Area: Barnsley Street

BORN HULL 23RD JUNE 1872. ONLY CHILD OF CARL AGUSTAF CRISLIP ROJAHN (1840-1871) AND HARRIET BARBER (1840-1915), OF 4, YORK TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HIS REAL SURNAME WAS ROJAHN (CWGC RECORDS), BUT HE SERVED AS BARBER. (SOLDIER'S DIED RECORDS). A BOER WAR VETERAN AND HULL DOCKER.  DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 9 INCHES TALL, […]

Private, FREDERICK RUDD 12/761. Born in 1893, Frederick was the third of five children to Edwin Rudd and Mary Jane Knaggs (1861-1940), of 95, Hodgson Street, Hull (1911 Census), 15, Bourne Street, Hull and 1 Union Court, Barnsley Street, Hull (army addresses) and 41, Sykes Street, Hull (War Pension address). He had one brother and four […]

BORN HULL 20/08/1883. SON OF LOUIS & SARAH SHAW, OF 11, VINE TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL. HUSBAND OF, KATE EMILY SHAW & 5 CHILDREN, OF 1, VILLA TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE SERVED IN THE ROYAL NAVY RESERVE. DIED ON 24/10/1918, AGED 35. BURIED AT HULL HEDON ROAD CEMETERY. HIS BROTHER, JOHN SHAW, RAMC, DI […]

BORN POCKLINGTON 19/03/1881. SON OF WILLIAM SHEARSMITH & MATILDA CRAVEN. ONE OF FOUR CHILDREN - BROTHER WILLIAM. SISTERS, SARAH AND ANNIE. THE FAMILY RESIDED IN HULL. EMPLOYED AS A GENERAL LABOURER. HE MARRIED ANNIE HOPPER, AT SCULCOATES CHURCH, HULL ON 06/06/1908. ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE 13TH EYR, HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, 0 […]

BORN ST PANCRAS, LONDON, 06/07/1884. SON OF JOHN BENJAMIN SCHLATTER AND PRISCILLA WHITE. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HIS FATHER WAS GERMAN AND DIED IN 1896. THE FAMILY CHANGED THEIR SURNAME TO SLATER. WILLIAM JOINED THE ARMY 21/09/1901. (Discharged from 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's, after 160 days in Service and of Good Conduct). HE MARRIE […]

BORN HULL 19/03/1885. ELDEST SON OF ANNIE MCGOWAN & THE LATE PATRICK SNEE (EYR), OF 15 SARAH'S TERRACE, COURTNEY STREET, HULL. HE HAD ONE BROTHER DANIEL AND A SISTER ANN. WORKED AS AN OIL MILL LABOURER AT BLUNDELLS. RESIDED AT 16 ETHEL GROVE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY, ON 28/08/1914. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 3 […]

BORN HULL 30/06/1889. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM SPENCER (1864-1906) AND ELLEN PASHBY (1866-1915), OF 13 COTTON TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL (HIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). ON 13/01/1902, AT THE AGE OF OF 12, HE WAS CONVICTED OF LARCENY AND RECEIVED SIX STROKES. HE WAS SENT TO EASTMOOR REFORMATORY SCHOOL, IN LEEDS, ON 03/02/1902, FOR FIVE YEARS. […]

BORN HULL 26/07/1878. SON OF MARY E SPENCER. BOARDED AT THIS ADDRESS (1911 CENSUS). EMPLOYED AS A OIL MILLER WORKER. DIED AT SEA, 12/04/1917, AGED 39 AS PER HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS SS Toro, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1904 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd., Hull, wa […]

BORN MANCHESTER 1880. SON OF JAMES SPOONER (1857-1909) & HONORA JANE BROMLEY (1859-1941), OF KENT STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS A POSTMAN. HE MARRIED, AT HULL, IN 1908. HIS WIFE, LOUISA MAUD SHAW (1886-1979) AND DAUGHTER CONSTANCE, LIVED AT 12 VINE TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL. ENLISTE […]

BORN HULL 1897. SECOND SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & SARAH JANE THOMAS, OF 3, VINE TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. HE HAD ONE OLDER BROTHER, JOHN AND THREE SISTERS. EMPLOYED  AS A PACKER IN THE LOCAL PAINT WORKS. HE ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED AS LANCE BOMBARDIER, IN THE 186TH, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLER […]

BORN HULL 29/05/1890. SON OF JOHN & EMILY ELIZABETH UNDERWOOD. HE MARRIED MARGARET MABEL HESSELL (1890-1983), IN HULL, ON 08/08/1914. THEY LIVED AT 16, COTTON TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL & 28a BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). BEFORE ENLISTING IN 1914 HE WAS A SHIP YARD LABOURER AND WORKED FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RA […]

BORN HULL 1898. ELDEST CHILD OF WALTER & CATHERINE WARDELL, LIVING AT 11 ARTHURS TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORD AND WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE YOUNGER BROTHERS, THOMAS, JOSEPH AND ROBERT, AND A SISTER CATHERINE. EMPLOYED AS AN OIL MILL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 18/05/1916. ARRIVED FRANCE, 29/12/1916. POS […]

BORN HULL 1883. HULL PAL. SON OF WILLIAM EDGAR WEBB & CHARLOTTE ANN (ARRAN). ull Pals Memorial Posts. PRIVATE WILSON WEBB 10/774. Born 1884, Wilson was the younger of two sons to William and Charlotte Webb of 4 Barnsley Street, Hull. A Painter by trade, Wilson joined the queues for the fledgling battalion in those heady days of Septembe […]

BORN HULL 1884. ELDEST SON OF GEORGE HENRY WESTERDALE (1859-1917) AND DOVE WESTERDALE (1865-1944). SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. HE THAD THREE BROTHERS EDWARD, JOHN (1892-1915) AND ERNEST, AND A SISTER, FLORENCE. EMPLOYED AS A HOUSE PAINTER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 13/07/1915. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 11556, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REG […]

BORN HULL 22/01/1898. SON OF MARY SOUTHWELL & THE LATE GEORGE HENRY WINSHIP ABOVE ADDRESS. LISTED ON THE BARNSLEY STREET MEMORIAL. HE WAS LOST AT SEA, AGED 16. HE HAD BEEN IN THE NAVY FOR FIFTEEN MONTHS AND RECENTLY PROMOTED TO BOY FIRST CLASS. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 26TH OCTOBER 1914. * HMS […]

BORN HULL 1898. ONLY CHILD OF GEORGE WILLIAM BAXTER WRIGHT & HANNAH MAY WRIGHT, OF 5, BELMONT STREET, NEWBRIDGE ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. EMPLOYED AS A GROCERS APPRENTICE. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4 INCHES TALL, 32-34 INCH CHEST HE ENLISTED, ON 12/12/1915 AT HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 24629, EAST YORKSHIRE […]