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| 1 | Harry Buckle Born 1869 He spent all his working life as a farm labourer or foreman. My father told me that his father had applied to work on the railway and had been accepted. However they could not take him straight away and when they finally offered him the post he turned it down because he was happy on the farm where he was then and felt some obligation to the farmer. Probably not a good career move! He worked twelve hour days for six days a week, with no holidays. He married his wife Mary Elizabeth Barmby in 1902 (when he was thirty three, same age as me when I got married). They moved to Silpho in 1913. The cottages where they lived are the first ones you come to on the left hand side as you come up the hill from Hackness. (Near Scarborough). There were four cottages, the right hand two have now been knocked into one. They probably lived in the one second from the right. My father described to me their annual holiday. This consisted of a day trip to Scarborough. His father could not come as he was working (he had no holiday and the only day off was Sunday, when it would have been inappropriate to go for a day out) Therefore my maternal grandmother along with five children in tow (at least one needing carrying) would walk to Cloughton station. This is four and a half miles. At the end of the day on the beach at Scarborough, no doubt with the kids tired out, they would walk up the hill to Scarborough station (itself a climb). It is worth retracing their steps from Cloughton station. Go to Cloughton, north of Scarborough and traveling north turn right down Station Road. At the far end you can make out where the station was. Retracing your steps back to the main road turn left and then in Burniston turn right (signed Harwood Dale) and shortly afterwards turn left, go across the crossroads at Four Lane Ends and then turn right at the T junction at Coomboots. After about ¾ of a mile turn left to Silpho. Approaching from this direction the cottages are the last ones on the right hand side before going down the hill to Hackness. This is four and a half miles. Imagine doing this with five young children after a day on the beach. My paternal grandmother died suddenly in 1918 when my father was seven and the youngest child, Bob, was five. She was 44. The authorities wanted to take the two youngest children, Bob and Tom, into the poor house. My grandfather refused to let this happen and brought them up himself. A major role was played by Ethel who was then fourteen, to whom my father remained eternally grateful. Some Christmases there were no presents whatsoever. And other Christmases they would get perhaps an apple or an orange each. If they sought to trap a rabbit (of which there were many and were pests) or use a branch which had fallen from a tree for firewood, this would be a serious criminal offence. It was enough to make anybody a communist but my father was of the very opposite inclination. When my grandmother died the local undertaker refused to deal with the funeral because he feared he would not be paid. My grandfather had to go to another village. My paternal grandparents are buried together in Hackness Church Yard, an idyllic spot. (Speaking from memory- this may not be entirely accurate- if you go into the yard, follow the path to the right hand of the church, and then keep straight on when the path turns left to the church door, it’s about the 5th grave on the RHS) Until the age of twelve my father attended the village school in Hackness. They used to walk down the hill (and back up for lunch!). At twelve my father left school and became a ploughboy working with horses, working twelve hours a day six days a week. On Michaelmas day in mid November they all used to go to Scarborough and parade up and down like a meat market where the farmers would hire them for the forthcoming year. My father’s elder brother Wilson studied at night school and was accepted into the Police in Sheffield. My father then followed the same route. Tom failed to get in because his chest measurement was a ¼ of an inch too small. He subsequently joined the Grenadier Guards and saw service at the Salerno landings in Southern Italy and at Dunkirk. When my father joined the police force at the age of nineteen in Sheffield, they took out all his teeth. Said to be a cause of infection and this was standard practice. Medieval! He lived in digs in Walkley. His brother Wilson married Gladys Flynn from Tideswell. (17 miles SW of Sheffield.) My father attended the wedding which is where he met my mother, also from Tideswell and a friend of Gladys. My father deliberately left something behind so he had an excuse to come back the week after! To pursue his wooing he used to ride from Walkley to Tideswell on his bike without stopping. If you retrace this journey you will see that this is no mean feat. He must have been keen. He used to bear her gifts of Pontefract Cakes, which apparently were the way to my mother’s heart. They got married in July 1935. They paid £400 for their house at 22 Ringstead Crescent, Crosspool, with a deposit coming from a bequest from my mother’s rich uncle Aaron Frost Hancock. (See Hancock family history) My father and mother were from very different backgrounds. The Hancocks were a noisy, garrulous, gregarious, non intellectual, entrepreneurial family. The Buckles were taciturn. My father was extremely shy and a thinking man. However he did have an acute sense of humour and I can remember him sitting reading P G Wodehouse with tears of laughter rolling down his cheeks. Moving to Sheffield must have been a real shock for my mother. She had led a very sociable life in Tideswell, amateur dramatics, working in a shop. Policeman’s’ wives were not allowed to work and the social life cannot have been much. However they joined a local Methodist church which became very much their social centre. Margaret was born in 1938. They delayed having another one, waiting to see if Hitler would invade. My father did not have to join the armed forces as he was in a reserved occupation as a policeman. He was on duty in Sheffield during the blitz. Although patently an intelligent and able man, he did not get promoted in the police for twenty years. This was because, like the rest of us on both sides, he lacked a talent for sycophancy, refused to kiss the backside of the Superintendent and was held back. Ultimately, the Chief Constable, who had picked up vibes, turned up at the station when the Superintendent was on holiday and had a long discussion with him. After that he got promoted through to Inspector quite quickly. He worked for thirty two years on the police, all of it on shifts. He mainly worked round where we lived. He told me a story about being up near Redmires Dams searching for a deserter in the war. He went to a deserted house (no longer there) in the woods near the top dam. He went to an outhouse, pushed at the door. Something pushed back. There was nobody else around for miles. He stuck his head round and found it was a sheep. Phil Buckle 16th November 2018 | Buckle, Harry (I284)
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| 2 | Harry Buckle was born on 6 June 1869 at Forge House, East Ayton. (Near Scarborough). He was the son of Ann Fowler Buckle who was unmarried. The name of the father was not included on the birth certificate. It is possible although not likely that the father’s name could be found on the baptism register or that the parish took action against the father to claim costs for childbirth and maintenance. At the 1901 Census Harry was a farm foreman for Thomas Speck, an auctioneer & valuer and farmer at Guild House Farm, Knapton, Yorkshire. Harry married Mary Elizabeth Barmby in the Scarborough Registration District in the March quarter 1902. They had six children. Norah their first child was born and died in 1903. All their other children survived to adulthood. Ethel Ann was born in 1904, Wilson Barmby Buckle in 1907, Harry William Buckle (my father) on 6 January 1911, Tom B Buckle in 1913 and Robert F Buckle on 27 October 1914. Wilson Barmby was named after his grandfather who was described on censuses as a hind (farm labourer). Harry died aged eighty five in the December quarter 1954 in the Ryedale Registration District. He had become a widower since the September quarter 1918 when Mary Elizabeth had died aged forty-four. Both were buried at Hackness Church near Scarborough. | Buckle, Harry (I284)
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| 3 | "Then Samuel Francis Flower was called in; and having been sworn, was examined as follows: "What are you by Profession?" "A Surgeon." "Are you acquainted with William Cartwright of East Retford?" "Yes." "When did you see him last?" "I have seen him almost every Day of late." "When did you see him last; how many Days ago?" "About Two Days ago." "In what State was he at that Time, in respect to his Health?" "I had not any Conversation with him at that Time; I saw him in the Street." "Could you judge from his Appearance whether it was likely to be attended with any Danger, his coming here to London?" "I should think there would be no Danger in his coming here." "Was he walking in the Street?" "Yes." "Did he appear to be Paralytic?" "I could not perceive any Paralysis about him." "What aged Man is he?" "He is apparently rather better than Forty." "You perceived no Sympton of Paralysis in the Manner of his walking?" "Not any." "Did you perceive any Affection in his Countenance that led you to believe he was labouring under Paralysis?" "I did not perceive any." "Do you know Mr. Gylby?" "I do." "What is he?" "A Surgeon." "Does he attend Mr.Cartwright?" "Not to my Knowledge; he does not attend Mr. Cartwright now." "Is he a Surgeon in good Practice in Retford?" "Yes." "Is Mr.Cartwright attended by any Medical Man there?" "Not to my Knowledge." "Since Mr.Cartwright has been served with a Summons to attend this House, have you not been called in for the Purpose of certifying as to his Health?" "I have." "What was your Opinion when you did see him?" "My Opinion was, that he was able to come to London." "Without any Risk?" "Without any Risk." "When you examined him in the Manner you describe, and with that view, did you perceive that he had had any Attack of Paralysis?" "Mr.Gylby attended Mr.Cartwright about Six Months ago; he told me at that Time that he had some Affection of his Head; since that Time I think he has not attended him." "At the Time when you examined him for the Purpose of ascertaining whether he could safely come to London, did you discover any thing that led you to suppose he would run any Risk in coming here?" "No Risk that I could discover." "The Witness was directed to withdraw." https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol62/pp397-427#highlight-first | Flower, Samuel Francis (I183)
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| 4 | 115 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve F/Sgt - Service No 1235107 Location Information Les Hayons is a village lying half way between Bouillon and Bertrix, 14 kilometres from each. It is 6 kilometres east of the main road from Bouillon to Liege and Brussels. The churchyard surrounds the church, which is in the centre of the village. The graves are in the north-eastern corner. Historical Information The British Expeditionary Force was involved in the later stages of the defence of Belgium following the German invasion in May 1940, and suffered many casualties in covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk. Commonwealth forces did not return until September 1944, but in the intervening years, many airmen were shot down or crashed in raids on strategic objectives in Belgium, or while returning from missions over Germany. Les Hayons Churchyard contains six airmen of the Second World War. ORB. 13th July, 1943. 17 aircraft took off between 23.55 hours & 00.35 hours to attack target AACHEN. 2 aircraft were forced to abandon the sortie, one (L.D.S.680 - Captain F/S. PEATE. R.) due to developing of violent shudder & the other (B.D.S.691 - Captain Sgt. JOLL. W.) due to inability to climb & starboard outer engine overheating & losing power, & both returned to Base early after jettisoning their 8,000 lb. H.C., safe (but seen to explode) and bringing back their incendiaries. 15 aircraft located the target by means of the tracking flares & bombed the red & green target markers from heights ranging between 16,000 feet & 21,000 feet. A few concentrated fires & a large explosion at 01.46 hours were seen (H.D.S.630 - Captain W/O. NOXON. E.) but most of the results were unobserved due to cloud, although the glow of fires was seen through the clouds. Leaflets were dropped & photographs attempted. 1 aircraft sustained holes in fuselage & rear turret due to flak. (X.D.S.664 - Captain F/S. WOLFSON. F., also fires & explosions were observed from 50 miles away.) 2 aircraft failed to return from Operations. Lancaster Mk II DS660 KO-P, 7 KIA. 05.00. 15 aircraft had returned safely to Base. https://115squadron-raf.be/crews/Lancaster%20Mk%20II%20-%20DS690%20-%20KO-C.html | Walker, Robert Alfred (I254)
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| 5 | 1863/17926 | Henderson, Jessie Fenwick (I59)
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| 6 | A letter from James Bell (1818-1902) to Colonel Wakefield. This was supplied by Adrian Bell of Kaiapoi. Wellington, 15th December. Colonel Wakefield Principal Agent of the New Zealand Company [presumably Edward Gibbon Wakefield] Sir, I beg leave to apply to you as Principal Agent of the New Zealand Company to know what lies in your power to assist me in my claim to obtain redress for injuries sustained from the natives during my residence (Wawanui) near Mangaroa in the month of last. I have applied to the late Governor through Mr. Barton for compensation for the loss I sustained, but Mr. Barton informed me that Captain Fitzroy refused to acknowledge my claim in consequence of the Natives having stated that I was the aggressor – I will not trouble you now by entering into any explanation of the affair, as you were made acquaint-ed with the facts of the case at the time I made my deposition before yourself and Mr. Clifford in last. I would most respectfully beg to call your attention to the justice of my claim, and should it be in your power to give me any assistance in obtaining the object I have in view you will be conferring a great benefit on me and for which I shall be extremely grateful. I am Sir Yours faithfully, (James Bell) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was an application for redress by James Bell for losses sustained when occupying the property now known as White Rock Station. Copied from the original by the said L.J. Bell, grandson of the original James Bell, a son of William Gordon Bell. James Bell, the applicant, sustained loss when he, with Barton, originally took up the White Rock Station in the Wairarapa, Bell narrowly escaping with his life. The following is copied from The Autobiography of Leo James Bell. It describes the affair that James Bell was referring to: “About the year 1845 James became associated with a Mr Barton with whom he had an interest in land in the Wairarapa area. This station is known today as ‘White Rock Station’. James Bell, as already recorded, had some experience as a surveyor and was engaged in this work at the station above referred to. They had some sheep on this run and kept a quantity of tobacco in stock for the purpose of dipping the sheep to prevent scab, a virulent skin disease affecting sheep at that time. It appears that the Maoris were sometimes given tobacco, which they had learned to smoke from having been employed at times by the whalers. On this occasion when they requested tobacco, my grandfather refused to give them any as his supply was getting short. There were two others on the station at the time of which I have record. They were a half caste Maori called Charlie Jones, and a Pakeha named Jim Cameron. As a result of the moody state of mind of the natives at being refused tobacco, and some of their trivialities, the chief and Jones came to holts. The following is an account of what happened as dictated by my grandfather himself and chronicled by his daughter Mrs L. Palmer of Waimea West prior to her death in 1902. “Charlie Jones and Jim Cameron were mates. Charlie Jones and the chief had a row; the chief was hurt. He rubbed him with turpentine. Cameron, who understood their language said, “From what they are saying, I think the sooner we get away the better. He went off, ostensibly to milk the cow but he never returned. It was raining very heavily at the time. A number of Maoris crowded into my whare. I was lying on my bunk reading my Bible at the time. A daughter of the chief, friendly with me, came into the hut – crying. The Maoris then withdrew and she told me that they were going to kill and eat me, and that she could do nothing to save me. They had already lighted a fire under a three-legged tripot. One or two natives then re-entered the whare; the chief sitting on a box and whetting a tomahawk. I reached a boarding pike I had near my bunk, striking the Maori with it, cutting his head and ear. The Maoris fell on me and tied me up, binding my hands and my feet. They then hung me up to the ridge pole. As the father of the young chief I had wounded was absent at another part, they sent for him to come to kill me by way of utu. I was hanging up from 2 o’clock until 7.30 pm. Jones, the half caste told them I would die if they left me hanging and the chief would lose his utu. They then cut the flax and let me hang head downwards. I became unconscious, and lest I should die before utu was satisfied, they removed me to a whare, and kept me bound hand and foot. A visiting Maori of another tribe stole into the whare at night and cut my bonds, and told me to get away at once, or if it was found that he had freed me, they would kill him. I crawled into the bush as I could not stand for a time. I stole away during the night, and lost no time in heading for Wellington. The next day I was fortunate in meeting a Mr Smith, a surveyor from Wellington. I was without clothes. Mr Smith put me on his horse and he walked by my side.” This would be about the year 1845 when James arrived at the Thistle Inn, Wellington. We hear no more of James’s activities until 1846 when we hear of him as assisting in the survey of Dunedin. The Bell Family Affair. Newsletter No. 52. | Bell, James (I16)
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| 7 | Ann Fowler Buckle was born at Lebberston (a different place from Ebberston) in the September quarter 1846. She was the only daughter and youngest child of Thomas and Elizabeth Buckle. Thomas was an agricultural labourer. Ann was christened on 19 September 1846 at Filey. When Harry was born she was nineteen years old. She married William Leng, an agricultural and general labourer, in the December quarter 1874 in the Scarborough Registration District when she was twenty-seven years old. They had four children who were Harry’s step-sisters and step-brother. Elizabeth was born in 1875, Francis in 1877, Emily Wintringham in 1880 and Edith Mary in 1883. At the 1881 census Harry was living with his mother, step-father and family at Castlegate in East Ayton. Ann Fowler died in the December quarter 1890 when she was only forty-three years old. | Buckle, Ann Fowler (I286)
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| 8 | At the Cemetery near the church in Les Hayons, Municipality Bouillon, are six Commonwealth War Graves. They all died on July 14, 1943. These are the graves of: Squadron Leader (Pilot) The Hon. Robert Alexander G. Baird, 70789, age 33. Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Harold Matthews, 1318179, age 19. Flying Officer (Nav.) William James Moorcroft, 127974, age 22. Flight Sergeant Nicolas Auber Benjamin Robinson, 406795, age 31. Sergeant (Nav.) Edwin Smith, 1330882, age unknown. Flight Sergeant (Air Bomber) Robert Alfred Walker, 1235107, age 21. On July 13, 1943 at 2359 departed from East Wretham airbase in England, the Lancaster DS690 with the mission: a raid over the city of Aachen in Germany. The aircraft was shot down over Belgium by the German night-fighter Hauptmann August Geiger, 111./NJG 1 and crashed at 0210 in Les Hayons. Of the seven crew members, six got killed in the crash, they are buried in this cemetery. One crew member managed to escape. Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Geiger_(pilot) | Walker, Robert Alfred (I254)
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| 9 | BAY OF PLENTY TIMES, VOLUME LVII, ISSUE 10044, 9 APRIL 1929, PAGE 2 Mr S. Hovell, of Waihi, in a letter to the Auckland Star says ; “I am writing to you in reference to the report that the marooned boat’s crew at the Alderman Islands, in the Bay of Plenty, ran short of water. In company with Mr Reg. W. Bell, dentist, of Coromandel, by brother and I spent a week there, rendering down two whales which were stranded, and during our stay we discovered a beautiful spring giving off a plentiful supply of clear, cool water. The spring is just above high' water mark on the western side of the furthest-out island of the group. W 7 e wore there during a very dry spell in mid-summer.” OTAGO DAILY TIMES, ISSUE 17603, 19 APRIL 1919, PAGE 6 An interesting discovery was made at the Maori workshop at Bowentown last week by Messrs R. W". Bell and S. M. Hovell, of Waihi ,(says the New Zealand Herald). Westerly gales had moved the sand and exposed a portion of this ancient Workshop. A further investigation was then made, with the result that an almost complete set of stone and bono implements associated with Maori work was found embedded in the sand. Ultimately about 200 stone adzes, gouges, anvils, and hammers, together with a number of pieces of moa and whalebone implements and greenstone articles, were unearthed. The curator of the Auckland Museum, Mr T. F. Cheesemon, who had already visited the recently discovered workshop, says that the articles will prove a valuable adjunct to the museum which it has been proposed to erect in the Auckland Domain. WAIHI DAILY TELEGRAPH, VOLUME XXII, ISSUE 7233, 27 JUNE 1925, PAGE 3 By 7 o’clock the children, together with an increasing number of parents and friends were settled down to take part in or to enjoy the various items on the programme. Molly and Reg. Bell were very bright in their opening pianoforte duet, and were followed by several performers all eager to do their best WAIPAWA MAIL, VOLUME LII, ISSUE 94, 24 APRIL 1931, PAGE 2 A Mercury Bay fisherman, Mr John Watson, reports a gold discovery at j Kennedy’s Bay by Messrs Reg. Bell and Dick Hovell. They are said to , have found a reef of from 3ft. 0in. to 6ft. wide. They deprecate anything in the nature of a rush until the results of the assay are known. | Bell, Reginald Wallace (I11)
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| 10 | Biography Source: (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146640709) Named as his natural daughter in the will of Pierre Servant (proved in 1787). Servant owned Bellevue estate on Carriacou which was sold to Dr John Bell in 1787 subject to an annuity for Alzire. In his will proved in 1800, Bell bequeathed to his 'Mallotto Girl Alzee and hir Child Marian' twenty enslaved people and a small plantation adjacent to Bellevue. After the death of John Bell, Alzire began a relationship with William Gordon Bell, an estate manager. They had a daughter born in Carriacou before moving to Scotland where they had four more children. The moved to New Zealand in 1839 where Alzire died in 1854. Three children of William Gordon Bell and Alvise/Alyize Stewart [sic] were baptised in New Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire: James (1817), Elizabeth (1820) and William Gordon (1820). William Gordon Bell, farmer of Waimea East, Nelson, appears on the New Zealand Jury Lists from 1843. William Gordon Bell, farmer, and William Gordon Bell junior, also a farmer, appear on the Electoral Rolls for Waimea from at least 1853. Alziers Cervantes Bell, born Carriacou, West Indies c. 1776, wife of William Gordon Bell, died 12/12/1851. William Gordon Bell, born Dumfries, Scotland, 29/12/1784, died at Bellview, Nelson, 19/04/1861. Sources Joseph Alan Beatty, '“I bear witness”: An African's Quest for faith and community in the Atlantic World', PhD thesis, University of Florida (2014) p. 87. Email from Jo Broad 16/01/2020. GROS OPR Baptisms 877 10 261; 877 10 262; 877 20 6. Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Jury Lists, 1842-1862 [database online]; Ancestry.com, New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981 [database online]. Findagrave.com memorial ID 105330048. We are grateful to Jo Broad for her assistance with compiling this entry. | Servante, Alziere (I19)
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| 11 | Cite This Record "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKMW-NX4 : 21 July 2021), Elizabeth Sherratt in entry for Samuel Francis Flower, 1814. Name Samuel Francis Flower Sex Male Spouse's Name Elizabeth Sherratt Spouse's Sex Female Marriage Date 22 Aug 1814 Marriage Place Saundby, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom Marriage Place (Original) Saundby, Nottingham, England | Family: Samuel Francis Flower / Elizabeth Sherratt (F84)
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| 12 | DIED OF DIPTHERIA AS DID 3 OF HIS CHILDREN • Woodburn, Wairau Plain, Marlborough, New Zealand | Godfrey, Henry (I117)
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| 13 | First name(s) Hugh Last name Flower Gender Male Birth year - Birth place - Baptism year 1787 Baptism date 03 Jun 1787 Residence Rand, Lincoln, England Place Rand County Lincolnshire Country England Father's first name(s) John Father's last name Flower Mother's first name(s) Mary Mother's last name - Record set England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975 Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Subcategory Parish Baptisms Collections from England, Great Britain | Flower, Hugh (I464)
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| 14 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Flower, John (I462)
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| 15 | First name(s) John Last name Flower Sex Male Birth year - Baptism year 1758 Baptism date 23 Jul 1758 Place Holton Beckering Father's first name(s) Thomas Mother's first name(s) Elizabeth County Lincolnshire Country England Archive Lincolnshire Archives Record set Lincolnshire Baptisms Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Subcategory Parish Baptisms Collections from England, Great Britain | Flower, John (I187)
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| 16 | First name(s) John Last name Flower Sex Male Birth year 1757 Age 73 Death year 1830 Death date 04 Mar 1830 Place Middle Rasen Burial ground St Peter & St Paul County Lincolnshire Country England Reference B19 Record number 84174 Record set Lincolnshire Monumental Inscriptions Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Subcategory Parish Burials Collections from England, Great Britain OR (typos?) First name(s) John Last name Flower Sex Male Birth year 1758 Age 72 Burial year 1830 Burial date 07 Mar 1830 Place Middle Rasen County Lincolnshire Country England Archive Lincolnshire Archives Page 13 Record set Lincolnshire Burials Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Subcategory Parish Burials Collections from England, Great Britain | Flower, John (I187)
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| 17 | First name(s) Samuel Franc Last name Flower Gender Male Birth year - Birth place - Baptism year 1791 Baptism date 03 Apr 1791 Residence Rand, Lincoln, England Place Rand County Lincolnshire Country England Father's first name(s) John Father's last name Flower Mother's first name(s) Marey Mother's last name - Record set England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975 Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Subcategory Parish Baptisms Collections from England, Great Britain | Flower, Samuel Francis (I183)
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| 18 | First name(s) Thomas Last name Flower Birth year - Age - Death year 1783 Death date - Burial year 1783 Burial date 11 Sep 1783 Residence Holton cum Beckering Place Holton cum Beckering Denomination Anglican Church All Saints Deanery Westwold County Lincolnshire Country England Book no - Entry no - Plot no - Record set Lincolnshire Burials Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Subcategory Parish Burials Collections from England, Great Britain | Flower, Thomas (I188)
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| 19 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Flower, Thomas (I463)
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| 20 | Halifax DT789 damaged by flak, returned to Melbourne airfield. On the evening of the 12th March 1943 this 10 Squadron aircraft left Melbourne airfield at 19.25hrs to undertake an operational flight to bomb Essen. The aircraft bombed the target area at 21.20hrs from 16,500 feet, around the time of releasing their bomb load the aircraft received flak damage to the tail fins, rear turret, starboard outer engine and the bomb doors. The rear gunner also received serious injuries and was later awarded an immediate DFM for his actions on this night. The crew were able to bring the aircraft back to base and landed at Melbourne at 23.33hrs and the rear gunner was taken to hospital. Pilot - F/Sgt George Alexander Vinish RCAF. Navigator - F/O Edward Ernest Kitchen RAFVR (116202). Bomb Aimer - Sgt Robert Alfred Walker RAFVR (1235107). Wireless Operator / Air Gunner - Sgt Andrew MacDonald Black RAFVR (1369216). Air Gunner - Sgt Richard Eric Heap RAF (649556). Flight Engineer - Sgt Alan John Crouch RAFVR (1444440). Air Gunner - Sgt Joseph Arthur Jacques Barsalou RCAF (R/104782). | Walker, Robert Alfred (I254)
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| 21 | Hubert Luiz Flower (always known as Luiz) 24.11.1921- 17.04.2015. Hubert Luiz Flower was born in Balla Salla in the Isle of Man on the 24th November 1921 to Connie and Jack Flower. He was the second of four boys and was the last surviving sibling. He joined the RAF in 1939 flying in Bristol Blenheims as a navigator bomber and wireless operator throughout the Second World War. He only realised that he was one of the Few about twenty years ago when he received one of the special medals that were awarded to Battle of Britain crew. He was the youngest airman to fly in the Battle of Britain flying in over 120 sorties. Luiz met his first wife Eve when stationed in Scotland and they had a son, Colin. Luiz Flower and his friend Harry Rose flew together in the Berlin airlift after the war. Luiz completed 103 sorties carrying coal to Berlin. After the war Luiz studied at the London School of Economics and was recruited by the colonial service. He met his second wife Jutta and they had three daughters, Petra, Deirdre and Hilary. Luiz took his young family to Sierra Leone in 1951 serving there for ten years until independence in 1961. While working for the Sierra Leoneon government, he studied as an external candidate for a law degree and was called to the bar at Grey's Inn. He met his third wife Mina in Sierra Leone and had two children, Judith and James. He returned to England in 1966 and started working as a Crown Prosecutor for Custom and Excise. He then became the Courts Administrator for the North of England working in Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester. He retired in 1981, meeting his wife Clara, who shared the same pastimes as him of music and walking. They walked in the Himalayas together and have spent the last twenty seven years, happily hopping all over the world together. He sadly died on 17th April 2015. | Flower, Hubert Luiz (I173)
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| 22 | Hubert Luiz Flower who flew in the Battle of Britain as a wireless operator/air gunner in Blenheims of 248 Squadron, reports Geoff Simpson. Luiz Flower was born on 24 November 1921 at Ballasalla, in the south east of the Isle of Man. His date of birth makes him one of the youngest men to fly in the Battle, but with many dates of birth unknown and new participants discovered, it cannot be certain that he was the youngest. Flower joined the RAF as a boy entrant in September 1937 and trained as a wireless operator. He went on to receive air gunner training and joined 248 Squadron at Sumburgh on 26 July 1940, as a Wop/AG. This was one of the Coastal Command squadrons attached to Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. He flew 126 sorties during his service with Coastal Command before serving later with the West African Communication Command. He also flew in the Berlin airlift with 27 Squadron. Having completed a nine-year engagement with the RAF Flower retired as a Master Signaller, at that time equivalent to the rank of Warrant Officer. In 1952 Flower graduated from the London School of Economics and then served in the Colonial Service, retiring in 1965 as Provincial Commissioner for the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. He was called to the Bar in 1967 and then worked in the Solicitors’ Office of HM Customs and Excise. Flower transferred to the Lord Chancellor’s Department and retired in 1982. He did not claim his Battle of Britain Clasp until June 1999, having not realised for many years that he was entitled to it. He then attended commemorative events for a number of years. | Flower, Hubert Luiz (I173)
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| 23 | John Flower (1816 – 1887) and Eliza Turner (1823 – 88) John was born on 21st December 1816 in East Retford, Nottinghamshire, the only son of Samuel Frances Flower and Elizabeth (nee Sherratt). His mother died when he was a baby or toddler and he was brought up by his father’s second wife, Catherine (They married in 1820). Just before his sixteenth birthday,on 6 November 1832, John was bound for five years by Articles of Clerkship, to a solicitor, Richard Hannam, of East Retford. On the 9th of April 1840 he married Eliza Turner (born 27.7.1823 at Worksop in Nottinghamshire). Eliza was the daughter of Elizabeth Packer of Daventry, Northamptonshire and John Turner (1781 –?) of Worksop. John was 24 and Eliza 16 when they married. By 1841, John was a solicitor and he and Eliza had moved to Tuxford, Nottinghamshire. A daughter, Elizabeth Catherine (named for John’s mother and stepmother) was born in Worksop in 1843 and a son, Samuel Frances (named for his father) was born in 1845 in Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland where the family had moved to prior to 1845. A second son John, followed in 1848. The 1861 Census records John as an attorney, living in New Street, Kirkby Stephen, employing one clerk. Catherine was 18 and the boys, recorded as scholars, were 16 and 13. Eliza’s mother, Elizabeth Turner, aged 70, lived with them or was staying at the time of the census. They also had a house servant called Mary Guy. By 1871, the family had moved to Broughton, Lancashire. John was recorded as an attorney solicitor, Catherine was a daily governess, Samuel Francis was a law stationer and John junior was a solicitor’s general clerk. They had a 24 year old domestic servant, Harriet Anne Hanson, living with them. In 1881, the family appear in the Wales Census which shows a John, Eliza and Elizabeth Catherine Flower living in High Street, Llandingat, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire with a servant, Martha Jones aged 22. John’s occupation is a solicitor. The correct places of birth are listed but oddly the ages recorded are incorrect. John’s age is recorded as 56, Eliza’s as 50 and Elizabeth Catherine’s as 30. Their real ages would have been about 65, 60 and 38. John died on the 2nd November 1887 in Chorlton, Lancashire, aged 80. Eliza died a year later in 1888 aged 75. WendyParsonsFlower originally shared this on 20 Jun 2014 | Flower, John (I180)
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| 24 | Ohinemuri Regional History Journal 44, September 2000 MEMORIES OF WAIHI By the late Reg Bell (Written in 1982) When my parents, Reginald and Mary Bell moved to Waihi from Westport in 1913 they purchased a home on the corner of Kenny and Baber Streets. (This house still stands today, 1998.) The large, four bedroomed home was built in 1910 by Mr G Fisk, who was a craftsman of distinction. A number of the homes around Waihi bear his style and are easily recognisable with their features including iron lace decorations framing the verandas that often encompassed two or three sides of the house, a high main entrance and exacting workmanship. The Kenny Street house was made from the best heart kauri and remained for years exactly as it was built for its first owners, Aubrey and Dorothy Toy. Mr Toy was the proprietor of the local paper, the "Waihi Telegraph" and he was a stockbroker. My father, a dental surgeon, bought his dental practice from a Mr Cranwell and had his rooms in Haszard Street where a more recent dentist, Mr Bruce Wilson had his surgery. At the time my father was the only dentist in town. About once every three months he packed his instruments and portable drill, saddled the horse that grazed in the paddock next to our house, and did his rounds of the Coromandel Peninsula. On horseback, he spent some days travelling to the township of Coromandel, through Whangamata, Tairua, and Thames, stopping on the way at the small towns to cure the locals of toothache. It cost 2/6 to have a tooth extracted. With the very best porcelain filling for the front teeth costing 10/-. For me and my sister, Molly, one of the more memorable days of the week was Wednesday, as that was the day when mother had her "at home day" for the society ladies of the town. Tea and sandwiches were served in the huge lounge, chat was exchanged and the fashion of the day discussed. Long frocks were worn and gloves were very much a part of the ensemble, as was a large Swiss straw hat decorated with tulle and hand made roses. M'lady always left her visiting card, and these were collected by Molly and me. We had to make ourselves scarce on a Wednesday, what with all those prim and proper ladies about. We were not welcome at all but there was plenty for youngsters to do in Waihi. We had no trouble making our own fun in those days. I also learnt the piano at a young age and had the use of the family gramophone, a windup instrument, which played the old 78 records. A maid was employed to help mother with the household chores, and she lived in with the family. She mainly did all the cleaning and mother did all the cooking. This was done on a large coal range which had a wetback to heat water for baths. A meat safe near the back door kept foodstuffs fresh in the days before refrigeration. When mother was not entertaining she played golf, excelling at the sport and becoming the local ladies' champion for many years. Waihi then was far more class conscious than today. The elite of the town, those in the professions and mine officials mixed, while the miners themselves were a class apart. Those were prohibition days but I remember the miners still loved their drop of beer and there were many houses with its own home brew shed out the back. A day at the beach was not the casual affair that it became in later years. It meant a lengthy trip by horse and buggy over metal roads, with umbrellas at the ready in case of rain. I can remember the first car to arrive in Waihi, one owned by Hubert Barry, the mine superintendent. This car, open to all weather, carried the passengers seated with their backs to the driver, with the view fast disappearing into the distance, obscured by the dust from the poor roads. Mr Reg Bell, who wrote the above article in 1982 was a teacher, photographer and scholar in Japanese languages. He lived in the house until he died in 1985. It was then sold to Peter McGregor who turned it into two flats. Present owners are Jenny and Roger Ward who plan to make the house liveable with modern conveniences, whilst preserving its Edwardian personality. Eventually they hope to open it to the public so that they can see the house as it would have been in its heyday. | Bell, Reginald Palmer (I15)
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| 25 | Pierre Servant came from a large family in Saintes, in the Charente-Maritime region of France. His parents François Servant, a hosiery merchant, and Catherine Petit were married in the St Vivien parish of Saintes on 27th September 1734 (see image 104 here). Records from the parish of St Pierre, Saintes, indicate the following children from this marriage: Marie, born before 1738, when she was named as godparent to her sister Marie (image 65). Our Pierre, also born before 1738, also named as godparent to the second Marie (image 65). Marie Louise, known as Louise, born 10th March 1739 and baptised 12th March (image 4). Barthelemy, born 30th April 1740 and baptised 1st May (image 16). Elizabeth Eustelle, known as Eustelle or Ustelle, born 21st May 1741 and baptised on the 23rd (image 26). Louis, born 28th July 1744 and baptised 30th July (image 55). Another Marie, born 19th August 1745 and baptised 21st August (image 65). Charlotte, born 2nd September 1746 and baptised 4th September (image 72). Another Pierre, born 28th December 1747 and baptised 29th December (image 84). Anne, born and baptised 2nd July 1750 (page 105). Those still alive – and remembered in Servant’s will – by 1783 were Servant’s eldest sister Marie, Louise, Ustelle, Louis, and the younger Pierre. Source: https://alzireofcarriacou.wordpress.com/2021/11/27/the-servant-family/ | Servant, Pierre (I22)
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| 26 | Private No. 10148 South Staffordshire Regiment Private No. 43132 North Staffordshire Regiment | Gardner, John Shaw (I422)
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| 27 | Samuel Francis Flower 1792 – 1864 (Royal College of Surgeons) Married: 1)1814 Elizabeth Sherratt 2)1820 Katherine Jackson 3)1862 Mary Ledger Samuel Francis Flower was born on the 3rd April 1792 at Rand in Lincolnshire, one of nine brothers and sisters. He married Elizabeth Sherratt on 22 August 1814 at Saundby, Nottinghamshire. They had a son, John Flower born on 21st December 1816 in East Retford, Nottinghamshire. Elizabeth must have died, for on 7 August, 1820, he married Katherine Jackson (born 18th May 1779 in Markham, Nottinghamshire) who was 13 years older than him. He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and was in practice before 1818. The 1832 Census records him as being a surgeon and apothecary and he was still practicing as a surgeon in 1851. He had retired by 1861 as the Census for this year records that he was a ‘Proprietor of Houses’ In 1851 he was living at Carolgate in East Retford but had moved to Apsley Place, East Retford, by 1861. Katherine died on the 13th of January 1861 at East Retford and in April 1862, at the age of 70, he married his housekeeper, Mary Ledger who was aged 26. He died on the 19th of January 1864 at East Retford (Retford), Nottinghamshire, aged 72. | Flower, Samuel Francis (I183)
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| 28 | The Airmen's Stories - Sgt. H L Flower Hubert Luiz Flower was born at Ballasalla, Isle of Man on 24th November 1921. He joined the RAF as a Boy Entrant in September 1937 for training as a Wireless Operator. He later carried out training as an Air Gunner and joined 248 Squadron at Sumburgh on 26th July 1940 as a WOp/AG. He flew 126 sorties with Coastal Command. His subsequent service is currently undocumented until 1945, when Flower was serving with West African Communication Command. He retired as a Master Signaller with the rank of Warrant Officer. During the Berlin Airlift in 1948 he flew 103 sorties with 27 Squadron. In 1952 Flower graduated from the London School of Economics and then served in the Colonial Service, retiring in 1965 as Provincial Commissioner for the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. He was called to the Bar in 1967 and was then in the Solicitors Office of HM Customs and Excise. Flower transferred to the Lord Chancellor's Department and retired in 1982 as Deputy Circuit Administrator, Northern Province. Flower did not claim his Battle of Britain Clasp until June 1999. He died in April 2015 | Flower, Hubert Luiz (I173)
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| 29 | Thomas Buckle was born on 22 November 1811 at Seamer near Scarborough. He was christened on 27 December 1811 also at Seamer. Thomas was the son of John and Mary Buckle. He married Elizabeth and they had four children. Henry was born in 1840, John in 1843, Ann in 1846 and a second son named Henry in 1851. It was quite common for a new child to be given the same name as another who had died. The family were living at Irton Moor Cottages in 1851. Their eldest son, Henry, was not included on the census so it is likely that he had died by then. The census record showed that Ann and John had been born at Lebberston. In 1861 Thomas and Elizabeth were living at Forge House, East Ayton (where Harry was to be born eight years later). Both Thomas and Elizabeth lived to a very good age. Elizabeth died in 1887 aged seventy-seven, and Thomas died in 1894 aged eighty-three. In 1891 Thomas was “living on his own means” at Forge Cottage, Ayton. He had his son-in-law, William Leng, who was now a widower and his three grand-daughters living with him. | Buckle, Thomas (I287)
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| 30 | Tom joined the Grenadier Guards and saw service at the Salerno landings in Southern Italy and at Dunkirk? | Buckle, Tom Botham (I282)
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| 31 | WILLIAM GORDON BELL came to Nelson in 1840 from Scotland after working as a plantation manager in the West Indies, where he married Alziere Cervantes. James their son became a surveyor for the New Zealand Company and William (aged 56) and extended family came to New Zealand together. William settled on land which is now Lower Queen Street, Richmond. On his death in 1864, the Nelson Examiner remarked how “the clear ringing voice and vice-like grip of the hearty old Lowland farmer” was missed, and “His work as a man and a colonist will be conceded by all who knew him: and any country which can boast a number of men of the same stamp may justly feel proud.” http://www.nelson.govt.nz/assets/Recreation/Downloads/History-Heritage/Fairfield-Memorials-Walk-Flyer-Oct14-Final.pdf | Bell, William Gordon (I18)
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