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. … 
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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: 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: 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: 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: 3 July 1893 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 21 July the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the sixth of eight children born to James Hockenhull, a van driver, and his …
Personal Details Residence: An address of 14 Claypit Street, Whitchurch was given for Harry on the 1919 Absent Voters` List. Further personal details not known. Military Details Regiment: Royal Engineers Rank: Sapper Service Number: WR/268817 (previously 256078) Date of Enlistment: …
Personal Details Born: 4 December 1885 in Whixall, Shropshire and baptised on 14 March 1886 in the Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the second of seven children born to Charles Henry Williams, a coal merchant, and his wife …
Personal Details Born: Not known Family: Not known Residence: In 1919 his address on the Absent Voters` List was 31 Grindley Brook, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Employment: Not known Died: Not known Military Details Regiment: Royal Engineers Rank: Sapper Service Number: 204290 …
Personal Details Born: In 1885 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 15 January 1886 in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the son of Mary Parker. He married Ann Ball on 26 February 1916 at the Parish Church …
Personal Details Born: 22 March 1877 in Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales and baptised 13 June 1877 in Ruabon Parish Church. Family: He was the third of six children born to John Spencer Laycock, an accountant, and his wife Lucy Elizabeth, nee …
Personal Details No personal details known. Military Details Regiment: Royal Engineers (previously Cheshire Regiment) Rank: Private Service Number: 197382 (previously WR/259538 (RE) and 10271 (Cheshire)) Date of Enlistment: Not known Date of Discharge: Not known Reason for Discharge: Not known …
Personal Details Born: 9 December 1889 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 5 January 1890 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the third of five children born to George Gregory, a joiner, and his wife Hannah. He married …
Personal Details Born: William was born 1881 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 14 October 1882 in Tilstock Parish Church, Tilstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the son of Hannah Stubbs. He married Florence Griffiths on 15 June 1913 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 4 December 1883 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 19 December 1883 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was one of six surviving children born to Arthur Edwards, a railway labourer and his wife Harriet. No …
Personal Details Born: 16 November 1877 in Salford, Lancashire. Family: He was the eldest of five children born to William Davies, a commercial traveller, and his wife Mary. Herbert remained unmarried. Residence: In 1891 he lived with his family in …
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 27 December 1875 in Halifax, Yorkshire. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to William Shackleton, a bricklayer, and his wife Ada, nee Clay. He married Annie Grice in 1912 at the Wesleyan Chapel, Whitchurch, …
Personal Details Born: 22 August 1889 in Hinstock, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of four children born to William Jackson, a general labourer, and his wife Mary. Our research suggests he never married. Residence: In 1891 he lived with …
Personal Details Born: 24 April 1882 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 10 May the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church. Family: He was the fifth of nine children born to Thomas Evanson, a bricklayer, and his wife Mary Anne. He …
Personal Details Born: 26 August 1889 in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. Family: He was the youngest of three children born to George Phillips, a head gardener, and his wife Annie. He married Emily Eaton in Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1930; we cannot …
Personal Details Born: 20 August 1885 (this is the date on the civil birth record; the 1939 Register records 2 January 1886) in Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland and was baptised there on 14 February 1886. Family: He was the eldest …
Personal Details Born: 17 June 1886 in Sunninghill, Berkshire. Family: He was the sixth of seven children born to Robert Love, a gardener, and his wife Mary, nee Cordrey. He married Amelia Francis in 1914 in Chertsey, Surrey. No children …
Personal Details Born: 2 October 1885 in Market Drayton, Shropshire and baptised on 25 October 1885 in Little Drayton Parish Church, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of five children born to Jabez Lloyd, a shoemaker, and his wife Prudence, nee …
Personal Details Born: In 1894 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 31 May the same year in St. Alkmund`s Church. He was known as Bertie. Family: He was the son of Mary Jane Langford, but was brought up by Joseph and Eliza …
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: In 1879 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the third of eight children born to Patrick Mannion, an agricultural labourer, and his wife May. No marriage can be traced for Thomas. Residence: He lived at 1 Pepper Street, …
Personal Details Born: In 1877 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the eldest of eight children born to Patrick Mannion, an agricultural labourer, and his wife May. No marriage can be traced for John. Residence: He lived at 1 Pepper …
Personal Details Born: 27 September 1880 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 7 October the same year in Whitchurch Methodist church. Family: He was the second of six children born to Thomas Malam, a bricklayer’s labourer, and his wife Caroline. He …
Personal Details Born: 21 December 1871 in Bronington, Flintshire, Wales and baptised 25 February 1872 in Hanmer parish church. Family: He was the second of four children born to William John, a police constable, and his wife Rachel. No marriage …
Personal Details Born: February 1876 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 2 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s parish church. Family: He was the fourth of six children born to Charles Stockton, a railway platelayer, and his wife Mary. He …
Personal Details Born: In 1883 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire and baptised there on 29 October in the same year. Family: He was the youngest of four children of Thomas Henson, a boot riveter, and his wife, Sarah. He married Ethel Brigstock …
Personal Details Born: 23 March 1890 in Bickley, Cheshire. Family: He was the fifth of seven children born to William Broom, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Esther Annie. William does not appear to have married. Residence: In 1891 he …
Personal Details Born: 19 February 1877 and baptised at All Saints Parish Church, Clive, Shropshire on 1 April 1877. Family: He was the eldest of eight children born to John Groome and his wife Elizabeth, nee Lawley. He married Maria Shingley on …
Personal Details Born: 12 December 1885 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: The first child of Joseph Cliff, a general labourer, and his wife Mary Ann Cliff. He married Alice Williams on the 3 February 1911 and together they had one child …
Personal Details Born: 25 February 1896 and baptised 20 May 1896 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the seventh of eight children born to Thomas Challinor, a house painter, and his wife Mary Challinor. Residence: In 1901 the family were …
Personal Details Born: 22 July 1896 Family: Arthur married Gladys Theodora Clutton Quarter 4 1923 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. They had one son, Gerald William, born 1932 in Hendon, Middlesex. Residence: At the time of the 1919 Autumn Absent Voter List …
Personal Details Born: February 1889 in Whitchurch and baptised on 29 March the same year. Family: Sixth of eleven children born to Thomas T and Eliza Chubb. Arthur does not appear to have married. Residence: According to the census returns …
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: 29 May 1891 in Weobley, Herefordshire. Family: He was the second of five children born to William Bennion, a Primitive Methodist Minister, and his wife Kate (nee Gwillim). He had an older sister, Kathleen, and a younger …
Personal Details Born: John was born in Nantwich, Cheshire on the 8 February 1884, but not baptised until the 3 February 1893 at St. Alkmund`s Parish Church, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was one of eight children born to Samuel Boaz, …
Personal Details Born: 1889 Family: Fifth of six children born to Samuel and Elizabeth Chaloner. In 1908 Samuel married Mary Ann Eaton and together they had at least four children, Elsie Mary, Joan, Margaret A, and Vera E. The 1911 …
Personal Details Born: Baptised 13 Oct 1886 at St Alkmunds Church, Whitchurch, Shropshire. His surname was sometimes spelt Challenor. Family: Eldest of the seven children of John and Jane Challinor. In 1919 John married Florence Windsor in Whitchurch, Shropshire and …
Personal Details Born: 12 August 1895. Family: He was the youngest of six children born to William and Marion Wyatt of 19 Heath Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. In 1924 he married Agnes Darlington and together they had 2 children – Roland D and …
Personal Details Born: Born in Newton by Chester on 16 September 1893. Family: The second son of William and Margaret Welch of 12 Chemistry Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. On the 10 April 1915 he married Margaret Ann Jones and was father to Cecil, Violet, …
Personal Details Born: 22 February 1895 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised on 20 March the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church, Whitchurch. Family: He was the eldest of four children born to Edward Vickers, a blacksmith, and his wife Ellen. …
Personal Details Born: 23 November 1888. Family: The third child of Thomas and Sarah Welch of House Farm Yard, Cholmondeley Woods, Cholmondeley, Cheshire. He married Gladys E Tarrant in 1919 and was father to Reece W and Vanda M (shown as Pamela M …
Personal Details Born: 28 February 1888. Family: The first child of John William and Martha Ann Vaughan of 7 Hollins Lane, Tilstock, Shropshire. He married Carrie Harding in 1921 and together they had 2 children – Rhoda and Nora. Civilian Occupation: He was …
Personal Details Born: 4 December 1882. Family: He was the second son of Peter and Eleanor Thomas of 11 Watergate Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire. On 1 September he married Myra Williams Butterworth of Rochdale, Lancashire who died on 10 November 1918. Arthur and Myra had …
Personal Details Born: In April 1880. Family: He was the seventh child of John and Sarah Tew of Old Workhouse, Burleydam, Cheshire. He married Bertha Walker Hartwig on the 26 December 1910 and was father to Jack and Margaret. Civilian Occupation: He was working …
Personal Details Born: 22 December 1875 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: He was the fourth of eight children born to Ernest Speed, a labourer, and his wife Jane. He married Martha Simpson on 22 August 1896 in the Unitarian Church, Whitchurch …
Personal Details Born: 1884 Family: The third child of Joseph and Emma Smith of Claypit Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Joseph married Martha Jane Wainwright in 1903 and together they had 6 children – Martha, Annie, Joseph, Emma, Mary and Thomas. Civilian Occupation: He was a …
Personal Details Born: September 1872. Family: The third child of William and Martha Pritchard of Wrexham Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Thomas married Sarah Crump on the 16 September 1894 and together they had 9 children – Lizzie, William, Herbert, Ethel, Nellie, Clara Annie, Ernest, Alice …
Personal Details Born: 26 February 1875 in Whitchurch, Shropshire. Family: The youngest child of James and Jane Pilsbury of 4 Edwards Ct, Chester, Cheshire. Charles married Mary Jane McDowell on the 12 May 1895 and together they had 3 children – Lillian, James Frederick …
Personal Details Born: 24 August 1893. Family: The third child of John and Frances Pennell of Lock House, Canal, Marbury, Whitchurch, Cheshire. John married Gertrude Allman in December 1920 and our research suggests they had 2 children together – John and Robert. Civilian …
Personal Details Born: September 1892 Children: The second child of Harry and Jane Morris of 13 Newtown Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Civilian Occupation: In 1911 Harry was working as a farm labourer in Tybroughton, Flintshire, Wales. Died: Date unknown Military Details Regiment: Royal …
Personal Details Born: 19 August 1893 (baptised 10 September 1893) Family: The first son of Henry Samuel and Martha Frances Blantern Mainwaring of Heath Lodge, Heath Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Henry married Hanna Bertha Evans in December 1922 and together they had 3 daughters …
Personal Details Born: John was born on the 13 March 1893. Family: The second son of William Morgan and Mary Ann Madeley. The family were living in Brownlow Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire when John was born. The 1901 Census shows them living …
Personal Details Born: 2 October 1892. Family: The second son of John and Mary Harvey of Station Cottages, Wrenbury, Cheshire. James married Mary Jane Gill on the 15 March 1915. Civilian Occupation: He was employed as a clerk with North Western Railway …
Personal Details Born: 10 October 1889. Family: The fifth child of Stephen and Mary Gorham of 140 Wrexham Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire. John married Margaret Roberts on the 10 October 1918 and together they had 2 children – Mary and John B. …
Personal Details Born: 9 July 1883. Family: The fourth son of Samuel and Ellen Duckers of 6 Castle Hill, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Albert married Lucy Elizabeth Hughes on the 3 July 1912 and together they had 5 children – Annie Jane (born …
Personal Details Born: In Bronington on the 20 December 1893 (baptised 20 January 1894). Family: The fourth child of William and Selina Clive of Fins Wood, Bronington, Flintshire. George married Lucy Wainwright in 1922 and together they were parents to …
Personal Details Born: 12 December 1885 Family: The first child of Joseph and Mary Ann Cliff of Heath Lane, Whitchurch, Shropshire. John married Alice Williams on the 3 February 1911 and together they had one son, John born 12 July 1923. …
Personal Details Born: 20 October 1891 Family: The first child of William and Elizabeth Challenor of 28 Claypit Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Brother of Frank and George Challenor, both of whom died during the war. William married Ada Clawley in September 1923 and …
Personal Details Born: December 1883 Family: Second child of John and Hanna Beech of Way Mills, Whitchurch, Shropshire. Ernest married Lily Hopwood on 31 December 1906 and together they had 4 children – Thomas Cyril, John Ernest, Doris May and Frederick. …
Born in Malpas, Cheshire in 1894 (baptised 19th August 1894), the third son of John and Elizabeth Fleet of Church Street, Malpas, Cheshire. Husband of Mary Fleet (nee Roberts) (married in 1919). The 1911 Census shows Wilfred as an apprentice …
Born in Normanton, Derbyshire in 1885, the second son of James and Ellen Connor of 9, St John’s Street, Whitchurch. Husband of Beatrice (nee George) Connor, of 2, St Johns’ Street, Whitchurch, father of Mary. Before enlisting Reginald worked as …
Born in Bettisfield, Flintshire in 1893, the eldest son of Thomas and Alice Ann Maddox of The Gate House, Alberbury, Shropshire. Husband to Gertrude Maddox (nee Whitfield) of 2 Vine Cottage, Croftons, Ellesmere, Shropshire. Gertrude remarried and became Gertrude Butcher. …
Born in Whixall, Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1879, the fourth son of Sarah Clorley and the late Benjamin Clorley of Abbey Green, Whixall, Whitchurch, Shropshire. William was a platelayer for the London and North Western Railway before he enlisted in February …
Born in Whitchurch in 1882, the second son of Patrick and Margaret Boyle. Husband of Ellen (nee Owen) Boyle of 41a Newtown Street, Whitchurch, father of George. John worked for the Local Foundry (W H Smith) erecting Dutch Barns. He …
Born in Barton-upon-Irwell, Lancashire in 1884, the second son of the late John Angelo Wasse and Margaret Bellis, and stepson of William Bellis of High Street, Malpas, Cheshire. Margaret married William in 1894. Leonard was a painter for the London …
William Gordon Welch, born in Frodsham, Cheshire in 1885, the second son of William and Margaret Welch of 12, West View, Chemistry, Whitchurch. Husband of Annie (nee Armstrong) Welch, of St Asaph, Denbighshire and father of Gordon Noel. The 1911 …
William Boylin was born in Warrington in 1890, the son of William and Emily Boylin. Husband to Frances Emily (nee Williams) Boylin, of 14 Waymills, Whitchurch and father of Reginald, John, Elsie and William Ronald. William enlisted in Whitchurch in …
Born in Macefen, Malpas, Cheshire in 1897, the third son of Ambrose George and Sarah Shone of Back Lane, Nomansheath, Malpas, Cheshire. Phillip’s enlistment papers show him as a platelayer. Regiment : 1st/1st Field Company, Royal Engineers Rank : Sapper …
George Albert Hales was born in Whitchurch in 1893. He was the second son of Robert Lee and Elizabeth Ann Hales of 28, Belton Road, Whitchurch. Before enlisting George worked for 9 years as a booking clerk for the London …
Edward George Davies was born in Grindley Brook, near Whitchurch, Shropshire in 1891, the eldest son of Edward and Emily Davies of Chester Road, Tushingham, near Whitchurch, Shropshire. The 1911 Census shows Edward as a joiner. Edward’s younger brother, William …
Born in Morda, Shropshire in 1894, the fourth son of William and Elizabeth Gosnell of 43 Newtown Street, Whitchurch. Husband of Mary Ellen (nee Chesters) Gosnell, of Nantwich, father to Mary and John William. From the 1911 Census, William worked …
Born in Bickley, Cheshire in December 1885, the fourth son of George and the late Ellen Coffin of the same address. George served as a domestic groom at the Colmondley Castle Stables, Cholmondley, Cheshire prior to enlisting in the army …