Author Topic: Henry Sweetland born 1870 Yarcombe - please can anyone help?  (Read 1359 times)

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Re: Henry Sweetland born 1870 Yarcombe - please can anyone help?
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 24 January 18 01:22 GMT (UK) »
Re Evelyn’s registration - who knows why Stacey pops up!  Without the certificate we don’t know who the informant of this birth was, and whether different from the informants on the other births.

Ah I see, yes it could have been someone else couldn't it, I hadn't considered other people (family members) could go to the registry office and do it on her behalf.
Sweetland (Chard/Yarcoombe/Honiton)
Garret/Stacey (Somerset)
Boultern/Boulton (Reading)
Crowther (Wolverhampton/Wednesbury/Birmingham)
Myres (Wolverhampton)
Palmer (Nottingham)
Cosby (Leighton Buzzard/Woodstock/Kidlington)
Hope (Oxford/Kidlington/Woodstock)
Williams (Yorkshire/Conisborough)
Draper (Bow Brickhill)
Draper Smith (Bow Brickhill/Woburn Sands)
Smith (Woburn Sands)

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Re: Henry Sweetland born 1870 Yarcombe - please can anyone help?
« Reply #19 on: Monday 21 October 24 22:35 BST (UK) »
Came across this post whilst looking into something else entirely! Apologies if it is not relevant or wanted but I could not see either text already posted.

Census records for Clicket, which no longer exists as a settlement, has the following for 1901:
1901– lists the residents of Clicket as:

A Henry Sweetland (b.1870), his wife Annie (b.1873), son Henry John (b.1898) and Mary E Garrett(b.1887), his wife’s sister

Also found the following, which is very likely in relation to Henry Jr:
KNOWN AUGUST 1916
Much of what I am about to write was told as stories down the generations, I do not dates or exact locations - these have been lost to time.
We were told Henry John or "Harry" (as he was known), lied about his age and joined the Somerset Yeomanry at a young age (some birth certificate linked information give a DOB of 1896 and others 1898).
Harry was born in Chard, Somerset. He had a love of horses and apparently rode one into his school class room when younger! He was mounted for a time. It was with tremendous sadness that he retold how he was caught behind enemy lines and was starving and his horse died.
He was at the Somme and was mustard gassed, I believe he was also shot and he had terrible frost bite. He was sent home to recover (apparently wrapped in cotton wool and shipped in a coffin) to Ashhurst War Hospital (Littlemoor Hospital Oxford). I am not sure whether he recovered and went back or was pensioned? Perhaps he became military police after he recovered? After the Army he moved to Reading and then settled in Oxford. He passed away in 1976.
His father, also Henry Sweetland had really wanted to join him during WW1 as he had served in the Boer War but was unable to. Harry's son and younger brothers served in WW2.
(From https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/story/15978)