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Brampton Parish Hall Roll of Honour, Cortonwood War Memorial and a Name...
I am continuing my research into the men named on the Roll of Honour (RoH) at Brampton Parish Hall. A recent contact with a retired member of the Parish Council did not really shed any light on its...
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Four brothers Moorhouse from the Concrete Cottages in Brampton who Served in...
There are 100 names on the Brampton Parish Hall Roll of Honour and the men appear to have come from a small community focused on the 106 Concrete Cottages which were on the boundary of Brampton and...
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Distant connection - the Brampton Parish Hall Roll of Honour
It was bound to happen eventually ... I have found a connection between some of the men named on the Brampton Parish Hall Roll of Honour and my husband (aka the OH). As I have been researching the...
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I'm a real PhD Student at long last!
It has been my ambition for many years, since completing my first degree back in 2000 in fact, to continue my studies to Postgraduate level. I finally achieved that this year with a Pass with Merit for...
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James and Albert Crawford First World War Soldiers from Concrete, Brampton
The section of the Brampton RoH showing James Crawford's nameI have been investigating the Brampton Roll of Honour which hangs in Brampton's Parish Hall since February this year. For briefness I will...
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Who was A Gibson? Where did he come from? Where did he live? I love a mystery!
I am trying to identify all of the men on the Brampton Parish Hall Roll of Honour (RoH) which was brought to my attention in February this year. This is the latest of many posts I have written about...
View ArticleThe Brampton Parish Hall Roll of Honour - List of Posts
I have created a good number of posts in the past few months about the framed Roll of Honour recently rediscovered in the papers of the outgoing Brampton Parish Clerk.This is an index to them for my...
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Lister Beckett - Part 1 - father of Sidney Beckett Sokell a First World War...
The saga of Lister Beckett has taken me four sessions to write, and has become more complicated than I ever imagined. Further questions became apparent during the writing requiring additional research....
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Lister Beckett - Part 2 - His marriage to Elizabeth Haigh
This is the second post in a series of four about the life of Lister Beckett. Part 1 - His birth and parentsPart 2 - this post - His marriage to Elizabeth HaighPart 3 - His relationship with Edith...
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Lister Beckett - Part 3 - his relationship with Edith Sokell
This is the third post in a series of four about the life of Lister Beckett. Part 1 - His birth and parentsPart 2 - His marriage to Elizabeth HaighPart 3 - this post - His relationship with Edith...
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Lister Beckett - Part 4 - His death and what happened next for his family
This is the fourth and final post in a series of four about the life of Lister Beckett. Part 1 - His birth and parentsPart 2 - His marriage to Elizabeth HaighPart 3 - His relationship with Edith...
View ArticleBeing a Research student in Lockdown
In May this year I achieved one of my greatest ambitions - I was accepted to study for a PhD at the age of 59 years. I could probably have chosen a better year in which to start!Since beginning my...
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Our Ancestors Didn't Have It Easy - what with Pit Disasters and the First...
About five years ago I wrote the story of one Barnsley born man, William Malkin, who emigrated to Australia in 1909. He left behind his wife and child behind (I don't know why) and made a new life for...
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Just One Street - Waltham Street off Sheffield Road in 1891
My interest in history began back in 1991 when a family friend asked me about names in my family - she started me on the path of a 30 year journey investigating my own and the OH's family trees (and I...
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First World War Soldier's Story: Riley Willerton from Willingham by Stow
Over the Christmas and New Year period I have myself two weeks off from my PhD studies - however as my main hobby is family history it was inevitable that I would come across some First World War (FWW)...
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Child Bride? James Crabtree and Mary Senior who married 27 May 1804 All...
In recent months I have been noticing the surname Senior in the Barnsley area. It crops up in my husband's (the OH) tree, in the tree of his friend that I researched over the Christmas break, and the...
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Finding Smithies Working Men's Club - a great 'Rabbit Hole' to research
Eons ago I wrote a post about war memorials in Monk Bretton. I had only been researching war memorials for a year or so and my only resources were the newspapers in Barnsley Archives. It was about a...
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George Kay - Manager of Barnsley Co-op's First Shop
Completed Tuesday 20 April 2021 at 2.43pm.This post is not completely random - I already had an inking that George Kay was related to my OH in some way. But it was after reading an article in the most...
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The Return of my First Draft Chapter for my PhD on Barnsley's War Memorials
Last night I got my first draft chapter back from my supervisor, Prof Laura Ugolini, at the University of Wolverhampton. As expected there were lots of useful comments, and some which made it apparent...
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One Year On - Still a Student In Lockdown, but Finding More Diocesan...
This morning I changed the date for our proposed holiday again. We had been booked on a Leger Beer and Battlefields tour, something for the OH, the beer, and something for me, the FWW history. It...
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Public Engagement - Reactions to First World War Local History Posts on Facebook
Today I was very happy when a couple of posts I made on Facebook produced information useful for my research. As part of the research for my PhD I have been searching through the local newspapers on...
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Child and Female Pallbearers in England: A Barnsley example following Jane...
A year ago I wrote about the funeral of a seven year old girl, whose ten bearers were described in the newspaper as girl friends of the deceased. That was in 1902 in Mexborough. At the time I was quite...
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Why is Herbert Bethell, lost at Jutland in 1916, not on a War Memorial in...
I have several reasons for writing this post:Herbert Bethell was born in Cudworth, which is not only in Barnsley, but also the village (?town) where I actually live.He is not in the 'Lest Cudworth...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Blog! How have things changed in the last nine years?
It's my blog's birthday today. I wrote my first post on 16 October 2012. Happy 9th birthday blog!I just had a look at the original post and some things have improved.I applied for, and eventually got,...
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News about the 1921 census and how it might impact my academic plans
Some of the historians I follow on Twitter are complaining about the recently revealed starting prices for the Find My Past (FMP) release of the 1921 census from 6 January next year. As usual when new...
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