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
Member Information Full Name Mary Ann Andrew – Birth #1 Date of Birth 05 Jun 1815 Place of Birth England #2 Date of Birth Jun 1815 Place of Birth Parkham, Devon, , England #3 Date of Birth 1821 Place of Birth Woolfardisworthy, Devon, England Father Edmund Smale Andrew Mother Ann Bray… Continue reading
Their son Tony Thorne was born in Cairo and has published books on slang and other aspects of language
Aunt Jane was Grandpa’s sister. They had a little shop in Queen St, Barnstaple,, They had one son Andrew, who I never met. I think he took off to London as there was certainly no future in the little shop. Aunt Jane was lovely and when I was in hospital… Continue reading
William married Mary Jane Joyce at Withel Florey, Somerset, England in 1879 and they had 5 children. She came from Kingsbrompton (probably the farm near Dulverton), in Somerset. In the 1881 census they are living at 1 Barnstable Road, where he is assistant Baker to his father then living at… Continue reading
When Minnie Andrew was born in 1861 in Parkham, Devon, England, her father, George, was 31, and her mother, Betsy, was 37. She married William Grigg in 1890 in Bideford, Devon, England. She died in June 1933 in Woolfardisworthy, Devon, England, at the age of 72, and was buried in… Continue reading
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
Born in Wales, but the family had moved to Chipstable by the 1901 census. ” Aunty Elsie. She never married and lived in Barnstaple. Her life was devoted to the blind and when I was in Barnstaple from Shebbear she was so kind to me. When she died in about… Continue reading
Born at Great Torrington Moved with family to Wales 1901 census was a boarder in a house in Caerleon, Wales By 1911 had moved to Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand Married Ethel Brownlie in 1928 Settled in Waimarino, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Photographer. Died 1965 in Taunarunui, New Zealand