Wednesday 26 February 2014

Arthur Wilkinson 1894-1917

with thanks to Marjorie Townend
Born: 
11 August 1894 in Castleford, West Yorkshire

Son of:
Elisha Wilkinson born 1858 Castleford, glass bottle blower
Emma Wilkinson nee Senior born 1859 Isle of Man
They were married at Whitwood Mere, Yorkshire 16 April 1887

Position in family: The third of a family of 7 children
1. Elijah Wilkinson b.1888
2. Frederick Wilkinson b. 1889
3. Arthur Wilkinson b. 1894 WW1 d.1917
4. Ivy Wilkinson b.1897
5. Elisha Wilkinson b.1899
6. Sarah Wilkinson b.1902
7. unknown

Home address, age and occupation:
1901: 51 Tune Street, Barnsley age 6
1911: 41 Cemetery Road, Barnsley age 16, warehouse boy (paper)
1915: 35 Spencer Street, Barnsley age 20, newsagent assistant to Messrs J Lodge & Sons Barnsley

Marriage: To Emma Harrison at the Parish Church, Carlton, Barnsley on 25 May 1915. Arthur is a bachelor, age 21 (?), rank or profession -  private in the Royal Marines, residence Plymouth. Emma is a spinster, age 22, residence Carlton, daughter of labourer Walter Harrison.

Children: 1. Rita Wilkinson 1915-1925 age 9, died in a road accident

Military Service:
Enlisted: 23 March 1915 at the age of 20 years in Manchester
Regiment and Battalion:   Royal Marine Light Infantry, 2nd Royal Marines Battalion, Royal Navy Division.
Service number and rank: PLY/826(S) Private
Draft for MEF 29 June 1915
Joined Plymouth Battalion 18 July 1915 to 24 November 1915
Dysentry
Rejoined 2nd Royal Marine Battalion 8 December 1915 to 19 February 1917
SW left wrist
Rejoined 2nd RM Bn 3 April 1917 to 28 April 1917 Death.
wife c/o W Harrison,Carlton Green, Carlton, nr Barnsley

Awards: 14/15 Star, British War and Victory medals. Medals not issued/claimed.

Personal information:   *unavailable*

Death:   28 April 1917 age 22, killed or died as a direct result of enemy action

Remembered: 
Carlton War Memorial
Arras Memorial, France WILKINSON, ARTHUR 
Grave Reference: Bay 1

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Monday 24 February 2014

Aaron Kenworthy 1895-1917

1906 map of Hoyland Common showing Central Street (from Old Maps)
Born:
3 April 1895 in Hoyland Common

Baptised at St Mary's, Worsbro' in 1895

Son of:
George Kenworthy b.1862 Birdwell.  

1911: a butcher at 12 Central Street, Hoyland Common
married at St Mary's Worsbro' in Q2 1887 to

Jane Kenworthy (nee Ruddlesden) b.1862 Birdwell

Position in family: The only son in a family of 6 children (one died young)
1. Elsie Kenworthy b.1889

2. Mary Kenworthy b.1891 d.1894
3. Aaron Kenworthy b.1895 WW1 DIED OF WOUNDS
4. May Ruddlesden Kenworthy b.1896
5. Marian Kenworthy b.1899
6. Edna Kenworthy b.1902


Home address, age and occupation:
1901: 8 Central Street, Hoyland Nether aged 5
1911: 12 Central Street, Hoyland Common aged 15 a learning butcher
1916: (on enlistment) 12 Central Street, Hoyland Common aged 20 yrs 8 mos, a butcher

Marriage: Aaron was unmarried

Military Service:

Enlisted: 27 December 1916  at the age of 20 years
Regiment and Battalion:    Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 193rd Company

Service number and rank: 86463  Lance Corporal
[previously Kings Royal Rifle Corps (Yeoman Rifles)  No.77157]
Awards: British War and Victory medals

Personal information:   5' 5.25" tall, 38" chest, 


Death:     18 August 1917 age 21 years
Buried at: Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium
Grave Reference: Enclosure No.2 I F 31

Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Son of George and Jane Kenworthy, of 12, Central St, Hoyland Common, Barnsley.

Remembered:
 
Hoyland, War Memorial, West St & Kirk Balk, Hoyland
Hoyland Nether, St Peters Church, Memorial Panels 

Notes:
Thanks to DJ for this information.  



There is an entry for Aaron on the Hoyland War Memorial website here which has a picture of his gravestone in Belgium.


Friday 21 February 2014

Andrew Pickering Riddiough 1891-1918

1891 census return showing Andrew Riddiough aged under 1 month
Hannah is a widow, the boarder Joe Pickering is presumably Andrew's father (from Ancestry)

I am currently researching Barnsley born men who are NOT remembered on any war memorial in the Barnsley Borough. This blog post was originally written on 21 February 2014 and since then other records have become available which assist in the research First World War service personnel. I have revisted the post today, 18 March 2022, and added more information. I am still no wiser as to the reason why Andrew Pickering Riddiough is not remembered on a Barnsley war memorial, but I make some suggestions at the end of this post.  

Andrew Pickering Riddiough was born Q2 1891 in Barnsley (9c 203). Probably in the March at 19 Union Street. He was the son of Joe Pickering (b.1865 in Barnsley) and Hannah Riddiough (nee Shaw) (b.1864 in Barnsley). At the time of his birth Joe and Hannah were not yet married.

Hannah Shaw had married her first husband Walter Riddiough, a Labourer, on 29 October 1882 at St Mary's, Barnsley. Walter and Hannah had 3 children together, all of whom had died by March 1891. Mary (born Q1 1884, died March 1891), Alice Ann (born Q2 1886, died February 1891) and Edward (born Q3 1888, died April 1889). Walter died in December 1888 aged 27. So Walter died first, and was closely followed by Edward, then Alice Ann and Mary died two years later.

Walter, Alice Ann and Mary were buried in Barnsley Cemetery in plot M 219. The address from which they were all buried was 5 Union Street. Seven year old Mary Riddiough was the last to die, she was buried in plot M 219 from 19 Union Street on 29 March 1891. 

1890s map of Union Street, off Sheffield Road, showing numbers 5, 19 and 31 highlighted,
estimated by comparison to a 1960s map where a few numbered houses were still extant.
(with thanks to Digimap)
 
As we have seen, Andrew Riddiough was born in the first quarter of 1891, which suggests that his mother and Joe Pickering were in a relationship by June 1890. On 5 April 1891, as recorded in the census
(see the image at the top of this post), Joe, Hannah and their son Andrew were living at 19 Union Street, Barnsley. Andrew was one month old suggesting he was born in March, possibly before his half-sister Mary passed away at the end of the month. Andrew was baptised at St Peter's church on Doncaster Road on 11 June 1891. His mother was named as Harriet Riddiough, unmarried, of Union Street.

Joe Pickering, an Iron Moulder, and Hannah Riddiough married in Q2 1892 in Barnsley (9c 341).
They had four further children and sadly three of them died before 1898. William Handel Pickering (was born Q2 1892), Arthur (born Q3 1894, died February 1896), Joe (born Q4 1895, died March 1896) and Henrietta (born Q2 1897, died October 1898). Arthur and Joe were buried in Barnsley Cemetery in plot M 219 from 19 Union Street. Henrietta was buried on 28 October 1898 in plot M 306 from 31 Union Street.

Joe and Hannah must have moved to Rotherham between October 1898 and March 1901 because they appear in the 1901 census living at  43 Neville Street in Rotherham. Living with them were Andrew Pickering aged 10 and William A Pickering aged 8. Also in the household was Joe's mother Jane, a widow aged 60. I suggest that the A in William's name was due to the enumerator writing down 'Andle' for William's middle name. In Barnsley it is common to miss the 'H' off the beginning of word in speech.

Hannah Pickering died in July 1901, just a few months after the census, and was buried at Barnsley Cemetery in plot M 306 from the Rotherham address, the same plot where her daughter Henrietta had been buried three years before. Hannah was 37 years old and had given birth to eight children, but only two were still alive at the time of her death.

Hannah Shaw's children (using Family Historian software)
The little 'Tommy' and 'Poppy' icons attached to Andrew Riddiough Pickering
allow me to see at a glance the First World War service people in my family trees.

William Handel Pickering died in January 1911 aged 18 and was buried in Barnsley Cemetery in plot (a) 80. The address given at his burial was 17 Union Street. The Barnsley Cemetery burial register lists three other William Handle Pickering burials (although other evidence suggests they were all William Handel Pickering), one in 1879 aged 44, one in 1889 aged 11 weeks and another in 1943 aged 63, suggesting the name was a family tradition.

By the time the 1911 census was taken Andrew, now using the name Riddiough (although you can see an amendment from Pickering in the image below) was living with his uncle William Pickering at 12 Livingstone Terrace, off Silver Street in Barnsley.  Note that both the head of the household and his son are both William Handel Pickering.

1911 census showing the Pickering household at 12 Livingstone Terrace, Silver Street Barnsley
(with thanks to Ancestry)
 
Does the amendment from Pickering - the name Andrew must have been used to using since he was a child, reflect the opinion of his legitimacy, in the eyes of his uncle William? He was acknowledged as William's nephew. Andrew was a Horse Driver below ground (presumably in a colliery) and was 20 years old. 

Joe Pickering, Andrew's father, widowed when Hannah died in 1901, was living with Jane (formerly Edgley) at 24 Union Street in 1911.  Jane was Hannah's younger sister. It became legal to marry your deceased wife's sister in 1907 but I can find no evidence that they did marry. Jane's first husband Sampson Edgley had died in 1902 aged 36, leaving her with two children, Ethel (born Q1 1894) and Annie (b.Q1 1898).  She and Joe Pickering had at least one child together, Ernest Alfred Pickering, born in Q3 1907.

Joe Pickering himself died in 1917 aged 51 and was buried from 24 Union Street, in the same grave, (a) 80, in Barnsley Cemetery as his son William Handel Pickering. 

The lack of a formal marriage between Joe Pickering and Jane Edgley, Hannah Shaw's sister, is further supported when Jane remarried in Barnsley in Q3 1936, under the name of Edgley, to Albert England.  I found them living at 24 Union Street in the 1939 Register, the same address where Jane had lived with Joe in 1911.

Andrew Pickering Riddiough married Jane E Denton in Q4 1915 in Barnsley (9c 415). I cannot find an Anglican marriage for the couple, which suggests they married in a Non-Conformist church or in the Register Office. They had one child, Marjorie Denton Riddiough born 4 November 1916.

It is possible to make a calculation from the War Gratuity paid to a soldier, from the Army Register of Soldiers' Effects on Ancestry, to find an approximate date when the man enlisted. For Andrew Pickering Riddiough his gratuity was £3 which indicated that he had enlisted about 12 months or less before his death on 12 June 1918.  We know that he served with the 2nd/5th West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales Own) and was a Private, Service Number 205446. He was 27 years old when he died. His occupation, working in a coal mine, may have kept him out of the Army for a while, or it may be that he was initially rejected as being unfit - too short, flat feet, bad teeth, any number of things that prevented him from being mobilised as soon as his age group was called up under conscription in 1916. As his Army Service Records do not appear to have survived it is not possible to be certain what the circumstances were that kept him from active service until June 1917 or later.

We know that Andrew Riddiough Pickering was buried at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen in grave Q III G 3 and that he died of wounds on 12 June 1918.  His widow Jane appears to have submitted a death notice to the Barnsley Chronicle within a few days of his death.

Death Notice for Andrew Pickering from the Barnsley Chronicle, 22 June 1918, p.4.
(with thanks to Barnsley Archives)

In the pension cards saved by the Western Front Association and now available to their members as part of their subscription and through Ancestry via Fold3 (additional subscription payable) Jane E. Riddiough (not Pickering!) claims a pension not only for her daughter with Andrew, Marjorie, but also for Elizabeth Jeffels Denton who was born in 1914, before her marriage to Andrew.  In 1918 she was living at 20 Thomas Street in Barnsley. She appears to have taken a grant of £7 and been awarded a weekly pension of 25 shillings and 5 pence. Any money due to her rather than her children would have ceased in any case when she remarried, which she did in early 1920.

Jane Elizabeth Riddiough, Andrew's widow, remarried on 25 April 1920 at St George's church in Barnsley to Matthew Round who was a miner. She was 27 years old and he was 21. They were both resident at 20 Lower Thomas Street at the time of their marriage. They went on to have five children together, all born in Barnsley. In 1939 they were living at 37 Thornton Road, in Kendray, Barnsley.  Jane Elizabeth Round died in the Blackpool and Fylde Registration District in May 1984.

Neither of Andrew's parents were still alive when he died. His wife remarried within two years and his only child Marjorie was very young. Is this why Andrew is not remembered on any of Barnsley's War Memorials? Was there was no-one who was willing and able to put his name forward for commemoration? 

William Allen 1896-1918

William Allen b.1896 (photo from PG)
Born:
Q4 1896 in Kimberley, Nottinghamshire

Son of:
John Allen b.1864 Dullingham, Cambridgeshire 1911 Coal Miner Hewer of 29 Beever Street, Goldthorpe, Yorkshire d.1935 in Thurnscoe
married at Staveley, Derbyshire on 27 December 1884 to
Alma Allen (nee Fisher) b.1865 Littlemoor, Derbyshire d.1935 Yorkshire

Position in family: One of nine children (two had died before 1911 census)
1. Rachel Allen b.1887

2. Sarah Ellen Allen b.1890
3. John William (Jack) Allen b.1892 WW1 SERVICE
4. Horace Allen b.1895 WW1 SERVICE
5. William Allen b.1896 WW1 KILLED
6. Eleanor Allen b.1899
7. Florence Allen b.1901 

Home address, age and occupation:

1901: 1 South View, Ilkeston, Derbyshire aged 4
1911:
29 Beever Street, Goldthorpe, Yorkshire aged 14 Pony Driver in Coal Mine

Marriage: He was unmarried

Military Service:
Enlisted: *date* at the age of **years
Regiment and Battalion:    2nd/4th York and Lancaster
Service number and rank:  240630 Private (Acting Cpl on Medal Card)
Awards: Victory Medal and British War Medal

Death:     28 March 1918  aged 21
Buried at: Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez
Grave Reference: XVI F 38

Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Son of John and Alma Allen, of 20, Hickelton Terrace, Thurnscell East, Rotherham, Yorks.

Remembered:
 
Goldthorpe, St John And St Mary Magdalene, Lockwood Road 

Notes:

This information has been provided by his great, great nephew PG.

William was injured in the hand in 1917 and wrote a letter home from a Convalescent Home in January 1918 commenting that it was "not quite better".  


Back Row: Rachel, Florence, Eleanor, Sarah
Front Row: John Allen (snr), William, Horace, Jack, Alma

(photo from PG)

Saturday 15 February 2014

Jabez Benjamin Clare 1898-1916

Jabez Benjamin Clare
(photo with the permission of his nephew)
Born:
3 March 1898 at Cudworth

Son of:
Joseph Clare b.1864 Bilston, Staffordshire d.1925 Cudworth, Yorkshire

married in 31 July 1882 Dudley, Staffordshire to
Betsy Whitehouse b.1864 in Sedgely, Staffordshire d.1915 Royston, Yorkshire

Position in family: The second youngest of 7 children
1. Joseph Clare b.1884 (a Methodist Minister in Iowa, USA)
2. Elizabeth Clare b.1887

3. William Clare b.1889
4. Thomas Clare b.1891 WW1 SERVICE
5. Phillip H Clare b.6 May 1895 WW1 SERVICE
6. Jabez Benjamin Clare b.3 March 1898 WW1 KILLED
7. Arthur Clare b.1901 (died in 1918 of influenza)

Home address, age and occupation:
1901: Carlton aged 3 years
1911: 7 Kings Road, Cudworth aged 13 years at School

Marriage: Jabez was unmarried

Military Service:
Enlisted: *date* at the age of 17 years
Regiment and Battalion:    Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1st/5th Bn
Service number and rank:  4431  Private
Awards: Victory and British War Medals

Death:     5 July 1916  age 18 years
Buried at: Serre Road Cemetery No.2
Grave Reference: V C 14

Remembered:
 
Cudworth War Memorial, St John's Church, Cudworth
Cudworth Cemetery, Jabez Benjamin Clare KOYLI
 
Notes:

Barnsley Chronicle 12 August 1916
(thanks to Barnsley Archives)

Jabez enlisted underage.  The newspaper cutting on the right states that he spent his first day in the trenches on his eighteenth birthday.

According to a family story Philip Henry Clare saw his brother Jabez going into trenches as he was coming out and that was the last time he saw him.

Friday 7 February 2014

Daniel Walter Lee 1881-1916

Memorial Book in St Paul's Church, Monk Bretton (thanks to Barnsley FHS)

Born:
8 September 1881 in Birmingham, Warwickshire

Son of:
Daniel Lee b.1859 in Birmingham. d.?

1911: Puddler's Labourer in Swindon, Wiltshire
married in Birmingham on 1 November 1880 to
Sarah Ann Lee (maiden name Ashfield) b. 1859 in Dudley d.?

Position in family: 

The eldest child (some younger half siblings)

Home address, age and occupation:

1891: **

1901: **
1911: 17 Todds Lane, Northampton.  A Flesher and dehairer aged 29.


Marriage: Daniel Lee married Amelia Rook (b.1882 in Broom, Bedfordshire) in 1907 in Biggleswade.  She remarried to John Walsh in 1919 in Barnsley and died in Barnsley in 1967.

Children: 

1. John Frederick Lee b.1907
2. Walter Lee b.1910
3. Margaret A Lee b.1913 Barnsley

Military Service:
Enlisted: *date* at the age of ** years
Regiment and Battalion:  West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales Own) 2nd Battalion
Service number and rank:  11929 Private
Awards: 1915 Star, British War and Victory medals

Death:     1 July 1916 aged 35 years
CWGC Remembered: Thiepval Memorial Pier and Face 2A, 2C and 2D

Remembered:

Monk Bretton, War Memorial, Cross Street, Monk Bretton
Monk Bretton, St Paul's Church, WW1 Memorial Tablet 
Monk Bretton, St Paul's Church, WW1 Memorial Book
 
Notes:
Information supplied by PG.  Daniel was his wife's great grandfather.

Thomas Stonehouse 1874-1915

Thomas Stonehouse's Medal Card (from Ancestry)
Born:
1874 in Bloxwich, Staffordshire

Son of:
William Stonehouse b.1849 in Staffordshire, d. 1923. 

1911:  Coal Miner of 25 Strafforth Terrace, Denaby Main 
who married 24 December 1870 in Rushall, Staffordshire to
Mary Ann Stonehouse (nee Smith) b. 1851 in Bagworth, Leicestershire d.1940


Position in family: The second of 9 children
1. Sarah Ann Stonehouse b.1872
2. Thomas Stonehouse b.1874  WW1 KILLED

3. William Stonehouse b.1876
4. Clara Stonehouse b.1878
5. Mary Ann Stonehouse b.1878
6. Henry Stonehouse b.1883
7. Eliza Stonehouse b.1885
8. Ernest Stonehouse b.1889
9. Beatrice Stonehouse b.1890
 
Home address, age and occupation:
1881: Montague Buildings, Conisborough, Yorkshire, Scholar, aged 7

1891: 15 Clifton Street, Conisborough, Yorkshire Coal Miner, aged 17
1901: **
1911: 16 Chapel Street, Thurnscoe, Yorkshire, Coal Miner, aged 37

Marriage: He was unmarried

Military Service:
Enlisted: *date* at the age of **years at Wath on Dearne
Regiment and Battalion:    10th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment
Service number and rank:  15045 Private
Awards: 1915 Star, British War and Victory medals

Death:     26 September 1915  aged  41
CWGC Remembered: Loos Memorial Panel 105 and 106

Remembered:
 
Goldthorpe War Memorial, St John and St Mary Magdalene, Lockwood Road
 

Notes:
This information has been supplied by PG, the 2x great nephew of Thomas Stonehouse.