wanted - photos nationwide

[Jim Strawbridge]

21 hours ago, Ilbury Welsh said:

Jim, do you have this lady on your list. Not sure what she died of though. John

 

FITZGERALD

MARJORIE L.P.

Saturday, January 4, 1919 Age 20 GOUDHURST CEMETERY Kent A. 16. 20.

Women's Royal Air Force

 

I have details of all of the CWGC commemorated women including this one. Her grave is kerbed and with a stone cross. At the base is the following inscription :- "In loving memory of Marjorie Lilian Purefoy Fitzgerald, Driver, W.R.A.F. Dearly loved daughter of the Rev. and Mrs H. Purefoy Fitzgerald of Lidwells, Goudhurst, who died of enteric fever Jan.4 1919. Pro patria".

[CGM]

Juliana VELEY ((See #2250 and #2251).

 

The clearing of the ivy on the graves in the Churchyard has been completed and I have been able to photograph Juliana's inscription on the family gravestone.

I will forward the full size gravestone and plaque photographs to you Jim.

Edited 17 September , 2019 by CGM
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[Jim Strawbridge]

On 17/09/2019 at 10:58, CGM said:

Juliana VELEY ((See #2250 and #2251).

 

The clearing of the ivy on the graves in the Churchyard has been completed and I have been able to photograph Juliana's inscription on the family gravestone.

I will forward the full size gravestone and plaque photographs to you Jim.

 

CGM, Safely received and whoever cleared the ivy did a good job for I can imagine how bad it had become.

[deacs]

Hi Jim,

 

Just been looking at some of my photos and came across a Nurse remembered on Wigton, Cumbria war memorial.

 

Don't know if this is what your after but here are some photos.

[Jim Strawbridge]

Thank you, deacs. It is one that I have but thank you for thinking of my project.

[bostonwayne]

Newark cemetery. I'll email you them all

Belton

[bostonwayne]

Forgot to say we searched the church at belton and there is no memorials in there for her. Next up for us is Preston on the 5th october so do you want us to go back to wigan and 1 more 

[Jim Strawbridge]

An update of my photograph requirements. I may have failed to delete a couple from the list so if you think that you have provided them pleae let me know so that I can check.

 

United Kingdom

ABERDEENSHIRE, Kirton, Peterhead

BEDFORDSHIRE, Houghton Regis

BERKSHIRE, Sunninghill

BRECKNOCKSHIRE, Beaufort

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, Radclive,

CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Caldecote, Mepal

CARDIGANSHIRE, Cardigan, Lampeter, New Quay

CARMARTHENSHIRE, Abergwili, Ammanford, Carmarthen, Llandovery,

CLWYD, Gwersyllt (see Denbighshire, below)

CORNWALL, Isles of Scilly,

CUMBRIA, Winster

DENBIGHSHIRE, Gwersyllt, Gwyddelwern, Llangwyfan, Llanrwst

DERBYSHIRE, Chesterfield, Croxall cum Oakley, Marston on Dove, Shirebrook, Taxal, Tibshelf
DEVONSHIRE, Dawlish, Plymouth, St. Budeaux

DORSETSHIRE, Holt, Langton Long

DURHAM, Chester-le-Street, Jarrow, Sunderland (Grangetown),

ESSEX, East Ham, Moulsham, Southend

GLAMORGANSHIRE, Aberdare, Cardiff, Crynant, Ebbw Vale, Llandough, Llanharry, Neath, Pontypridd, Southerdown, Swansea, Ton Petre, Ystalyfera, Ystrd Mynach

GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Berkeley, Cheltenham, Charlton Kings, Coleford, Leckhampton, Lydney, Oakridge Lynch

GWENT, Ebww Vale

HAMPSHIRE, Southampton (Old Cemetery)

HUNTINGDONSHIRE, Brampton, Kimbolton

IRELAND, NORTH, Co. Antrim (Belfast), Co. Fermanagh (Derrybrusk, Killadeas), Co. Longford (Kenagh), Co. Londonderry (Coleraine, Londonderry), Co. Tyrone (Edenderry, Strabane), Ulster (Tullanisken),

ISLE OF LEWIS, Tolsta Chaolais

ISLE OF MAN, Marown

KENT, Ashford, Beckenham, Cheriton, Dover, Eltham, Erith, Folkestone, Gillingham, Hawkinge, Hythe, Lewisham, Margate, Sidcup, Swanscombe, Sydenham, Tunbridge Wells

LANCASHIRE, Ainsdale, Blackburn, Bolton, Chadderton, Healey, Liverpool x 2 (Ford Cemetery and Kirkdale), Manchester, Ormskirk, Rainhill, St. Helens, Turton, Tyldesley, Withington

LEICESTERSHIRE, Barrow upon Soar, Leicester, Loughborough

LINCOLNSHIRE, Lincoln, Mumby, Sausthorpe, Walcot, Well, Willoughby
LONDON/MIDDLESEX, Abney Park, Brompton, Camberwell, Camden, Chingford, Cowley, Ealing, East Ham, East Sheen, Erith, Fulham, Hampstead, Hampton, Havering (Romford), Highgate (including unmarked plot), Islington (unmarked plot), Kensal Green, Kensington, King's Cross, Lambeth, Mile End, Newham, Norwood x 2, Plaistow, Poplar, St. Pancras, Wandsworth (Earlsfield), West Ham, West Norwood, Willesden

LOTHIAN Edinburgh x 2,

MONMOUTHSHIRE, Abersychan, Govilon

MONTYGOMERYSHIRE, Welshpool

NORFOLK, Caistor

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, Deene, Northampton (Dallington)

NORTHUMBERLAND, Haydon Bridge

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, Nottingham

PERTHSHIRE, Dunblane

POWYS, Llanllwchaiarn, Newtown
SHROPSHIRE, Edgmond

STAFFORDSHIRE, Bradley, Brindley Ford, Chasetown, Newchapel, Ocker Hill, Ogley Hay, Stoke -on-Trent, Tettenhall, Tipton, Walsall, Walton-on-the-Hill, West Bromwich

SUFFOLK, Kessingland, Saxtead
SURREY, Bramley, Brookwood, Chessington, Cobham, Esher, Farnham, Kingswood, Shirley, Sunbury on Thames, Walton-on-Thames, Weybridge, Witley
SUSSEX, Angmering, Arlington, Hastings, Horsham, Warnham

WARWICKSHIRE, Coventry

YORKSHIRE, Burley in Wharfdale, Colton, Danby Wiske, Halifax, Ingleton, Kingston upon Hull, Kippax, Low Moor, Redcar, Scarborough, Sheffield, Skipton, Staithes

WORLD
ARMENIA, Erivan
AUSTRALIA, Western Australia (Albany, Denmark x 2), New South Wales (Kogarah, Manley, Millthorpe, Milton x 2, Rockwood, Rookwood, Waverley x 2), South Australia (Terowie), Tasmania (Holbart), Victoria (Castlemaine, Langley, Swanwater)
BELGIUM, Brussels, Froyennes,
CANADA, Alberta (Cereal, Edmonton), British Columbia (Summerland), New Brunswick (Sackville), Newfoundland (Brigus, St. Johns), Nova Scotia (Bridgewater, Fox River, +12, Yarmouth), Ontario (Athens, Brantford, Carleton, Galt, Kingstone, London, Paris, Sherbrooke), Prince Edward Island (Charlottetown, Souris), Quebec (Gatineau, Hull)

EGYPT, Alexandria

FRANCE, Arras, Chaumont, Estaires (2), Ecrouves (Muerthe-et-Moselle), Gironde, Hemévez (Normandy), Lamalou, Le Havre, Mentone, Mouleydier (Dordogne), Pys, Saint Amand les Aux, Sallanches, Troyes
GUAM
INDIA, Bombay (3), Chennai, Deolali, Peshewar, Quetta, Trimulgherry
IRAQ, Amara, Baghdad (2), Basra (3)
IRELAND, Co. Clare (Ennistymon, Quin), Co. Cork (Kinsale), Co. Donegal (Letterkenny), Dublin (Drumcondra, Glasnevin and Dublin), Co. Kilkenny (Kilkenny), Co. Leinster (Kenagh), Co. Limerick,
MACEDONIA, Skopje
MALAWI, Blantyre

NEW ZEALAND, Oamaru
PAKISTAN, Karachi, Rawlpindi

POLAND, Warsaw
SERBIA, Belgrade, Kragujevac
SIBERIA, Tomsk

SRI LANKA, Kanatte

U.S.A. California (Fairfield, Los Angeles, Oakland, Pacheco, Redlands, San Andreas), Colorado (Pueblo, Wheat Ridge), Columbia, District of (Washington x 2), Harvard, Connecticut (Windsor), Illinois (Beardstown, Cairo, Evanston, Marion, Shelby County), Indiana (Argos, Farmersburg, Lafayette, Lebanon, Livonia, Roanoke), Iowa (Ames, Anamosa, Davenport), Kansas (Peabody), Maine (East Stoneham), Massachusetts (Boston x 2, Foxborough), Minnesota (Maplewood), Mississippi (Natchez), Missouri (Jefferson City), New Jersey (Cresskill, Swedesboro, Trenton), New York (Bellevue, Brooklyn, LeRoy, Oneonta, Poughkeepsie, Rockland, Suffern), Ohio (Kent,), Oklahoma (Mountain View), Pennsylvania (Allentown, Bedford, Fallsington, Newtown, Philadelphia, Pottstown, Reading, Ridgway, Rockledge, Scranton, Wilkes-Barr), Texas (El Campo, San Antonio), Vermont (Bradford), Virginia (Fredericksburg), Washington (Washington), Wisconsin (Superior)

 

within past six months -

On :- CAMBRIDGESHIRE (Mepal 7/19), DERBYSHIRE (Chesterfield 9/19), ESSEX (Moulsham 6/19), GLOUCESTERSHIRE (Leckhampton 8/19, Lydney 8/19, Oakridge Lynch 7/19), KENT (Cheriton 6/19, Erith 7/19), LANCASHIRE (Rainhill 9/19, Withington 6/19), OXFORDSHIRE (Ardington 7/19), STAFFORDSHIRE (Stoke-on-Trent 8/19), CANADA Ontario (Athens 10/19), FRANCE (Arras 9/19, Troyes 11/19), IRELAND, South (Co. Clare, Quin 7/19), U.S.A. California (Los Angeles 10/19, Minnesota (Maplewood 11/19), Oakland 10/19), Maine (East Stoneham 10/19), New York (LeRoy 11/19), Oklahoma (Mountain View 10/19), Vermont, Bradford 10/19)

Off :- ANGLESEY (Holyhead 7/19), ARGYLLSHIRE (Appin 8/19, Kilmartin 8/19), BERKSHIRE (Wokingham), BUCKINGHAMSHIRE (Wycombe 9/19), CHESHIRE (Ashton upon Mersey 8/19), Cornwall (Phillack 7/19), DEVONSHIRE (Withycombe 8/19), DURHAM (Pelton 6/19, Willington 6/19), HAMPSHIRE (Alverstoke 7/19), LANCASHIRE (Wigan 10/19), LINCOLNSHIRE (Belton 9/19, Blyton 9/19), LONDON (Harrow 10/19), NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (Newark 9/19), OXFORDSHIRE (Ardington 10/19), STAFFORDSHIRE (Uttoxeter 10/19), YORKSHIRE (Altofts 7/19, Bramham 7/19, Horsforth 7/19, Leeds (Beckett Street) 7/19), IRELAND (Dublin, Deansgrange 7/19).

Edited 15 November , 2019 by Jim Strawbridge

[Jim Strawbridge]

On 22/09/2019 at 10:56, bostonwayne said:

Next up for us is Preston on the 5th october so do you want us to go back to wigan and 1 more 

 

Wayne, Sending you direct a map with my Lancashire requirements marked.

[phsvm]

Jim - I can pop over to Ardington (Oxfordshire).  If the weather holds out I may even cycle.

 

Can you tell me who is there you need photographed?

 

Many thanks.

Edited 23 September , 2019 by phsvm

[bostonwayne]

Anne  Veronica Fletcher buried Chesterfield spittal cemetery been accepted for a cwgc headstone. Trouble is who knows how long till she gets one 

[Jim Strawbridge]

14 hours ago, bostonwayne said:

Anne  Veronica Fletcher buried Chesterfield spittal cemetery been accepted for a cwgc headstone. Trouble is who knows how long till she gets one 

 

Wayne, what makes you think that she will be getting a CWGC headstone? According to my records the CWGC adopted the grave in October 2011. The grave is already kerbed and with a stone cross headstone on a pedestal. My understanding is that if a grave is already suitably marked with a private headstone the CWGC will not normally add one of theirs, too. The one that is there is quite adequate for the purpose.

[Jim Strawbridge]

20 hours ago, phsvm said:

Jim - I can pop over to Ardington (Oxfordshire).  If the weather holds out I may even cycle.

 

Can you tell me who is there you need photographed?

 

Many thanks.

 

I need a photograph of the grave of Lady Harriet Sarah Wantage who is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard, Ardington. She died on the 9th August 1920, aged 83. She was a VAD. In view of her standing she may have a memorial inside the church.

[James Morley]

Jim, you may be interested to see a little hidden feature of my A Street Near You site which allows filtering to just the women - https://astreetnearyou.org/#=undefined&lat=10&lon=0&zoom=2&sex=female

 

As CWGC don't have the gender I have had to extrapolate the list from service details like rank, hence it's rather incomplete (currently about 900 records). Of these about 100 have have portraits, mainly from the IWM's Women's Work collection.

 

I'd be interested if you have a more comprehensive list of CWGC links as that would really help me improve the records. 

 

Back to the OP, if you wanted to send through what you need for Ealing I'd be happy to try to help.

 

Best, James

 

[bostonwayne]

6 hours ago, Jim Strawbridge said:

 

Wayne, what makes you think that she will be getting a CWGC headstone? According to my records the CWGC adopted the grave in October 2011. The grave is already kerbed and with a stone cross headstone on a pedestal. My understanding is that if a grave is already suitably marked with a private headstone the CWGC will not normally add one of theirs, too. The one that is there is quite adequate for the 

The cwgc on twitter posted this 

 

APPEAL FOR RELATIVES - SEPTEMBER 2019

An appeal for relatives is a search to locate the next of kin for soldiers who fell in war. Could you be connected to any of these individuals?

DOWNLOAD THE LIST

We wish to make contact with any family members of the casualties concerned in the document attached.

If you are related to one of the above casualties and can provide us with the documentation, please contact our Enquiries Team.

[Jim Strawbridge]

Thank you, Wayne. I stand corrected. This is what I have  I have seen worse but presumably not up to CWGC standards. I think that it takes about two years to get one and have it installed. Any chance of Barnsley playing Chesterfield in 2021 ?

[Jim Strawbridge]

14 hours ago, jamesinealing said:

Jim, you may be interested to see a little hidden feature of my A Street Near You site which allows filtering to just the women - https://astreetnearyou.org/#=undefined&lat=10&lon=0&zoom=2&sex=female

 

As CWGC don't have the gender I have had to extrapolate the list from service details like rank, hence it's rather incomplete (currently about 900 records). Of these about 100 have have portraits, mainly from the IWM's Women's Work collection.

 

I'd be interested if you have a more comprehensive list of CWGC links as that would really help me improve the records. 

 

Back to the OP, if you wanted to send through what you need for Ealing I'd be happy to try to help.

 

Best, James

 

 

That's an interesting website. My own listing started back around 2000 when a gentleman from the CWGC sent me a list that he had produced for his own interest by using the CWGC computer and downloading all those casualties who died whilst serving in women only units and then adding a search for "mother of, wife of or daughter of". I now know this to be terribly incomplete. I moved onto the names on the York Minster panels. Even these are incomplete with, in particular, many hundreds of VADs missing from them.

 

As for Ealing I need a photograph from Ealing and Brentford Cemetery where Edith Mary Carter is buried in grave 46, section N, ground D. She was interred on the 24th December 1917 so would have died earlier that month.

Also a photograph of the headstone of Lena Desmond, VAD, who died in February 1920 and is buried in grave 8S, New.Cem. R.C., ground D division, Ealing and Old Brentford cemetery. Also the headstone of Esme Blanche Lion, VAD, who died on the 6th March 1915 and is buried in plot A 26 & 27 in Ealing and Old Brentford cemetery.

Also the headstone of Laura Walsh, VAD, who died on the 31st January 1918, aged 50. She is buried in grave 24, section F, Div.I, New Cemetery, Ealing and Old Brentford cemetery.

 

Regards, Jim

[bostonwayne]

7 hours ago, Jim Strawbridge said:

Thank you, Wayne. I stand corrected. This is what I have  I have seen worse but presumably not up to CWGC standards. I think that it takes about two years to get one and have it installed. Any chance of Barnsley playing Chesterfield in 2021 ?

Chesterfield is not far from here only half an hour so can check in a year or so. It's on the M1 so anytime we go south we have to pass it. As for next week we will go back to wigan and try ormskirk if time allows. I know you have more in wigan now so post them here and we'll have a look

[Jim Strawbridge]

3 hours ago, bostonwayne said:

Chesterfield is not far from here only half an hour so can check in a year or so. It's on the M1 so anytime we go south we have to pass it. As for next week we will go back to wigan and try ormskirk if time allows. I know you have more in wigan now so post them here and we'll have a look

 

WIGAN

Lower Ince Cemetery

Margaret ASHURST, died 12th April 1918 is buried in plot CE. A.329

Mary Ann CUMBERBIRCH, died 12th April 1918 is buried in plot CE. S.541

Mary DAWBER, died 1st quarter 1917 is buried in plot CE. L.509

Margaret SILCOCK, died 20th February 1917 is buried in RC. plot H.744

Jane TOMLINSON, died 12th April 1918 is buried in plot CE. B.391

Jane WINTERS, died 2nd quarter 1918 is buried in plot CE. S.543

 

ORMSKIRK

Ellen PREECE, munition worker, died 23rd July 1918. Ellen's name is said to be on the Comrades Roll of Honour that used to be outside the Comrades of the Great War Club on Southport Road but was moved to Coronation Park, Ormskirk in 2012. Her name is believed to also be on two granite plinths installed on the approach to the memorial

 

 

[James Morley]

On 25/09/2019 at 00:44, Jim Strawbridge said:

 

As for Ealing I need a photograph from Ealing and Brentford Cemetery where Edith Mary Carter is buried in grave 46, section N, ground D. She was interred on the 24th December 1917 so would have died earlier that month.

Also a photograph of the headstone of Lena Desmond, VAD, who died in February 1920 and is buried in grave 8S, New.Cem. R.C., ground D division, Ealing and Old Brentford cemetery. Also the headstone of Esme Blanche Lion, VAD, who died on the 6th March 1915 and is buried in plot A 26 & 27 in Ealing and Old Brentford cemetery.

Also the headstone of Laura Walsh, VAD, who died on the 31st January 1918, aged 50. She is buried in grave 24, section F, Div.I, New Cemetery, Ealing and Old Brentford cemetery.

 

 

If the weather holds off this afternoon I *might* be able to do those for you, but otherwise, hopefully next week

[James Morley]

22 hours ago, jamesinealing said:

 

If the weather holds off this afternoon I *might* be able to do those for you, but otherwise, hopefully next week

 

Jim, see https://photos.app.goo.gl/SbCXNP6PTPJPEkWY9

 

Edith Mary Carter has a nice clear headstone, easily located in the old cemetery (confusingly there are two areas called 'D', old and new!)

 

I am fairly confident that I found the area, D8S in the new cemetery, where Lena Desmond would have been buried, but there is sadly no headstone

 

For Esme Blanche Lion there is not enough detail to be sure where this is and I didn't have time to explore possibilities. It says 'Plot A 26 & 27' but that could be Ground A (which could be either the one in the old or the new cemetery!) or it could be Row A in any one of the Grounds!

 

Laura Walsh took a little while to track down as the numbering and rows aren't logical in that area, but she has a nice grave in a lovely setting under a tree

[Jim Strawbridge]

On 28/09/2019 at 11:31, jamesinealing said:

 

For Esme Blanche Lion there is not enough detail to be sure where this is and I didn't have time to explore possibilities. It says 'Plot A 26 & 27' but that could be Ground A (which could be either the one in the old or the new cemetery!) or it could be Row A in any one of the Grounds!

 

 

James, I have gone back and found the Burial Register on Ancestry. I am sorry that I did not give full details before. She is in grave 26 and 27, Ground Division C. con. The reason that it covers two plots is because thater are four incumbents - two in one and two in the other. It is an earth grave in a brick grave space. The register states that the grave is fully entombed (whatever that means). The incumbants are Annie Louis Lion (buried 13th January 1899, aged 31), Esma Blanche Lion (buried 8th March 1915, aged 23), John Lion (buried 21st January 1938, aged 84) and Harriet Frances Milvain Lion (buried 21st May 1943, aged 84). I hope that this helps.

[James Morley]

2 hours ago, Jim Strawbridge said:

 

James, I have gone back and found the Burial Register on Ancestry. I am sorry that I did not give full details before. She is in grave 26 and 27, Ground Division C. con. The reason that it covers two plots is because thater are four incumbents - two in one and two in the other. It is an earth grave in a brick grave space. The register states that the grave is fully entombed (whatever that means). The incumbants are Annie Louis Lion (buried 13th January 1899, aged 31), Esma Blanche Lion (buried 8th March 1915, aged 23), John Lion (buried 21st January 1938, aged 84) and Harriet Frances Milvain Lion (buried 21st May 1943, aged 84). I hope that this helps.

Hi Jim, not a problem at all. When I get the chance I'll pop back - it's on one of my possible cycling routes back from work so the next time the weather is OK and I have a minute I will go and look. 

[bostonwayne]

Been to wigan this morning. No headstones at all sadly. Will email you the photos over. 

[phsvm]

Jim - did you receive the photos I sent from Ardington for Lady Wantage?

 

I need to go back (hopefully tomorrow if the weather holds) to have a look in the church so if you need others of her memorial I can do that at the same time