Month: November 2016

ă Lt 7 Sherwood Foresters. b 1894 Hampton Hill Surrey. He became a surveyors clerk. 1918 absent voters lists him living at Heatherfield, Sheffield Road, Hathersage, as was his brother in law, Colin Wragg who served in the same regiment. (Sheffield Evening Telegraph 25/7/1918; ‘At Heatherfield, Gladys Moores (née Wragg) wife of Lt Rowland John Moores 7 Sherwood Foresters, gave birth on 25/7/1918”.  She gave birth to two daughters at Hathersage, Janet Evelyn and Bridget G. The family eventually ended up living in Sussex. The Sheffield Telegraph Article referred to Heatherfield as being the home of his wife’s parents, who would be Walter Wragg (b 1873 d 1933) and Evelyn Maud Wragg (b1872, d1927).

née Turner.  b 1876 Sheffield. 1911C at Edmund Road, Sheffield, wife of William Monks (of Wm Monks, Builders Merchants).  Red Cross record; living at Ivanhoe, Cannonfields, Hathersage, a home worker, knitting & needlework at Hathersage VAD hospital.

Joined Imperial Yeomanry or Volunteer Force; 7322 Pte 2 Volunteer Bn Notts & Derbys, (Sherwood Foresters) on 11/4/1905 age 19, then a labourer with Derwent Valley Water Board, Bamford. Three years later on 2/4/1908 he signed on 643 Pte with 6 Bn Notts & Derbys (Territorial) Regt for 4 years, when living at Old Oddfellows Row, Hathersage.  His annual training took place at Scarborough. He re-engaged for a further 4 years on 1/3/1912, and on 24/5/1913 he was given a transfer to 1491 Pte 6 Bn West Yorks Regt, possibly because he moved into that area. However shortly afterwards on 5/8/1914, he was found medically unfit for further service after 6 yrs & 251 days in the Territorial Force, and discharged on 16/11/1914. Shortly before this on 21/10/1914 his pay had been stopped 6d per day to support ‘his bastard child’ (born 14 June 1914). This arrangement was to continue until the child was 14 years old ‘or shall die’. However on 7/11/1914 aged 28 he married Betsy Margretta Hallam at Wibsey, Bradford. His wife was living at 8 Arthur Street, Swallownest when listed as his next of kin in 1915.  He became a coal miner, but a year later on 11/12/1915, from ‘B’ Reserve he applied to re- enlist at Sheffield,  and he became 36058 Pte 6 Bn Y & L. On 4/11/1916 he was on his way to France where he joined the 12 Bn York & Lancs. On 22/11/1916 he received an accidental bayonet wound to his forearm while on mortar shelling duty and on 25/9/1917 was ‘slightly’ gassed and in a Manchester Hospital until 18/1/1918. He was back in a Sheffield Hospital from 20/3/1918 until 28/3/1918 with bronchial catarrh, eventually going back to France on 7/8/1918 before returning to England on 4/12/1918. He was a L/Cpl when finally demobbed on 18/2/1919. On 27/8/1920 there was an enquiry from the military to the Bakewell constabulary as to his whereabouts. The reply was he had left Hathersage seven years previously and he now lived at 19 Arthur Street, Swallownest, to where on 1/9/1920 an enquiry was made as to whether he had received his Silver Badge, (which was awarded to those who had been honourably discharged due to wounds or illness). b October 1886 in Kettering. 1901C he was living on Station Road, Hathersage, working as a machine minder at a boot factory, his parents were Nathan (37) b Northampton who worked on the railway, (and Bertha Parrish who had died). His father had remarried by 1901 to Sarah Jane, b Didsbury, Lancs., and by 1911C they were living at Barnfield Cottages, with two children born to this marriage. By this time Horace (24) was boarder at Chinley, Derbyshire, working as a fire beater at a Cloth Bleach Works, He died in 1943 age 56.

124079 Signaller R.G.A.  b 1891 at Oldham (states Blackpool on 1901C). 1901C at Oak View Boarding School, Hathersage. 1911C at Oldham, a bank clerk. (His enlistment papers refer to his father’s address at Blackpool).

 Joins South Staffs Regt, Transferred to D.L.I., then 44051 Pte Yorkshire Regt., finally 12887 Pte Labour Corps 501st Agri Coy. Discharged early 1919 suffering from TB and dies shortly afterwards (says deceased on his medals card). b 1881-1883 (Army record and 1901C say b Hathersage). 1911C says b Castleton, working on the family farm, Greenhead, Bamford. Father: Joseph. 

Щ We think this entry in WHW2W is probably an error as we can find no evidence of such a person in the forces with this name with any connections to this district, always bearing in mind that a lot of WW1 records were destroyed in WW2.

Pte 51 Signal Coy, later 75043 Driver R.E. (DC 11/3/1916; a Carter for Mr Froggatt and for Hathersage Gas Company, granted a temporary 3 months exemption).  b 1887 Main Road, Hathersage. 1911C lived at Main Road, a labourer. John Robert was brother of Charles, Ernest and Arthur, two other brothers; William Henry, (dead), and Henry, who was probably too old for call-up, all sons of William Henry Middleton a plumber, b1842 Hathersage, & Jane Ellen Titterton b1846 Lancaster She was already a widow by 1869 and her maiden name was Middleton, but not necessarily related. Father William Henry was the brother of Mary Middleton, Hubert Jennison’s Grandmother.

Pte East Yorks Regt. (DC 21/9/1918; ’returned from leave on Friday’). b 1883 Hathersage. 1901C living at Main Road, Hathersage, a builder. Ernest was brother of Arthur, Charles, and John Robert, two other brothers; William Henry, (dead), and Henry, who was probably too old for call-up, all sons of William Henry Middleton a plumber, b 1842 Hathersage, & Jane Ellen Titterton b 1846 Lancaster She was already a widow by 1869 and her maiden name was Middleton, but not necessarily related. Father William Henry was the brother of Mary Middleton, Hubert Jennison’s grandmother.

ß Щ Pte R F A., (DC 28/10/1916;  ‘is in Hospital in Malta suffering from enteric (typhoid) fever’). It is also suggested elsewhere that he had Malaria (HPN 16/12/1916; ‘invalided from Egypt/Salonica region and is still in hospital’, although it doesn’t specify which Pte Middleton this is!) (DC 3/11/1917; ‘Driver C Middleton Ill in Hospital’).  b 1889  Hathersage, and brother of Arthur, Ernest and John Robert, also of two other brothers; William Henry (dead), and Henry, who was probably too old for call-up, 1901C & 1911C living Main Road, Hathersage. Charles was a postman, youngest son of William Henry Middleton a plumber, b1842 Hathersage, & Jane Ellen Titterton b1846 Lancaster. She was already a widow by 1869 and her maiden name was Middleton, but not necessarily related. . She gave birth to 14 children in total. Father William Henry was the brother of Mary Middleton, Hubert Jennison’s Grandmother.

ß Щ Although listed on the Bible Class Board, it has not been possible to find anything about his Military career. b 1887 Hathersage. 1901C & 1911C living at Main Road, Hathersage. Arthur was a labourer and brother of Charles, Ernest and John Robert, also of two other brothers; William Henry (dead), and Henry, who was probably too old for call-up, sons of William Henry Middleton a plumber, b1842 Hathersage, & Jane Ellen Titterton b 1846 Lancaster. She was already a widow by 1869 and her maiden name was Middleton, but not necessarily related. She gave birth to 14 children in total. Father William Henry was the brother of Mary Middleton, Hubert Jennison’s grandmother.