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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: 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: 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: 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: 29 March 1893 in Wrenbury, Cheshire. Family: He was the eldest of four surviving children of William Jones, a teamsman on a farm, and his wife Emily. He married Beatrice A Jukes in 1921 in Whitchurch, Shropshire …
Personal Details Born: He was born in either 1866 or 1874 in Ellesmere, Shropshire. (The Census records show differing years of birth and due to the common name it has not proved possible to locate a definite birth record). Family: …
Personal Details Born: 8 February 1876 in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales. Family: He was the third child of Amos Jones, a bricklayer, and his wife Jane. He married Ada Sarah Smith on 14 November 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and together they …
Personal Details Born: In 1871 in Tilston, near Malpas, Cheshire and baptised on 10 September the same year in St Oswald’s Parish Church, Malpas. Family: He was the eldest of six children born to Thomas Jones, a gamekeeper, and his …
Personal Details Born: 3 May 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child of Edward Jones, a jeweller and watch dealer, and his wife Mary. He married Florence Price in 1929 in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales. No children can …
Personal Details Born: In 1894 in Oswestry, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of two children born to Richard Jones, a domestic groom, and his wife Ellen. He married Agnes Davenport on 5 April 1915 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, …
Personal Details Born: 18 March 1900 in Tilstock, Shropshire and baptised on 15 April the same year in Tilstock Parish Church. Family: He was the fourth of nine children born to George Jones, a farm wagonner, and his wife Harriet …
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: 3 August 1899 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eighth of ten children born to George Jones, a farm labourer, and his first wife Mary. Mary died in 1901 and George married again to Martha Oliver …
Personal Details Born: 4 July 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 29 July the same year at St. Alkmund’s Church Whitchurch. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to William Edwin Jones, a painter and decorator, and …
Personal Details Born: In 1902 in Manchester, Lancashire. Family: He was the nephew of William and Annie Crewe. Further information about his family has not been located. Residence: In 1911 he lived with his aunt & uncle’s family at 48 Oddfellows …
Personal Details Born: 10 July 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 1 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s Church Whitchurch. Family: He was the second of seven children born to Llewellyn Ffoulkes Jones, a plumber and gas fitter, and …
Personal Details Born: 10 November 1897 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, and known as Godfrey. Family: He was the fourth of seven children born to Llewellyn Ffoulkes Jones, a plumber and gas fitter, and his wife Mary Ann Jones. He married Ann …
Personal Details Born: 20 January 1886 in Wellington, Shropshire. Family: He married Ellen Bates in 1906 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and together they had five children – William Richard, Peter, Harriett E, Hilda and Mary J. Residence: In 1911 he lived …
Personal Details Born: In 1896 in Tushingham, Cheshire, near Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the sixth of ten children born to George Jones, a farm labourer, and his first wife Mary. Mary died in 1901 and George married again to …
Personal Details Born: 16 July 1898 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Edward Jones, a grocer, and his wife Mary. He married Lilian M Taylor in 1926 in Whitchurch. We believe there were children …
Personal Details Born: In 1875 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 26 August the same year in St. Alkmund’s parish Church. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to Robert Jones, a boilermaker, and his wife Sarah. He married …
Personal Details Born: In 1900 in Bangor-on-Dee, Flintshire and known as Stanley throughout his life. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Robert Jones, a domestic gardener, and his wife Hannah. No marriage can be conclusively confirmed …
Personal Details Born: 9 December 1885 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to William Jones, a domestic coachman, and his wife Mary. No marriage can be traced for William. Residence: In 1891 he was …
Personal Details Born: January 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: The fourth child of Joseph and Annie Jones of 37 Folly Lane, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Edwin married Alice Thompson on the 1 March 1905 and together they had 2 children – Ronald and Winifred …
Personal Details Born: 1895. Civilian Occupation: Charles was a farm labourer before enlisting. Military Details Regiment: Machine Gun Corps (previously Cheshire Regiment) Rank: Private Service Number: 61347 (previously 17727) Date of Enlistment: 2 November 1914 Date of Discharge: 21 …
The memorial was on the outside wall of the United Reformed Church, Whixall. The church has been sold for conversion into a private dwelling; the memorial has been removed and is now free-standing in the adjacent graveyard. This is …
The memorial is inside St Mary’s Church, Church Lane, Whixall. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. It is hoped that the people of Whitchurch, Shropshire and beyond …
The memorial is opposite the entrance to Iscoyd Park. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. It is hoped that the people of Whitchurch, Shropshire and beyond will get …
The memorial is near Whixall primary school, Mossleigh, Whixall. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. It is hoped that the people of Whitchurch, Shropshire and beyond will …
The memorial is by the roadside in Tallarn Green. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. It is hoped that the people of Whitchurch, Shropshire and beyond will …
The memorial is outside St Oswald’s Church, Malpas. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. It is hoped that the people of Whitchurch, Shropshire and beyond will get …
Peat working was apparently a reserved occupation during WW1 so why were these women employed ? Who were they and where did they stay?
The memorial is on the A495 on the Whitchurch side of Bronington by the entrance drive to Holy Trinity Church, Bronington. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. …
The memorial is in St John’s Methodist Church, St John’s Street, Whitchurch. This is an ongoing project, information will be added to the website over the coming weeks and months. It is hoped that the people of Whitchurch, Shropshire …
St Alkmund’s Church is at the top of Bargate, Whitchurch, next to the site of the original Whitchurch Grammar School. At the west end of the Church is a triptych form war memorial with a central panel of …
The panel containing the memorial was removed from the original Grammar School in Bargate, Whitchurch and now hangs in Sir John Talbot School, Tilstock Road, Whitchurch, the current secondary school. This is an ongoing project, information will be added …
The 1914 Star (also known as ‘Pip’) was authorised under Special Army Order no. 350 in November 1917 and by an Admiralty Fleet Order in 1918, for award to officers and men of the British and Indian Expeditionary Forces who …
The British War Medal (also known as ‘Squeak’) was a silver or bronze medal awarded to officers and men of the British and Imperial Forces who either entered a theatre of war or entered service overseas between 5th August 1914 …
Letter in the Whitchurch Herald 21st October 1916 received by Mrs Jones regarding the death of her husband, Joseph Jones. “Dear Madam, As the Chaplain attached to the 3rd Worcester Regiment, it is with deepest regret and sympathy that I …
Report in the Whitchurch Herald 15th July 1916 on the death of George Frederick Jones Letter received by Mr & Mrs Jones; “It’s with deepest regret that I write this letter to inform you of the death of your son, …
The Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries. The Military Cross is granted in recognition of …
I first started visiting the Battlefields, Cemeteries and Memorials of the Western Front some fifteen years ago. Three years ago I decided to research the names on the War Memorial in Station Road, that’s all they are names, carved …
Thomas Ivan Jones was born in Rensselaer, New York, United States of America on 6th October 1890, the son of Thomas and Minnie H Jones who were living in Shrewsbury in 1901. Husband to Keziah Jones (nee Ince) (married in …
Report in the North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality 15th November 1918 regarding the death of Owen Arthur Jones “ROLL OF HONOUR. – The death on active service is reported of Private Owen Arthur Jones, son of Mrs …
Born in Llanfair-is-Gaer, Port Dinorwic, Caernarvonshire, Wales in 1897, the eldest son of Captain William and Mrs Margaret E Jones of 6 Velinheli Terrace, Port Dinorwic. Caernarvonshire, Wales. Owen was working at Lloyds Bank in Whitchurch, living in Shrewsbury when …
Born in Edstaston, Shropshire in 1887, the third son of Emily Jones and the late Thomas Jones of Lindford, Weston-under-Redcastle, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The 1911 Census shows Henry working on the family farm and living at Brook House, Brook Farm, Coton, …
Report in the Chester Chronicle 6th April 1918 regarding the death of John Thomas Jones “News was received from the War Office on Saturday that Captain John T. Jones had ‘died on March 28th, information to follow.’ The fact that …
John Thomas Jones, born in Whitchurch in 1883, the second son of William and Winifred Jones. Husband of Lydia Ann (nee Houghton) Jones of 20 Station Road, Whitchurch. John was on the staff of the General Manager of the Shropshire …
Born in Iscoyd, Flintshire, Wales in 1891, the third son of Job and Ellen Jones of Higher Wych Farm, near Malpas, Cheshire. The 1911 census shows Harold as a cowman on a farm. Regiment : 2nd/5th Battalion Manchester Regiment Rank …
Thomas Bagley Stockton (also known as Thomas Bagley Jones), born in Whitchurch in 1888, the eldest son of Benjamin Stockton and Alice Jones of 14 Claypit Street, Whitchurch. Thomas was a general labourer before joining the Army. Regiment : 27th …
John Owen Jones born in Mostyn, Flintshire, Wales on 18 May 1897, the third son of Samuel and Jane Jones of 5 Glanymnla, Llanerchymon, Holywell, Flintshire, Wales. (John’s eldest brother of the same name had sadly died at the age …
Liverpool Daily Post – Friday 11 May 1917 …
Report in the Chester Chronicle 30 December 1916 of the military wedding of John Thomas Jones and Lydia Ann Houghton “On Thursday a quiet wedding was solemnised at the Primitive Methodist Church, Ellesmere Port, the contracting parties being Captain and …
Joseph Jones was born in Watergate Street, (Bulls Head Public House) Whitchurch in 1884, the fourth son of Joseph and Elizabeth Jones, of 22, Watergate Street, Whitchurch. He was the husband of Mary Emma (nee Clutton) Jones of Norbury, Cheshire. …
Nursing sisters that had been deputed for duty in Home Hospitals by The Joint War Committee were listed in the British Journal of Nursing. The above entry for Miss F. Jones was found British Journal of Nursing 23rd September 1916
Charles Jones was born in Malpas, Cheshire in 1896. He was the eldest son of Mrs Margaret Lightfoot of Fenns Wood, Whitchurch. Charles worked as a Gardener before joining the Army. Regiment : 7th (Service) Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry …
We have been able to identify Charles Lightfoot (as commemorated on the Bronington Memorial) and Charles Jones (as recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission) as the same person through the service number 22028 serving with the King’s Shropshire Light …
Born in Tilstock Park, Shropshire in 1893, the fifth son of Edward and Alice Jones of 16 Moss Cottage, Whixall, Shropshire. His occupation in 1911 was Captains mate on a canal boat. Regiment : 7th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry …
George Frederick Jones was born on Catteralls Lane, Whitchurch in 1894. George was the fourth son of Samuel and Kate Jones of 2 Smithy Cottages, Broughall, Whitchurch. Regiment : 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion Cheshire Regiment (Earl of Chester’s Battalion) Rank : …
John Thomas Jones was born in Pulford, Cheshire in 1892 the eldest son of George and Mary Jones of 8, Mill Cottages, Grindley Brook, Whitchurch. John worked with his father in the Mill, at Grindley Brook, before joining the Army.