Four Trees - Our Great Grandfathers

[Elliebob]

I haven't been on here for a while, but thought I would add my four g-grandfathers to the thread.  They were

Charles Court 1854 - 1930, lived at Tramway Cottage in Stratford on Avon.
John Thomas Faulkner 1856 - 1930, was a market gardener at Clifford Chambers, (2 miles from Stratford)
Luke Bennett  1843 - 1903, lived in Stoke on Trent and worked in the pottery industry
Alfred Wright 1864 - 1925, was a train driver in North Staffs.

Ellen

[avm228]

Here are my four:

William Charles MARKHAM: b Surrey 1883, d Essex 1950, bricklayer and civic activist, Mayor of Dagenham 1933-1934

Ernest John STARES: b Sussex 1881, d Kent 1962, naval signaller and "lifelong abstainer from strong drink"

William Clifford CROOK: b Yorkshire 1884, d Yorkshire 1959, sporting goods manufacturer, philanthropist and campaigner/fundraiser for refugees and prison reform

Frank MIDDLETON, b Yorkshire 1886, d Hampshire 1971, Anglican clergyman and missionary to South American parishes and leper colonies


Anna

[KateW]

My four are:

William Henry Hunt. Born 1854, Barnstaple , Devon.  He was a Master Draper. Died 1931.
John Nicholas. Born 1861, Llandovery, Camarthenshire. He was a Chemist. Died 1939.
Edward James Fayrer. Born 1864, Dartmouth, Devon.  He was in the Royal Navy. Died 1928.
Frederick Adams. Born 1872, Weston Underwood, Bucks.  He was an Engineer.  He also fought in the Boar War and played football for Southampton. Died 1965.

I would have been very proud to have known them.  I will add my Gt Grandmothers to the relevant page as I can't leave them out, can I?

I'm thrilled to have found out about these men and their fathers and grandfathers.  I know details for all 16 of my  3 x Gt grandfathers and mothers and a great deal of the credit goes to kind, helpful people on this Rootschat website.  SO.. thanks to all who have helped me.

KateW.

[geniecolgan]

Here are mine....

Edward Walker b. 1819, Lambeth, Career Soldier, d.1886.
Charles Ford b.1826, Hammersmith, Brickmaker, d.1905.
Charles Colgan b.1854, Antrim, London Met. Police, d.1912, Sask. Canada.
Edward Durrant b.1857, Uxbridge, House Painter, d.1889.

[muppetprincess]

Here are mine:
Malcolm McKechnie, ? born in South Australia, was a Stationmaster with SA Railways, died in Adelaide SA.
George Henry Sparks, born in Lambing Flat (now Young) NSW, was a carpenter, died in Adelaide SA.
Reverend James Buchan, born in Fraserburgh, Scotland, was a minister in the Scottish Congregational church in Airdrey, then moved to Sydney NSW, to Pyrmont parish;  he died at Kogarah in 1921.
James Jardine, born Cooma, was a pasturelist, then an orchardist; he died in Griffith, NSW.
I don't have all the dates with me, as I'm at work- on a break, of course!!

[matilda1973]

thought id add mine

 Fred Webster born 1875 Hailfax Yorkshire died 1919
 Samuel Gott born 1886 Goole yorkshire died 1950
 William Hawkins born 1875 Huishchampflower somerset died 1934
 Fred Saffin born 1885 Somerset (possibly milverton or wivieliscombe )  died 1939

    3 out of the 4 died before my parents  were born

     

[Rosedale]

Mine are:

George Alfred Smith from the Birmingham area
Richard Rosedale b.1896 Flintshire
Unknown (but GGrandmother married to James Wood b.1891 Flintshire, so only in my heart)
Edward Powell b.1862 Flintshire

  Lisa

[redkop]

mine are:

George MCLENNAN b 1874  Liverpool,  Brass Moulder.
Robert Parry BALL b 1875  Liverpool, Mariner. d 1908.
John MILLER b 1876  Liverpool, Slater/Plasterer.
Harold MASON b 1887 Runcorn, Fireman. He died on the battlefields in France 2 weeks before WW1 ended in 1918.   The lady on my avatar is his daughter. She was 12 when he died.

Red 

[kooky]

And mine -
 
Henry KANE from Dundalk. Worked as a railway clerk in Glasgow, where he died in 1917 aged 65.
James CLULO b. 1849 Birmingham - glassmaker died 1881 Manchester.
George FISHER b. Hull 1840 - a railway wagon painter, died Manchester 1906.
John Edward BOSHELL master of a vessel/sailor b.1841 & d.1888 Dublin.

Kooky