57.5 Maternal Cousins of Arthur Wheaver

Charles and Sarah Barnes had eleven children. Their children are Arthur Barnes Wheaver's first cousins.

• 49.2.1 - Elizabeth Barnes (1843) m Henry Chattaway (1844-1915)=

• Frank Henry Chattaway (1880) 
• 1901: At home with widowed mother in Duddeston. Railway carriage cleaner (20)
• Married Margaret Ann Barrett (1884) in Aston in 1910
• He was a railway coach examiner, and they lived at 63 Cato Road North, Duddeston.
• Children:
• One child

• May Mary Chattaway (1883)
• Married Joseph Frederick Salmon (1884-1968) in Aston in 1901
• In 1911, she is shown as married but Joseph is absent. They are living at 11 Dun Yard, Ratcliff Gate, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The children were born in Mansfield. My photos of Mansfield are here.
• Children:
• Jessie May Salmon (1902)
• Charles Ernest Salmon (1905)
• Annie Maria Salmon (1911)
• Maisie Salmon (1914)

Moot Hall, Mansfield (my photo)

• 49.2.2 - Caroline Ann Barnes (1845-1931)
• See Chapter 57

• 49.2.3 - Sarah Rose Barnes (1848-1849)
• Died in infancy

• 49.2.4 - Baron Charles Barnes (1848)
• No known children

• 49.2.5 - Rose Martha Barnes (1849-1912) m George Henry Bennett (1848)

• Ellen Maud Bennett (1878-1899)
• Died at age 20

• Florence R Bennett (1885)
• No record found after 1901

• Alice Rose Bennett (1892-1956)
• 1911: At home in Vauxhall. Machinist of surgical bandages (18).
• Married Alfred Michael Newell (1892-1971) at St Peter, Birmingham in 1917
• Children:
• Victor Michael Newell (1918)
• Alfred served as an Acting Corporal with the 6th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in WWI, and received a disability pension thereafter. He would have seen action at the Somme from the first day; and later in Italy, injury permitting.

Royal Warwickshire Cap Badge (credit)

• 1939: 22 Chester Road, Castle Bromwich (now redeveloped). He was a chief storekeeper. This address very close to Grade I listed Castle Bromwich Hall, now a hotel.

Castle Bromwich Hall (credit)

• It is, these days, also close to the M6. Just the other side, and less than a mile from home, is the Castle Bromwich Assembly Factory. In 1936, the Air Ministry purchased a parcel of land opposite Castle Bromwich Aerodrome which encompassed an old sewage works. Developed and managed by the Nuffield Organisation, owners of Morris Motors, they were briefed to manufacture Supermarine Spitfire fighters and later Avro Lancaster bombers. The theory was that the local Birmingham skills-base and production techniques used in the manufacture of motor vehicles could be transferred to aircraft production. It turned out to be a bit more complicated than that but, nevertheless, it went on to become the largest and most successful plant of its type during the 1939–45 conflict. As the largest Spitfire factory in the UK, by producing up to 320 aircraft per month, it built over half of the 20,000 Spitfires made.

Combat Veteran Spitfire built at Castle Bromwich, 1942 (my photo)

• Nowadays, the plant belongs to Jaguar Land Rover. I visited in 2019, and there are still traces of camouflage paint and other vestiges from WWII. The roundabout outside is called Spitfire Island, and in 2000 an aluminium sculpture by Tim Tolkien was unveiled, featuring half size Spitfires.

Castle Bromwich Assembly Factory and Sentinel Sculpture

• 49.2.6 - Samuel Hedges Barnes (1852-1904) m Ada Sarah Ann Smith (1857-1934)

• Walter Clifford Barnes (1875-1940)
• Married Kate Lily Osborn (1877-1949) in Aston in 1899
• He was a postman and grocer, and they lived at 90 Lichfield Road, Aston; they kept a servant.
• Children:
• Phyllis Maud Barnes (1908)

• Samuel Barnes (1877-1925)
• Married Kate Morris (1878-1938)
• He was a road labourer, and they lived at Block 6 1 House, Little Edward Street, Deritend (now redeveloped as an industrial estate). In 1911, he was a railway wagon builder (probably at Vauxhall Shed), and they lived at 5, Blackwell Buildings, Alma Crescent [Duddeston] (also now an industrial estate).
• Children:
• Samuel Hedges Barnes (1907)
• Kate Barnes (1909)

• Lizzie Jane Barnes (1879)
• No record found after 1901

• Ada Charlotte Barnes (1882-1947)
• Married Charles Preece (1876-1966) at St James the Less, Ashted in 1902. He was a goods checker with the Midland Railway, and they lived at 173 College Road, Saltley.
• Walter Preece (1903)
• Rose Ellen Preece (1905)

• Rose Ellen Barnes (1883)
• 1911: Boarding with brother Charles. Clerk with a hardware manufacturer. No later record found.

• Charles Cornelius Barnes (1888)
• Married Mabel Eliza May Patterson (1895-1934) in Lincoln, Ontario, Canada in 1922. Lincoln is a fruit- and wine-growing area. Emigrated via Niagara in 1911.
• 5 children

• Fred Barnes (1894)
• 1911: At home in St Saviour's Road, Saltley. His step-father is a railway guard. Fitter's labourer at the motor works. The house is about three miles from the Lanchester Works at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Road, Sparkbrook. BSA has also made cars there but had not been successful.

Lanchester Armoured Car 1915 (my photo)

• He enlisted with the Royal Engineers (trade: engine fitter) in January 1916 and posted in January 1917, joining the BEF, and serving as a sapper, and mechanic in France for 2 years 9 months. 
• His last employer before joining the army was Riverdale Garage, Toronto! There is a letter requesting repatriation to Canada in 1919, giving his brother's address. No later record found, so the assumption is that he returned to Canada.

• 49.2.7 - Mary Ellen Barnes (1853)
• 1861: At home in Duddeston. Scholar (7). No later record found.

• 49.2.8 - Fanny Maria Barnes (1855-1922) m William Kent (1853-1927)

• William Charles Kent (1876-1937)
• 1891: At home in Handsworth. Accountant's clerk.
• In 1901, he shows up, apparently randomly, as a visitor to a postman at 1 West Park Avenue, St Helier, Jersey - less than a mile from the Le Brun family bakery! He is a postal clerk.
• Married Mary Florence Wiggin (1880-1962) in Aston in 1903
• He is an overseer at the General Post Office, and they live at 86 Freer Road, Birchfields [Handsworth], Birmingham.
• Children:
• Walter Leonard Kent (1904)
• Alice Mary Kent (1906)

Birmingham Head Post Office (credit)

• Frederick Kent (1878-1965?)
• 1901: At home in Handsworth. Librarian (22). No later record found.
• If he was Frederick E S Kent, then he was in Birmingham in 1939, a hearth and furniture trader, married to Eliza (1881), dau Winifred (1920), and he died in 1965.

• Alice Gertrude Kent (1880)
• 1901: At home in Handsworth. Milliner (21). No later record found.

• Ethel Kent (1883-1961)
• 1901/1911: At home in Handsworth. Telegraph clerk. iPM have a letter from a contemporary of Ethel's to us in the C21. Worth a read!
• Died in Birmingham.

Morse code key (For Sale)

• Walter Leonard Kent (1885-1962)
• 1901: At home in Handsworth. Office clerk (15).
• Married Harriet Fothergill (1879-1941) in Aston in 1909
• Children:
• Marjorie Kent (1913)
• 1939: 35 Hampton Road, [Stockland Green] Birmingham. Director of building company. Widowed two years later.
• Married Marjorie Mary Harrison

• Stedman Francis Kent (1888-1916)
• 1911: At home in Handsworth. Builder's clerk.
• Volunteered in 1915 for WWI. Enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. 15th Battalion. Died 30 August 1916. This would have been as part of the 5th Division, and during the Attacks on High Wood - part of the Battle of the Somme.

Recruitment Poster for Royal Warwickshire Regiment (credit)

• The 14th, 15th and 16th (Service) battalions, were raised in September 1914 from men volunteering in Birmingham. These units were additionally entitled 1st, 2nd and 3rd City of Birmingham battalions and were known as the Birmingham Pals. They landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 95th Brigade in the 32nd Division in November 1915 for service on the Western Front. 785 men died.

• Rose Ellen Kent (1890-1891)
• Died in infancy

• Rose Annie Kent (1892-1960)
• Married Francis Cecil Dennis (1892-1968) in West Bromwich in 1930.
• He was a sorting clerk and telegraphist, and they lived at 18 Fentham Road, [Birchfield / Aston] Birmingham
• Children:
• Cecil H Dennis (1932)

• Marie Doris Kent (1895-1963)
• 1911: At home in Handsworth. Brass founder's clerk (15).
• 1939: 8 Woodlands Farm Road, [Erdington] Birmingham. Company secretary of public company.
• 1958: Embarked on MV Monte de la Esperanza on a round trip from Liverpool. She was a company secretary.

• Fanny Kent (1896-1962)
• Married William J Ashmore (1896-1962) in 1923 in West Bromwich. He was a sorting clerk and telegraphist, and they lived at 31 Kingstanding Road, Birmingham. No known children.

Creed Teleprinter of the type which started to replace hand keying in the 1920s (credit)

• 49.2.9 - John Smith Barnes (1858-1862)
• John died in infancy.

• 49.2.10 - Martha Maud Barnes (1859-1929)
• 1891: At home in Eccleshall. No occupation (30). No later record found until that of death in Birmingham South at age 69.

• 49.2.11 - Horatio John Barnes (1863-1935) m Ellen (Nellie) Blakemore (1864-1947)
• Followed his father into the Post Office. Was an Assistant Inspector in 1891, 1901 and 1911, and they also lived in Duddeston (Dollman Street, then Cato Street).

More information on these families in Chapter 61.

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