Category: Uncategorised

ă 4630 Pte 6 Sec. A.O.C. (HPN 30/12/1916; Sgt Frederick Morton, Royal Army Transport, visited his home in Hathersage last week), and (D.C 27/7/1918; F Morton, Sgt Army Ordnance Corps., on leave this week).  b 1882 Sheffield. 1911C living at Downing Row, Hathersage, a hotel barman, brother of Arthur Sanderson Morton (above) and George. Wife, Isabella. His 1918 absent voters address, Downing Cottages.

ă 52029 Pte 2/7 Northumberland Fusiliers. b 1879  Sheffield. 1911C a commercial traveller, living at Station Hotel (Little John Inn), Hathersage, (where George, his father was landlord), together with his brother George and widowed sister, and her three young children. Brother also of James Frederick Morton, below. His 1918 absent voters address was, Station Road, Hathersage.

Red Cross record; from Hope, head cook at Hathersage VAD hospital. She could be Florence Jane Marrison, b 1888 Hathersage, 1911C at The Leach, Hathersage?

Pte 7266 Cheshire Regt. He had already served with the Cheshire Regt 1903-1908 so was on the reserve list and was sent to France 14/8/1914.Within two weeks he was officially listed as missing 24/8/1914 at the Battle of Mons.  The army did not know he was a POW until 6/3/1915. German records show he was captured 24/8/1914 and held prisoner at Soltau POW Camp, Lower Saxon. Soltau was the largest German POW camp holding some 35,000 prisoners. The 24/8/1914 was an auspicious day for the Cheshire Regt and is classed as their ‘Regimental Day’. The 1st Bn suffered 78% casualties, killed, wounded or missing there at Audregnies, Mons, fighting a heroic rear-guard action. Fred was repatriated 5/1/1919, so he served virtually the whole of the war period in enemy hands. b 1885 Hyde.  1911C a cotton mule piecer, living in Stockport with his wife Florence Ada and parents in law, George Ronksley Hallam, (b1861 Hathersage, 1871C living at The Hill, Outseats), and Elizabeth (Stringer) (b1857, 1871C living at The Dale, Hathersage).

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.