57.3-4 Wheaver Summary Tree (with James Family)

John James (1777-1851) m Margaret Loveridge (1792-1868)
See Chapter 1 for their biographies, Chapter 33 for those of their children, and Chapter 49 for those of their grandchildren.

• William James (1826-1888) m Rebecca Weaver (1829-1924)
• John Wheaver (1850-1927) - stepson - see Wheaver tree below
• Hannah [Annie] James (1857-1930) m William Parker Freeman (1853)
• William James Freeman (1885-1946) m Annie Oscroft?

Benjamin Weaver (1791-1881) m Hannah (1798-1853)
See Chapter 2 for their biographies, and Chapter 33 for those of their children, and Chapter 49 for those of their grandchildren.

• Thomas Weaver (1813-1878) m Maria Thompson (1811)
• Ann Thompson (1837)
• Harriet Weaver (1848)

• Benjamin Weaver (1815-1863) m Christianna Showell (1818-1896)
• Thomas Weaver (1838-1838)
• Benjamin Weaver (1839)
• Samuel Weaver (1842-1901) m Eliza Tolley (1845-1901)
• Elizabeth Weaver (1867) m James Gollick (1863-1898) at All Saints, Wakefield in 1884

James was a coal miner. His pit was likely to have been at the nearby Parkhill Colliery, Eastmoor, which operated from 1861-1981. He had an accident at work on 19 March 1898, where he was crushed. He was taken to hospital, paralysed from the waist down. He died on 2 September, aged 35. There is testimony from his widow at the inquest that he set off to his work at about a quarter to 8 o'clock at night... and she next saw him the next morning in the hospital. "I visited him regularly." Signed in shaky, childlike handwriting.

Colliery Wheel, Parkhill Colliery, Wakefield (credit)

• George Gollick (1885-1914)
• Sam Gollick (1887-1918)
• Tom Gollick (1887)
• Edith Eliza Gollick (1888-1928)
• William Gollick (1892-1951)
• Maud Gollick (1893-1944)
• === m Tom Margatroyd (1864-1915) at St Andrew, Wakefield in 1905. He was a law clerk.
• Elsie Margatroyd (1906)
• Amy Margatroyd (1907-1998)
• Mary Margatroyd (1907) 
• Clara Weaver (1869-1941) m John George Holroyd (1860-1937) at All Saints, Featherstone, 1896. He was a surface worker at a colliery; pit bank superintendent in 1891. There is an account of Featherstone's collieries here.

"It was about nine o'clock on Thursday night when the South Staffordshire detachment first fired on the mobs which were besieging the colliery of Lord Masham and were charging the soldiers with stones. The first shot was only by one file of two men, and these did not take effect. Shortly before ten o'clock one section of the Staffordshires fired two volleys. So far as could be ascertained seven of the mob were hit. James Gibbs, of Loscoe, was shot through the breast, and expired. James Perkins, knee shot away, died yesterday. It was eleven o'clock on Thursday night before the Staffordshire were reinforced by detachments of Yorkshire Light Infantry and York and Lancaster Regiment, whose duty did not extend beyond that of keeping the crowd off the colliery premises. Mr. Bernard Hartley, the magistrate who was pelted with stones whilst reading the Riot Act, was little the worse yesterday. Another death is now reported. The victim, one of the miners shot, named Tomlinson, was a Normanton man." The Guardian 9 September 1893 ("The Featherstone Massacre")

• Martha Ann Holroyd (1887-1971)
• Nellie Holroyd (1897-1962)
• Doris Holroyd (1897-1992)
• Benjamin Baden Holroyd (1897-1959)
• Beatrice Holroyd (1897-1940)
• George Holroyd (1897-1911)
• Lionel Holroyd (1897-1996)
• Alberta Holroyd (1897-2001)
• Charlotte Weaver (1870-1871). Oldbury.
• William Weaver (1872-1955) m Mary Ellen Rollin (1878-1969) at All Saints, Wakefield in 1896. He was a coal hewer, first in Wakefield, then in Pontefract.
• Walter R Weaver (1897)
• Martha Irene Weaver (1898-1978)
• Edith Annie Weaver (1900-1969)
• Mona Weaver (1902-1978)
• Rollin Weaver (1904-1956)
• Sam Weaver (1906-1991)
• Norman Weaver (1908-1985)
• Thora Weaver (1910-2001)
• Noel Weaver (1918-1986)
• Jack Weaver (1924)
• Samuel Weaver (1874-1887) b. Oldbury; d. Pontefract
• Benjamin Weaver (1876-1938) m Pauline Holdgate (1877-1947) at All Saints, Wakefield in 1897. He was a coal hewer in Stanley, Wakefield.
• Maud Weaver (1897-1994)
• Anne Weaver (1899-1979)
• Alice Weaver (1900-1965)
• Elsie Weaver (1902-1997)
• Francis Weaver (1904-2003)
• Elizabeth Weaver (1909-1919)
• William Allan Weaver (1912-1912)
• Ethel May Weaver (1914-2000)
• Miranda Weaver (1915-1967)
• Nellie Weaver (1919-2005)
• Sarah Weaver (1878) m Charles Edward Davies (1872-1911) at All Saints, Normanton in 1895. He was a tin plate worker, later a tinsmith

Tinsmith's Workshop at Ryedale Folk Museum (Trip Advisor)

• Charles William Davies (1897-1945)
• Ada Weaver (1880-1883) b. Snydale, Wakefield; d. Pontefract
• Fanny Weaver (1888-1970) m Jesse Parker (1892-1980) in 1911 at St Michael, East Ardsley, Leeds. She had been a domestic servant; he was a warehouseman.
• George Henry Weaver (1844-1928) m Ellen Taylor (1843-1919)
• Benjamin Weaver (1867-1880) b. Oldbury; d. West Bromwich
• Christiana Weaver (1871-1916) m George Barratt (1866-1906) at All Saints, Normanton in 1889. He was a coal hewer. The followed the job to Whickham, Co Durham [now Gateshead]. My photos of Gateshead are here. Then to Houghton-le-Spring, where they retired.
• Albert Barratt (1889)

St Mary, Gateshead (my photo)

• Harry Weaver (1874-1952) m Edith Groom (1879-1929) at All Saints, Normanton in 1891. Harry was a bricklayer. 
• Percy William Weaver (1899-1919) b. Altofts nr Wakefield)
• George Henry Weaver (1900-1969) b. Altofts)
• Madge Weaver (1904-1986) b. Altofts)
• Winnie Weaver (1910-1978) b. Conisbrough)
• Before WWI, the family emigrated to the USA, and were naturalised; Harry died in Chicago

Chicago, Board of Trade Building, 1930 (credit)

• Joe Weaver (1876-1944) m Clara Sheard (1879-1971) at All Saints, Normanton in 1899. Joe was a brick burner, i.e. the man in charge of the kiln responsible for ensuring correct temperature during firing. Brickmaking often accompanied coal mining around Yorkshire at the time, for geological reasons. By 1911, he had become a coal hewer.
• Emma Weaver (1900-1979)
• Ben Weaver (1901-1978)
• Harry Weaver (1904-1984)
• Ellen Weaver (1907-2000)
• George Weaver (1910-1987)
• Mary Weaver (1913-1931)
• James Weaver (1914-1914)
• William Weaver (1916-2006)
• Robert Weaver (1920-2002)
• Alice Weaver (1924)
• Albert Weaver (1889). No record found after 1901.
• Luke Weaver (1849-1917) m Sarah Davies (1850)
• Luke Weaver (1868-1919) m Harriet June Amos (1871-1942) in Carbon, Pennsylvania, USA. He was probably a coal miner.
• Robert S Weaver (1890-1915)
• William John Weaver (1891-1948)
• Clarence Weaver (1893-1967)
• Sarah D Weaver (1895-1976)
• Benjamin Franklin Weaver (1897-1951)
• Margaret Evans Weaver (1899-1989)
• Charlotte Weaver (1851-1871)
• Isiah Weaver (1853-1860)
• Sarah Weaver (1854-1948) m Henry Bird (1854-1899)
• Charlotte [Lottie] Elizabeth Bird (1874-1956) m Edward George Jacques (1865-1939) in Aston in 1900. She had been a domestic servant. He was a tailor, 9 years older. They lived in Deritend.
• Ada Margaret Jacques (1901-1989)

Charlotte and Ada Jacques

• 1908: Emigrated to Australia on the SS Narrung. By now, he was a carpenter. He died in Granville, Sydney, NSW; she outlived him by nearly 20 years, and died in Bellevue, Queensland
• Eliza Ann Bird (1875-1906) m Edward Ridley (1872-1952) at St Luke, Harrogate in 1903. He was a porter with the North Eastern Railway. My photos of Harrogate are here. She only lived 3 more years.
• Eliza Ann Ridley (1905-1971)

Royal Baths, Harrogate, 1893 (my photo). Extraordinary interior here.

• Sarah Ann Bird (1876-1969) m Frederick Stanley Barratt (1874) in Waverley, Sydney, NSW in 1911. She had been born in West Bromwich and was at home there in 1891.
• Christina Bird (1884-1960) m John Henry Lester (1881-1943) in Tipton in 1907. He was a 'marker off and putter together' at a bridge and girder works. This would have been the Horseley Company.

Christina Bird

• They emigrated to Australia. He died during WWII in Sydney; she survived him by 17 years, and died in Parramatta, Greater Sydney. Children:
• Christina Lester (1914-1971)
• Joseph Henry Lester (1914-2003)

Ryde Pier, Isle of Wight, built by Horseley Co, 1878 (my photo)

• Elizabeth Bird (1885-1886) b. and d. West Bromwich
• William Henry Bird (1886-1957) m Harriet Hunter (1885-1938) in West Bromwich in 1906. William was a furnaceman at an iron works, possibly the Staffordshire Iron Works, Ryders Green. 
• John Henry Bird (1906-2004)
• Joseph Albert Bird (1908-1985)
• Harry Bird (1909-1911)
• Lily M bird (1912)
• Jeremiah Bird (1889-1915). Seems to have emigrated to Australia in 1910 on the RMS Ophir. Brickmaker. Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 28 January 1915, giving his sister Lottie, NSW as next of kin. He was killed in action between 6-9 August, age 22, at Gallipoli, Turkey. His memorial is here.

Jeremiah Bird

The Gallipoli campaign took place on the Gallipoli (now Gelibolu, Turkey), from 17 February 1915 to 9 January 1916. The Allied Powers sought to weaken the Ottoman Empire by taking control of the straits that provided a supply route to Russia. The attack on Ottoman forts at the entrance of the Dardanelles in February 1915 failed and was followed by an amphibious landing on the peninsula in April 1915 to capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (Istanbul). In January 1916, after eight months' fighting, with approximately 250,000 casualties on each side, the land campaign was abandoned and the invasion force withdrawn. It was a costly defeat for the Allies and for the sponsors, especially First Lord of the Admiralty (1911–1915), Winston Churchill. The campaign was considered a great Ottoman victory. In Turkey, it is regarded as a defining moment in the history of the state, a final surge in the defence of the motherland as the Ottoman Empire retreated. The struggle formed the basis for the Turkish War of Independence and the declaration of the Republic of Turkey eight years later, with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who rose to prominence as a commander at Gallipoli, as founder and president. The campaign is often considered to be the beginning of Australian and New Zealand national consciousness; 25 April, the anniversary of the landings, is known as ANZAC Day, the most significant commemoration of military casualties and veterans in the two countries, surpassing Remembrance Day. Wikipedia

The Battle of Lone Pine was fought between 6 and 10 August 1915. The battle was part of a diversionary attack to draw Ottoman attention away from the main assaults being conducted by British, Indian and New Zealand troops around Sari Bair, Chunuk Bair and Hill 971, which became known as the August Offensive. At Lone Pine, the assaulting force, initially consisting of the Australian 1st Brigade (including Jeremiah), managed to capture the main trench line from the two Ottoman battalions that were defending the position in the first few hours of the fighting on 6 August. Over the next three days, the fighting continued as the Ottomans brought up reinforcements and launched numerous counterattacks in an attempt to recapture the ground they had lost. As the counterattacks intensified the ANZACs brought up two fresh battalions to reinforce their newly gained line. Finally, on 9 August the Ottomans called off any further attempts and by 10 August offensive action ceased, leaving the Allies in control of the position. Nevertheless, despite the Australian victory, the wider August Offensive of which the attack had been a part failed and a situation of stalemate developed around Lone Pine which lasted until the end of the campaign in December 1915 when Allied troops were evacuated from the peninsula. Wikipedia

• Lily Violet Bird (1890-1974) m James Joseph Richards (1889-1960) at St George the Martyr, Little Bolton [Salford] in 1913. She had been a domestic servant; he was a plater.

Lily Richards

• Violet May Richards (1917-1973)
• Minnie Richards (1922-2009)
• George Albert Bird (1893-1966) m Florence Gertrude Hayward (1893-1971) in West Bromwich in 1913. He was a sheet iron worker.
• James A Bird (1915-1923)
• William Henry Bird (1917-1982)
• Dorothy Bird (1895-1992) m Alfred James Bird (1893-1963) in Tipton in 1912 (no known relation). He was an iron puller. Nevertheless, he served in WWI with the 17th Lancashire Fusiliers. He was 5'1" - this was a 'bantam battalion'. When he enlisted, he was a baker. He joined the reserve in January 1915, and posted in August 1916. He was shot in the left hand at Trones Wood in France (at the Battle of Guillemont, Somme) and discharged in January 1917 as no longer fit for war service.
• Norman George Bird (1913-1989)
• Florence Bird (1913-1993)
• Sarah Bird (1917-2003)
• Lily May Bird (1918-1920)
• Dorothy Louisa Bird (1919-2001)
• Alfred James Bird (1922-2001)
• George Arthur Bird (1926-1995)
• Jeremiah Weaver (1857-1903) m Phebe Whale (1851-1885)
• Thomas Weaver (1877-1907). Forge roller (puddler?) at the ironworks
• Charlotte Weaver (1878-1948) m Samuel Morris (1881) at West Bromwich in 1903
• Ethel Winifred Morris (1912-1983)
• Joseph Morris (1913-1913)
• Frederick E Morris (1915-1937)
• Frank Morris (1918-1934)
• Joseph Morris (1919-1919)
• Kathleen Morris (1923)
• Edith Morris (1925)
• Constantine Morris (1927)
• James Weaver (1881-1885) b. West Bromwich; d. Wolverhampton
• William Weaver (1882) m Elizabeth Beard (1883) in West Bromwich in 1908. He worked as an iron worker in the rolling mills
• Florence Weaver (1909-1997)
• Clara Weaver (1910)
• Elizabeth Weaver (1912)
• William Weaver (1915)
• Thomas Weaver (1918)
• Annie Weaver (1921)
• Mary Weaver (1926)
• == m Sarah E? (1853)
• William Weaver (1858-1939) m Frances Morris (1860) 
• Lawrence Weaver (1888-1974) m Ellen Louisa Turton (1898) at All Saints, Normanton in 1914. He served in WWI with the Yorks Hussars; he was discharged with bronchitis caused by active service (no next of kin shown, so unverified)
• Peter Ronald Weaver (1921-2006)
• Lucy Wheaver (1891) m Fred Ramsden (1888) at All Saints, South Kirkby, Wakefield in 1911. He was a coal hewer.

South Kirkby Colliery by Eric Hill (ArtUK)

• Olive Ramsden (1912-1993)
• Alice Ramsden (1914)
• George Ramsden (1916-1986)
• Tom Wheaver (1895-1917) m May Louisa Bennett (1892-1985) in Tottenham, London. He was an engineer, then an assurance agent.
• Gwendoline Marie Weaver (1914-1996) b. Redcar
• He joined the Royal Scots Regiment as a rifleman. He disembarked at Boulogne on 3 January 1917, and joined his unit on 6 January. He fell ill with dysentery and pneumonia on 30 January, and died on 3 February, at age 21. This disease struck the men in the trenches as there was no proper sanitation. Latrines in the trenches were pits four to five feet deep. When they were within one foot they were supposed to be filled in and the soldiers had the job of digging a new one. Sometimes there was not time for this and men used a nearby shell-hole. Dysentery caused by contaminated water was especially a problem in the early stages of the war. The main reason for this was that it was some time before regular supplies of water to the trenches could be organised. Soldiers were supplied with water bottles that could be refilled when they returned to reserve lines. However, the water-bottle supply was rarely enough for their needs and soldiers in the trenches often depended on impure water collected from shell-holes or other cavities.  Spartacus

• Mary Weaver (1817-1898) m William Hastilow (1811-1873)
• James Hastilow (1841-1918) m Jane Haywood (1843-1916)
• Mary Jane Hastilow (1868-1890) b. Weeford nr Lichfield; d. Kings Norton
• Alfred Hastilow (1874-1955) m Mary Ann Bartram (1875). He was a bricklayer's labourer. They moved to Shepherd's Pool [Four Oaks], Sutton Coldfield. This is off the Weedon Road, and now redeveloped. 
• Albert Hastilow (1904-1980)
• Stanley Alfred Hastilow (1905-1985)
• Gladys May Hastilow (1908-1985)
• Lilian Mary Hastilow (1911-1990)
• Katie Hastilow (1913-1961)
• Cyril James Hastilow (1914-2005)
• Emily Hastilow (1877-1955) m Joseph Pope (1876-1954) in Aston district in 1909. She had been a domestic servant; he was a milkman and farmer, and they lived at Hayling Villa, Reddicap Heath Road, Sutton, a house with 6 rooms. On 24 February 1915, the family emigrated to Australia on the Roscommon, a refrigerated cargo steamship. There is a good article on the history of emigration to Australia here. The voyage would have taken five or six weeks, meaning that they would have arrived less than 3 months before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which started WWI. 
• The Roscommon was torpedoed and sunk on 21 August 1917 in the Atlantic by the German submarine U-53. Her crew survived. She was one of nine British ships to be sunk that day.
• The couple died a year apart in Toowoomba, Queensland
• Emily Pope (1911-1981)
• Elizabeth Pope (1913-2009)
• Joseph Pope (1914)
• Edith Florence Pope (1916)
• Jessie Pope (1918-2014)
• William (Billy) Pope (1922-1976)
• James Hastilow (1880-1957) m Emma Norgrove. He was a farm labourer, and they lived at Spring Hill, Sutton Coldfield. He died in Lichfield district.
• Leslie Hastilow (1912-1997)
• Annie Louise Hastilow (1882-1961) m Alfred Roberts (1880) in 1939. She had been a cook at the home of William Badham at Boscobel, Four Oaks. Died in Lichfield district.
• Richard Hastilow (1842-1849)
• Emma Hastilow (1844) m Roland Hodgkins
• Sarah Hastilow (1844) m Oliver Barker Ward (1853)
• Charles Edward Ward (1876-1939) m Annie Evans (1882) in Tamworth in 1910. He was a blacksmith at a shoeing forge. d. Sutton.
• Charles Frederick Ward (1910-1989)
• Alice Elizabeth Ward (1877-1920) m Harry Philip Colloby (1878-1949) in Tamworth in 1902. She had been a domestic servant in Derby. He was a Police Constable with Derby County Borough.
• Catherine Emily Colloby (1903-1974)
• Edith Colloby (1906-1955)
• Harry Philip Colloby (1909-1912)
• Florence Ward (1885-1959). Domestic cook in Wylde Green in 1911. Later an assistant school mistress.
• Oliver Barker Ward (1886-1952?) m Elizabeth Hall (1888). He was a shoeing smith for a colliery, and they lived at 21 Aldergate Street, Tamworth
• Evelyn Ward (1911-1989)
• Edith Emma Ward (1888-1969) m Charles Stevens (1890-1942) in 1911. Earlier in 1911, she had been a servant for a chartered accountant in Eastgate, Erdington. He was a coal miner, and they lived in Tamworth.
• Ethel Steven (1919-1990)
• Doris Stevens (1924)
• Kate Ward (1888-1918) m Charles E Tomlinson (1884)
• Jane Hastilow (1844-1916)
• William Hastilow (1847-1889)
• Samuel Hastilow (1849-1923) m Rebecca Rowley (1856-1929)
• Emma Elizabeth Hastilow (1876-1961) m Frederick Jones (1873-1951) in Curdworth, Sutton in 1897. He was a waggoner on a farm. Later he was a bacteria bed foreman at the Birmingham Drainage Works. They lived on Park Lane, Minworth, Sutton.
• Alice Mabel Jones (1897-1974)
• Herbert Frederick Jones (1898-1928)
• Fred Jones (1899-1970)
• Frank Jones (1900-1906)
• Jessie Jones (1902-1969)
• Benjamin Jones (1904-1989)
• Herbert Jones (1904-1988)
• George Jones (1905-aft 1948)
• Arthur Jones (1907-1913)
• John William Jones (1908-1988)
• Lucy Edith Jones (1910-1990)
• Edward Jones (1912-1981)
• Charles Henry Jones (1914-2001)
• Margaret Jones (1916)
• James Oliver Jones (1920-2001)

Curdworth Church (credit)

• Herbert Samuel Hastilow (1878-1966) m Fanny Watson (1883-1936) in Curdworth in 1906. Herbert was an oiler on the Midland Railway.
• Herbert John Hastilow (1907-1957)
• Alice Rhoda Hastilow (1880-1966) m Joseph Willoughby Compton (1876-1959) in Curdworth in 1899. He was a bricklayer's labourer, then a cowman on a farm. They lived in Erdington, then Wishaw, Birmingham. Eventually, he was a (railway) plate layer, and she was a shopkeeper.
• Herbert Joseph Compton (1903-1977)
• William Arthur Compton (1912-1984)
• Agnes M Hastilow (1882-1940) m Robert Hill (1878) in Curdworth in 1909. He was a farm labourer, then a builder's labourer, and they lived in Erdington. He was called up in April 1917 and joined the 13th (Works) Battalion of the Devons. Men in these battalions were unfit for front line service because of wounds or ill health but undertook arduous, occasionally dangerous, support jobs behind the lines. 
• Edith Annie Hastilow (1883-1973) m Charles Herbert Abbott (1886-1978) in Curdworth in 1904. Charles was a waggoner on a farm.
• Edith May Abbott (1904-1959)
• Charles Henry Abbott (1907-2003)
• Amy Abbott (1909-1995)
• Eva Abbott (1909-1974)
• Frank Abbott (1911-1992)
• Annie Rebecca Abbott (1913-1999)
• Dorothy Abbott (1919-1999)
• William Abbott (1921)
• Arthur Percy Hastilow (1887-1961) m Sarah A Hawkshaw. Arthur was a miner. He enlisted in August 1915, and was posted as a gunner with Royal Field Artillery (D Battery, 110 Brigade), and joined the British Expeditionary Force. This brigade was originally comprised of A, B, C and D Batteries RFA and the Brigade Ammunition Column. It was placed under command of the 25th Division. The batteries were all armed with four 18-pounder field guns. Long, Long Trail. They served throughout the Battles of the Somme (LLT)
• He suffered from appendicitis at Harfleur and invalided back to Britain on the Hospital Ship in June 1918. He subsequently went back to France as a driver with the 8th Auxiliary Reserves. 

"Bull Ring, Birmingham. Dear Sir, I am sorry to have to write these few lines to you but I think that your entitled to the three Medals I was in the Army 1915 and you have only got me down for one trusting you will look into the matter for me has I am about the only one that has not had them round here and I am sure the 25th Div done thier (sic) bit trusting you will oblige your (sic) truly. Late gunner A. Hastilow 102846 RFA" [It looks like he originally only got the British War Medal (for service) but was awarded the 1914-15 Star (for volunteers seeing active service) and the Victory Medal (for active service).]

British War Medal (credit)

• He was a metal worker, and the family lived in Short Heath Road, Birmingham. 
• Arthur Hastilow (1914-1957)
• Ginnie Hastilow (1915)
• === m Alice Rhosa Caldicott (1893-1972)
• Stephen Jack Elmore (1916-1989) Stepson
• James Thomas Hastilow (1920-1986)
• Frank Hastilow (1921-1981)
• Rhoda Amy Hastilow (1923-2008)
• Elsie Mabel Hastilow (1890-1981) m Arthur Collins (1891) in Bromsgrove in 1914. She had been a domestic servant. He may have been a cab driver in 1911, and possibly a sailor before WWI. He probably served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Service from 1914-1915. He worked in road construction, and they lived in Birmingham.
• Agnes Collins (1917)
• Sidney Collins (1920-1984)
• Arthur Collins (1923-1984)
• Doris Amy Hastilow (1897-1965) m George Ernest Clark (1895-1969) in Meriden in 1920. He was from Stratford. He was a general labourer, and they lived in Sutton.
• Reginald George Clarke (1921-2000)
• Mary Hastilow (1851-1851)
• Hannah [Annie] Hastilow (1855-1933) m Alfred Webb (1855). Children born Four Oaks, Sutton.
• William Arthur Webb (1890-1971). Enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914, but was discharged almost straight away as 'not likely to become on efficient soldier on medical grounds'. No later record found.
• Arthur J Webb (1890-1942) m Alice Thompson (1895) in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire in 1922. My photos of Wycombe are here. Arthur was a gardener, like his father, and they lived in Wooburn nr Wycombe.

Guildhall, High Wycombe (my photo)

• Alfred Webb (1891-1972) m Mary (1902). He was a carpenter, and they lived in Sutton.
• Charles Webb (1895-1918). Milkman. Enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Served as a rifleman 7th Battalion Rifle Brigade [now the Green Jackets], and with the Royal Field Artillery? Died 28 October 1918, aged 22, two weeks before the end of the war. His battalion had returned to England in June. Buried at Brandenburg, even though Allies did not invade Germany in WWI.

• Charles Hastilow (1860-1897) m Sarah

• John Weaver (1819-1899) Mary Mason (1812-1870)
• John Stringer (1839). Stepson
• Samuel Stringer (1841). Stepson
• Ann Stringer (1842). Stepdaughter
• Jane Weaver (1846-1925)
• Sarah Weaver (1848-1906) m George Ballance (1849-1912)
• Thomas Ballance (1868) m Elizabeth Martin (1860) in Lichfield in 1883. 1891: There is a domestic valet in London, of the right age, born in Staffs, boarding with a George Ballance (26). 1901: Cannock, Staffordshire. Colliery fitter.
• Sarah Jane Balance (1891-1966)
• John Thomas Balance (1894-1917)
• George Frederick Ballance (1874-1936) m Harriet Hannah Wakelin (1883-1974) in Lichfield in 1905. He was a (coal) gas stoker, and they lived in Lichfield. The gas works was in Queen Street, and there is a picture here.
• Nellie Eileen Ballance (1905-1991)
• Gladys Ballance (1909)
• Dorothy Ballance (1914-1991)
• Mary Georgina Ballance (1917-2001)
• Walter John Ballance (1876-1923) m Lucy Corden (1874-1957) in Brereton, Rugeley in 1898. He was a coal miner (loader below ground), and they lived in Rugeley.
• Elizabeth Ballance (1898)
• George Ballance (1901-1972)
• Sarah Edith Ballance (1902-1978)
• Samuel Edward Ballance (1903-1968)
• Nellie Ballance (1905-1965)
• Mary Ballance (1907-1985)
• Alice Ballance (1909-1987)
• Elizabeth Ballance (1880). Domestic servant in Sutton Coldfield in 1901. No later record found.
• Ruth Ballance (1882-1952) m William Croshaw (1877-1940) in Gentleshaw nr Lichfield in 1903. He was a waggoner on a farm and they lived in Grendon nr Atherstone. He served in the Warwickshire Regiment Labour Corps in WWI.
• Clarence William Croshaw (1903-1986)
• Walter John Croshaw (1905-1958)
• Albert Edward Croshaw (1911-1961)
• George Henry Croshaw (1913-1963)
• Beatrice Alice Croshaw (1914-1982)
• Elizabeth Jane Croshaw (1924-1984)
• Edward Ballance (1884-1966) m Eleanor Glover (1880-1941) in Brereton in 1906. He was a coal hewer, and they lived in Gentleshaw.
• Sarah Ballance (1886-1948) m Lawrence Cole (1883-1949) in Lichfield in 1908. In 1911, he was an iron caster at a foundry, and they lived in Beacon Street, Lichfield. 
• Chamberlin & Hill, a Walsall firm of iron and brass founders established in 1890, set up a foundry in 1898 in Beacon Street opposite Wheel Lane. Production was concentrated on high-quality castings for use in the textile and mining industries. The works was rebuilt in 1953 and closed in 1986. It was demolished in 1988 and was replaced that year by a Safeway supermarket. (British History) 
• James William Cole (1909-2001)
• George Thomas Cole (1910-1994)
• Lawrence Noel Cole (1912-1971)
• Constance Mary Cole (1915-1992)
• Ronald J Cole (1920-2007)
• Samuel Ballance (1888-1911). Died in Liverpool, the year before his father.
• Mary Weaver (1850-1897)
• Clara Weaver (1854)
• Samuel Weaver (1822-1872)
• Edward Weaver (1848-1899)
• Rebecca Weaver (1849-1900)
• Joseph Weaver (1852-1866)
• Elizabeth Weaver (1853-1936) m Charles Maeer (1851-1924)
• Elizabeth Maeer (1878-1914) m William Henry Horne (1874-1917). Elizabeth was born in Sidmouth, Devon, like her father, but unlike her siblings, who were born in Sutton. He was a booking clerk for the London North West Railway from 1873 to 1907. By 1911, he was station master, and they lived at Station House [Hawkesbury Lane], Hawkesbury a village on the Coventry to Nuneaton line. 
• The Nuneaton to Leamington route became an essential artery for the LNWR, and subsequently the LMS, primarily for moving coal from the North Warwickshire coal fields to the South and South West of England. It was important because it avoided the bottleneck of the Birmingham to Euston line. (Warwickshire Railways)

Hawkesbury Lane Railway Station (Warwickshire Railways)

• Charles Arthur Horne (1905-1986)
• Edna Louisa Horne (1908-2002)
• Nellie Elizabeth Horne (1914-1998)
• The children were orphaned in 1917
• John Maeer (1881-1933) m Florence Dale (1875-1926) in Aston in 1906. In 1911 he boarded in Plymouth as a general labourer. 1911: Yew Tree Cottage, Reddicap Hill, Sutton Coldfield. Unemployed labourer. His wife and her sister are taking in laundry.
• Henry Maeer (1881-1934) m Liza Litherland (1879-1951) in Sutton Coldfield in 1904. He was a master carrier, and they lived in Little Sutton / Four Oaks.
• Cyril Henry Maaer (1905-1974)
• Herbert Maeer (1884-1945) m Mary Ann Lea (1883-1960) in Coleshill, Warwickshire in 1906, and their children were born there. My photos of Coleshill are here. He was a waggoner on a farm.
• Ellen Maeer (1907-1959)
• Charles Herbert Maeer (1911-1976)
• Hilda Maeer (1915-1915)

Coleshill Church (my photo)

• Frederick Maeer (1886-1961) m Eleanor E Young (1895) in Tamworth in 1913. He was a greengrocer, at home in Reddicap Hill, Sutton in 1911.
• Ellen Maeer (1886-1974) m William Salt (1890-1970) in Aston in 1914. He was a joiner and builder, and they lived in Oldbury.
• William Edward Salt (1918-1981)
• Louisa Maeer (1889). Domestic servant in Holland Street, Sutton in 1911. No later record found.
• Mary Ann Maeer (1889-1967) m William Sheward (1890-1949) in Sutton in 1912. He was a master blacksmith, and later on they lived at The Smithy, Church Lane, Middleton, nr Tamworth. This was a mile from Middleton Hall, where John Wheaver worked as a gardener for many years, and they may have overlapped.
• Dorothy Sheward (1913-1973)
• William Sheward (1917-1987)
• Margaret Elizabeth Sheward (1921-2016)
• Winifred Clara Sheward (1930-2018)
• Charlotte Maeer (1891-1969) m Albert Chatterton (1921-1976) in Tamworth in 1917. Eventually, he was a railway engine driver (at last, every school boy's dream!), and they lived in Eliot Street, [Nechells] Birmingham, just over the canal from Aston Railway Station, which was part of the London, Midland and Scottish (LMS) grouping.
• Arthur William Chadderton (1921-1994)
• Richard Chatterton (1924-2003)

Leander, an LMS Jubilee Class Engine, 1936 (my photo)

• Honor Maeer (1893-1977) m Adolf Gloor (1897-1967) in Tamworth in 1928. He was born in Switzerland. Eventually, he was a confectioner and cake maker, and they lived at Lonay, Harp Hill, [Charlton Kings] Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. My photos of Cheltenham are here.
• Gordon Adolf Gloor (1928-2016)
• Annie Maeer (1895-1895) b. & d. Sutton
• Lilian May Maeer (1896-1932) m Albert George Theobald (1897-1973) in Sutton in 1919
• Richard Theobald (1919-1996)
• Dorothy Theobald (1921-1991)
• Ralph Theobald (1922-1987)
• Reginald Theobald (1924-1995)
• Ronald Charles Theobald (1926-1992)
• Samuel Weaver (1855-1913) m Martha Butler (1859)
• William Edward Weaver (1895-1969) m Earmin Ashton (1888-1981) in Silverdale, Newcastle, Staffordshire. In 1901, he was at home in Cannock, a grocer's assistant. Eventually, he was the manager of a Co-op grocery in Newcastle.
• Arthur Edward Weaver (1917-1983)

Silverdale Church (info)

• Percy Weaver (1894-1944) m Ethel M Barratt (1889) in Congleton, Cheshire in 1923. He was a fitter's assistant, and they lived with (probably) her sister, as shop keeper, in Alsager, with more Barratts in the street.
• Ernest Henry William Barratt Weaver (1924-1975)
• Hannah Weaver (1857-1933) m Charles Roper (1855-1898)
• Edward Charles Roper (1879-1944) m Maria Stewart (1874-1966) in Aston in 1907. In 1911, he was a plumber, and they lived at 10 Riland Road, Sutton. He served as a sapper with the Royal Engineers in WWI, joining a unit in July 1917 and being briefly hospitalised a month later. He was wounded at the Somme in April 1918, and readmitted to dispersal hospital (with a recurrence of cholecystitis later in 1918, and again in 1919.
• Charles Edward Roper (1909-1957)
• Samuel Weaver Roper (1882-1955). 1911: At home with widowed mother, in Sutton. Coal porter. He served in WWI with the Royal Fusiliers Labour Corps. He was a general labourer, and eventually, they lived at the Blabbs, Sutton, where William and Rebecca James had lived until 1881.
• John Joseph Roper (1884-1953) m Elizabeth Hannah Stone (1889-1973) in Tamworth in 1917. In 1911, he had been at home, a bricklayer's labourer. No WWI record found but it is likely that he served. He was a labourer, and they lived in Sutton.
• Beatrice M Roper (1917)
• Jean E Roper (1928)
• Harry Roper (1891-1917). 1911: At home in Sutton, a laundry van man (19). He enlisted at Sutton Coldfield with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1/5th Battalion - Territorials. He was killed in action on 4 October 1917. 
• This would have been at The Battle of Broodseinde, which was fought on 4 October 1917 near Ypres in Belgium, at the east end of the Gheluvelt plateau, by the British Second and Fifth armies against the German 4th Army. The battle was the most successful Allied attack of the Third Battle of Ypres. Using bite-and-hold tactics, with objectives limited to what could be held against German counter-attacks, the British devastated the German defence, which prompted a crisis among the German commanders and caused a severe loss of morale in the 4th Army. Preparations were made by the Germans for local withdrawals and planning began for a greater withdrawal, which would entail the abandonment by the Germans of the Belgian coast, one of the strategic aims of the Flanders offensive. After the period of unsettled but drier weather in September, heavy rain began again on 4 October and affected the remainder of the campaign, working more to the advantage of the German defenders, being pushed back on to far less damaged ground. The British had to move their artillery forward into the area devastated by shellfire and soaked by the autumn rains, restricting the routes on which guns and ammunition could be moved, presenting German artillery with easier targets.

• Sarah Weaver (1859) m Harry Stewart (1861)
• Esther Weaver (1861)
• John Perkins Weaver (1862-1896)
• Thomas Weaver (1864-1899)
• Daniel Weaver (1826-41)
• Rebecca Weaver (1829-1924)
• John Wheaver (1850-1927) m Caroline Ann Barnes (1845-1931)
• See Chapter 57.1a for sibling biographies. See also Barnes tree.
• Rose Caroline Wheaver (1876-1951) m Charles [Charlie] Harper (1875-1941)
• Alice Vivian Harper (1903-1986)
• Marion Ruth Harper (1905-1986)
• Winifred Mary Harper (1907-2003)
• Charles Clive Harper (1915-1986) m Joan Victoria Alcock (1919-2004)
  
• William John Wheaver (1878-1937) m Jane Litherland
• John Samuel Wheaver (1908-1985)
• == m Violet [Vi] Amelia Sturdy (1888-1961)
• Alice Elizabeth Wheaver (1880-1977) m Thomas Hide Badham (1875-1936)
• Miriam Mary Florence Badham (1905-1999)
• Phillip Walter Badham (1909-1968). General Manager of the Dunlop factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he was pictured greeting Prince Philip.
  
• Patricia E E Badham (1921)
• Arthur Barnes Wheaver (1881-1963) m Alice Elena Lambert (1879-1928)
• See Chapter 57 for individual biographies. See also Lambert tree.
• Terence Lambert Barnes Wheaver (1909-1991) 
• Kathleen Elise [Stephanie] Wheaver (1915-2009)
• == m Maud Beatrice Pring (1894-1986)
• Ann Barnes Wheaver (1935-1937)
• Rebecca Mary Wheaver (1885-1955) m Henry Stephen Henstridge (1874-1945)
• Joan Mary Henstridge (1914-1973)
• Betty Joyce Henstridge (1916-1948)
• Diane Henstridge (1927-2015)
• Samuel Horatio Wheaver (1887-1947)
• === m William James (1826-1888)
• Hannah [Annie] James (1857-1930) m William Parker Freeman (1853)
• William James Freeman (1879-1946) m Annie Oscroft? (1871-1943)
• Emmanuel Weaver (1831-1876?) m Mary Ann McCarthy (1840-1892)
• Emmanuel Weaver (1860) b. Bermuda
• Mary Ann Weaver (1862-1894) b. Bermuda. m John West (1842-1890)
• Minnie Jane West (1878-1945) m Charles Reeve (1881-1962). b. Bombay. In 1891, a domestic cook for a clergyman at Kings Terrace, Towcester, Northamptonshire. This is next door to the Wheatsheaf - both buildings still exist. It is also less than four miles from where Arthur Barratt was vicar in 1911. My photos of Towcester are here.

Towcester Church (my photo)

• He was a carter labourer, and the lived in Tranters Row, Towcester.
• William John Reeve (1902-1962)
• Ethel Florence Ellen Reeve (1907-1981)
• Dorothy Reeve (1909-1937)
• Gladys Elizabeth Reeve (19111-1996)

• Maud West (1880-1880) b. Umballa. Died in infancy.

• Ethel West (1885-1960?) b. New Duston, Northampton. In 1901, an inmate at St Saviour's Home, Kingsthorpe, Northampton. This was a Catholic refuge for unmarried mothers (a miles or two from where I went to Uni). No later record found, except a candidate death record in Rugby.

• Albert West (1887-1980) b. Flore nr Daventry, Northamptonshire. My photos of Daventry are here.

Daventry (my photo)

• He was a fireman (like Alfred Jones, more info there) for the Great Central Railway, boarding in Woodford Halse. Unlikely as it may seem, the village was an important station of the GCR, linking as it did with the Stratford-upon-Avon line, and with the GWR via Banbury, and continuing south to the Metropolitan Railway to Marylebone via Aylesbury. Marylebone, of course, has featured often in this story; that station will be familiar to players of Monopoly.

Woodford Halse Railway Station (postcard)

• John West (1891-1891) b. Flore. Died in infancy.

• Samuel Weaver (1864-1931)
• Hannah Weaver (1866). Possibly m Harry Warburton.
• Rebecca Weaver (1867-1941) m Walter Joseph Burke (1862-1911
• Frank Burke (1898)
• James Francis Burke (1900-1972)
• Mary Louisa Burke (1904)
• Dorothy Burke (1909)
• Sarah Jane Weaver (1871-1930) m Thomas Edward Bickerton (1865-1893)
• == m John Eastman Shepherd (1861-1931)
• John Edmund Shepherd (1897-1915). In 1911, at home in Moss Side, an apprentice compositor.
• Volunteered for WWI. Served with the 1/7th Battalion the Manchester Regiment. Killed in action at Gallipoli on 30 May 1915.
• By mid-August 1915 the East Lancashire Division, through battle casualties and sickness, was down to little more than one third of its normal establishment.

• Harold Shepherd (1899). No record found after 1911.
• George Shepherd (1902). No record found after 1911.
• Joseph Weaver (1836-1908) m Martha Shorthouse (1837)
• Rebekah Weaver (1840)

More information on these families in Chapter 61.

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