brhillier Posted 6 July , 2019 Share Posted 6 July , 2019 What are your needs from Holyhead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Strawbridge Posted 6 July , 2019 Author Share Posted 6 July , 2019 1 hour ago, brhillier said: What are your needs from Holyhead? In the Armenia Chapel, Holyhead, is a Roll of Honour with the names of Ethel Davies, Maggie Jones and Nellie Jones on it. A photograph of this showing their names is required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brhillier Posted 6 July , 2019 Share Posted 6 July , 2019 Hi Jim, This is the Roll of Honour from Armenia Chapel, Holyhead. The chapel has been demolished. A small group of houses now stand in its place. The memorial was moved to Hyfrydle Chapel, Thomas Street, Holyhead. The photograph was given to me by a member of the congregation with permission to use freely. regards, Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Strawbridge Posted 7 July , 2019 Author Share Posted 7 July , 2019 (edited) Thank you, Barry. I obviously came to the right person for this one. Much appreciated. Looking at your interests you may be able to help me with another query. Margaret Williams, a native of Anglesey, drowned in the Irish Sea as a stewardess aboard the S.S. Connemara on the 3rd November 1916. Do you know if her body was ever recovered and, if so, where she may be resting? Edited 7 July , 2019 by Jim Strawbridge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonwayne Posted 7 July , 2019 Share Posted 7 July , 2019 It says on here that her body was never recovered Jim. http://www.womenandwar.wales/browse.php?order=deathcause&page=31 There are lots of woman on that website though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Strawbridge Posted 7 July , 2019 Author Share Posted 7 July , 2019 2 hours ago, bostonwayne said: It says on here that her body was never recovered Jim. http://www.womenandwar.wales/browse.php?order=deathcause&page=31 There are lots of woman on that website though Thank you, Wayne. I had it recorded that her body was not recovered but sometime bodies are recovered months afterward and the original circumstances do not get updated. As she was lost in the Irish Sea it is just possible that her remains were recovered for burial with her father in Maeshyfryd Cemetery, Holyhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkstown Posted 8 July , 2019 Share Posted 8 July , 2019 What can I get you in Deansgrange, Dublin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutting Posted 8 July , 2019 Share Posted 8 July , 2019 Anything needed from Jersey? Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Strawbridge Posted 9 July , 2019 Author Share Posted 9 July , 2019 18 hours ago, monkstown said: What can I get you in Deansgrange, Dublin? Hello Monkstown, DUBLIN (Deansgrange) - Eleanor KING, Voluntary Aid Detachment, died 20th February 1920 and is buried in plot 321, SW section, Deansgrange Cemetery. A photograph of her headstone required. Also Frances Elizabeth SAUNDERS, Voluntary Aid Detachment, died 10th October 1918 and is buried in plot 20-21, row H2, Deansgrange Cemetery. A photograph of her headstone required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Strawbridge Posted 9 July , 2019 Author Share Posted 9 July , 2019 18 hours ago, Nutting said: Anything needed from Jersey? Nigel Hello Nigel, Whilst I have no specific requirement that is only because I do not know where they are buried. If you fancy some sleuthing and can find burial records the following Voluntary Aid Detachment members died on Jersey during the war-time period. Emily AMY Amy FROST Emma GODFRAY Gertrude Augusta HENRY Lilian Mary JENKINSON Annie Lamber M. LE CORNU Louisa Maingay ROBIN Eva Christine SECKHAM Grace Alice WHEELER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 9 July , 2019 Share Posted 9 July , 2019 Jim My daughter has moved from Edinburgh to Oban and I am there now. I can certainly do you Appin once the rain stops and possibly Kilmartin. Let me know the details. Cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brhillier Posted 9 July , 2019 Share Posted 9 July , 2019 On 7 July 2019 at 10:24, Jim Strawbridge said: Thank you, Barry. I obviously came to the right person for this one. Much appreciated. Looking at your interests you may be able to help me with another query. Margaret Williams, a native of Anglesey, drowned in the Irish Sea as a stewardess aboard the S.S. Connemara on the 3rd November 1916. Do you know if her body was ever recovered and, if so, where she may be resting? Hi Jim - her body was never recovered. Another Volunteer at the Holyhead Maritime Museum is the great-niece of Margaret Williams and she confirms this. Some family information here - https://sites.google.com/site/holyheadwarmemorial19141918/home/ss-connemara/margaret-williams-stewardess Barry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Strawbridge Posted 10 July , 2019 Author Share Posted 10 July , 2019 20 hours ago, Martin Bennitt said: Jim My daughter has moved from Edinburgh to Oban and I am there now. I can certainly do you Appin once the rain stops and possibly Kilmartin. Let me know the details. Cheers Martin B Martin, APPIN - In Appin church is a Roll of Honour presented by William Russell Fergusson in memory of his nephew. The Roll includes those from Appin who served and it includes the names of Viola CAMPBELL, Mary A. MacCOLL and Katriona J. ROSS. In the churchyard is the grave of Mary Struthers DRUMMOND who died on the 9th November 1918. She served with the Scottish Women's Hospital. Sorry, but I do not have a grave position. Her name is also on the Appin and Port Appin War Memorial. Both the Roll of Honour and the Appin and Port Appin War Memorial can be Googled for photographs but I do not have permission from someone with copyright to use them. KILMARTIN - Buried in Kilmartin church cemetery is the grave of A.A. (Annie ?) SCOTT who died 9th May 1921. I have a photograph of her headstone from Find A Grave but do not have permission to use it (tried, but no response). But if you look on Find A Grave to see what it looks like it may save you time in searching for it. Regards, Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Strawbridge Posted 10 July , 2019 Author Share Posted 10 July , 2019 16 hours ago, brhillier said: Hi Jim - her body was never recovered. Another Volunteer at the Holyhead Maritime Museum is the great-niece of Margaret Williams and she confirms this. Some family information here - https://sites.google.com/site/holyheadwarmemorial19141918/home/ss-connemara/margaret-williams-stewardess Barry. Thank you, Barry. That confirms it, then. I shall stop looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steviebullsatatter Posted 10 July , 2019 Share Posted 10 July , 2019 As promised jim , here are the photos I promised from my local cemetery in brook st erith kent. Theres been posts on the forum relating to the incident just after the great war . Regards Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steviebullsatatter Posted 10 July , 2019 Share Posted 10 July , 2019 Oops something went awry It wont let me send any more pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alisonmallen62 Posted 10 July , 2019 Share Posted 10 July , 2019 Hi Jim send me who you need inUttoexter and Ebbw Vale please and on my roamings in the hols I will try and help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 10 July , 2019 Share Posted 10 July , 2019 On 02/07/2019 at 11:04, Jim Strawbridge said: Portsdown Jim, is this Portsdown (Christchurch) Military Cemetery, and are you after Staff Nurse Bridget Donovan, ref A.54? If so I will try to get that one for you. I have not forgotten about the VAD in Alverstoke, and pass the cemetery often, but rarely with someone on hand to assist! Touch wood for soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithmroberts Posted 11 July , 2019 Share Posted 11 July , 2019 (edited) Jim and Jane It's probably easier for me to get to the Portsdown Cemetery, who are you after? I have been there before for you Jim and am now back in Pompey for a while. EDIT if it is Donovan I have a photograph of the grave already, taken when I visited Helena Margaret Dove. Keith Edited 11 July , 2019 by keithmroberts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Strawbridge Posted 11 July , 2019 Author Share Posted 11 July , 2019 Thank you, Steveibullsatatter. Much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Strawbridge Posted 11 July , 2019 Author Share Posted 11 July , 2019 4 hours ago, keithmroberts said: Jim and Jane It's probably easier for me to get to the Portsdown Cemetery, who are you after? I have been there before for you Jim and am now back in Pompey for a while. EDIT if it is Donovan I have a photograph of the grave already, taken when I visited Helena Margaret Dove. Keith Hello Keith and Jane, It is Donovan that I am after, Jane, so you can stand/sit aside. Keith, I have a photograph which I am unsure if it is a memorial or a grave marker. It is headed "The Staff of Alexandra Hospital erected this cross in memory of Staff Nurse Bridget Donovan". Bridget Donovan, QAIMNS, died 3rd April 1916 and is buried in Portsdown (Christ Church) Military Cemetery, plot A.54. No longer a cross extant as it has either fallen off or removed for H & S reasons. Either confirmation that this memorial acts as a grave marker or a photograph of the actual grave, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkstown Posted 12 July , 2019 Share Posted 12 July , 2019 Jim - I have emailed you photos of the headstones for Eleanor King and Frances Elizabeth Saunders (Dean's Grange Cemetery). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 12 July , 2019 Share Posted 12 July , 2019 Jim, At last I have Kathleen Felicia Devereux Woods for you. I visited this evening with my husband, and a good thing I did, as the grave in question required clambering off the grass footpath and on to the gravel covering of another, so himself took two photos, one of the side with Kathleen's name, and one close up of that panel. As far as I can see the stone is mossy and lichenous rather than actually crumbling. St Mark's Church (built in 1844 in the face of some opposition from St Mary's Alverstoke) eventually fell into disuse and after being declared unsafe was demolished in 1911; the present graveyard takes in the old building footprint as well as the original churchyard. By the 1980s it was pretty much a wilderness, although the inscriptions had been recorded, and only in 2003 did a group of locals began the task of tidying it up. Even now, not all the stones have been cleaned and unfortunately the Woods stone is one of them. I don't know on what criteria cleaning is done but I will enquire of the Friends whether plot 40 can be given precedence. This is a view of the family plot; Kathleen's parents' names are on the side of the pedestal toward the viewer. PS I can't find your latest e-mail so will be obliged if you can PM it to me - thanks! sJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Strawbridge Posted 13 July , 2019 Author Share Posted 13 July , 2019 On 12/07/2019 at 10:42, monkstown said: Jim - I have emailed you photos of the headstones for Eleanor King and Frances Elizabeth Saunders (Dean's Grange Cemetery). They have not come through. Perhaps you were using an old email address so I have messaged through my current one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HWebber Posted 13 July , 2019 Share Posted 13 July , 2019 Hi Jim, I was informed by Steve that there was no record of where Victoria's grave might be due to the fact that it unmarked and there is no record in the church. All I have is that her burial is in the burial register dated 5 July 1917 No 312. I took a photo of the memorial board to the women who died as a result of working in WW1 munitions factories, the Victoria's name (misspelt as Whidgett) is on. I'm now in correspondence with York Minster Collections regarding whether its misspelt in their original records or whether the painter/writer made an error.....and whether it can be corrected. They were very helpful. I've attached the photo I took. I would be grateful to see a photo of the grave. Best wishes Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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