Author: john

ă 39603 3rd Fusiliers. Address on 1918 absent voters list; Bank Top, Hathersage.

b 3/4/1879 at Broughton, Sheffield to George and Elizabeth (née Wall) Goulder. George was the eldest of six sons and was a builder like his own father. Goulder Place and Goulder Terrace at Attercliffe Common, Sheffield,  were named after them. In 1911 Census, William is in Sheffield, himself a builder. He married twice. First to Lilly Brammar 10/5/1900. After her death in 1923 he married Clara Furniss 22/4/1925 at Hathersage. They had one son, Desmond who died in 2004 and his wife died in 2018. William, known as ‘Billy’ was a member of Hathersage British Legion and chairman of Hathersage Parish Council in 1934. He died 21/8/1934 aged 55 at ‘Belmont’, G H Lawrence’s house, while attending a bowling club party. At the time Hathersage Bowling Club were looking for a new ground, so in 1935, George H Lawrence had the present bowling green built in his honour, and where a bronze plaque commemorates the event.

Already a serving soldier, Lt Colonel, 4 Brigade, R.A.. Wounded 1915. (DC 27/2/1915; Mentioned in despatches by Sir John French). Promoted to full Colonel.  Awarded Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, 1915.  b 1863 Cheshunt, Herts. Grandson of the 2^nd Earl of Ranfurly (Ireland).  1911C at “Hillside” (Back Lane) Hathersage (together with Alfred Gibson see above).

Pte 26114 Coldstream Guards. b 1883 Hope. A brewer’s traveller in 1911C living in Eyam with his parents. His mother was Louisa Ibbottson, b 1857 Hathersage. (He had a brother Arthur of Military age, but no details found.)

80429 Pte 4 Notts & Derbys. 444093 A.S.C. Wounded, gassed and caught malaria.

b 1897 Bradway. 1911C at Totley., but at time of enlistment in 1917 living at Highlow Hall (a farmhand).

463285 Sgt 62nd (Overseas) Bn Canadian Expeditionary Force. b 1886 Rotherham. 1915, a groom living in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada. Father was Thomas Wilson Gillett, 1911C of ‘Moorgate’ (Castleton Road) Hathersage and in 1912 at Park Edge, and listed as next of kin on Edwin’s recruitment form.

✟ ≠ Pte 18934 8 Bn Kings Own Royal Lancashire Regt. KIA 2/3/1916 aged 17. Remembered on the  Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres. Also on Dalton-in-Furness Civic Memorial. b 1898(?) Dalton-in-Furness. 1911C at Dalton-in-Furness. His mother Mary Ann White, b 1870 Hathersage. 1871C she was living at “Old Sheffield Road“ (probably School Lane?), Hathersage. She became Mary Ann Spencer after the death of John’s father in 1913. Her mother Sarah Ann Wiggett was also born at Hathersage.

There is also second Alfred Gibson b 1889 Highlow, 1911 C living with his grandparents at Hathersage, a hackle pin grinder. He may have been in’ munitions’ during the war. The only thing we have on him is DC 10/4/1915; ‘scored a goal for the Bible Class football team’ –it looks as though he didn’t serve.

1911C he lived with Lt Col A H S Goff at “Hillside”, Hathersage, an Army Pensioner, and his chauffeur.  b 1871 St Osyth, Essex. Discharged from the Army 1909 having completed his term of service, Called up, or enlisted 278089 R.A.F. 11/5/1918 at the age of 48yr 9 mths, (details from his pension record).

Щ (spelt ‘Furniss’ in WHW2W). 344321 Colour Sgt Labour Corps.

b1872 Tideswell. 1911C, a butcher, Main Road, Hathersage. (DT 4/2/1911; Tideswell troop of the Derbyshire Imperial Yeomanry met, including S.Q.M.S. Furness from Hathersage’. Could be the same?)

✟ ≠ ß  Щ 20471 Pte 12 Bn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, killed 6/4/1917.  Buried Anzin-St Aubin British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Ref I.A.13. (DC 1/5/1917, listed as killed – formerly of Hathersage).  b 1888 White House Farm, Hathersage, (the Broomhead family farm – his mother was Maria Broomhead). 1911C living in Sheffield.