Timothy Oliver, born in 1882 was the son of John Oliver and Fanny Oliver, he had two brother's Thomas and Samuel and three sisters, Emily, Lavinia and Annie. He was married to Jane Ann Claxton of Hull in 1904; Jane had been a packer on the "starch - blue line", at Reckitt's before she was married to Timothy. In 1901 he was listed at […]
RECTORY FARM, WALKINGTON, EAST RIDING, YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
27/09/1917
Aged
30
Robert Plimpton was born in Cottingham, he was the son of Alexander Plimpton and Margaret who came from Scotland and that was probably the reason Robert enlisted in a Scottish regiment. He farmed at Rectory Farm, Walkington and one of his brothers, Kelburn Archibald was a Major in the East Yorkshire Regiment, his other brother Alex […]
Walter was born in Howden in 1894. He was the son of Walter Purdon of Howden who was a Waggoner, and Ellen Davy of Walkington. Others in the family were Edith, Miriam, Maud, Herbert, Gladys and Charles. In 1911 Walter was working as a Waggoner, for William Danby, at Duncan Wold Farm, Cherry Burton. He enlisted aged 24 on 19th December […]
Daniel Reynolds was a regular soldier enlisting in 1905 at the age of 19; before that time he had been working with his brothers Harry and Vic at the Whiting works at the top of the Westwood. The family lived in Flemingate Beverley. In 1911, Daniel and his brother Harry were stationed in Hull, another brother Vic served in the Roya […]
Robert was born in 1897, in Walkington, the son of Robert Richardson Ridsdale (1860-1935) and Mary Haldenby, Market Gardeners of Northgate Walkington; He had a younger brother, John Ridsdale and two older sisters, Doris who married George Davy, and Mary. In 1911 Robert was listed aged 14 years as a farmhand. When war began he was 5 […]
Private
Thomas was born in Walkington in 1888, he was the only son of Robert and Rachel Taylor; Robert was an agricultural labourer whose family had lived in the village for most of the nineteenth century. He was a keen member of the Walkington reading room together with James Blades and Harry Duggleby. On 15th September 1916 at the village […]
Company Sergeant Major
BORN BERMUDA, 03/01/1869. SON OF CHARLES FREDERICK AND ELIZABETH THIELE. HIS FATHER WAS ORIGINALLY FROM GERMANY. ENLISTED AS A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. COLOUR SERGEANT (1911 CENSUS). STATIONED IN BEVERLEY. HE MARRIED THERE IN 1906. HIS WIFE MARY JANE EMERY (1872-1959) AND SIX CHILDREN IN WALKINGTON. SERVED AS COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR IN THE 6 […]
Walter's photograph is in the Green's Almanac and listed in the Roll of Honour as being wounded on 22nd January, 1916. He was the nephew of Mrs. H. Finch of Beaver Road Beverley. On his return after being wounded he would have been allocated another regiment: the 14th Leicestershire. Walter received the Silver Badge: known as the " […]
Harry was born in 1887 at Holme on the Wolds; on the 1891 census he is aged 5 years and living at Holme on the Wolds with his father Titus and mother Emma Wadsworth, also at home are his brothers and sisters Jane aged 22, Fred aged 12, Charles aged 10, Annie aged 9, Robert aged 7, Henry aged 5 and Thomas aged 2 years. In 1901 Henry W […]
