David Joseph Bigham

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for blood relatives of Corporal David Joseph Bigham - South Wales Borderers - service no 653538 -  buried Abercarn Cemetery - died 16/2/1921
Died as a result of gas poisoning and tuberculosis.

The son of David and Ann Bigham

The Commission are in the process of producing a headstone to mark his grave -

Listed :-

https://ww1.wales/the-forgotten-soldiers

David J Bigham 1893 - 1921   (aged 28 years)
Registration District Newport Monmouthshire
Volume 11a Page 363

https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/42500/abercarn-cemetery/

Sandra

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1911 census - 13 Meredith Terrace Newbridge Mon.

David Bigham   47 Cog Cutter In Coal Mine.
Ann Bigham   49
Jone (should read John)  Bigham   26 Cutting Coal.
Gwennie Bigham   22
Joseph Bigham   19 Cutting Coal Hewer.
Rolwas (Redvers) Bigham   11
Wm Reginald Bigham   21 Nephew.
Harry Howell   32

Sandra

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Father died in 1940

David Bigham  1863 - 1940  (aged 77 years)
Registration District Caerleon Monmouthshire
Volume 11a Page 451

Annie Bigham 1862 - 1935  (aged 73 years)
Registration District Newport Monmouthshire
Volume 11a Page 235

Sandra

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Brother - Redvers Baden Bigham 1900    Bedwellty, Monmouthshire, Wales
Volume 11a Page   64

Redvers Baden Bigham 25 May 1900 - 1976  (aged 76 years)
Registration district   Merthyr Tydfil - Mid Glamorgan
Volume 27 Page   0195

Was single in 1939 and living with his father after the death pf his mother in 1935.

Sandra

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This could be a brother :- ?

Thomas John W Bigham - 1909 Newport to Maud Bevan
Volume 11a - Page 385

Maud Bigham 1888 - 1947  (aged 59 years)
Registration District Caerleon Monmouthshire
Volume 8c Page 143

Sandra

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Sister Gwendoline Bigham - Gwendoline Bigham  -marriage 1938 Cardiff Glamorganshire.  50 years - spinster.  100 Ethel Street. Cardiff.
Spouse William J Pook - aged 53 years. widower. Brattice Cloth Maker. 33 Corporation Road. Cardiff.
Volume Number 11a - Page Number 703

Gwendoline Pook - 29 August 1889  - 1974 - 85 years old.
Registration District South Glamorgan.
Volume 28 Page 2389

William J Pook - 1885 - 1964   (aged 79 years)
Registration District Cardiff Glamorganshire
Volume 8b Page 125

Did not come across any children from this union.

There is a family tree but it is seems to show more research from the Pook family.
With no children from this union, it is a dead end.

Sandra