Tuesday 23 December 2014

Absent Voters in St John's Parish 1918

Streets in St John's Parish from a 1949 map
The War Memorial in St John's Church was lost when the church was demolished in the early 1960s, but the names of the 140 men who were commemorated can be seen on our web page for the memorial.

We are very lucky that in Barnsley there survives a list of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and nurses who were serving abroad in late 1917, early 1918 in the form of the 1918 Absent Voters' List.  This was compiled following the changes in electoral franchise extending the vote to all men over 21 and to women over 30 who fulfilled certain property requirements.  So all servicemen who were over 21 or who would be 21 by the forthcoming General Election in 1918 were registered to vote.

The Absent Voters tab above will return you to the index page for these lists which contains more information.

The sections of the list are in a downloadable.pdf file and each file contains around 250 names. Due to the mismatch between Polling Districts and parish boundaries only streets in the area of St John's parish (see map above) have been transcribed.  Other streets and parts of streets will be transcribed as part of neighbouring parishes.

Pt.1 Polling Districts 6F & 7G
Pt.2 Polling Districts 8H & pt9K
Pt.3 Polling District pt9K   (it's a very large, crowded district!)
Pt.4 Polling Districts pt9K & 10L

These pages have been transcribed by our volunteers and all mistakes are our own.  Please let us know if you spot anything glaringly wrong and we will make ever effort to correct it.  Note that abbreviations and spellings are transcribed as seen.

 

Absent Voters in St Peter's Parish 1918

St Peter's Parish from a 1949 map
The War Memorial in St Peter's Church on Doncaster Road lists 160 men who gave their lives in the First World War.  There are a couple of non-conformist chapels within the parish which may also contain or have contained memorials.  Barnsley Cemetery contains a large number of Commonwealth War Graves Commission burials and war memorial gravestones.

We are very lucky that in Barnsley there survives a list of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and nurses who were serving abroad in late 1917, early 1918 in the form of the 1918 Absent Voters' List.  This was compiled following the changes in electoral franchise extending the vote to all men over 21 and to women over 30 who fulfilled certain property requirements.  So all servicemen who were over 21 or who would be 21 by the forthcoming General Election in 1918 were registered to vote.

The Absent Voters tab above will return you to the index page for these lists which contains more information.

The sections of the list are in a downloadable.pdf file and each file contains around 200 names. Due to the mismatch between Polling Districts and parish boundaries only streets in the area of St Peter's parish (see map above) have been transcribed.  Other streets and parts of streets will be transcribed as part of neighbouring parishes.

Pt. 1 Polling District 1A
Pt. 2 Polling District 2B
Pt. 3 Polling District 7G
Pt. 4 Polling District 8H

These pages have been transcribed by our volunteers and all mistakes are our own.  Please let us know if you spot anything glaringly wrong and we will make ever effort to correct it.  Note that abbreviations and spellings are transcribed as seen.

 

Friday 5 December 2014

Barnsley Absent Voters in Hemsworth Division 1918

Parts of Barnsley that lie to the east and north of the town centre were in the Hemsworth Parliamentary Division until 1974.  This included Cudworth and in order to research the the history of their area the Cudworth Local History and Heritage Group purchased the microfiche of the Registers of Electors for the period 1918 to 1974.  

With their kind permission we have extracted the names of the 1918 Absent Voters from the Polling Districts that were within the Hemsworth PD, which now fall in the Barnsley MBC area.

An extract from the Hemsworth Register of Electors showing Cudworth South Ward
Unfortunately these registers are not in the format we enjoy for Barnsley town centre (see this page) and nearby villages.  Men (and women) who were expected to be away from home for the 1918 election are indicated by a small 'a' before their names and by the letters 'NM' in the qualification column.  There are no details of their service, but at least we have the names and addresses.  Remember that the list will have been compiled in late 1917 and early 1918 and as the war still had some months to go men named on these lists may have subsequently been killed, discharged home wounded or taken prisoner of war.

The following links lead to downloadable .pdf documents listing the extracted names and addresses.  Note that the men are listed in the order they appear in the Register, alphabetically by Division within each Ward or Polling District.

1918 Absent Voters in Cudworth
1918 Absent Voters in Shafton
1918 Absent Voters in Carlton  
1918 Absent Voters in Royston 
1918 Absent Voters in Grimethorpe & Brierley
1918 Absent Voters in Woolley  
1918 Absent Voters in Great and Little Houghton

These pages have been transcribed by our volunteers Pete Schofield, Phil Gregg and BarnsleyHistorian and all mistakes are our own.  Please let us know if you spot anything glaringly wrong and we will make ever effort to correct it.  Note, however, that some roads and streets may have been spelt differently in 1918 or at least spelt differently in this source to the way you are accustomed to seeing them!  For example: in Cudworth Somerset Street (now) is spelt Sumersett Street. 

Monday 1 December 2014

Hoyland War Memorial, Additional Names, Kirk Balk, Hoyland

Hoyland War Memorial (photo taken 30 November 2014)
Close up of the 2014 commemorative plaque and one panel of additional names
Links:

Hoyland War Memorial page prior to additions

War Memorials Archive listing


War Memorials Online listing

Lives of the First World War Community

Second World War - Barnsley War Memorials
Researched by MAC


Hoyland War Memorial website
Researched by Peter Marsden


Additional names photographed by Nigel Croft.
Transcribed by BarnsleyHistorian.

Inscription:
To Our Glorious Dead 2014


The memorial, with 77 additional WW1 names and 88 additional WW2 names, was rededicated at a short service on Saturday 8 November 2014.

Names:
Where further information on a name has been researched by our volunteers it will be linked here  (look for the names in blue) to a page on this site or to an external site.


World War One

Bailey J W,
Bartram T A,
Bakewell F,
Bakewell H,
Batty A,
Blackburn A,
Braham G,
Butcher J A,
Camplin H,
Carrington J T,
Cooper J A,
Crawshaw G,
Crowther M,
Davey C,
Dodson C,
Duke W,
Evans H,
Fillingham W,
Fisher J,
Fox W H,
Garnett H E,
Garwood H,
Gill E J,  (Edmund J Gill)
Gould R,
Green W,
Griffin M,
Guest E,
Guest F,
Guest W H,
Haigh W,
Hallsworth W,
Handley W H,
Harrison W,
Hawthorne P,
Heath A,
Hewitt J W,
Higgins T,
Holmes F,
Howard G A,
Jackson G E,
Jackson H,
Kay T,
Lindley W,
Lockwood A,
Mallender E,
Marshall J W,
Mellor W,
Midwood A,
Monaghan J H,
Paisley J,
Pearson R,
Peatfield R,
Pope R H,
Ratcliffe R S,
Read H,
Reeves F,
Royston F,
Ryalls F,
Shannon J,
Sharpe F,
Sidebottom A C,
Simpson W,
Smelt W E,
Smith W,
Stanger H,
Teece T E,
Teedon W,
Thomas H,
Thomas L,
Toone R,
Townshend C T,
Turner E,
Wagstaff F,
Watkin W W,
Watkinson R A,
White L,
Woodruff J E,
 

World War Two

Addy D,
Allinson W,
Bagnall J,
Bamforth C,
Beech A,
Beever G,
Blythe J D H,
Booth J,
Booth J H,
Bosworth P,
Boulton G,
Bramwell W,
Burgin F R,
Caton F E,
Camm J A,
Camm W H,
Casey H,
Clegg N E,  (Norman Edward Clegg)
Coakes A E,
Collier R,
Cotterell PH,
Cretton H,
Crump C,
Cumberbatch H,
Cutts G,
Dobson R,
Dudhill L A,
Eadon A,
Ellam G,
Evans A C,
Fletcher G F,
Frogson F,
Gillott F,
Goldthorpe R,
Green J W,
Hague S,
Halpin J L,
Hardwick G,
Harrold D,
Hickman E,
Howe T A,
Hurry R,
Jackson J T,
Kitchen W,
Lax E,
Lomas O,
Lowbridge H O,
Marsland J,
McAllister H O,
Manley J,
Mellor F,
Mellor H,
Moore D,
Morris T,
Naylor W B, (William Burt Naylor)
Newby C H,  (Charles Henry Newby - civilian)
Newstead G W,
Newton S,
Noble D,
Owen W,
Oxspring H U,
Oxspring W R,
Parry W G,
Plowman E,
Portman J,
Quilter H,
Quinney F,
Robininson T,
Savage W,
Skorrow E,
Slack E,
Slack L,
Stringer M,
Sutcliffe L,
Taylor J,
Trevey J,
Turner W,
Vaines C,
Waddington E,
Walker T M,
Walker W,
Waller D,
Ward J H,
Watson W J,
Williams L,
Wray I H,
Wright C L,
Worthy E.



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