Personal Details Born: 25 January 1897 in Southport, Lancashire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Robert Owen, a butcher and his wife Frances Sarah, nee Duffy. He had a twin brother, Alfred. His father Robert had … 
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Personal Details Born: 25 January 1897 in Southport, Lancashire. Family: He was the second of five children born to Robert Owen, a butcher and his wife Frances Sarah, nee Duffy. He had a twin brother David. His father Robert had …
Personal Details Born: Not known Family: Not known Residence: The 1919 Absent Voters’ Register records an address of 3 Smallbrook Buildings, Whitchurch for him; no other connection to this address or any other address can be identified. Employment: Not known …
Personal Details Born: Alfred was born Quarter 4 1882, Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 6 November 1882 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the first of six children born to John Dodd, a bricklayer, and his wife Anne. …
Personal Details Born: 24 April 1887 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 13 May 1887 in St. Alkmund`s Parish Church. Family: He was the second of seven children born to James Brown, a labourer in an iron-foundry, and his wife Anne. …
Personal Details Born: 29 September 1899 Family: Second of six surviving children born to George and Fanny Cliff. Towards the end of 1931 Thomas married Elsie Williams in Ellesmere, Shropshire. Together they had one child, born in 1940; Thomas G. …
Personal Details Born: 22 July 1886 at Alkington, Shropshire and baptised on 1 September 1886 at the United Reformed Church, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the only child of Stephen Batho, a farmer, and his wife Elizabeth (Betsy), nee Davenport. His …
Personal Details Born: 7 April 1882 Family: The third child of John Henry & Eliza Nye of Bargates, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Ernest married Elizabeth Cairns on the 9 July 1905 and together they had 4 children – Ernest Edward, Beatrice, Elizabeth & Arthur William. Residence: …
Harold Lamb (known as Harry) was born in Bangor, Denbighshire, Wales on 9th January 1891 (baptised 12th February 1891), the fourth son of Edwin and Ellen Lamb of 22 Trevor Street, Wrexham, Wales. The 1911 Census shows Harry as a …
James Henry Wood, born in Barbridge, Cheshire in 1886, the eldest son of James and Sarah Wood of The Lock House, Grindley Brook, Whitchurch. James was working as a Porter in a Canal Warehouse at Pontcysyllte Wharf, Trevor, Denbighshire. Regiment …
Born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in 1895, the second son of John and Kate Davies. Husband of Ivy (nee Sherman) Davies of 16 Wrexham Road, Whitchurch. Albert was serving with the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry at Prees Heath when he married …
Born in Malpas, Cheshire in 1896, the second son of John Thomas and Catherine Mellor of Wych Mills, Malpas, Cheshire. (The CWGC record shows his mother as the late Elizabeth Mellor, whereas the census records show her as Catherine Mellor.) …
Cyril Stanley Geoffrey Stevens, born in Ludlow, Shropshire in 1885, the fourth son of the late Ernest Frank and Mrs Louisa Harriett Stevens (nee Ash) of Idsall, Prestbury, Solihull. Geoffrey (as he was known) is recorded on the 1911 Census …
Born in Wrenbury, Cheshire in 1878, the eldest son of the late John and Martha Ashley of Pinsley Green, Wrenbury, Nantwich, Cheshire. Regiment : 16th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Rank : Private Service Number : 37445 Killed in action; France 23rd …
Born in Swinton, Lancashire in 1889, the fifth son of the late William Hughes and Hannah Hughes of The Hollies, Stone House, Lower Heath, Wem, Shropshire. Regiment : 2nd/5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Rank : Private Service Number : 3647 Killed …