Ivor Championborn: 04 FEB 1876 died: 27 SEP 1916 Killed on the Somme Report from Bristol Grammar School: “Son of Edward Champion, tiller of the soil, and of Martha, of Horse Croft Farm Bratton, Westbury. Older brother to Stanley I, and Maurice R. After the death of Edward Champion, Martha… Continue reading
Their son Tony Thorne was born in Cairo and has published books on slang and other aspects of language
Information on the on-line cenotaph for New Zealand Went to New Zealand in 1913, next of kin listed as Mrs I.K. Andrew (mother), Buckland House, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England In 1916 he was back on a ship coming back to Europe to fight in WW1 (on joining up was a… Continue reading
George Andrew
The Family of Jesse and Ethel Hawkings (1877-1968)(1) Edward Champion Hawkings- Born July 15th 1903, Married 1928-Mary Isabel Butler.(2) Arthur Hawkings – Died in Infancy.(3) Mary Ethel Hawkings – Born Feb 11th 1909, Married Oct 4th 1941 – Henry Lewis Baker 1951 Frederick Forse. (4) Joyce (Elsie Joyce) Hawkings- Born July… Continue reading
The Family of Edmund and Mary Hawkings, married in April 1860 at Burnham, by licence as Mary was only nineteen. “Witnesses at the wedding – Jane Cook Hembry (certainly a relative of Mary’s but exact kinship unknown – could she have been her Godmother?), W. Hawkinqs (bit straight to the… Continue reading
Joyce and Boris married in 1939 at Fitzhead Parish Church, a couple of weeks after the start of WW2. Boris worked in a bank in Chard. The Norrish family previously farmed at Sandford
In 1938 Stan married Melba Sherwin at Fitzhead. They went to Suffolk to farm with Oliver Andrew and Mina. In Sussex they had their two children Nick and Cynthia. They then returned to the West Country and farmed at Tatworth near Chard where Stan and Oliver farmed together as the… Continue reading