Newsletter February 2008

Help was requested in looking for persons for our WW 1 ‘In Memoriam’ Project:

  • Benjamin Allen
  • Joseph Allen
  • George Barwell
  • John Bettles
  • John Britchford
  • Archibald Dicks
  • Alfred Edis
  • Walter Elliot
  • William Fairey
  • Frederick Fleet
  • Bertie Freeman
  • George Horn
  • Christopher Horne
  • Ernest Houghton
  • Joseph Keech
  • Herbert Kendall
  • Thomas Lee
  • John Liddington
  • Thomas Munn
  • Charles Newman
  • Sidney Panther
  • Sidney Perkins
  • Benjamin Rice
  • Ernest Saxby
  • Walter Seamark
  • Charles Sherwood
  • William Sherwood
  • Arthur Spriggs
  • Fred Styles
  • Horace Thompson
  • Joseph Tinsley
  • Samuel Tinsley
  • Frederick Turner
  • Harry Warren
  • Sam Whiteman
  • John Wrighting
  • John York

Irthlingborough WW1 Casualties – the final few

ABBOTT, Herbert – born in Rushden but later lived in Straw’s Yard, Irthlingborough.
Married to Helen. Their son George was baptised at St Peter’s Church on 12th July, 1908.

AGER, Percy – born Irthlingborough in 1897 and baptised at St Peter’s Church on 25th July, 1897.
He was the son of Annie Lottie and John Ager, a shoemaker who lived in Lilley’s Row.
Mrs Ager married again after her husband’s death and became Annie Lottie Neville.

BARWELL, George Henry – born 1899 in Kettering.
Attended Irthlingborough Baptist Sunday School so the family could have settled here.

BUGBY, Alfred – born in Raunds and worked at Wm Shortland’s Tower Boot Factory.

FAIREY, William Henry – was born in Irthlingborough.

FLEET, Frederick James – resided at Enfield – possible connection with the Methodist Church.

GOOSEY, Jack Sidney – the son of Mr D. & Mrs M.A.Goosey of The Royal Oak, known locally as The Drum & Monkey. Jack was born in Wellingborough.

LIDDINGTON, John Francis – born 1896 in Great Addington but later moved to Finedon. Employed as a packer at the Tower Boot Factory, Victoria Street, Irthlingborough.

PANTHER, Sidney Edward – son of Mrs A.M.Panther, 75 Addington Road, Irthlingborough. Member of the Church Institute.

HORN, George Frederick – son of Edward & Hannah Horn – born 1894/5– enlisted Northampton.

PERKINS, Sidney – son of Alpheus and Sarah Perkins of Lilley’s Row.
He was a member of St Peter’s Church Choir and the Church Institute.

THOMPSON, Horace – born 1895 – son of George Arthur & Beatrice Thompson, 49 Addington Road. Scholar at the Baptist Church.

TINSLEY, Joseph – born St Pancras and lived in Finsbury Park, London.

TINSLEY, Samuel – lived in Hammersmith, London. Not necessarily related to Joseph Tinsley.

WESSIN, A – we know nothing at all of this man and no Wessin is listed anywhere as a casualty.

WILLS, George – lived in Bull Yard, Irthlingborough – enlisted at Northampton.

YORK, John Edward – born in 1891 in Raunds [or possibly Rushden], the son of Isabella, and the step-son of James Meekins of Jubilee Street, Irthlingborough.