Wednesday 18 February 2015

Absent Voters in St Edward's Parish 1918

Streets in St Edward's Parish from a 1949 map

The War Memorial in St Edward the Confessor Church at Kingstone lists 45 who lost their lives in the First World War.  Within the boundaries of the parish were several non-conformist chapels and working men's clubs which also had memorials or rolls of honour. For example, Longcar Working Men's Club, on Racecommon Road.

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 250-300 names. Due to the mismatch between Polling Districts and parish boundaries only streets in the area of St Edward'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
Pt.2 Polling District 12N

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.

Monday 16 February 2015

Barnsley, NP&UBE plaque, Nat West Bank, Market Hill

A simple bronze plaque (photographed February 2015)
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing


War Memorials Online listing

Photographed by Hann Bunn and sent to us by Chris Reynolds

Some information on this type of memorial can be found in this blog post


NP&UBE stands for National Provincial and Union Bank of England.

Information received from Archivist Lyn Crawford at the RBS Archives:
The National Provincial & Union Bank of England plaque was placed in NatWest Barnsley branch as part of the bank's wider memorial repatriation project in 2013.

There are four results in a search of their Archives for Barnsley - Thomas Westby, Frank Bakel, Harry Bambridge and Ronald Saville all worked for Union of London & Smiths Bank, and are all remembered on the Holgate Grammar School Old Boys memorial in Barnsley.


In 1918, this bank amalgamated with National Provincial Bank of England to form National Provincial & Union Bank of England.

Inscription:
NP&UBE

A tribute / to the 2681 members / of the staff of this Bank / who served in / The Great War / 1914 - 1918 / and in honoured memory of / the 415 who gave their / lives for their country.



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Friday 13 February 2015

Barnsley, Honeywell Inn WW2 Roll of Honour

With thanks to Members of the Great Houghton History Group
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

Second World War - Barnsley War Memorials
Researched by MAC


Transcribed by BarnsleyHistorian

Discovered by members of the Great Houghton History Group in a box of old photographs.  Does this Roll of Honour still exist? 

The photo is not quite clear enough to make out all the details in the very bottom section headed, "Total Fund £500. Key to Success. The Committee & Artistes." - this suggests some fund raising by putting on entertainment.

The names to the bottom right in the section headed by the wreath may be those who lost their lives.

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.

L Ashley,
T Abby,
W Andrews,
J Atkinson,
H Bray,
J W Booth,
H Bone,
E Bickerton,
C Brown,
J Booth,
A Burton,
Wm Bashforth,
F Briggs,
G Braithwaite,
F Barlow,
F Bradley,
A Bedford,
W Barlow,
L Bailey,
G T Bickerton,
J Bailey,
S Bennett,
H Briggs,
J Callear,
J Crowe,
W Charlesworth,
S H Campbell,
T Cole,
J W Cawley,
Wm Cooper,
Jim Cooper,
C Carr,
Joe Cooper,
R Cawley,
T McCaffery,
 J McCaffery,
D McCaffery,
A Cooper,
G E Cooper,
A Duke,
J Duke,
W Dockerty,
H Dooley,
A Dunk,
E Dyson,
L Elsworth,
E Elsworth,
S Farrar,
H Fallas,
S Fiddle,
R Farrar,
A J Flintoft,
P T Falkingham,
L Featherstone,
L R Farrar,
R L Gosling,
J W Gosling,
W Gibson,
J Gardener,
D Giles,
J W Hepplestone,
H Higginbottom,
H Horbury,
E G Holmes,
A Hydes,
W Holmes,
T Houghton,
T H Howarth,
E Hill,
H Higgins
A Hirst,
I Holmes,
W J Jones,
P Jones,
H Kelk,
W Kemp,
A Lee,
T Littledyke,
G H Levers,
W Lowe,
W Lee,
J Lowe,
J Lewin,
F L Lockwood,
H Micklethwaite,
H Moseley,
C A Milnthorpe,
J J Maw,
J Marrion,
E J Morgan,
C Ouldfield,
Wm Pilling,
J W Perry,
C E Parkin,
H Plowman,
J Potter,
D Randerson,
F Randerson,
A Ramsden,
L Rushforth,
L Ramshaw,
K Ramskill,
A Shaw,
W Speight,
A Shaw,
F Smith,
J Short,
B Swift,
E Smith,
T Swift,
C S Sowter,
C Summers,
F Sanderson,
C F Thompson,
P Turton,
H Turton,
R B Thorpe,
F Tate,
J W Wildsmith,
H Ward,
G Walker,
A Wilkinson,
T H Walton,
F Wilson,
A Woods,
A Wingill,
E Wingill,
C Woffinden,
I White,
J W Walker.




E Gibson,
J Thornton,
E Kirk
L Gibson,
C Chilton,
D Reaney,
F Sedgwick


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Barnsley, Plumbers' Roll of Honour, Trades Club (newspaper report)

An ongoing search of the local newspapers in Barnsley is giving us evidence of many, now sadly lost war memorials and rolls of honour.

Barnsley Independent 27 March 1920
(thanks to Barnsley Archives)
From the Barnsley Independent of 1920 comes this report on the unveiling of an unusual Roll of Honour - one dedicated to Plumbers who served in the First World War.

There is still a Trades Club on Racecommon Road, but it is an newer building.  Did this and possibly other trade specific Rolls of Honour survive the move from one premises to another?
 

Links:

War Memorials Archive listing
 

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.


Although the report notes that there were 43 men on the Roll it only gives us the names of the two who lost their lives.

W E Exley,
G H Frudd












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Monday 2 February 2015

Dodworth Cemetery Frank Baines


Frank is remembered on his father's grave plot in Dodworth Cemetery
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Second World War - Barnsley War Memorials
Researched by MAC

Photograph by BarnsleyHistorian

Grave Location and Inscription:
G 93

Joseph Baines who died Jan 2nd 1952 in Sydney Australia aged 52 years / Interred Dodworth Aug 9th 1952 / Also Frank beloved son of the aforesaid / who was killed in Burma Aug 8th 1944 / aged 22 years.

Frank is also remembered on the Dodworth War Memorial.


He is buried in the Digboi War Cemetery in India and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. 




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Dodworth Cemetery Harry Cole

Harry is remembered on his parents' gravestone in Dodworth Cemetery
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Lives of the First World War

Photograph by Nigel Croft

Grave Location and Inscription:

C 73
In Loving Memory of James / the beloved husband of Milly Cole / who entered into rest / March6th 1928, aged 72 years / Thy Will Be Done / Also of Milly, wife of the above / who died Sept 1st 1931, aged 73 years / Treasured Memories / Also Harry, eldest son of the above / who was Killed in Action in France / Sept 25th 1916, aged 28 years / Gone but not Forgotten.

Harry is also remembered on the Dodworth War Memorial.

He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial in France and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.  



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Dodworth Cemetery William Alexander Thomson


William Thomson is remembered on his mother's gravestone
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Photograph by Nigel Croft

Grave Location and Inscription: 

C 9
In Memory of / Anne / Wife of William Thomson / Port Elizabeth South Africa / who died 28th August 1913 / aged 69 years / Also of her eldest son / William Alexander / who was killed in Action at the / Sangani River Matebeleland / South Africa on 3rd Decr 1893 / aged 23 years.

Read more about William online in this book about the Matebele Wars.


His connection with Barnsley is that his brother was the doctor in Dodworth for some years and his mother lived at Clayton West until just before her death.

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Monk Bretton Cemetery Samuel Gammons

Samuel is remembered on his family gravestone
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Lives of the First World War

Photograph by Nigel Croft

Monumental Inscription by Barnsley Family History Society

Grave Location and Inscription: 

A 201
In / loving / memory of / ROSE, / the beloved daughter of / SAMUEL & MARIA / GAMMONS, / of Monk Bretton, / who died Sept. 19th 1906 / aged 19 years. / Also the above named / SAMUEL GAMMONS / who died June 6th 1913 / aged 65 years. / Also / Pte. SAMUEL GAMMONS / 8th East Yorks Regt, / the beloved son of the above / who died of wounds / in France Decr 10th 1916 / aged 27 years. / Also the above named / MARIA GAMMONS, / who died Jan. 12th 1935 / aged 83 years. //
 

Samuel is also remembered on the Monk Bretton War Memorial, Cross Street.

He is buried in Varennes Military Cemetery in France and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.



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