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Charles White is one of the fallen heroes whose name is on the Cenotaph in St Marks Church yard, he was born to George and Sarah White in 1881 and was born in Hallams Yard, Aughton in the Parish of … Read More

Thomas Wilkinson was born in 1876 to Thomas and Alice Wilkinson, they lived at South Normanton Derbyshire, with his sister Mary A, his brothers Wilbourne and William Wilkinson.  Thomas was 5 years old according to Ancestry 1981 Census.   In … Read More

William was born in Sheffield in 1883, according to 1911 Census aged 28 years old, he lived at 10 Palmer Street, Halfway with his wife Henrietta and daughters, Ivy, Henrietta and Lily.  He worked as a Coal Miner Hewer. He … Read More

Percy was born in Ridgeway, Derbyshire in the Civil Parish of Eckington.  He was born in the year 1889 in the registered quarter of July, August, September, registration district of Chesterfield.  Ancestry reference Volume 7b Page 701.  1891 Census show … Read More

Clarence Edwin Frith was born in 1879 in Mosbro Derbyshire. According to the census below shows Clarence at the age of 4 months with his grand mother in High Street Mosbro, Derbyshire.     Clarence enlisted into the York and … Read More

The 1901 Census shows Wilfred Fields at the age of 2 at his grandparents with his mother Annie E Fields on the day the form was completed at 143 Bernard Street, Attercliffe. His was born in 1898 in Sheffield.  According … Read More

                                  I hear the stories of lost lives My family members who did not survive. Percy who worked down the mine Perilously did his … Read More