Author: Brian Ward

DOHERTY, Frederick Albert. † ≠ Pte 748036 5th Canada Mounted Rifles. Quebec Reg’t).D of W 9/4/1917 buried  Écoivres Military Cemetery, near Arras, France where his age is given as 20 (but he is shown as born in 1895 at West Bromwich on1901C, when the family of six was living in Birmingham. By 1911C he was in Canada. His mother was Lucy Hudson, b 1873 Hathersage. In the 1871C her father Joseph was proprietor of the Millstone Inn, Hathersage. She had four children who all went off to Canada in 1910, although earlier in 1910 the youngest child Norman was in the Hospital wing of the Workhouse in West Derby. Father Frederick nowhere to be found. 1911C mother, age 38; Inmate Walton on the Hill Workhouse, Liverpool, but in 1917 his mother Lucy is shown on his grave record as living at 47 Forest Lane, Stratford, London.

GREENWOOD, Joseph. ß Щ      Although shown as Joseph on the Bible Class board, it has not been possible find anything of Joseph’s military involvement, b 1882 at Glossop. Son of Albert Greenwood b 1861 Glossop, and Emily (née Higginson – although called Newton when she was born) b Hathersage, and he married Minnie Winterbottom (Josiah’s wife’s sister) b Outseats. On both the 1901C (living in Norfolk) and 1911C Joseph is listed as a railway contractor. The reference to Joseph on the Bible Board probably should read Josiah. The confusion probably arose because of a mistake by the military records where the service medal and award rolls show Josiah Greenwood Dvr 72017 RFA, and Pioneer 197143 RE (which would fit with Josiah being a Navvy) and the same numbers & regiments appear on the medals list for Joseph Greenwood.

GREENWOOD, Josiah. Dvr 72017 RFA, Pioneer 197143 RE. b1884 Glossop. Brother of Joseph, son of Albert Greenwood b 1861 Glossop, and Emily (née Higginson – although called Newton when she was born) b Hathersage. He was shown as a soldier, and already a widower on his marriage certificate in Feb 1918 when he married Elsie Winterbottom (Joseph’s wife’s sister) at Barlow. In 1911C Josiah is listed as a railway contractor navvy, when living in Llansamlet, Wales, with his first wife Louisa and two children. The reference to Joseph on the Bible Board probably should read Josiah, The confusion probably arose because of a mistake by the military records, where the service medal and award rolls has Josiah Greenwood Dvr 72017 RFA, and Pioneer 197143 RE (which would fit with Josiah being a Navvy) and the same numbers & regiments appear on the medals list for Joseph Greenwood.

HORAN, William. Cpl T4/041018 RASC. Lived at 66 St Thomas Road, Crookes, Sheffield. Married Lilian Hilton of Barnfield Cottage, Hathersage in September 1917. He enlisted 5/1/1915 as an Ostler and went to France 9/9/1915 in 3^rd Company 21^st Division and served later in the Army of Occupation until 30/4/1920. His wife died late 1965, registered at Sheffield.

HOYLAND, Cecelia. (Née Rechard, see below), b 1869 Sheffield. 1901C Hope. Red Cross record; Hope View, Station Road, Hathersage, married 1917, became Mrs Hoyland. A nurse at Hathersage VAD Hospital.

MIDDLETON, Edgar. 2/Lt Transport Regt. British Expeditionary Force, France. B c1878, married Lilian Sara Middleton b c1883 his cousin, at Hathersage 31/5/1917. They later emigrated to South Africa where he became a police Officer for the S A High Commission and where she died 11/2/1928. 1911C she was living with her parents at 40 Wostenholme Road, Sheffield and four of her five siblings.

PERKINS, Charles. † ≠   Flight Sgt 2719 RFC died at Cirencester Red Cross Hospital on 28/4/1918 following a flying accident in a collision with another aircraft, age 33. He received his pilot’s licence in November 1917, after already having served two years in France. He was buried with full military honours in Skewen St John’s Churchyard, Nr Neath, S Wales. (Western Mail 3/5/1918 funeral report, listed as ‘On Active Service’ ). b 1885 Featherstone, 1891C at Hathersage. son of John and Martha Perkins, a Lay-Preacher living in 1918 at Lyncliffe House, Castle Street, Skewen. Brother of Edwin, Lionel, Percy, Sidney and Walter Perkins. He does not appear on 1911C. Family lived in Hathersage at least from 1890/1895 as three brothers were born there during this time. Their father was a railway sub-contractor, and presumably was employed on the new line being built through the Hope Valley around this time.

WILSON, Job. b 1884 Castleton  lived 1911C at Roslyn Rd, Hathersage, a Gas Works Labourer. Married at Hathersage Church, Nov 1918 to Gladys Annie Ranshaw, working as a servant for the Winders family at Hall Cottage, her father was Rueben Ranshaw, a bricklayer living at Broom Cottage, The Dale. He died in 1929. Job’s father a farmer was Charles Wilson, died 1890, his mother Ann, b Ashopton c 1848. Job listed as Serving with H M Forces, but we have not been able to find any more details. Family Tree shows Job died at Salisbury, Wilts in 1969 and had a son Jack (1920-1938).

WILLIAMS, Thomas David Gordon. PO 2867S Royal Marines Light Infantry. A Bank Clerk, b1884 Peel, Isle of Mann. His father was vicar at Ranmoor Church, Sheffield, married 25/12/1914 at Hathersage to Alice Maude Harrison Unwin b Hathersage 1894, (sister of Stuart Unwin & Frank Unwin). A Freemason initiated into Ancholme Lodge, Brigg on 17/11/1919. An Air Warden in WW2. He died 5/9/1952 at Lascelles Road, Buxton. His wife died 18/8/1973 at Upton by Chester.

RYLANDS, Horace John. Lt 2/1 Cambridgeshire Regt M.G.C. bc1887 Torquay. An Engineer, he married Kate McGillivary (b 1882 Sheffield) at Hathersage Church on 12/6/1917 when she was living at Hathersage. They were later at 50 Crimicar Lane, Sheffield. She died 1948. He died 1961, (registered at Bakewell).