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Edith Smith (1878 – 1919) | Writing a Family History
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Writing a Family History. First World War Stories. Edith Smith (1878 – 1919). Posted by Cathy Murray. Asymp; Leave a comment. Edith Smith was born on March 2nd 1878 and she lived for most of her life at home with her parents. She was very good at needlework and we still have a sampler she made when she was only 10 years old. I would struggle to sew so well now and I’m considerably older than that! However, on June 21st 1915, aged 37 years, Edith married George Ernest Smith at the parish church in Royston.
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Jack Joseph (1890 – 1917) | Writing a Family History
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Writing a Family History. First World War Stories. Jack Joseph (1890 – 1917). Posted by Cathy Murray. Asymp; Leave a comment. Jack Joseph was the ninth and youngest child of Marks and Clara Joseph. He was the brother of Nathan Joseph. 1880 – 1918) and Woolf Joseph. 1884 – 1958). Marks and Clara were Jewish immigrants who left Poland for London in the early 1870s. Image from “The Long, Long Trail: the British Army in the Great War” http:/ www.1914-1918.net/. Jack’s home was in easy walking distance ...
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Our Grandparents and the First World War | Writing a Family History
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Writing a Family History. First World War Stories. Our Grandparents and the First World War. Posted by Cathy Murray. Asymp; Leave a comment. This post is an overview of Our Grandparents and the First World War with links to each of the individual pages. My grandparents are all together on this photo of my mum and dad’s wedding in 1950. You can find their First World War stories if you click on each person’s name. Elsie Buckle née Smith. Minnie Ashworth née Barratt. Maurice John Arthur Murray. I'm a forme...
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John Henry Buckle (1852 – 1933) | Writing a Family History
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Writing a Family History. First World War Stories. John Henry Buckle (1852 – 1933). Posted by Cathy Murray. Asymp; Leave a comment. In 1919 my great grandfather, John Henry Buckle, was photographed as part of a group of people who made up the Royston War Pensions Committee. At the time of his marriage to Elizabeth, John Henry was a coal miner employed at Kiveton Park Colliery. This had been sunk to the north of the parish of Harthill in 1866-68.Ten years later John Henry had become a colliery dep...John ...
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James William Murray (1845 – 1918) | Writing a Family History
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Writing a Family History. First World War Stories. James William Murray (1845 – 1918). Posted by Cathy Murray. Asymp; Leave a comment. James William Murray was born on 7th January 1845 in Hoxton, London. James William was baptised on 28th July 1847 at St. John the Baptist Church in Hoxton. The family moved to Adelaide Place in the St. Giles, Cripplegate area and father John was employed as a waiter. I can only speculate on this one but what is indisputable is that he met and married Kezia Penn whose fami...
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Rose Murray (1908 – 2006) | Writing a Family History
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Writing a Family History. First World War Stories. Rose Murray (1908 – 2006). Posted by Cathy Murray. Asymp; 2 Comments. Rose Murray was the oldest child of Maurice John Arthur and Sarah Murray. She was born on the 6. June 1908 in Gravel Lane, near Aldgate within the site of the original walled City of London. She was therefore an authentic ‘cockney’ having been born within earshot of the bells of the City of London church, St Mary-le-Bow. 1915 Unfortunately he was taken away from us when he was only two...
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Percival Edward Murray (1897 – 1918) | Writing a Family History
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Writing a Family History. First World War Stories. Percival Edward Murray (1897 – 1918). Posted by Cathy Murray. Asymp; Leave a comment. Percival Edward Murray was born in 1897 and was the oldest child of Edward and Amy Murray who lived in Bow, East London. Edward was the manager of a tea merchant’s business. Edward and Amy also had two daughters: Amy Gladys (born 1898) and Doris Marjorie (born 1902). Aged twenty-one years, Lance Corporal Percival E. Murray was killed in action on 21st March 1918. You ar...
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February | 2015 | Writing a Family History
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Writing a Family History. First World War Stories. Our Grandparents and the First World War. Posted by Cathy Murray. Asymp; Leave a comment. This post is an overview of Our Grandparents and the First World War with links to each of the individual pages. My grandparents are all together on this photo of my mum and dad’s wedding in 1950. You can find their First World War stories if you click on each person’s name. Elsie Buckle née Smith. Minnie Ashworth née Barratt. Maurice John Arthur Murray. Thanks for ...
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Books | Writing a Family History
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Writing a Family History. First World War Stories. For details of our books including Magnificent Britain by Michael Murray. It is 1971 and Nigel Lush’s official biography of First World War hero, Sir Maurice Brearley, is ready for publication. Brearley had been a revered establishment figure, arms manufacturer and founder of the Magnificent Britain gardening competition. At the last minute, Nigel receives some startling and unexpected allegations about Brearley’s conduct at the Battle of Loos. I'm a for...
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Woolf Joseph (1884 – 1958) | Writing a Family History
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Writing a Family History. First World War Stories. Woolf Joseph (1884 – 1958). Posted by Cathy Murray. Asymp; Leave a comment. Woolf was the sixth son of Marks and Clara Joseph. He was the brother of Nathan Joseph (1880 – 1918). At the time of Woolf’s birth, the family lived in Whitechapel in the East End of London. Sometime during the next ten years they moved into 17, New Street in the Houndsditch / Aldgate area of the City of London. In 1920 he took a third class passage from Liverpool to Canada on a ...
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