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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 24th Nov 2018 - From the Features Box on the right hand side of the Home Page, select Slide Show to view a video
commemorating all of the men who gave their lives during World War 1.
17th Sep 2022 - Read the latest addition to the Histories section - HMS EREBUS - Journal Found
Photos
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 | Charles Ronald Howes 'Ron' Howes - Speedway rider - Rayleigh | 8 Oct 2024 | |
 | Charles Ronald Howes Speedway rider, seen seen when captain of Rayleigh | 7 Oct 2024 | |
 | Capt. Maynard Percy Andrews M.A. Oxon | 6 Oct 2024 | |
 | James Hartnoll | 27 Sep 2024 | |
 | James Hartnoll Commemorative Plaque in St Mary's church, Ipsden, Oxfordshire. | 27 Sep 2024 | |
 | James Hartnoll Commemorative plaque in St Mary the Virgin church Bull Hill, Pilton, Devon. | 27 Sep 2024 | |
 | James Hartnoll In Military Uniform | 27 Sep 2024 | |
 | James Hartnoll with his children Elizabeth Mary Hartnoll, Christine Holliman Hartnoll, Adeline Braund Hartnoll and James Hartnoll Family group photo. | 27 Sep 2024 | |
 | Florence Ethel Brett | 30 Aug 2024 | |
 | Alfred Sampson Ellender and Annie Elizabeth Mantle Marriage at Eastry, Kent, 20th June 1910 Standing l-r, Christopher Ellender, Lily Frances Mantle?, Alfred Ellender, Annie Elizabeth Mantle, Florence Emma Mantle?, Winifred May Mantle?. Seated, Walter William Mantle. Elizabeth Mantle nee Clarke (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.) | 24 Aug 2024 | |
| Edith Louise Iverson Court After her mother Louisa Court married John Ellender in 1893, Edith took the surname Ellender. | 18 Aug 2024 | ||
 | Martha Ellen Mew | 8 Aug 2024 | |
| Frances Score with a friend in 2023 (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.) | 5 Aug 2024 | |
| Christopher John Gage, Adela Gage, Jakob Gage and Stepanka Trenena Taken at Adela's school leaving event 2024 with her wearing her High School Graduation sash. (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.) | 5 Aug 2024 | |
| William Thomas Cannon and Paul Antony Latter Father & Son (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.) | 5 Aug 2024 |
Documents
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 | John Fountaine Hopkinson, son John Michael Hopkinson, grandchildren Lorna and Edward Hopkinson and great grand child Maxim Daniel Sefton. Obituary report in The Daily Telegraph Jan 1994 (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.) | 16 Oct 2024 | |
 | Capt Maynard Percy Andrews M.A. Oxon UK, British Army World War 1 Medal Rolls Index Cards 1914-1920 | 6 Oct 2024 | |
 | Capt Maynard Percy Andrews Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour | 6 Oct 2024 | |
 | Martin Hopkinson Newspaper Obituary Gloucestershire Echo 1948 | 29 Sep 2024 | |
 | James Hartnoll 1914-18 War Medal Card | 27 Sep 2024 | |
 | Rev. George Watson Death Certificate | 11 Sep 2024 | |
 | Sarah Elizabeth Harrison Birth Certificate | 11 Sep 2024 | |
 | Mary Anne Tonkin Harrison Death Certificate | 11 Sep 2024 | |
 | Mary Anne Tonkin Harrison Newspaper report of her marriage to Revd. George Watson. | 11 Sep 2024 | |
 | Florence Ethel Brett Birth Certificate | 30 Aug 2024 | |
 | Frederick Weightman Birth Certificate | 28 Aug 2024 | |
| Lily Frances Mantle UK, Royal Mail Pension and Gratuity Record for her employment as a telephonist between 24 Jul 1905 and 30 Dec 1911. (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.) | 26 Aug 2024 | |
 | Albert Ellender Birth Certificate | 24 Aug 2024 | |
 | Alfred Court Death report in the Folkestone Herald 1931 | 19 Aug 2024 | |
 | Alfred Court Death Certificate | 19 Aug 2024 |
Headstones
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 | Capt Maynard Percy Andrews M.A. Oxon Military Headstone |
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6 Oct 2024 | ||
 | Martin Hopkinson and his wife Christine Holliman Hartnoll Headstone in All Saints Churchyard, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire. Also remembers their son Richard Adrian Hopkinson - lost near Stavanger, Norway. |
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28 Sep 2024 | ||
 | James Hartnoll Military Headstone |
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27 Sep 2024 | ||
 | James Brett & his wife Rebecca Mount Harris & their daughter Ada Mary Brett & their sons Frederick John Brett & Walter Henry Brett Headstone close up. |
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3 Sep 2024 | ||
 | George Allen Corbin Headstone in Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada. | Camp Hill Cemetery |
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15 Aug 2024 | |
 | William Langley Headstone in Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada. | Camp Hill Cemetery |
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15 Aug 2024 | |
 | Phoebe McCoubrey All that remains of her headstone. |
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10 Aug 2024 | ||
 | Christopher Adrian Gage Headstone in Czech Republic |
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4 Aug 2024 | ||
 | Charles Breeze & Matilda Holland with William Charles Stanley Headstone in Pelsall Parish Church Graveyard, Pelsall, Staffordshire |
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9 Jul 2024 | ||
| Fanny Matilda Tuck, Henry Todd, Isaac Todd, Walter Henry Todd, Elizabeth Christine Todd and Ronald Roy Todd. Headstone |
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11 Jun 2024 | |||
 | John Ellender and Louisa Court Headstone in Cheriton Road Cemetery, Folkestone, Kent | Cheriton Road Cemetery |
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10 Jun 2024 | |
 | Charles William Bullen and his wife Ena Marshall Headstone in Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens |
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2 Jun 2024 | |
 | William Ellender and his wife Clara Costa Headstone in Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Mountain View Cemetery |
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20 May 2024 | |
 | Adrien Auguste Lonfat Headstone in Cheriton Road Cemetery, Folkestone, Kent | Cheriton Road Cemetery |
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10 May 2024 | |
 | Harry Davies Military Headstone. Harry having added James to his name. | Hawkinge Cemetery & Crematorium, Aerodrome Road, Hawkinge, Kent |
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7 May 2024 |
Histories
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 | Sgt. Daniel Bryant and HMS 'Erebus' Capt. Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition to locate the Northwest Passage | 28 Oct 2023 | |
 | Alice Rose Davies St Michael & All Angels – Bosherston, Pembrokeshire The Squint Window and the West Window These were erected by a schoolmistress, Alice Evans Davies, who taught for many years in the old Bosherston School (now the Church Hall). The squint window depicts St Nicholas as the patron saint of sea-farers and is in memory of Petty Officer George Evans, her husband, who was killed in the battle of Jutland. The west window is a depiction of Jesus. The Resurrection and the Life was erected in memory of her father, James Walter Davies of Pembroke Dock. | 28 Oct 2023 | |
 | POW in Milag Nord nr. Bremen The SS St Margaret (Master: David Sidney Davies) left Liverpool as part of convoy ON-165 at 0800 Tuesday 2nd February 1943. The vessel, sailing to South American ports, was carrying machinery, whisky, stout, textiles, military stores for the Falklands Islands and Yardley’s products,. Among the passengers, on her way to join her husband in Buenos Aires, there was Octave Osten with her daughter Ruth Schaeffear and son in law Tony Schaeffear. They had managed to escape from Germany just before the war. Also on board was Matron Frances Gowans who was matron in charge at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands hospital. Having purchased her trousseau in England she was returning to be married. In addition, two Belgians and a Hungarian Jew were also travelling. Overall, there were fifty persons aboard, the seven passengers and forty-three officers and crew. At 13.55 19th Feb 1943 SS St Margaret was given orders to disperse from the convoy, and to continue her passage South to Pernambuco, Brazil for refuelling and subsequent delivery of supplies and passengers to their various destinations. At 09.42 on Saturday 27th February the St Margaret was, by now, in the middle of the Sargasso Sea, in the central North Atlantic, when a huge explosion occurred. This was the result of a torpedo from a U-Boat hitting the engine room on the port side. On investigation three men were missing. George Brady, a 21 year old Fireman, Patrick Edward Loughran, a 24 year old Donkeyman and Capt. Davies’s very good friend, John Bradford Meadley the Chief Engineer. Although severely damaged and stopped there was no immediate danger of the vessel sinking, so Captain Davies ordered everyone to abandon ship via the lifeboats. This was eventually achieved, after some struggles with the lifeboats, and eventually all survivors were away from the St Margaret. A little over an hour after being struck by the torpedo and as Capt. Davies had surmised, a further torpedo struck. 10 minutes later the St Margaret was gone. The U-Boat that brought about the destruction of SS St Margaet was U-66, commanded by Lieutenant Captain Friedrich Markworth. Markworth, knowing that the abandoned people in the lifeboats could not fight back, raised the U-Boat to the surface and approached the lifeboats. He than demanded that Captain Davies go aboard the U-Boat who was then taken as a Prisoner of War. At 0815 on 2nd March, the other survivors were eventually rescued by USS Hobson and taken to Bermuda. Meanwhile, Captain Davies had been transferred to another U-Boat. Around the 1st March 1943 he was transferred to U-460 commanded by Lieutenant Captain Ebe Schnoor, and taken to St. Nazaire. Four days later, on the 5th of March. Capt. Davies was sent to a merchant navy Prisoner of War camp, Milag Nord near Breman. This camp was liberated by the Welsh & Scots Guards at 10:30 pm on the 27th of April 1945 – they were a highly welcome sight to Davies, who was Welsh and spoke that language. | 22 Aug 2023 | |
 | Fortitude Brian Hambleton's WW2 story concerning his mother and a time bomb. | 17 Oct 2020 | |
 | Ellender's Bakery, Sandwich, Kent 1863-1933 Business Fixtures and Fittings for just £6 (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.) | 17 Oct 2020 | |
 | Air Raid On Croydon Airport 62 Civilians killed | 17 Oct 2020 | |
 | A Trunk and Letters in a Canvas Cutlery Holder Surviving letters written in 1854/5 by Colour Sergeant George Clarke and sent to his wife Mary Anne in Corfu and England, which sparked the research into a family history. | 17 Oct 2020 | |
| Herbert Theodore Ghent and Eliza Strutton Not cut out for the military. | 17 Dec 2013 |
CWGC WW1
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 | Capt Maynard Percy Andrews CWGC Commemoration | 6 Oct 2024 | |
 | James Hartnoll CWGC Commemoration | 27 Sep 2024 | |
 | Ernest Ellender CWGC Commemoration | 25 Jun 2024 | |
 | Henry Ellender CWGC Commemoration | 24 Jun 2024 | |
 | Albert Ellender CWGC Commemoration | 24 Jun 2024 | |
 | James William Evans CWGC Commemoration | 13 Nov 2023 | |
 | George Price Davies CWGC Commemoration | 23 Oct 2023 | |
 | John Thomas Davies CWGC Commemoration | 23 Oct 2023 | |
 | Jeffrey Victor Harvey CWGC Commemoration | 4 May 2022 | |
 | James William Gerhard CWGC Commeration | 4 May 2022 | |
 | Henry Frederick Peet CWGC Commemoration | 28 Jan 2021 | |
 | Charles William Stanley Irving CWGC Commemoration | 18 Nov 2020 | |
 | Ernest James Ghent CWGC Commemoration | 18 Nov 2020 | |
 | Thomas Alfred Good CWGC Commemoration | 17 Nov 2020 | |
 | Wilfred Richard Kempson CWGC Commemoration | 17 Nov 2020 |
CWGC WW2
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 | Richard Adrian Hopkinson CWGC Commemoration | 28 Sep 2024 | |
 | Isaac Todd CWGC Commemoration | 11 Jun 2024 | |
 | Walter Fox CWGC Commemoration | 8 Jun 2024 | |
 | John Peter Reed CWGC Commemoration | 31 Oct 2022 | |
 | Albert John Mantle CWGC Commemoration | 31 Oct 2022 | |
 | Harold Ernest Mantle CWGC Commemoration | 7 Oct 2022 | |
 | Roy Littlewood Couves CWGC Commemoration | 11 Sep 2021 |
Individuals
| ID | Last Name, Given Name(s) | Born/Christened | Location | Last Modified |
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| I15058 |
 GRUNDY, Hannah |
b. 21 Feb 1812 | Lancashire  | 21 Oct 2024 |
| I15057 |
WRIGLEY, Thomas |
b. 27 Jun 1808 | Bury, Lancashire | 21 Oct 2024 |
| I15062 |
WRIGLEY, Anne Lydia |
b. 1840 | Manchester, Lancashire | 21 Oct 2024 |
| I15063 |
WRIGLEY, Thomas Relph Scholes |
b. 1841 | Bury, Lancashire | 21 Oct 2024 |
| I15061 |
WRIGLEY, Oswald Osmond |
b. 1836 | Bury, Lancashire | 21 Oct 2024 |
| I15060 |
WRIGLEY, Edwin Grundy |
b. 1832 | 21 Oct 2024 | |
| I15059 |
WRIGLEY, Emma |
b. 1831 | Bury, Lancashire | 21 Oct 2024 |
| I15024 |
WRIGLEY, Frederick |
b. 1842 | Bury, Lancashire | 21 Oct 2024 |
| I15056 |
WRIGLEY, Majorie Emma |
b. 1885 | Bury, Lancashire | 21 Oct 2024 |
| I15055 |
WRIGLEY, John Basil |
b. 1882 | Bury, Lancashire | 21 Oct 2024 |
| I15054 |
WRIGLEY, Effie Amy |
b. 1879 | Bury, Lancashire | 21 Oct 2024 |
| I15053 |
CHORLEY, Unknown |
21 Oct 2024 | ||
| I15052 |
FLETCHER, Unknown |
21 Oct 2024 | ||
| I15025 |
FLETCHER, Amy Rachel |
b. 1856 | Manchester, Lancashire | 21 Oct 2024 |
| I15021 |
WRIGLEY, Edgar Frederick |
b. 30 Jun 1877 | Bury, Lancashire | 20 Oct 2024 |
Families