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✟ ß Щ 42542 2 Bn West Yorkshire Regt (Prince of Wales Own). Killed 16/8/1917 age 19. Memorial Tyne-Cot, Passchendale, Belgium. Panel 42-47.

b 1898 Ecclessfield,  An employee of Midland Railway at Masborough. Son of the late John Fearn, file grinder, (native of Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield) and Georgina Moore, b 1860, Sheffield.  Brother of FEARN, Herbert Stanley. Following the death of their father in 1905 Percy was taken in by a Charity School (1911 Census shows him as a boarder in Sheffield Charity School for Boys, East Parade, one of 85 pupils). He may have come to Hathersage after that for a short while, hence his membership of the Bible Class (who also had their own football team) before joining the Army, for he is recorded as living at Primrose Cottage and Roslyn Crescent.  His two sisters Violet Rebecca and Jane Winifred lived with their Aunt Annie Moore in Station Road, Hathersage (1911 census). Mother Georgina died at Sheffield in 1936.

✟ Щ (Known sometimes as ‘Harry’ but for some reason he had previously been referred to as ‘Henry’).  Formerly 9079 Y & L Regt, 5580 Pte E Coy 1 Bn Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s). He was in India in 1911 where he served 5 years (listed as ‘Fearne’). He died at No 13 General Hospital, Boulogne on 24/5/1915 of wounds received at Ypres on 8 May, age 25. Grave; Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, ref Viii.D.43. (D.C. 5/6/1915; ‘Herbert Stanley Fearn of Primrose Cottage, (see photo p 5 ‘Hathersage Images of the Past’), Station Road, Hathersage, has succumbed to wounds received in active service. Mrs Georgina Fearn, on hearing the news that her son had been wounded, immediately left Hathersage for the hospital at Boulogne and remained with her son until his death. He was quite conscious up to the last. He was buried in the cemetery adjacent to the hospital, and his mother was present at the interment.’)

b 1890 in Ecclesfield,  1901C age 11 living at Parsons Cross Road, Wadsley Bridge, and 1911C at Roslyn Crescent, Hathersage. Son of the late John Fearn, file grinder, (native of Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield) and Georgina Moore, b 1860, Sheffield. Brother of FEARN, Percy Theodore. Following the death of their father in 1905 Herbert joined the Army, his two sisters Violet Rebecca and Jane Winifred lived with their Aunt Annie Moore, spinster b 1857, at Station Road, Hathersage (1911C). Mother Georgina died at Sheffield in 1936.

b 1865 Wiesbaden Germany (naturalised British) his father was Scottish and mother a Bavarian baroness, and he spent part of his childhood in Austria.  He was an engineer, who in 1912 was living at Nether Hall, Hathersage, and later at Bakewell. He was a director of Davy Brothers, Sheffield, and Managing Director of Thomas Firth Ltd., Sheffield after the war, was an inventor and triple patentee between 1903-1920 of pyrometers and taps for armour plate. In his business, he travelled the world. Although not a serving member of our forces, according to the book “Six: The Real James Bonds“  by Michael Smith, he carried out spying operations for the Admiralty.

He warned the Admiralty of the German development of their armour piercing shells which resulted in the destruction of HMS Indefatigable in the Battle of Jutland. His wife FAIRHOLME, Marie Antoinette Marthe. was Commandant of Hathersage VAD Hospital, and his sister; FAIRHOLME, Mary Harriett Amelia Clara, was Assistant Commandant and Quartermaster. He died 24/12/1950 in Beaconsfield.

✟ ≠ Pte 14153 9th London Regt, Royal Fusiliers. K.I.A. 3/7/1916 and remembered on Thiepval Memorial, Somme. b 2/8/1899 West Ham, and lived in East Ham. He was not yet 17 when he was killed, and not 20 as his Army record stated, before being corrected, which means he lied about his age on enlistment when living at Plaistow, West Ham. 1911C living in West Ham. Records are confusing. His father was William b1860 Reigate, and mother was Sarah Jane Standrien/Standing, b 1865 Hathersage (she is not on 1871C but on 1881C is in London). To add to the confusion, not only does the name vary; Standrine, Standrien, Standing, but also her place of birth; Derby, Bakewell, Hathersage.  However, the baptism records state Hathersage in 1865. Her sisters Grace b16/6/1863 and  Emily b6/2/1867 were also born at Hathersage. Their mother was Mary Ann Hodgkinson, a Hathersage girl who married Samuel Standrin at Hathersage in 1862.

ß 67737 Pte. K O Y L I. b 1883 Barnfield Cottage, Hathersage. 1911C still living at Barnfield Cottage, with father Thomas (55) b Hathersage and presumably his step mother, Maria (45) b Sheffield and three half-brothers, Alfred (8), Harold (5) and Tom (4). All born Hathersage.

✟ ≠ Щ 18726 Pte. Served with 1st & 2nd Bn Y & L, wounded soon after arriving in France. D of W 21st April 1916. (DC 13/5/1916; listed as Pte K.I.A. Article goes on to say ‘Mr & Mrs Samuel Eyre’s son of Abney, of York & Lancaster Regt killed in France. He had been previously wounded twice. The intimation of his death has been conveyed by letter from one of his comrades’). Grave; Essex Farm Cemetery, Belgium. See photo of him in 2 Eastern General Hospital on p 15 WHW2W after having been wounded for the first time. b 1892 Millhouse Farm, Abney. (baptized 4/12/1892 Hathersage) son of Samuel Eyre and grandsons of Jacob Eyre of Derwent Woodlands. 1901C at Hope Woodlands. 1911C shows him with James Jacob and Rose (both b Hathersage) with their Uncle Joseph Stubbs and Aunt Ruth at Laneside Farm, Hope Woodlands. He was living with Thomas Wain at the Strines Inn at time of enlistment, and is remembered on both Abney and Derwent Woodlands Memorials. His mother, Fanny Wilson was born at Nether Hurst, Outseats.

Samuel Eyre’s family moved to Abney in 1911 when all farmers, (tenants of the Duke of Norfolk) in and around the Howden Dam were evicted once the dam began to fill.  Until then Samuel Eyre’s father Jacob rented Marebottom Farm, next to the Dam wall and from quite a young age Sam was at Bank Top Farm. It is said that all the livestock were walked from Bank Top, Derwent, to the new farms at Abney, in appalling weather, and, (according to anecdotes gathered from Derwent Valley Water Board workers,  gleaned from them during breaks between drives when Grouse beating on Ronksley moor), the horses returned to Bank Top several days later, and were seen swimming across the water in a direct line to their old pastures.

Samuel’s other sons were James Jacob, George Arthur and Benjamin Wilson, of his daughters; Ruth committed suicide in 1933, aged 42, during a fit of depression due to ill health. It was Ruth who was sent Wilfred’s effects, so she must have been his next of kin at that time. His other daughter, Rose Ann, married William Bramall of Broad Hay Farm. Their son Wilfred (husband of Jacqueline Gregory) was named after his uncle.

ă Cpl 1740 RAF Repairs Shop, and address, Mill Cottage, Hathersage, according to 1918 absent voters list.  b 1891 Manchester. 1901C living at Main Road, Hathersage. Father John was originally an Ostler at the Ordnance Arms, Hathersage, in 1881 and in 1891 listed as a groom in Manchester. There were five brothers of military age, John A Eyre, George Claude Eyre, Thomas Walter Eyre, William Eyre b1887 Manchester, & James Henry Eyre. Nothing has been found for William in any military records

ß (DC 17/8/1918: Returned from leave). Otherwise nothing has been found about his military career.  b 1884 Stalybridge. 1911C living The Dale, Hathersage. Father John was originally an Ostler at the Ordnance Arms, Hathersage, in 1881 and in 1891 listed as a groom in Manchester. There were five brothers of military age, John A Eyre, George Claude Eyre, Thomas Walter Eyre, William Eyre b1887 Manchester, & James Henry Eyre. Nothing has been found for William in any military records

(DC 24/8/1918; James Eyre, Sherwood Foresters, returned from leave on Monday’). However no Military record has been found.  b 1889 Hathersage. 1901C, living with his uncle, Joseph Unwin (whose wife Ruth was b Hurst, Hathersage) and their other nephew Wilfred and niece Rose at Laneside Farm, Hope Woodlands. 1911C living and working on family farm, Mill Farm, Abney, with his parents. Son of Samuel, brother of Arthur George, Benjamin Wilson and Wilfred. Sons of Samuel Eyre and grandsons of Jacob Eyre of Derwent Woodlands.

It is thought he is; 75312 Pte Household Cavalry, previously no 1965 Derbyshire Yeomanry Dragoons. b 1885 Stalybridge. 1911C a groom at Sutton-on-the Hill, Derbys. Father John was originally an Ostler at the Ordnance Arms, Hathersage, in 1881 and in 1891 listed as a groom in Manchester. There were five brothers of military age, John A Eyre, George Claude Eyre, Thomas Walter Eyre, William Eyre b1887 Manchester, & James Henry Eyre. Nothing has been found for William in any Military Records. Parents were John and Martha Eyre of Main Road, Hathersage in 1911C