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née Machen. b 1864 Wadsley Bridge. 1911C Station Road, Hathersage, husband; George Richard Froggatt. Red Cross records; Back Lane, Hathersage, a home worker, knitting & needlework at Hathersage VAD Hospital.

Gunner 167491 RGA. b 1889 Leam, son of John Berrisford Froggatt and grandson of John Bocking Darwent, a well-known local preacher. Family farmed at Hazelford before moving to Thornhill following the untimely death of his father John in 1893, brother of Percival Froggatt below.

(DC 7/4/1917 (32) Coal Merchant, Carrier and Farmer, granted 6 months exemption).

(DC 26/10/1918 (age 36) of Hathersage, Grade 3 Motor Engineer, granted 3 months exemption). After when he would have been unlikely to be called up.

(DC 11/3/1916. Slate & timber Merchant, granted 6 months exemption, and 2 months for his unidentified Thrashing Machine Attendant). (Belper News 15/9/1916; A Hathersage Timber Merchant, who also owns a Threshing Machine, applied for exemption age 37, who had two brothers, single men who had gone into munitions in order to evade military service. Three months exemption granted but it would be hopeless to make any further appeal). 1911C living at Corn Mill House, Hathersage, (now called Leadmill House). There were three Beresford Brothers, this David, Herbert & William. It has not proved possible find out anything on the others, even though they were of military age.

He didn’t serve. DC 10/3/1917 (40) married. Class C3, 2 months exemption granted provided he found work of national importance. DC 24/7/1917;  It is believed he is the Insurance Agent listed as exempt. DC 19/1/1918 (41). Class 3. Auctioneer & Valuer. Granted 6 Months exemption. The conditions of his previous exemption had been complied with. DC 28/9/1918 granted a further 4 months.

b 1876 Hathersage. 1911C Roslyn Crescent, a Coal Merchant, married to Edith Mary Swain with children; Harry and Mary. Brother of George Herbert Armfield (who did serve) & Frederick Percy.

Played in Hathersage football team, Percy Armfield b 1887 Shrewsbury. 1911C a boarder in Shropshire. By 1912 back in Hathersage –(newspaper report Sheffield Telegraph 4 Nov 1912). Brother of George Herbert, & Ralph Joseph (Auctioneer; exempted). He was christened Frederick Percy; it is believed he served, but nothing has been found.

Pte 300574 5th London Regt , 512875 Labour Corps.  b 1891 Forest Green Essex. 1911C in Essex a clerk. His father William Henry Frith b 1855 Hathersage a Stationary Engine driver.

✟ ≠ Pte Y & L (wounded by sniper DC 25/12/1915). 15237 L Cpl, A Coy, 13th Bn Yorkshire Regt. KIA 22/3/1918 at St Leger, buried Arras Memorial, Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery, Arras. fought in Egypt and Gallipoli, wounded three times. b 1886 Sheffield. A clerk, brother in law Benjamin Parkinson, Castleton Road, Hathersage. All evidence suggests he lived a nomadic life.  Probate record of 23 November 1918 states he was living at 5 Crossland Road Hathersage at the time of his death, when his effects of £3,407.18.1d were left to his brother Thomas Bevan Fox.  No reports of his death in the Sheffield or Derbyshire newspapers, but according to his Army records he enlisted in Scarborough and was living in Bristol at the time, (this seems to fit in with his “nomadic“ lifestyle). His father was also Charles James Fox b 1855/56 in China to British parents, mother Emma Carr b 1855/56 Hull. 1881C living in Sheffield. His father died Sheffield 1890, consequently C J and his siblings were shipped off around the country to various relatives and orphanages. His siblings (all born Sheffield were, Joseph Glenn (ended up in Lincolnshire) Thomas Bevan, a pharmacist in London, who was named as CJ’s next of kin on the Register of Soldier’s Effects, and Susan Eliza who married Benjamin Parkinson, three of whose four children being born in Hathersage, Benjamin J – 1912, William – 1914, Charles A – 1915, and Thomas Glen-  b1911 Doncaster.

Pte 21653 1st Garrison Bn, Manchester Regt. He had a few issues with drunkenness, posted to Singapore in later stages of the war and stayed a soldier untill March 1920. b 1878 Hathersage. 1911C at North Manchester School, a caretaker. His mother was Mary Wiggett, b Hathersage 1858. Quite a few of the family Moved to Canada.