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1881-1973 |
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Withycombe,
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Teacher |
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Withycombe,
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Together
with sister Irene she ran a ‘high class’ junior school for girls at the
“Misses Birtwhistle’s day school” (nursery school) - Died
12.02.1973 |
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Leofric 1882-1952 |
Full name: |
Robert Leofric Birtwhistle (photo) |
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Born: |
Withycombe,
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Married: |
Margaret
Gee (b…..) at St. Stephens Church, Sparsholt near |
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Farmer |
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Died
08.04.1952 in Ryde, |
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Re Margaret Gee Widow of
Hilton Gee and younger daughter of Major and Mrs Shalden-Smith of Shalden
Hants and Bexhill-on-Sea. |
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Irene 1885-1957 |
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Katharine Irene Birtwhistle |
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Born: |
Withycombe,
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Teacher |
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Taught
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Agnes 1873-1874 |
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Agnes Theodora Birtwhistle |
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Born: |
18 Dec1873
in Skipton |
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Christened
21 Jun 1873 at Died in
infancy of whooping cough in Mar 1874. Buried on
2 Apr 1874 at Christ Church, Skipton. |
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Maude 1878-1908 |
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Agnes Mary Maude Plunket
Birtwhistle (photo) (family photo) |
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Born: |
1878 in
Saulsbury, |
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Resident in: |
Earls
Croome, Worcs & Oakridge, Glos |
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Resident at
‘The Firs’, Earls Croome, Worcs in census of 1881 Died
12.01.1908 in Oakridge Lynch, Nr Stroud – just 6 days after her mother, Agnes
Augusta Jane Fergusson Birtwhistle (ref stained glass window in St
Bartholomews Church, Oakridge Lynch) |
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John 1880-1957 |
Full name: |
John (Jack) Charles Durnford
Birtwhistle (photo) (family photo) |
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Born: |
1880 in
Earls Croome, Worcs |
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Married: |
Kathleen
Cresswell in …………………., on ………….. |
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Occupation: |
Major in
1st Royal |
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Resident in: |
Earls
Croome, Worcs; Clevedon, |
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Resident at
‘The Firs’, Earls Croome, Worcs in census of 1881. Educated
at He served
in the Boer War (1899 to 1902), initially as a Captain in 4th
Battalion the Prince of Wales Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) before
transferring as Captain in the Gloucestershire Regiment – ref London Gazette
Jan 4th 1901. See also campaign medals – Queens South Africa
Medal 1899 (with Subsequent
to this (presumably after a period outside of the army) he was commissioned 2nd
Lieutenant in 1st Battalion
Royal Sussex Regiment with further promotion as follows: ·
Lieutenant
– 23 Jan 1909; ·
Captain
– temp. 27 Dec 1914, substantive from 13 Feb 1915; ·
Major
– 18 Jan 1917; ·
Acting
Lt Colonel (whilst commanding a Battalion) – 25 Mar to 4 Apr 1917. For the
entirety of 1st World War the 1st Battalion Royal
Sussex Regiment were stationed in the Middle East, primarily in ·
1914-1915
Star; ·
The
British war Medal; ·
The
Victory Medal (also called Allied Victory Medal). After
retiring from the army he lived together with his wife Kathleen in Clevedon, Note: On a local Clevedon website there
is a reference to Major JCD Birtwhistle serving in the 9th
Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. This may indicate that for some period
of the 1st World War he was
transferred from 1st to 9th Battalion and would then
have also served in Died
06.03.1957 Re Kathleen Jessie Birtwhistle (nee Cresswell) (photograph) Died
08.12.1980 in Whitchurcg, |
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Claude 1881-1896 |
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Frederic Claude T Birtwhistle |
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Born: |
1881 in
Earls Croome, Worcs |
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Earls
Croome, Worcs & Oakridge, Glos |
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Recorded
as being an ‘imbecile’ |
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Cecil 1884-1952 |
Full name: |
Cecil Alexander Birtwhistle (photograph) |
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Born: |
Earls
Croome, Worcs on 22.03.1884 |
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Married: |
Effie
Robinson in |
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Occupation: |
Engineer |
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Resident in: |
Earls
Croome; Weston-Super-Mare |
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During
world war 1 served from 1917 on the Western Front as a driver with the British
Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem. Home
address in 1919 recorded in military records as “Balmae”, Re Effie Birtwhistle (nee Robinson) Died
14.09.1966 at |
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Percy 1882-1958 |
Full name: |
Frederick Percy Hewetson
Birtwhistle (portrait) (family photo) |
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Born: |
Barton-on-Humber
on 27.06.1882
(photo) |
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Married: |
Ella B Cussons (b1884) in Beverley Minster on 03.09.1913 |
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Occupation: |
Doctor
(General Practitioner) |
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Resident in: |
Barton-on-Humber |
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Born at
Priestgate, Barton-on-Humber , he was educated at Louth Grammar School before moving on to Sedburgh School in
North Yorkshire. He then studied Medicine at In 1905 he
worked as Casualty House Surgeon at Hull Royal Infirmary before being
appointed, in 1906, as resident surgical officer at Salop Infirmary, An active
member of the church with a strong classical education, he was held in high
esteem at St Peter’s Church where he was people’s warden for more than fifty
years. He was also vice-president of the Church Institute for fifty years. A
prominent Freemason for nearly 50 years, he was a past master of the St
Matthew Lodge in Barton and a past first principal of St. Matthew Chapter. He
also held high office in the Provincial Grand Lodge of Lincolnshire and was a
member of the Order of Great Priory of In 1933 he
was enrolled as a Magistrate and served as a
J.P. for Lindsey for the next 24 years – being placed on the
supplementary list when attaining the age of 75. He was chairman of his rota
on the Bench for many of these years. In
addition to all the above Percy was also Chairman of the Board of Governors
of Barton Grammar school for 30 years from its inception in 1926 and still
retained a seat on the Board until his death. He was one of the oldest
members of the Barton Constitutional Club, was Chairman of the local
Conservative Association for 8 years after the 2nd World War and
connected with the association for nearly 60 years. A senior
member of the British Medical Association (BMA) he was selected to travel to
and represent that Association in “A remarkable man in whom many placed their trust. After he
had officially retired as a medical practitioner he continued to attend
private patients and could often be seen on his rounds” He died on
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1884-1961 |
Full name: |
Julia Marion Birtwhistle (photograph) |
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Born: |
Barton-on-Humber
on 24.04.1884 |
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Christened
on 16.05.1884 at She was
brought up in Barton-on-Humber before eventually moving to |
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Cyril 1887-1967 |
Full name: |
Cyril Hewetson Birtwhistle (photograph) |
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Born: |
Barton-on-Humber
on 06.11.1887 |
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Married: |
Dorothy
Shackles in Hampstead, 1923 Nora
Eileen |
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Occupation: |
Chartered
Accountant |
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Resident in: |
Barton-on-Humber,
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Father: |
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A
Chartered Accountant who qualified whilst based in Left Java
with his wife Eileen, shortly after retiring from P&T when the Japanese
invaded during World War II – managing to reach the UK via Australia and the
USA, only for their ship to be torpedoed, with a 30 foot sea running, whilst
part of a convoy off the coast of Iceland.
They were rescued by a corvette which took them to He
re-settled in Crowthorne, Berks, working in Died
29.12.1967 in Ryde, |
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Margaret 1890-1980 |
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Margaret Elsie (Birtwhistle)
Fieldsend (photograh) |
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Born: |
Barton-on-Humber
on 11.11.1890 |
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Married: |
Capt Robert
Stanley Fieldsend in Barton-on-Humber in June 1917 |
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Resident in: |
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Christened
on 01.02.1891 at St Marys Church,
Barton-on-Humber. Following
her marriage to Robert Fieldsend, they lived initially in Burnham and then
after the end of the first world war moved to Two sons
(Alan & Hugh) and 6 grandchildren. Died 1980
at Re Capt. Robert Fieldsend (23.11.1891 - 02.11.1971) Robert
Fieldsend was born and brought up at South Farm, Stainton-le-Vale, On leaving
school he took a commission in the 5th Lincs Territorial Regiment
and served with the Louth and then the Barton-on-Humber Companies – having
moved in 1913 to take up tenancy of a farm of 500 acres under the Earl of
Yarborough at Burnham, near Barton-on-Humber. On the
outbreak of the first World War he was called up and in April 1915 whilst
serving in After the
war, he and wife Margaret became tenants of 700 acres on the Revesby Estate
and came to reside at East Kirkby House. In 1930 they moved to East Kirkby
Manor where they ran an extensive poultry farm, until the farmland was
requisitioned in 1941 by the Air Ministry for the construction of the East
Kirkby Airfield. However the Fieldsends continued to live at East Kirkby
Manor for the remainder of their lives – both being very active and
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Ella 1884-1969 |
Full name: |
Ella Birtwhistle (Cussons)
Birtwhistle (family
photo) |
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Born: |
Beverley
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Married: |
Percy Birtwhistle (b1882) in Beverley Minster on
03.09.1913 |
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Resident in: |
Beverley;
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Youngest
of 5 sisters (Margaret, Gertrude, Lilian, Muriel, Ella). Married her 2nd cousin Percy to
become Ella Birtwhistle Birtwhistle. Prominent member of Red Cross. Died
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