CWGC Appeal for Relatives of John Mark Fincham.............................

[*Sandra*]

CWGC appeal for relatives to locate the next of kin for soldiers who fell in war. Could you be connected to any of these individuals ?

If you are related to one of the above casualties and can provide documentation, please contact Commemorations Team.

John Mark Fincham - 6 January 1920 - aged 31 years - born 1889 Linton Cambridgeshire.

Casualty of the Great War, Private Fincham served with the 8th Bn.East Surrey Regiment~Service No:5003 - Pte Fincham died post-discharge of heart disease

He was 31 and the stepson of George and Harriet Carter of Linton, Cambs.

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/233565-new-cwgc-commemorations-131115/

FIND A GRAVE 

Non-Cemetery Burial
Specifically: The United Kingdom Book of Remembrance.

https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=154942420

1891 census - Linton, Cambridgeshire.
 RG12 Piece 1290 Folio 30 Page 3

Harriet Fincham   46 widowed.
Thomas Fincham 18 Eleanor Fincham 12
Jessie Fincham   8 Adelaide Fincham 5
John Fincham   2

Husband Abraham passed away December 1890 - Linton 3b 338

1901 census - Linton, Cambridgeshire.
RG13 Piece 1535 Folio 29 Page 2

Harriet Fincham   56 Jessie Fincham 18 John Fincham 12 Charlie Fincham 27

Harriet Fincham married George Carter at Linton December 1901 - 3b 1138

sister Jessie Florence nee Fincham Salmon born 1883 passed away March 1969 - Bedford Bedfordshire.

Have sent a  message to owner of ancestry tree to let them know about CWGC appeal

Sandra

[jonw65]

Full list...
https://www.cwgc.org/learn/news-and-events/news/2017/12/appeal-for-relatives---dec-2017

[*Sandra*]

Not all on the list are from the Lincolnshire area.

Sister Adelaide Blackwell Fincham married William Henry J Scammell - Linton - 3b 727 - March 1907
This couple had a daghter Gladys - birth registered March 1907 - Linton 3b 727
G;ladys was Gladys Louise Scamell born 6 February 1908 Edmonton Middlesex and married Henry James Randall  5 th August 1933 - South Wimbledon, Holy Trinity and St Peter, Surrey

Adelaide passed away 6 September 1974 - probate listed - 17 January 1975 - Registry - London

Sandra

Added Have sent a message to anc tree owners to make them aware of the CWGC appeal - fingers crossed.

[*Sandra*]

Sister Elizabeth Conder Fincham (birth registered at Linton - 3b 517 - Q2 1871) married James Wooton Cracknell - 1895 - Chesterton - Cambridgeshire.  3b 496
Elizabeth Passed away 20 February 1933 Cambridge Cambridgeshire.  Probate Ipswich 27 April - to Frederick Charles Copping (carpenter) and Jane Alice Dodd Copping (wife of Frederick Charles Copping) Effects £206 10s 6d

this looks like Elizabeth with children 1901 - Cambridge Cambridgeshire.
RG13 Piece 1532 Folio 131 Page: 30

Elizabeth Cracknell   30
Eric Cracknell   5 Hilda Cracknell 4 Frank Cracknell 1
Eliza Chapman   34 Housekeeper

James Wooton Cracknell passed away 13 January 1903 - Chesterton. Cambridgeshire.

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

First contact was doing a tree for an elderly friend so he was not any help.
Fingers crossed private tree owner responds.

Sandra