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Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for relatives of Pvt Harry Woodley - RTS/3769 -
Army Service Corps - died 23/8/1916 - buried Chesham St Mary Cemetery.
The Commission proposes installing a special memorial to commemorate him because it is not possible to mark his actual grave.
Sandra
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UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 for Harry Woodley - Died after discharge -
brother John.
UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 for Harry Woodley - Harry Woodley - dependant A. Bird.
Sandra
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His British Army Service Records say he was single, his mother and father were deceased. Siblings John Woodley age 60, Bert Woodley 41, sisters Jane Hunt age 64, Emily Kemp 49 and the third one is hard to decipher Sarah? Tuffley? age 56. From FreeBMD a Sarah Ann Woodley married a George Tuffney Amersham registration district 1884.
His brother John acknowledged receipt of the 1914 Star on the 27 May 1922.
The document, declared by his sister Jane Hunt 19 January 1922 also asks for names of nephews and nieces of the soldier but there are non given with diagonal lines through the square
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A newspaper piece about his sudden death published 2nd Sep 1916 Bucks Herald, gives his age as 43 and says he was single. He had been an artilleryman before the war and rejoined. No other identifying info.
Cathy
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Sarah Ann Woodley and George Tuffney had 5 sons according to one tree on ancestry but they don't give a spouse for any of them.
A possible nephew of Harry
Tuffney George Henry mmn Woodley
GRO Reference: 1884 Sept 1/4 Amersham Vol 3A page 578
Marriage Sept 1/4 1905 Wandsworth
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration District: Wandsworth vol 1d page 958
George Henry Tuffney
Elizabeth G Beaucham
Deaths March 1/4 1927
Tuffney Elizabeth G age 45 Wandsworth 1d 600
Marriages Sept 1/4 1930 (>99%)
Doris A Tucker
George H Tuffney
Battersea 1d 1185
Death Dec 1943 England
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1891 census, Chesham.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4G65-BW2
1881 census, Great Missenden.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27Z-RN6F
Family tree listing 10 children
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/MSN2-DLV
Harry's baptism, 1873, Great Missenden.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J735-2Q7
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The full census 1891 so Harry is with his sister Jane and husband and children
Bellingdon, Chesham, Buckinghamshire,
RG 12 Piece 1129 folio 100
John Hunt 35 Head
Jane Hunt 34 Wife Missenden, Buckinghamshire
Clara Hunt 13 Daughter
James Hunt 9 Son
John Hunt 4 Son
Nellie Hunt 1 Daughter
William Woodley 21 Boarder
Harry Woodley 17 Boarder Missenden, Buckinghamshire
No shortage of descendants of Harry's siblings to follow up. ::)
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Henry Woodley, born J quarter 1873, Reg'd Amersham, MMN Cox
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Thanks for the help, really appreciated.
1911 census 110 Waterside, Chesham, Bucks.
William Woodley 41
Emily Woodley 34
William Bertee Woodley 18 carman.
Georgie Burch 12
Willie Woodley 11
Dorothy Woodley 7
Gladys Trena Woodley 6
William Bertie Woodley
William B Woodley - 1921 Amersham Buckinghamshire - spouse Florrie Mayger
Volume Number 3a - Page Number 2037
William Bertie Woodley - 5 January 1893 - 1982 (aged 89 years)
Death Age: 89
Registration District Chiltern and Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire
Volume 19 Page 0950
4 births to William and Florrie. 3 female and 1 male.
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Florrie Woodley 1892 - 1947 (aged 55 years)
Registration District Amersham Buckinghamshire
Volume 6a Page 264
Daughter of William and Florrie - Joyce V Woodley married 1950 Amersham Buckinghamshire
Spouse Cyril H D Fulford
Volume Number 6a Page Number 750
Joyce Vera Fulford - 10 August 1930 - 1981 (aged 51 years)
Registration District Chiltern and Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
Volume 19 Page 1201
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son of William and Florrie - William A Woodley - 8 July 1934 - 8 June 2003 Chesham, Buckinghamshire.
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Doris Woodley - daughter of William and Florrie -
Doris Berry -
Doris Berry 8 February 1923 - 1991 Chiltern and South Bucks. Buckinghamshire. (aged 68 years)
Volume 19 Page 923
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Daughter Gladys Woodley marriage 1947 Amersham Buckinghamshire - to Wilfred J Francis.
Volume Number 6a - Page Number 771
MS Gladys Francis 2 Feb 1927 - 14 May 2021 (aged 94 years)
Last Residence: Amersham, Home Counties.
Wilfred John Francis - 8 August 1921 - March 1991 (aged 69 years)
Registration District Chiltern and South Bucks, Buckinghamshire
Volume 19 Page 1181
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Dorothy Woodley - daughter of William and Emily -
Dorothy Woodley married 1927 Amersham Buckinghamshire to William H Reading.
Volume Number 3a - Page Number 2151
Dorothy Reading 26 July 1903 - 1990 Chiltern and Bucks. (aged 87 years)
Volume 19 - Page 1147
Bucks Examiner
Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England
12 Oct 1990, Fri Page 2
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107252523/obituary-for-dorothy-reading-aged-87/
William Henry Reading 19 January 1903 -1981 (aged 78 years)
Registration District Wycombe Buckinghamshire
Volume 19 Page 1463
One son born in 1931
Sandra
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One daughter from Gladys' marriage, born 1948. Problem is there are 2 marriages in 1965 & 1968.
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The full census 1891 so Harry is with his sister Jane and husband and children
Bellingdon, Chesham, Buckinghamshire,
RG 12 Piece 1129 folio 100
John Hunt 35 Head
Jane Hunt 34 Wife Missenden, Buckinghamshire
Clara Hunt 13 Daughter
James Hunt 9 Son
John Hunt 4 Son
Nellie Hunt 1 Daughter
William Woodley 21 Boarder
Harry Woodley 17 Boarder Missenden, Buckinghamshire
No shortage of descendants of Harry's siblings to follow up. ::)
1911 101 Sunnyside Road, Chesham, Bucks.
John Hunt 54 Carpenter.
Jane Hunt 53
Nellie Hunt 21 Boot Machinist.
Jane Hunt - 1858 - 1925 - Death Aged 67 years.
Registration District Amersham Inferred County Buckinghamshire
Volume 3a Page 748
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Clara Louisa Hunt - married 1899 Amersham Buckinghamshire to James Hancock.
1911 census - 18 Hamilton Terrace, Shakespeare Road, Herne Hill S E
James Hancock 34 Railway Goods Shunter.
Clara Louisa Hancock 33
Frederick James Hancock 9
Nellie Hancock 7
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Clara L Hancock - 1877 - 1954 (aged 77 years)
Registration District Droxford Hampshire
Volume 6b Page 206
daughter - Nellie Hancock born 1904 married 3 July 1927 (aged 23 years)
Marriage Place St Jude, East Brixton, Lambeth, England
Father James Hancock - Spouse - Frederick Charles Tyler. aged 35 years - widower. clerk.
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Nellie Tyler 20 January 1904 - 1970 (aged 66 years)
Registration District Bromley Greater London
Volume 5a Page 979
Frederick Charles Tyler
Death Date 30 Apr 1963 London.
Probate Date 25 Jul 1963 London.
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James Hunt - 1906 marriage to Edith May Powell - Amersham Buckinghamshire.
Volume 3a Page 1482
1911 census Church Street, Great Missenden.
James Hunt 27
Edith May Hunt 26
Winnifred May Hunt 4
Edwin James Hunt 2
John Owen Hunt 8 months.
Sandra
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The widow of William Albert Woodley is on 192.com living in Chesham, Bucks. They married Amersham, 1970.
William is also on there until 2002.
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William Albert Woodley 8 July 1934 - 2003 (aged 68 years)
Registration District Chiltern Buckinghamshire
Register Number L9C - District and Subdistrict 327/1C - Entry Number 165
Perhaps no children from this union.
Sandra
Sorry, repeated from reply 10 :-\
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Winifred M Hunt - marriage 1928 Catherington Hampshire - to George Windebank
Volume Number 2c Page Number 471
Winifred M Windebank - 1906 - 1951 (aged 45 years)
Registration District Winchester Hampshire
Volume 6b Page 537
Two female births -
Births Jun 1929
Windebank Hunt Havant 2b 602
Births Jun 1934
Windebank Hunt Gosport 2b 883
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George F S Windebank - 1895 - 1954 (aged 59 years)
Registration District Portsmouth Hampshire
Volume 6b Page 3
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John O Hunt married 1934 Droxford Hampshire to Winifred M Watson
Volume Numbern2c - Page Number 382
John Owen Hunt 30 July 1910 - 1994 (aged 83 years)
Registration District Portsmouth Hampshire
Register Number B43A District and Subdistrict 4971B Entry Number 217
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John and Winifred Hunt had a daughter Barbara Jean Hunt - 13 January 1939
Barbara J Hunt married 1960 Gosport Hampshire to William E Sawyer.
Volume Number 6b Page Number 651
Barbara Jean Sawyer 13 January 1939 - 2002 South East Hampshire (aged 63 years)
Register Number H54 - District and Subdistrict 5013 - Entry Number 70
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Daughter of William and Florrie - Joyce V Woodley married 1950 Amersham Buckinghamshire
Spouse Cyril H D Fulford
Volume Number 6a Page Number 750
Joyce Vera Fulford - 10 August 1930 - 1981 (aged 51 years)
Registration District Chiltern and Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
Volume 19 Page 1201
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3 Fulford births - 2 male and one female. June 1953 - June 1956 - December 1958 - all Amersham.