ann Elizabeth, nee Brown. He married Alice Roberta Ogilvie on 9 October 1929 …
Personal Details Born: 12 November 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: Parents not known. He married Lilian Jones on 1 April 1920 at St Michael and All Angels Church, Blackburn, Lancashire. The couple had a daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1921. Residence: …
Personal Details Born: 11 April 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to John Chidlow, an insurance agent and his wife Jane, nee Bennett. His first wife died in 1912; he had one child, …
Personal Details Born: 6 June 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child born to Albert Baggaley, a groom and his wife Sarah Ann, nee Richards. He married Damaris Cudworth in 1919 in Newhaven, Sussex. The couple had …
Personal Details Born: 1 December 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 1 January 1890 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of four children born to William Austin, a schoolmaster and his wife, Kate. He …
Personal Details Born: 9 March 1895 in Tilstock, Shropshire and baptised 19 May 1895 at Tilstock Parish Church, Tilstock. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to Thomas James Anthony, a schoolmaster and his wife Harriet, nee Creswell. …
Personal Details Born: 10 October 1888 (although his military details all state 1889) in Dilwyn, Herefordshire and baptised on 28 April 1889 at Tilstock Parish Church, Tilstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to James Anthony, …
The Canadian War Badge was awarded to members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) who served in the United Kingdom or at the front, and who, due to old age, wounds or sickness, had retired or relinquished their commissions or …
The British War Medal is a campaign medal of the United Kingdom which was awarded to officers and men of British and Imperial forces for service in the First World War. Two versions of the medal were produced. About 6.5 …
Personal Details Born: In 1875 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 26 December 1875 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church. Family: He was one of seventeen children (only 8 of whom survived) born to William Crewe, a painter and his wife Margaret. …
Personal Details Born: 11 April 1880 in Almeley, Herefordshire. Family: He was one of nine children born to James Anthony, a school master and his wife Margaret, nee King. He also had four half siblings. He married Eleanor Burrows in …
Personal Details Born in Whixall, Shropshire in 1889, the second of nine children born to John and Mary Evans of 9 Post Office Lane, Whixall. John married Sarah A Foster in 1915 in Whixall; no children can be traced for …
Personal Details Born in 1883 in Tilstock, Shropshire, the second of seven children born to Alfred and Esther Edwards. He married Mary Ann in 1908 and together they had one child, Wilfred Thomas. In 1891 he was living in Tilstock …
Personal Details Born: 10 January 1879 in Kirriemuir, Forfarshire, Scotland. Family: He was the eldest of two children born to Alexander Milne Watson, a solicitor, and his wife Mary. He married Lilian Marion Weaver in 1906 and together they had …
Personal Details Born: In 1875 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 25 January the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. He was also known as Jack Humphries. Family: He was the fifth of ten children born to Thomas …
Personal Details Born: 27 July 1881 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and was baptised on 11 September the same year in Ightfield Parish Church, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of four children born to Joseph Lees, a farmer, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 23 August 1878 in Broughall, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of twelve children born to John Thornton, a farm labourer, and his wife Mary Jane. He married Mary Moores on 24 February 1904 in the …
Personal Details Born: 26 June 1881 in Petersham, New South Wales, Australia and baptised on 17 July the same year in St. Peter’s Church, Cumberland, Sydney, Australia. Family: He was one of six children born to Frank and Catherine Evelyn …
The World War I Croix de guerre was established by royal decree on 25 October 1915 as an award for bravery or other military virtue on the battlefield. It was only awarded to individuals. The Croix de guerre was not …
A member of the armed forces mentioned in dispatches is one whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which his or her gallant or meritorious action in the …
Personal Details Born: 24 January 1889 in Sandiway, Cheshire and baptised on 24 February the same year in Weaverham Parish Church, Cheshire. Family: He was the second of four children born to Edwin Houghton, a stud groom, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 7 August 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and was baptised on 1 September that year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of six children born to John Shone, a chemist and grocer, and …
Personal Details Born: 17 June 1891 in Godstone, Surrey and was baptised on 25 July the same year in Godstone Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to William Alexander Clarke, a solicitor, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 5 September 1884 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 8 October 1884 at St Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the son of Henry Coulthirst Frith, a plumber and his wife Mary, nee Hayward. He married Jennie …
Personal Details Born: 17 December 1882 in Brunel, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. Family: He was the third of four children born to Henry Percival and Rosa Helen Beckett. He married Madge Farrington in Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1906; no children can be …
Personal Details Born: 16 April 1889 in Grindley Brook, Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 22 May the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fifth of ten children born to Henry Madeley, a labourer and …
Personal Details Born: 17 January 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child of William Caleb Birchall, an ironmonger, and his wife Mary Ellen, nee Pickford. He married Annie Boutflour Dickman (known as Nancy) in 1922 in Morpeth, …
Personal Details Born: In 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and was baptised on 7 October the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the second of three children born to George Grindley, a railway shunter, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: Henry Beddows on 1 February 1890 in Tilstock, Shropshire. His family changed their name from Beddow to Beddows between 1901 and 1911. Family: He was the ninth of twelve children born to Thomas Beddow, a railway labourer …
Personal Details Born: 26 May 1883 in Lilleshall, Shropshire and was baptised on 24 June the same year in Lilleshall Parish Church. Family: He was the oldest of three children born to George Jones, a gardener, and his wife Eliza. …
Personal Details Born: 19 January 1886 in Tilstock, Shropshire and baptised on 21 February 1886 in Tilstock Parish Church. Family: He was the third of five children born to Edward Judson, a railway porter, and his wife Ann. He married …
Personal Details Born: 15 April 1880 in Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire and baptised on 19 March 1895 in the Parish Church of Northwood, Hanley. Family: He was the second of three children born to William Thomas Johnson, a potter’s manager, and …
Personal Details Born: 14 April 1879 in Tarporley, Cheshire. Family: He was the fourth of eight children born to Robert Hughes, a joiner, and his wife Catherine. He married Mabel Catherine Roberts on 27 January 1912 in Bangor, Caernarvonshire, Wales …
Personal Details Born: 5 November 1882 in Waverton, Cheshire and baptised on 10 December the same year in the Parish Church of Waverton. Family: He was the third of seven children born to William Jones, an agricultural labourer, and his …
Personal Details Born: 23 April 1883 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth child born to William Robinson, a post office clerk and his wife Emily Jane, nee Lloyd. He married Dora Davies on 3 June 1909 at St …
Personal Details Born: 3 May 1893 in Richard’s Castle, Herefordshire and baptised on 8 August 1893 in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Ludlow, Shropshire. Family: He was the younger of two children born to William Jones, a blacksmith, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 16 February 1895 in Llanrhaeadr, Denbighshire, Wales. Family: He was the grandson of Margaret Jones, an innkeeper and probably the son of Joseph Jones, a car proprietor and his wife Mary Ann. He married Annie Lewis in …
Personal Details Born: 8 August 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of five children born to Alfred Foster, a farm labourer, and his wife Elizabeth Ellen. He married Dorothy M Preece in 1925 in Whitchurch and together …
Personal Details Born: 12 May 1881 in Tushingham, Cheshire. Family: He was the second of four children born to George Piggott, a railway platelayer and his wife Sarah. No marriage can be found for him. Residence: In 1891 his family …
Personal Details Born: 1 July 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second child born to George Purcell, a railway platelayer and his wife Mary Ellen, nee Williams. No marriage can be found for him. Residence: In 1901 his …
Personal Details Born: 18 May 1897 in Ellesmere, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of at least four children born to Edward Price, a coachman and his wife Mary Jane, nee Humphries. He married Mary E Cutler in 1929 in …
Personal Details Born: 26 December 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 26 January 1887 at St Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. His name was registered on birth as John Passant Jones. Family: He was the eldest child born to John Passant, …
Personal Details Born: 26 February 1892 in Grinshill, near Wem, Shropshire and baptised 3 April 1892 in Grinshill Parish Church. He was known as Percy. Family: He was the second of five children born to Edwin Jenks, a stone sawyer …
Personal Details Born: In 1873 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of five children born to Benjamin Holbrook, a bricklayer and his wife Ann. The 1911 Census records Ben and Elizabeth Clarke having six children, Doris, Robert, Annie, …
Personal Details Born:In 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of six children born to George Harper, a blacksmith and his wife Ann. He married Constance M. Pace in 1919 in Whitchurch. No children can be found for …
Personal Details Born: 23 May 1894 in Burleydam, Cheshire and baptised with his twin sister on 1 July 1894 at St Michael`s Parish Church, Burleydam. Family: He was the third of five children born to Thomas Allen Hancock, a farm …
Personal Details Born: 8 September 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 16 August 1897 at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of four children born to Thomas Foster, an agricultural labourer and his wife Martha. He …
Personal Details Born: William Alexander Foster on 9 July 1878 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 7 May 1879 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. (The family name was changed from Foster to Forster between 1881 and 1891) Family: He was …
Personal Details Born: In 1876 in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire and was baptised on 22 December the same year in the Church of St. James and St. John, Hebden Bridge. Family: He was the second of seven children born to Richard …
Personal Details Born: In 1879 in Oldham, Lancashire. Family: He was the second of three children born to Edwin Butterworth, a carter, and his wife Louisa Jane (nee Purcell). Andrew married Annie Elizabeth Gill on 17 December 1899 in Nantwich, …
Personal Details Born: 25 April 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to Samuel and Alice (nee Ebrey) Allen. No marriage can be traced for Harry. Residence: In 1901 and 1911 he lived with …
Personal Details Born: In 1888 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 23 September 1888 in Tilstock Parish Church, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of six children born to Joseph Batho, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Caroline. He married …
Personal Details Born: In 1878 in Chorlton, Lancashire and baptised 30 June 1878 at St.George`s Parish Church, Hulme, Manchester. Family: He was the elder of two children born to Harry Ryder, a painter and decorator and his wife Ellen, nee …
Personal Details Born: 28 March 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 2 June 1886 at St Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fifth of nine children born to Richard Rogers, an engineer and his wife Frances. He …
Personal Details Born: 18 November 1877 in Manchester, Lancashire and baptised on 21 January 1878 in the Parish Church of St. Mary, St. Denys and St. George, Manchester. Family: He was the third of nine children born to William Evanson, …
Personal Details Born: 7 October 1879 in Tattenhall, Cheshire. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to Thomas Hill, a farmer, and his wife Mary. He married Sarah Jane Adams on 25 January 1904 in Tushingham Parish Church …
Personal Details Born: In 1867 in Hartfield, Sussex. Family: He was the youngest of at least five children born to John Slater, an agricultural labourer and his wife Jane. Frederick did not marry. Residence: In 1871 he and his family …
Personal Details Born: 24 September 1896 in Ince, Cheshire and baptised 28 October 1896 in Ince Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to Edwin Houghton, a stud groom, and his wife Emily. No marriage can …
Personal Details Born: 15 June 1896 in Ellesmere, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of three sons born to John Hood, a commission agent, and his wife Mary Jane. He married Drusilla Viola Johnson on 6 April 1915 in St. …
Personal Details Born: 27 November 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 17 December 1886 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fourth child of seven born to Stephen Charles Evans, a rural postman, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 30 August 1895 in Whixall, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child born to Ambrose Beckett, a labourer and his wife Mary, nee Harris. He married Winifred Cliff in 1919 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. The couple had two …
Personal Details Born: 27 February 1879 in Duddon, Cheshire. Family: He was the youngest of five children born to James Woodward, a joiner and his wife Ann. He married Elizabeth Richardson Miller on 12 December 1905 at Grosvenor Bank Baptist …
Personal Details Born: 26 August 1897 in Stroud, Gloucestershire and baptised 10 October 1897 in Whiteshill, Gloucestershire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Archibald John Taylor, a bootmaker and later a cycle and motor dealer and …
Personal Details Born: In 1888 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of ten children born to Jabez Pugh, a joiner and his wife Ann. He married Frances Allen on 1 October 1916 in Whitchurch Register Office, Whitchurch, Shropshire. …
Personal Details Born: In 1868 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 21 May 1868 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fifth of seven children born to Edward Hamer, a tailor, and his wife Emma. No marriage …
Personal Details Born: 7 February 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 4 April 1880 at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of at least five children born to Benjamin Blyth Powell, a draper and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 1 January 1884 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of eight children born to James Norton, a blacking manufacturer and his wife Elizabeth. He married Beatrice Hare on 23 March 1916 at the Unitarian Church, …
Personal Details Born: 6 August 1890 in Bilston, Staffordshire. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to Martha Brindley, a charwoman. He married Annie Holloway in 1937 in Bilston. No children can be found for the marriage. Residence: …
Personal Details Born: About 1876 in Stanton upon Hine Heath, Shropshire. Family: He was the son of Samuel Plant, a labourer. Residence: In 1915 he gave his address as 4 Scotland Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Employment: In 1915 he was a …
Personal Details Born: 28 February 1879 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 13 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the sixth of seven children born to Charles Woodhall, a carpenter and joiner and …
Personal Details Born: 1 November 1878 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 31 January 1879 at St Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. He was also known as Thomas Harry Croxon. Family: He was the eldest of eleven children born to Samuel Spencer …
Personal Details Born: In 1886 in Crossmolina, County Mayo, Ireland. (the records differ as to his year of birth which could have been as early as 1874) Family: He was the son of Michael and Ellen Loftus. He married Emily …
Personal Details Born: 6 November 1892 in Colton, Staffordshire and baptised at the Parish Church of Mary the Virgin, Colton, Staffordshire on 12 March 1893. Family: He was the elder of two sons born to Samuel Colton Latham, a farmer …
Personal Details Born: 12 September 1887 in London, Middlesex. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Edwin Jenks, a stone sawyer and his wife Emma. He married Dora Beatrice Reed in 1922 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. The couple …
Personal Details Born: 22 January 1885 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. He was also known as Harry Hales. Family: He was the second of four children born to Walter Hales, a house painter and his wife Sarah Emily. He married Annie Sumner …
Personal Details Born: 25 December 1884 in Ightfield, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to John Francis, a coachman and his wife Sarah. No marriage can be found for him. Residence: In 1891 he and his …
Personal Details Born: 28 December 1879 in Basford, Nottinghamshire and baptised 7 March 1890 at St John the Evangelist Church, Carrington, Nottinghamshire. Family: He was the second of three children born to Thomas Milne Edington, a gardener and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 14 October 1893 in Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire and baptised 21 January 1894 at Charlton Kings Parish Church. Family: He was the younger of two sons born to John Henry Dyer, a schoolteacher and his wife Sarah. He …
Personal Details Born: 15 July 1880 in Ainderby Steeple, Northallerton, Yorkshire and baptised on 29 August 1880 in Ainderby Steeple Parish Church. Family: He was the third of ten children born to Alfred Dunn, a gardener, and his wife Hannah. …
Personal Details Born: 16 March 1892 in Burleydam, Cheshire. Family: He was the sixth of ten children born to Joseph Downing, a farmer, and his wife Sarah. He married Irene A Sharpe July 1921 in Whitchurch, Shropshire; no children can …
Personal Details Born: 19 January 1871 in Adderley, Shropshire and baptised on 5 March 1871 in Adderley Parish Church. Family: He was the fifth child born to Joseph Done, an agricultural labourer and his wife Frances. He married Leonora Oxford …
Personal Details Born: 10 May 1892 in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland. Family: He was the sixth child born to John Docherty, a laboratory technician & his wife Elizabeth. He married Florence May Portar on 20 May 1918 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. They …
Personal Details Born: 25 November 1890 in Loppington, Shropshire and baptised 28 December 1890 at Loppington Parish Church. Family: He was the younger of two sons born to William Davies, a schoolmaster and his wife Annie. He married Martha Bedford …
Personal Details Born: 11 November 1887 in Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Family: He married Bella Furnival on 15 December 1905 at St John`s Wesleyan Chapel, Whitchurch, Shropshire. The couple had seven children, William Frederick, Arthur, George Henry, Herbert Hugh, Ivor Edward, …
Personal Details Born: About 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the son of George Crewe and he had a sister Clara, whom he gave as his next of kin in 1915. Residence: In 1911 he was living with his …
Personal Details Born: 1890 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 24 December 1890 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of at least six children born to George Crewe, a bricklayer and his wife Margaret. No marriage can …
Personal Details Born: 15 March 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 17 April 1898 in the Church of the Saviour, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of eight surviving children born to William Thompson Corn, a railway brakesman and his …
Personal Details Born: 17 April 1893 in Fenns Bank, Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and baptised 16 May 1893 at Bronington Parish Church. Family: He was the son of Mary Ann Clive. He married Dorothy Kilgariff in 1922 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. The …
Personal Details Born: 15 May 1881 in Clun, Shropshire and baptised on 29 May 1881 at Clun Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to John Chelmick, a shoemaker and his wife Mary Ann. He married …
Personal Details Born: 11 July 1894, Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 27 July 1894 in St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of eight children born to William Chase, a labourer and his wife Sarah. He married Mary …
Personal Details Born: 1882 in Ettingshall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Family: He was the second of five children born to James Burrows, a miner and his wife Mary, nee Preston. His father died in 1889 and his mother married Joseph Farr in …
Personal Details Born: About 1874 in Crossmaglen, Armagh, Ireland. Family: In 1915 he gave his next of kin as his foster brother, John Holdbrook, also living at 9 Pepper Street. Residence: He gave his address as 9 Pepper Street, Whitchurch, …
Personal Details Born: 11 May 1884 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of seven surviving children born to Richard Brown, an agricultural labourer and his wife Mary. He married Lucy Nellie Starkey on 22 January 1907 at St. …
Personal Details Born: 3 March 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 5 April 1889 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of four children born to Robert Birchall, a farmer and his wife Ellen. No marriage …
Personal Details Born: 23 September 1885 in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Family: He was the second of eleven children born to Jonathan Benbow, a tailor and his wife Margaret. He married Emily Rudge 13 December 1915 at the Church of St …
Personal Details Born: 1875 in Nantwich, Cheshire and baptised 18 July 1875 at Nantwich Parish Church. Family: He was the fifth of nine children born to Joseph Belfield, a horse dealer and his wife Ann. He married Alice Street on …
Personal Details Born: 1888 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 9 May 1888 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fourth of twelve children born to Alfred Arrowsmith, a labourer in an iron foundry and his wife Ellen. …
Personal Details Born: 1895 in Prees, Shropshire and baptised 10 March 1895 at Calverhall Parish Church, Calverhall, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of five children born to Richard Timmis Woodcock, an agricultural labourer and his wife Emma. He married …
Personal Details Born: 1866 in Duckinfield, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. Family: He was the child of Ann Hibbert. He married Eliza Ann Hurst on 7 February 1886 in Duckinfield. He married for the second time to Alma Elizabeth Ward on 27 September …
Personal Details Born: Francis Madeley in 1895 in Tilstock, Shropshire and baptised 26 July 1895 in Tilstock Parish Church. Family: He was the second of five children born to Henry Madeley, a farmer and his wife Elizabeth Ann. He married …
Personal Details Born: 10 March 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 29 March 1893 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of six surviving children born to George Porter, a platelayer on the railway and …
Personal Details Born: 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 29 June 1894 at St Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of seven surviving children born to Alfred Newbrook, a labourer and his wife Sarah Ann. No marriage …
Personal Details Born: 15 September 1874 in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire and baptised 30 May 1876 at Merthyr Tydfil Parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of at least five children born to William Morgan, a potato merchant and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: The 1911 Census record indicates that he was an adopted child when he was living with the James family (headed by William with his wife, Charlotte). He married Lucy M Glennoe in …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter Y. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter W. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter V. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter T. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter S. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter R. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter P. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter O. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter N. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Personal Details Born: 17 May 1893 in Utkinton, Cheshire and baptised 2 July 1893 in the Parish of Tarporley. Family: He was the son of John Wrench, a labourer, and his wife Mary, nee Hassell. He married Agnes Ethel Dodd …
Personal Details Born: In 1893 in Norbury, Cheshire and baptised Joseph William on 5 November the same year in Marbury Parish Church, Cheshire. He was also known as William Joseph Williams. Family: He was the son of Joseph Williams, a …
Personal Details Born: 23 July 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 27 August at St Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fifth child born to Henry Powell, a tailor, and his wife Emma. He married Alice Emily Florence …
Personal Details Born: Birth registered in Market Drayton, Shropshire during first quarter of 1880 . Family: He was the eldest of seven children born to Henry & Alice Morris. In 1906 Herbert married Margaret Ellen Whittingham, the marriage being registered …
Personal Details Born: 10 September 1878 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 October the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fourth of seven children born to Richard Pearson, a bank manager, and his …
Personal Details Born: 1 August 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 20 August 1893 at the Unitarian Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fourth of six surviving children born to Thomas Mann, a labourer, and his wife Mary Ann. He …
Personal Details Born: 13 July 1892 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 5 October the same year in St Alkmund’s Parish Church in Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of three children born to Mary Jones. He married Daisy Adkins …
Personal Details Born: 21 May 1897 in Willington, Flintshire, Wales and baptised 20 June the same year in Hanmer Parish Church. Family: He was the fifth of seven children born to John Griffiths, a domestic coachman, and his wife Emma …
Personal Details Born: 1879 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: His grandparents who brought him up were Henry and Frances Gill (his parents are not known). He married Mary Ellen Cliffe in 1902 in Wem, Shropshire; no children can be confirmed for …
Personal Details Born: In 1897 in Bronington, Flintshire and baptised 28 March 1897 in Bronington Parish Church. Family: He was the eighth of nine children born to Evan Edwards, the manager of a brickworks, and his wife Sarah. He married …
Personal Details Born: 1873 in Silverdale, Staffordshire. Family: He was one of at least six children born to Thomas Edwards, a miner, and his wife Hannah, nee Yearsley. He married Mary Ann Lloyd on 17 May 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. …
Personal Details Born: 13 September 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of five surviving children born to Herbert Dawson, a cycle agent and private hotel keeper, and his wife Agnes Maud. He married Gladys Smith in 1924 …
Personal Details Born: In 1877 in Barnstaple, Devon and baptised 4 November 1877 in Georgeham Parish Church, Devon. Family: He was the fifth of eight children born to Edward Ellis Dawson, a policemen, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Frances …
Personal Details Born: Birth registered during the second quarter of 1881 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 5 June the same year at Tilstock Church, Shropshire. Family: He was the second child of James & Sarah Brookes, his older brother being …
Personal Details Born: 27 March 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He married Margaret Blaylock in 1916 in Carlisle, Cumbria and together they had four children – Margaret, William T, Dorothy R and an unnamed male child. Residence: The 1919 Absent …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter M. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter L. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter K. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter J. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter I. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter H. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter G. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter F. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter E. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter D. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter C. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter B. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in one …
Personal Details Born: 14 June 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church on 5 September the same year. Family: He was the second of four children born to William Parton, an agricultural labourer, and his wife …
Men from Whitchurch and the surrounding area who served in the Great War whose surnames begin with the letter A. Some died in action; the majority returned to resume civilian life. We have sought to record their lives in …
Personal Details Born: In fourth quarter of 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, twin brother to Alice. Family: Joint youngest of five children born to Edward and Sarah Rodgers. In early 1922 Thomas married Edith Hall in Whitchurch and together they had …
Personal Details Born: 22 August 1892 in Bromyard, Herefordshire and baptised 23 February 1893 at Castlefields Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Family: Third child of the Rev William Ovington Robinson and his wife Margaret H. No marriage or children can …
Personal Details Born: Third quarter of 1885 in Littlehampton, Sussex and birth registered in East Preston, Sussex. Family: Eldest of four children born to the Rev. William Robinson and his wife Margaret. In 1919 he married Winifred E Ball in …
Personal Details Born: 1889 in Clun, Shropshire and baptised on 8 September 1889 at Wentnor Parish Church, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of eight children born to Joseph Yapp, a farm labourer, and his wife Sarah. He married Kathleen …
Personal Details Born: 14 September 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: George Frederick was the 4th of seven children born to Joseph and Lucy Roberts. On 15 September 1917 George married Agnes Jackson in Whitchurch, a month before enlisting. Together the …
Personal Details Born: Joseph Edgar Roberts was born during the last quarter of 1890. He was baptised at St Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch on March 4th 1891. Family: He was the fifth and youngest child of Alfred and Mary Alice …
Personal Details Born: 1896 in Atcham, Shropshire and baptised 20 September 1896 at Westbury Parish Church, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of six children born to John Pimlett Sargeant, a steward and his wife Julia, nee Dutton. He married …
Personal Details Born: In 1887 in Conway, Caernarvonshire, Wales and baptised in Gyffin Parish Church, Caernarvonshire on 30 January the same year. Family: He was the son of Peter Jones, a sailor, and his wife Catherine Mary. Catherine subsequently married …
Personal Details Born: 3 January 1871 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 7 May the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. He was also known as Samuel Humphreys. Family: He was the second of five children born to …
Personal Details Born: 21 May 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of six children born to Thomas Malam, a carter, and his wife Caroline. He married Mary E Williams in 1950 in Crewe, Cheshire; no children can …
Personal Details Born: 26 October 1884 in Gredington, Flintshire, Wales. Family: Military records for an Ernest Phillips (4147 King’s Shropshire Light Infantry) identify an address of 10 Dodington, Whitchurch at which a Phillips family were living in 1891 and 1901; …
Personal Details Born: In 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised, with his sister Lucy, on 8 July the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of nine children born to William Purcell, a gardener, …
Personal Details Born: In 1869 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to John Reay, a general labourer, and his wife Sarah. He married Annie Thelwell on 5 March 1889 in Whitchurch and together they …
Personal Details Born: 12 August 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 29 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to Ridgway Reynolds, a labourer, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 6 March 1901 in Fauls, Prees, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of seven children born to William Ridgway, a farm labourer, and his wife Sarah. He married Alexandra M Banks in 1922 in Market Drayton, Shropshire …
Personal Details Born: 24 January 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 14 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to John Shone, a chemist and grocer, and his …
Personal Details Born: In 1871 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. (His RAF service record indicates he was born on 16 October 1877, but the civil records register his birth in 4th quarter 1871) Family: He was the second of three children born …
Personal Details Born: 25 December 1889 in Llanymynech, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of six children born to Edward Griffiths, a bricklayer, and his wife Louisa. He married Agnes Groom in 1914 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and together they had …
Personal Details Born: 17 July 1893 in Prees, Shropshire and baptised 7 August the same year in Prees Parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to Thomas James Hares, a farmer, and his wife Lucretia. He …
Personal Details Born: 28 January 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of nine children born to Thomas Henry Haycocks, a general labourer, and his wife Mary Elizabeth. He married Doris Palin in 1916 in Whitchurch and together …
Personal Details Born: 27 March 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of three children born to John Hayward, a railway signalman, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Daisy Taylor in 1911 in Nantwich, Cheshire and together had …
Personal Details Born: 17 October 1888 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to William Hayward, a groom, and his wife Mary. He married Edith Annie Elliot on 30 October 1910 in St. Mary’s on …
Personal Details Born: In 1881 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He married Emily Allen in 1904 in Chorlton, Lancashire and together they had one child, William. Residence: In 1911 he was living at 24 Dane Road, Sale, Cheshire; in 1914 he …
Personal Details Born: 1 December 1860 in Tilstock, Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 30 December the same year in Tilstock Parish Church. His family name was Henshall. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to John Henshall, an agricultural …
Personal Details Born: 28 April 1902 in Prees, Shropshire. Family: He was the son of Emily Hesketh who later married Josiah Huxley. Emily and Josiah had at least one other child. He married Sylvia Leila Harbourne on 23 June 1925 …
Personal Details Born: 7 October 1882 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 27 October the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. He was also known by the name Haycocks. Family: He was the third of six children born to …
Personal Details Born: 21 April 1897 in Tilstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Arthur Horton, a bricklayer, and his wife Mary Hannah. He married Mary Elizabeth May Giles in 1936 in Wallasey, Cheshire and …
Personal Details Born: 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of five surviving children born to Philip Shenton, a factory engine driver and his wife Mary, nee Lunt. No marriage can be confirmed for Thomas. Residence: In 1901 …
Personal Details Born: 18 February 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of six children born to George Howell, a house painter, and his wife Sarah. He married Ethel Campbell on 27 September 1926 in St. Paul’s Church, …
Personal Details Born: March 1884 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of six children born to Thomas Howells, a railway clerk, and his wife Esther. He married Catherine Edwards on 27 September 1915 in Glasgow; no children can …
Personal Details Born: In 1869 in Prees, Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 31 October the same year in Prees Parish Church. Family: He was the second son of Elizabeth Huxley. He married Emily Hurlston Hesketh in 1908 in Whitchurch, Shropshire …
Personal Details Born: 3 January 1864 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 March in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the seventh of eight children born to Thomas Maddocks, a gardener, and his wife Emma. He married …
Personal Details Born: 24 July 1876 in Bangor, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 27 August the same year in Worthenbury Parish Church, Flintshire. Family: He was the second of nine children born to Samuel Redropp Maddocks, a farmer, and his …
Personal Details Born: 1 August 1892 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 September the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to John Matthews, a coachman, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 17 September 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to Alfred A Matthews, a domestic groom, and his wife Ella C. He married Miriam Barbara Harris in 1925 in Whitchurch; no …
Personal Details Born: 2 August 1889 in Bickley, Cheshire and baptised on 22 September 1889 at St. Oswald’s Church, Malpas, Cheshire. Family: He was the third of seven children born to Thomas Mellor, a gardener’s labourer, and his wife Ann. …
Personal Details Born: 3 September 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fifth of eight surviving children born to William Morgan, a railway engineman, and his wife Annie. He married Mary Elizabeth Turner on 18 April 1901 in Whitchurch …
Personal Details Born: 25 March 1901 in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and was baptised on 21 July the same year in Bronington Parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Lloyd John Haycocks, a clay miner, and …
Personal Details Born: 5 March 1898 in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 10 April the same year in Bronington Parish Church. Family: He was the second of seven children born to William George Jackson, a farmer, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 23 June 1886 in Hinstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to William Jackson, a farm labourer, and his wife Mary. He married Minnie Elizabeth Thelwell in 1943 in Whitchurch, Shropshire; no children …
Personal Details Born: 18 January 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 4 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of six children born to George Giles James, a tailor, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 1 July 1898 in Broughall, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of seven children born to George Griffiths, a bricklayer, and his wife Mary Jane. He married Sarah Elizabeth Allman in 1925 in Oswestry and together they …
Personal Details Born: 11 July 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Daniel Sherbrooke, a house painter, and his wife Caroline. He married Annie Maria Rogers on 18 November 1902 at Atcham registry …
Personal Details Born: 18 July 1894 in Prees, Shropshire and was baptised on 20 August the same year in Prees Parish Church. Family: He was the second of five children born to Thomas James Hares, a farmer, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 30 August 1893 in Winslow, Buckinghamshire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Sir Wyndham Charles Henry Hanmer, 6th Baronet Hanmer of Hanmer, and his wife Lady Essex Hanmer. He married Aileen Mary Rogerson …
Personal Details Born: 6 January 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of five children born to Stephen Oliver, a draughtsman, and his wife Martha. He married Mary A Hallam in 1926 in Crich, Derbyshire. The couple had …
Personal Details Born: 1 April 1885 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 21 June the same year at Christ Church, Tilstock, Shropshire. Family: He was one of at least four children born to Richard Sumner, a labourer, and his wife Eliza. …
Personal Details Born: In 1883 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 4 June 1883 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of nine children born to Thomas Thelwell, a labourer, and his wife Eliza. He married Ethel Challenor …
Personal Details Born: 31 May 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 14 June 1876 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the sixth of nine children born to Charles Taylor, a grocer, and his wife Catherine. He married …
Personal Details Born: 12 August 1885 in Nantwich, Cheshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Samuel Stubbs, a bricklayer, and his wife Rhoda, nee Hawkins. He married Harriet Humpreys in 1909 in Chester, Cheshire. The couple …
Personal Details Born: 2 October 1891 in Tilstock, Shropshire and baptised 8 November the same year at Tilstock Church (Note the 1939 register has his year of birth as 1893) He was known as Alfred, John Alfred and Alfred John. …
Personal Details Born: 21 July 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 9 August 1889 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third child born to William Groom, a blacksmith, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Eva M …
Personal Details Born: Early 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire; baptised 17 April that year in Myddle, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Robert Lee Hales, a joiner, and his wife Elizabeth Ann. He married Amy Hales …
Personal Details Born: 15 January 1892 in Marbury, Cheshire and baptised 1 May the same year in Marbury Parish Church. He was also known as Jack Edwards. Family: He was the second of eight children born to John Edge, a …
Personal Details Born: 4 March 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Samuel Edge, a labourer, and his wife Charlotte. He married Linda Jones in 1922 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales; children for this …
Personal Details Born: 16 November 1875 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 12 December the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the third of seven children born to Charles Green, a carpenter and joiner, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 17 April 1883 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 25 May the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the third of four children born to Robert Griffiths, a bricklayer, and his wife Mary Ann. …
Personal Details Born: 29 September 1872 in Prees, Shropshire. He was also known as Frederic Moores. Family: He was the grandson of Sarah Moore. He married Florence Gribbin on 19 October 1901 in Prestwich, Lancashire and together they had four …
Personal Details Born: In 1872 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 5 June the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of four children of John Speed, a hairdresser, and his wife Mary Ann, nee …
Personal Details Born: 10 February 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 8 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of eight children born to Kenrick Wilson, a railway signalman, and his …
Personal Details Born: 31 December 1892 in Rugby, Warwickshire and baptised on 30 January 1893 in the Parish Church of Newbold-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Family: He was the son of Richard Thomas Wilson, a labourer, and his wife Sarah Ellen but was …
Personal Details Born: 18 July 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to James Perry, a lodging house keeper, and his wife Mary. He married Edna Hollingworth on 23 December 1933 in the Parish …
Personal Details Born: 5 May 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 19 June the same year in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of three surviving children born to Thomas Powell, a plasterer, and his …
Personal Details Born: 9 April 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 3 May the same year in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of three surviving children born to Thomas Powell, a plasterer, and his …
Personal Details Born: 14 July 1894 in Halghton, Hanmer, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 16 September the same year in Hanmer Parish Church. Family: He was the younger of two children born to William Price, a joiner, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 11 July 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 7 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of six surviving children born to George Porter, a railway worker, and his …
Personal Details Born: In 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of six surviving children born to John Prince, a general labourer, and his wife Elizabeth. No marriage can be traced for John. Residence: In 1901 he lived …
Personal Details Born: 20 October 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 February 1896 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the third of six children born to Thomas John Hill Purcell, a tobacconist, hairdresser and newsagent, and …
Personal Details Born: 3 July 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 September the same year in St. Mary’s Church, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of six children born to Thomas John Hill Purcell, a tobacconist, hairdresser …
Personal Details Born: 20 September 1890 in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and baptised on 19 October the same year in Hanmer Parish Church. Family: He was the elder of two children born to William Price, a joiner, and his wife Emily, …
Personal Details Born: 18 November 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the sixth of eight children born to Henry Prince, a bricklayer, and his wife Ann. He married Miriam Joynson in 1924 in Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire and together …
Personal Details Born: 5 July 1891 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the elder of two children born to Enoch Porter, an iron foundry labourer, and his wife Kate. Enoch died in 1906 and Kate married Frederick Henry Jones in …
Personal Details Born: 19 September 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: Only son of Thomas and Ann Clayton. In 1931 Frank married Hilda A Heatley in Whitchurch. They had one daughter, Margaret, born in 1932 in Whitchurch. Residence: In 1901 Frank …
Personal Details Born: 1 February 1884 Family: He married Agnes Gaughan in Liverpool during the 3rd quarter of 1908. Together they had a son, Peter J, who was born in 1924 in Whitchurch. Residence: The address given for John on the …
Personal Details Born: 5 September 1892 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: Youngest of eight children born to Joseph & Ellen Eccleston. Rupert married Elizabeth H Lucas in 1921 at Whitchurch. The couple had two sons; Rupert Joseph Lucas Eccleston who was …
Personal Details Born: 17 May 1887 and baptised 10 July the same year at Whitchurch Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. The 1939 Register lists his date of birth as 17th May 1886, as does his death record but this does not tally …
Personal Details Born: 6 October 1879 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 12 November the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the sixth of eight surviving children of Joseph Edge, a general labourer, and his wife Sarah. …
Personal Details Born: 18 January 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 1 March the same year in the United Reformed Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the only child of George Edge, a builder, and his wife Emily. He married …
Personal Details Born: 22 September 1878 in Prees, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of four surviving children born to William Pritchard, a farm labourer, and his wife Anne, nee Arrowsmith. He married Mary Elizabeth Thomas on 15 September 1903 …
Personal Details Born: 11 March 1885 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: Eldest of five children born to Ridgway and Mary Ann Reynolds. Percy married Annie J Hughes in the last quarter of 1911 and together they had seven children – Thomas …
Personal Details Born: 8 May 1883 in Wellington, Shropshire and baptised 27 June 1883 at St. George`s Parish Church, Wellington. Family: He was the only son of John Stanworth, an iron worker and his wife Mary Jane, nee Rosson. His …
Personal Details Born: 5 June 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 22 June the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the sixth of seven surviving children born to George Steele, a blacksmith, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 10 January 1882 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 10 February the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of seven children born to Wiliam Smith, a school master, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 2 November 1883 in Forden, Montgomeryshire. Family: He was the eldest of four surviving children born to Joshua Eldridge Simpson, a coachman, and his wife Ellen. He married Isobel Olive Smith on 23 July 1907 in Minety …
Personal Details Born: 4 July 1884 in Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia. Family: He was the third of six surviving children born to Frank Sutcliffe, a mechanical engineer, and his wife Catherine, nee Major. He married Mary Gorham in 1912 …
Personal Details Born: 10 August 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 20 August the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of eight children born to Moses Slawson, a horse breaker, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 30 May 1878 in Weymouth, Dorset. Family: He was the fourth of nine children born to John Stickland, a groom, and his wife Mary, nee Laver. He married Margaret Elizabeth Sarah Louisa Hawkins on 6 August 1900 …
Personal Details Born: In 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the younger of two sons born to John Suker, a general labourer, and his wife Elizabeth. He married Hilda E.Smith in 1921 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. The couple had two …
Personal Details Born: In 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 7 June the same year at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the elder of two sons born to John Suker, a general labourer, and his wife Elizabeth. …
Personal Details Born: In 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 4 October the same year at St. Alkmund`s Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the fifth of ten surviving children born to Edward Suker, a cattle dealer, and his wife Elizabeth, …
Personal Details Born: 3 August 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised in St. Alkmund`s Parish Church on 21 August the same year. Family: He was the third of ten surviving children born to Edward Suker, a cattle dealer, and his …
Personal Details Born: 21 February 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to John R Richards, ironmonger, and his wife Frances Jane. Henry married Doris Mullineux in 1928 in Ellesmere, Shropshire. The couple do …
Personal Details Born: 7 April 1878 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of five sons born to Josiah Ridgway, a clockmaker, and Ann his wife. In 1912 Josiah married Ada Brown in Whitchurch and the following year their …
Personal Details Born: 15 Jul 1893 and baptised the following month at St. Alkmund’s Church, Whitchurch. Family: Elder of two sons born to Robert Duncan Sandland Ridgway, a carpenter and wheelwright, and his wife Annie. In June 1923 Clement married …
Personal Details Born: 6 October 1888 in Nantwich, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of three children born to Robert David Edwards, a grocer, and his wife Emily. He married Jessie Maud Mary Puttick in 1924 in Reading, Berkshire and …
Personal Details Born: In 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to Thomas Elsley, a bricklayer, and his wife Sarah Ann. He was unmarried. Residence: In 1901 his family were living in Wrexham Road, …
Personal Details Born: 25 November 1886 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 10 December the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. His surname was also spelled Ellesley. Family: He was the youngest of seven children born to James Elsley, an …
Personal Details Born: 17 July 1887 in Ightfield, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to John Ellison, a bricklayer, and his wife Jane. He married Mary Jones in 1915 in Ellesmere, Shropshire and together they …
Personal Details Born: 15 November 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of six children born to James Edwards, a joiner, and his wife Mary Ann. He married Florence Muriel Richards in 1920 in Whitchurch and together they …
Personal Details Born: 1 April 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire and baptised 2 June the same year in Holy Trinity Church, Oswestry. Family: He was the third of seven children born to George Evans, a locomotive engine driver, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: In 1887 in Oswestry, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of nine children born to Evan Edwards, a brick works foreman, and his wife Sarah. No marriage can be traced for John. Residence: In 1901 the family were …
Personal Details Born: 1 September 1883 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 5 October the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church. Family: He was the second of six children born to James Ellis, a carpenter and joiner, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: 18 February 1899 in Burleydam, Cheshire. He was also known as Sidney. Family: He was the eldest of at least four children of William Evans, a farm waggoner, and his wife Pamela. He married Hannah Elson in …
Personal Details Born: In 1878 in Burleydam, Cheshire. Family: He was the fifth of six children born to Peter Evans, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Ann. He married Pamela Felton in 1898 in Market Drayton, Shropshire and together they …
Personal Details Born: 30 June 1889 in Oswestry, Shropshire and baptised on 25 July the same year in St. Oswald’s Church, Oswestry. Family: He was the eldest of seven children born to George Evans, a locomotive engine driver, and his …
Personal Details Born: In 1881 in Hollyhurst, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Also known as Stephen Charles Evans. Family: He was the third of eight children born to Stephen Charles Evans, a rural postman, and his wife Sarah Harriet. No marriage can be …
Personal Details Born: 6 April 1878 in Hollyhurst, near Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 26 May the same year in St. Michael’s Parish Church, Marbury, Cheshire. Family: He was the second of eight children born to Stephen Charles Evans, a rural …
Personal Details Born: 27 April 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 8 May the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of eight children born to Stephen Charles Evans, a rural postman, and his …
Personal Details Born: 20 December 1879 in Bradford, Yorkshire and baptised on 22 February 1880 in Manningham Parish Church, Yorkshire. Family: He was the youngest of eight children born to William Foster, an excavator, and his wife Mary Ann. He …
Personal Details Born: 25 March 1875 in Marbury, Cheshire and baptised on 2 May the same year in Marbury Parish Church. Family: He was the youngest of four children born to James Chesworth, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Eliza. …
Personal Details Born: 9 November 1875 according to 1939 register but probably 9 Nov 1874 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Baptised 28 March 1875 at St Alkmund’s Church, Whitchurch. Family: Charles was the son of William and Ann Jones and brother of …
Personal Details Born: In 1882 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 9 August of the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the elder of two children born to Barrow Jones, a wine merchant, and his …
Personal Details Born: 31 July 1875 in Oakengates, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of five children of George Hall, a stone breaker, and his wife Mary. He also had two step siblings from his mother’s first marriage. George married Martha …
Personal Details Born: 11 June 1889 in Black Park, Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 25 July the same year at St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the seventh of nine children born to William Glassey, a farm cattle man, …
Personal Details Born: 29 April 1888 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 3 June the same year in Marbury Parish Church, Cheshire. Family: He was the sixth of nine children born to William Glassey, a farm cattle man, and his …
Personal Details Born: 5 April 1869 in Malpas, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of eight children born to Stephen Gibbons, a blacksmith, and his wife Catherine. He married Sarah Ann Hammond on 21 October 1897 at St. George’s Church, …
Personal Details Born: June 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Patrick Gaughan, a pedlar, and his wife Ellen Elizabeth Helen. No marriage can be traced for William. Residence: In 1881 he …
Personal Details Born: 22 March 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of four children born to Thomas Gardner, a stud groom, and his wife Annie. He married Alice Mildred Owens on 17 November 1907 in St. Philemon’s …
Personal Details Born: 24 May 1866 in Ash, Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 12 June the same year in Ash Parish Church. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Henry and Jane Faulkner He married Sarah Edwards …
Personal Details Born: 30 December 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: His mother and father were John and Mary Ellen Young and he had six brothers and sisters Nellie, James, William, Irene, Doris and Gwendoline. He married Florence Benting in 1915 …
Personal Details Born: In the last quarter of 1878 in Droxford, Hampshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to George and Charlotte Reeves. George married Winifred Ainsworth in 1906 in Wem, Shropshire registration area. The couple went …
Personal Details Born: 29 July 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the youngest of six children born to Charles Pennell Kirkby, a master tailor, and his wife Sarah Ann, nee Connerley. He married Hester Catherine Winter on 4 March …
Personal Details Born: 7 September 1881 in Holywell, Flintshire and baptised with his twin sister Alice on 9 September 1881 at Pontblyddyn Parish Church, Flintshire. Family: He was one of seven children born to John Charles Knight, a butler, and …