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Bandsmen from the Royston
Colliery Prize Band
taken about 1916
Read Photo Memories on page 7
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Domus Historiae
JOURNAL OF BARNSLEY FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
Volume 23 Number 3 - July Quarter - 2015
2 EDITORIAL Bryan Danforth
3 WORLD WAR ONE TIMELINE Jeff Chambers
6 BUSINESS’ ADVERTISING IN THE BARNSLEY CHRONICLE -1914 Jeff Chambers
7 PHOTO MEMORIES Maggie Bennett
10 THE LIFE OF A TOMMY - PART 2 Harold Masters
15 NEW PUBLICATIONS
16 HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP - CAWTHORNE JUBILEE MUSEUM Jane Ainsworth
17 THE LUSITANIA MEDAL Trevor Harvey
20 DOWNTON COMES TO CANNON HALL Advertising Feature
21 ANOTHER LESSON IN BROAD YORKSHIRE Maggie Bennett
22 A SATISFIED BFHS MEMBER Editor
23 ANOTHER BRAVE BARNSLEY WOMAN Madame Amy Joyner Jane Ainsworth
25 KEXBOROUGH CONNECTIONS Brian Hoyle The Horbury and Gartery Families
31 DONCASTER LOCAL HISTORY FAIR Advertising Feature
32 SNIPPETS FROM THE BARNSLEY TELEGRAPH Editor
33 HAVE YOU VISITED THE BFHS WEBSITE? Editor
34 NEW MEMBERS AND THEIR INTERESTS Elaine Jackson
35 A MESSAGE FROM THE MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY
36 SOCIETY SEARCH SERVICES
Inside front cover - LIST OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Inside back cover - DIARY DATES
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EDITORIAL I must say it has been a pleasure to produce the last two editions of
Domus Historiae. Why? Because I have been able to fill it with original
contributions from members who have been kind enough to share their
research.
Sometimes it is hard to find enough articles to fill the pages so I have to
share some of my research or use articles from the journal archives.
However, recently there have been quite a few contributors who have
provided interesting information to supply the journal with varied and
original research.
This quarter we continue the account of life in the trenches for Harold
Master’s relative in the First World War. Pam Danforth’s contribution in the
last journal - the poem by her uncle, Kenneth Harper - sparked some
interest and we have had a few poems featuring the Yorkshire dialect. We
also have an interesting article as a follow up to the Lusitania article in the
April edition.
New contributions have come in the form of photo memories shared by
BFHS member Sheila Smailes. The Kexborough Connection article will run
through to another journal. It is a good example of family history research.
Finally, please read the message from Elaine, our membership secretary,
on page 35. We need to keep in contact with members so that we can
provide updates. Also, could you be our general secretary? Look at the
position vacant ad below and contact us if you can help.
Editor
POSITION VACANT
Due to the General Secretary retiring at the A.G.M we would like to ask if
you are interested in the position of Secretary. There are six committee
meetings held each year on the first Tuesday of the month February,
April, June, August, October and December.
If you are interested, please contact John Westerman,
[email protected] or Doreen Piper [email protected]
or ring 01226 218843
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Timeline July 1st 1915 to September 30th 1915
July 1 Russia creates a Central War Industries Committee to oversee production and address a severe shortage of artillery shells and rifles on the Front. Russian soldiers in the field without rifles can only get them from fellow soldiers after they are killed or wounded.
Second Battle of Krasnik begins.
July 2 Naval action between Russian and German fleets off Gottland.
German minelayer ‘Albatross’ driven ashore.
July 7 Austrian submarine sinks Italian cruiser ‘Amalfi’ in the Adriatic.
July 9 German South-West Africa capitulates to General Botha.
July 11 German light cruiser ‘Königsberg’ destroyed in Rufiji River,
German East Africa, by British monitors.
July 12 British residency at Bushire (South Persia) attacked by
Tangistani tribesmen.
July 13 Great Austro-German Offensive on Eastern front begins.
Battle of the Narew and Bobr begins.
Second Battle of Przasnysz begins.
July 14 Battle of Schaulen begins.
July 15 National Registration Act becomes law in Great Britain.
July 16 Battle of Krasnostav begins.
July 18 Second Battle of the Isonzo begins and ends August 10th.
Austrian submarine sinks Italian cruiser ‘Giuseppe Garibaldi’
in the Adriatic.
July 20 Battle of Le Linge (Vosges mountains) begins.
Second Battle of Ivangorod.
July 22 Bukoba, on Victoria Nyanza (German East Africa), captured by
British forces .
July 24 Rozan and Pultusk (North Poland) stormed by German forces.
July 25 Nasiriya (Mesopotamia) taken by British forces.
July 30 The Pope sends appeal for peace to belligerent Governments.
Battle of Kupischki begins.
July 31 Battle of Strelcze (one day).
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August 1 Constantinople harbour raided by British submarine.
August 3 Van (Armenia) evacuated by the Russian forces.
August 5 Warsaw occupied by German forces.
Ivangorod taken by Austro-German forces.
Van occupied by Turkish forces.
August 6 Operations of the landing at Suvla (Dardanelles) begin.
Battle of Sari Bair (Dardanelles) begins.
August 8 Bushire (South Persia) occupied by British forces.
Turkish battleship ‘Barbarousse-Hairedine’ sunk by British
submarine "E.-11" in the Dardanelles.
August 9 Decisive day of Battle of Sari Bair.
August 10 German airship "L.-12" extensively damaged by British aircraft
off Ostend.
August 12 First ship sunk by torpedo from British seaplane (Dardanelles).
August 13 German submarine sinks H.M.T. "Royal Edward" in the Ægean.
August 15 National Register taken in Great Britain.
August 16 German submarine shells Lowca and Harrington, Whitehaven.
August 19 German battle cruiser "Moltke" torpedoed by British submarine
"E.-1" in Gulf of Riga.
British submarine "E.-13" attacked by German warships while
aground in Danish waters.
British S.S. "Arabic" sunk by German submarine.
H.M.S. "Baralong" destroys German submarine "U.-27"
August 21 Battle of Scimitar Hill (Suvla).
Italy declares war on Turkey.
First authenticated case of German submarine firing on a ship's
crew in open boats (British S.S. "Ruel").
August 25 Brest-Litovsk (Poland) taken by German forces.
August 26 Byelostok (Poland) taken by German forces.
September 1 German Government agrees to the United States demands of
limitation of submarine activity.
Ruad Island, off Syrian coast, occupied by French forces.
Grodno captured by German forces.
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September 5 The Tsar supersedes the Grand Duke Nicholas in supreme
command of the Russian Armies with General Alexeiev as Chief
of Staff [Though nominally Chief of Staff, General Alexeiev was
virtually Commander-in-Chief and performed the duties of that
office till the Tsar's abdication on March 15th, 1917 continuing
as Commander-in-Chief without further appointment.]
Action of Hafiz Kor (North-West Frontier of India).
September 7 Russian counter-offensive in Galicia. Battle of Tarnopol begins.
September 8 The Grand Duke Nicholas appointed Viceroy of the Caucasus.
September 9 Battle of Dvinsk begins.
Battle of Vilna begins.
September 16 Pinsk taken by German forces.
September 18 Vilna taken by German forces.
September 21 Greek Premier (M. Venizelos) asks for guarantee of 150,000
British and French troops as condition for Greek intervention.
Viscount Ishii succeeds Marquis Okuma as Japanese Minister
for Foreign Affairs.
September 22 "Dede Agatch Agreement" concluded between Turkey and
Bulgaria rectifying Turkish frontier in favour of Bulgaria.
Second Advance on Yaunde (Cameroons)
September 23 Greek Government order precautionary mobilisation.
September 24 French and British Governments inform Greek Government
that they are prepared to send troops requested.
September 25 Allied Autumn Offensive begins:- Battle of Loos begins.
Third Battle of Artois begins.
Second Battle of Champagne begins.
Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Great Britain, General Sir J.
Wolfe Murray, resigns.
Bulgarian mobilisation begins.
September 28 Battle of Kut (Mesopotamia).
Dr. Dumba, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador, recalled from USA.
Greece refuse French and British ’offer’ of the 24th.
British and Russian Governments agree to request of Persian
Government for a monthly subvention.
September 30 Lord Derby assumes control of recruiting in Great Britain.
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BUSINESS’ ADVERTISING IN THE BARNSLEY CHRONICLE 1914
Jeff Chambers
BEESON’S
Mourning Warehouse
Black Costumes, 14/11 to 45/-
Black Dress Skirts, 3/11 to 15/11.
Black Blouses, 1/11½ to 15/11.
Black Dresses, 12/11 to 35/-
Black Millinery, 3/11 to 21/-.
Ties, Veiling’s, Gloves, Hosiery, Ribbons.
Everything required for Deep or
Complimentary Mourning.
C. H. BEESON,
Cheapside, Barnsley.
Other Local Business’ in Barnsley
J. DRAKE & Sons, Ltd, Furnishers. 41, Sheffield Road.
Walter GRAYSON, Corporate Accountant. 15 Regent Street.
Solomon HARRIS, Money lender. 7, Eastgate.
S. KRAKAUER, Goldsmith and Silversmith. 3, Church Street.
J. W. MOORHOUSE, Pharmacist. 12, Market Hill.
Ernest NASH, Pharmaceutical Chemist. 2, Queen Street.
Isaac PRYOR, Clockmaker. 15, New Street.
W. RIGBY, Ophthalmic Optician. 181, Sheffield Road.
Watches Cleaned 1/-
All Work Warranted 12 months
Old Gold & Silver, also Old False Teeth Bought.
MYER’S, “CITY WATCHMAKER,”
7, May Day Green, Barnsley.
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PHOTO MEMORIES
In early March of this year, Elaine, our membership secretary, received
some very interesting pictures from an ex-member of our Society. Sheila
Smailes had kindly thought of us when she was looking at some old school
photos of her mother taken between 1928 and 1931 and sent them to us
along with a couple of lovely pictures of her grandfather. Elaine passed
them to me and I phoned Sheila for a chat about them.
The first one was taken around 1928/9 when Sheila’s mother, Alma Taylor,
was at Racecommon Road School aged about ten. She is on the second
row from the back, third child in from the left. We don’t have a name for
the teacher on the left but on the right of the photo is Miss England who
was the Headmistress of the school at the time.
Alma was born in Army Row in Royston in 1919, but the family moved into
Barnsley when she was small though they returned to Royston later and
lived in Midland Road. By 1931 she was a pupil at Royston Girl’s School
and we can see her on the front row (below), third from the right. Sheila
was able to identify one of the other girls in the photo, on the second row
from the back is Vera Marshall who stands third from the right.
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Later Alma worked at the old Gas Board in the wages department, where
she met her future husband and they married in 1945 at Kinsley and lived
in Hemsworth. Sheila’s father died aged sixty-five in 1976 but her mother
lived to be ninety and died about five years ago with all her memories and
knowledge intact.
Sheila was fortunate to have had that well of family history for so long and
she’s made good use of it, tracing her family histories back to the 17th
century.
The picture on the next page is of Sheila’s grandfather and three of his
fellow bandsmen from the Royston Colliery Prize Band, taken about 1916.
Joseph Taylor is the tall young man standing on the left of the photograph,
though his musical talents were not limited to brass, he also played violin
very well. Joseph Taylor had been born in 1891 in Shafton and in this
picture he is about twenty-five. In later life he developed some severe
breathing problems and Alma and her husband brought him to live in
Kinsley where he was closer to them. He soon found a job with the gas
board as a Gas Holder Attendant but died in 1955 at the age of sixty-four.
There were several brass bands in Royston between 1863 and the 1960s
but my research suggests that this was the Royston Monckton Colliery
Band which seems to have been set up before 1906.
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WWW.brassbandresults.co.uk says that in May 1906 they took part in a
Hemsworth contest but had to wait till August that year to be placed. They
were 5th at Silkstone competitions, and 3rd at Handsworth on the 18th. It
wasn't until 1937, with George Buckley conducting, that they won their
first Number One place at Belle Vue Competitions. During the 1940s they
won 4 firsts, 5 firsts in the 1950s, but in the 1960s only 1 first. Altogether
there were a total of 12 first places, 8 seconds, and 9 third places, good
results for such a small village. The details on the website are incomplete
but worth a visit if you are interested in brass bands.
If anyone has any information to share about the Royston Colliery Band
we’d be very pleased to hear from you, and as always, if you recognise
anyone in any of our pictures please let us know.
Maggie Bennett
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THE LIFE OF A TOMMY - HAROLD MASTERS Part Two
Continuing the story of Harold Masters, born 22nd April 1894
and died on the Somme 1918.
As seen in the April Journal, following the destruction of Guillemont on the 5th
of September 1916 the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry may have had a short
break from the carnage at the front. The Battalion diary next tells us that on the
16th they were dug in beside the road at Flers-Coucelette between the villages
of Ginchy and Les Boeufs. Dawn had broken on a fine clear day, giving the
enemy good visibility with which to deploy their Minnenwerfer (mine launcher)
and machine guns with "....extraordinary accuracy against the British troops
assembled for the attack." The battle continued until the 22nd September,
though between the 15th and the 17th casualties in the Cornwall's were
reported as "10 officers and 170 other ranks, killed, wounded or missing."
The Battle of Le Transloy: 1st to 18 October 1916
With little chance of rest, on the 29th of September the 7th Cornwall's
were sent to relieve the 10th Yorkshires in the trenches around Le
Transloy, Bealencourt, and Bapume. On the 3rd of October they were
relieved and marched back to what was known as Dummy Trench,
north of Bernafray Wood. The night was miserable and heavy rain was
falling as the men tramped along roads and tracks through the mud,
reaching Dummy Trench at 4.am, exhausted, wet, and muddy. They
left behind them 11 killed, 47 wounded, and several missing. The7th
Cornwall's are next listed as having "two weeks training from 31st of
October to 13th of November 1916" probably at Carnoy.
The Battle of the Ancre: 13th to 18th November 1916
The 13th of November was cold and misty and the Battalion was due
to return to the front line trenches. At 11 am., the Cornwall's left
Carnoy and reached Guillemont at about 1 pm. They left for the
trenches east of Les Boeufs at about 3.45pm to relieve the King’s
Battalion. The diary describes the march to the front:
".....the weather was gloomy. Muddy tracks, tired men treading
carefully, lest they fall into a deep morass of mud, or into one of the
many shell-holes full of stinking water. On past trenches which had
been won only at bloody cost, through battered and ruined villages of
which one stone scarce stood upon another. By the time they relieved
the King’s it was midnight. One man was missing - he may have fallen
unnoticed into a shell hole. Battalion was relieved on the 16th
November, fourteen men evacuated to hospital suffering from trench
foot”.
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My research turned up no mention of the 7th Cornwalls until mid-March
1917. Perhaps some of them got home leave, perhaps their reduced
numbers were being brought up to strength. Whatever the reason the
next mention of the 7th D.C.L.I. is the 17th of March 1917 when they
were preparing to attack Ruyaulcourt, where on the 28th of March, one
Captain and four other ranks were killed and nine wounded. On the
29th of March they marched back to billets at Bus and then to a tented
camp at Le Transloy where they managed a short break until the 4th of
April. The 7th Battalion was at Equancourt on the 5th of April 1917,
engaged the enemy alongside the 61st Brigade when two German
prisoners were taken by the Cornwall's, who lost two men killed and
seven wounded. A few days later the D.C.L.I. were relieved and moved
back to Ypres, on the 25th of April 1917 the Battalion relieved the Rifle
Brigade, and were again in the front line.
From the 3rd of May 1917 to the 19th the Cornwall's were in Havrincourt
Wood, though the tour was uneventful and they were moved to Vallulart
Wood on 20th May, then to Beaulencourt. On the 21st of May the
Cornwall’s relieved an Australian Battalion in the Morchies-Vaulx line
immediately before vigorous patrolling of No Man’s Land began.
The Battle of Ypres
On the 6th June the Battalion move back to billets in Vaux then on the
13th back to Camp “A”. On the 19th of June the Cornwall's entrained at
Achiet-Le-Grand for Candas, and on the 20th, the Battalion marched to
Doullens where they entrained for Belgium. Arriving at 11am on the 21st
June at Godewaersveldte, they marched about 6 miles to a camp in a
field near Haandekot. The 7th DCLI was the only Battalion from the
Cornwall’s to attack at Langemark. They arrived in the St. Omer area on
the 21st July 1917, having spent a varied three months further south.
The Army Commander (Lord Rawlinson) had sent the Divisional
commander a letter in which appeared the following paragraph.
“It is now nine months since the Division joined the Fourth Army and I
cannot allow them to leave without expressing to all ranks my gratitude for
the excellent service they have rendered. Throughout the heavy fighting in
October and November last at Guillemont, Les Boeufs and the
Quadrilateral, and east of Guillemont, they displayed a gallantry and
fighting spirit, which was beyond praise. Throughout an exceptionally
trying winter they had to hold one of the wettest and muddiest parts of the
line, yet, when it came to the advance in March and April, they carried out
the successful attacks at Neuville, Metzen Couture, Trescault and Bilhem
with Gallantry and dash which was wholly admirable and for which I offer
them my warmest thanks.”
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The Battalion did a stint of training and then moved on to various places
like Elverdinghe Canal Bank until the 14th August when they replaced the
11th Kings Royal Rifles.
The Battle of Langemark: 16th to 18th August 1917
This was a particularly fierce battle and three members of the Cornwall's
received medals for their actions during the conflict. They were relieved
and moved back on August 18th; casualties were three second
lieutenants, one captain, and twenty-four other ranks killed, plus 150
other ranks wounded.
The Battle of The Menin Road Ridge: 20th to 25th September 1917
The Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, the 7th DCLI is entitled
to the Battle Honour “Menin Road”.
The 7th DCLI bivouacked near Dawson’s Corner very early on the 18th of
August, marched to Elverdinghe and entrained for Proven, where on
arrival they marched off to camp. The Battalion now numbered 330 men,
plus 100 men from the transport lines, including a draft of fifty recruits
who had arrived on the 14th of August. The next few days consisted of
training and work under the Royal Engineers, by the end of August with
new men being drafted, the trench strength of the Battalion stood at 18
Officers and 651 other ranks. There is no mention of them until the 9th of
September, which saw the Cornwall’s on the way to the front line again.
In the Langemark area they made a number of trips to the front line
between 9th and 25th of September with approximately 12 men killed
and 30 wounded.
The Battle of Polygon Wood: 26th September to 3rd October.
The 7th Cornwall’s were still in the front line when this attack opened.
With nine ranks killed and five wounded they were relieved on the 3rd of
October and eventfully entrained to Bapume to a camp near Lechelle,
then moved on 4th of October to Haut-Allaines and on the 8th to another
camp near Heudecourt.
The following night, in wet and stormy weather, the Cornwall’s took over
the front line from the 13th Green Howard’s. In one week on the front
line they encountered no action other than the occasional trench mortar,
and being swept, with machine gunfire. Then on the 16th October, the
Cornwall’s were relieved by the Kings own Yorkshire Light Infantry
(KOYLI). The remainder of October and the first week of November
passed without incident; then on the 9th of November the D.C.L.I.
(twenty Officers and 400 other ranks) marched to Fins and entrained for
Bray the next day for training, possibly with tanks. Infantry of all
divisions in the line, who were to make the attack on 20th November
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1917, had previously been given a short course of training in
advancing with the tanks: they were to advance with the tanks, not
after they had gone forward. It was the 18th November before the
Cornwall’s once again found themselves on the front line, and were in
action on the 20th with the tanks.
The Battle of Cambrai - The Tank Attack: 20th November1917
The Cambrai front had been selected for the British attack for two
main reasons. This particular sector of the German front was lightly
held by enemy divisions which had been withdrawn exhausted from the
Ypres battles and were in need of rest in a quiet part of the line. Also,
and perhaps most important, was the fact that the ground was suitable
for the employment of tanks, of which large numbers were to be used in
the offensive. No less than 420 tanks were employed on the whole
front from Gonnelieu to Hayrincourt—thirty-six to each assaulting
infantry brigade. There were three types of these huge machines:
first, the wire-cutting tank, which was to lead the attack, then the
fighting tank and lastly, the supply tank. On the back of each was
fastened a huge 'fascine' held by a pair of giant arms. If the tank
came to an unusually deep trench an ingenious contrivance released
the fascine which fell into the trench, providing a temporary bridge
across which the machine could continue on its way without dipping
its nose into the trench with the possibility of becoming stuck. Losses
for the 7th Cornwall's on the 20th of November were 2 Officers and 59
other ranks wounded, 10 other ranks killed, and 8 other ranks missing,
believed wounded.
At 6.30am on the 21st of November 1917 the 7th Cornwall’s marched
via the La Vacquerie Valley to the eastern end of Les Rue Vertes, the
southern suburb of Masnieres and the south of the St. Quentin Canal. For
the period between the 21st of November and 28th of November 1917
the Battalion were kept on standby. The weather meantime was going
from bad to worse with a howling wind and snow. Exposure was
beginning to tell on the men’s health, and many of them suffered with
swollen feet and were almost incapacitated. Happily, on 28th of
November 1917 the 12th King's Rifles relieved the Cornwall's, and the
Battalion moved back to old German trenches North West and south east
of Vacquerie Valley.
The German Counter-Attack: 30th November to 6th December 1917
On the 30th November the enemy began a massive counter attack and
many units had to retreat, and quite a number of men from different
units were taken prisoner. By dusk a further attack was repulsed and this
affair closed the fighting on the 30th of November 1917 so far as the 7th
DCLI were concerned. The Battalion losses had been heavy, 162 Officers
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and men killed, wounded or missing, the number of other ranks missing
was roughly fifty, presumed taken prisoner.
The Cornwall's were relieved on the 3rd of December having lost a further
14 men wounded though they were supposedly not involved in the
fighting. They were marched back to 'Tyke Dump ' camp on the Fins-
Gouzeaucourt road and then transported to Sorel-le Grand
The 7th DCLI left their huts and tents at Sorel on the 4th of December
1917 and marched to a point on the Fins-Nurlu road where motor-buses
took the Battalion to a village called Ytres. There cocoa was given to the
men, Sawyers Stoves being very kindly lent by the Guards Division, while
canteens and camp kettles were loaned from a labour company camp,
and cocoa, milk and sugar were obtained from a Y.M.C.A. hut. At
12.30pm the Battalion entrained and arrived at Buire at 5pm, after a
very cold journey. Three hours were spent in "embussing" before a
start was made for Bouzincourt, and it was 11p.m. before the last party
reached their destination. A short day of rest in bad huts with an
insufficient water supply were hardly a break, but on the 6th of
December 1917 the Battalion paraded at 6.30am, marched to Albert
and entrained for Beaurainville where they set out on a 12-mile march to
Coupelle Vieille.
The consequence was that the men, not being in good marching trim
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after trench life, suffered considerably and many fell out. The Battalion
remained at Coupelle Vieille until the 12th of December: but on that day
was transported by bus to the neighbourhood of Wallon Cappel, where
training took place until the end of the year. The 7th Battalion Cornwall's,
however, was able to have its Christmas dinner on the 25th December
1917:
"Pork, some fowls and geese, beer and cigarettes were issued to the men by
P.R.I. Dinners in billets fairly comfortable and there was plenty to eat, drink and
smoke. The men said it was the best Christmas Day and dinner they had had since
the Battalion came to France. If only they had known it was to be their last during
hostilities!"
Harold Masters 2015
The concluding part of Harold Master’s fascinating research into the life of a British Tommy will be included in the October edition of Domus Historiae.
New Publications March-May 2015
Baptisms
Silkstone: All Saints’ Vol. 19 (1855-1859)
Bretton: St Bartholomew’s Vol. 2 (1841-1869)
Bretton: St Bartholomew’s Vol. 3 (1870-1899)
Burials 20th century series
Dodworth: St John the Baptist Vol. 1 (1900-1905)
Dodworth: St John the Baptist Vol. 2 (1906-1912)
Contact Jacqueline for volume details,
or, look on the Genfair site.
All transcription booklets are available at £2.50 each from:
the bookstall at meetings
Jacqueline at [email protected]
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HISTORY ON YOUR DOORSTEP - CAWTHORNE JUBILEE MUSEUM
I would like to recommend the special exhibition at Cawthorne Jubilee
Museum. This Memorial Exhibition was organised to commemorate the
ending of both World Wars and was open from 8th to 10th May to coincide
with the 70th anniversary of VE day. I was very impressed when I visited
on the Sunday and I am delighted to let you know that it won't be
removed as planned but will continue until August – at least to VJ Day on
the 18th. The exhibition attracted over 100 visitors over the weekend.
Barry Jackson, President of Cawthorne Jubilee Museum Society, carried out
most of the research and assembled the exhibition, with the help of the
other committee members, using many relevant donations to their
museum collection with various reminiscences and other contributions from
local people. Together they have produced a comprehensive and
fascinating display about life in Cawthorne during both World Wars, which
is also a fitting memorial to those whose lives were so drastically changed
or lost as a result of them.
Barry Jackson is on the right of the photograph
with another committee member, Ray Bull, on the left.
I hope that many more people from Barnsley and beyond will take
advantage of being able to find out more about what happened on our
“doorstep” and to share their recollections. Cawthorne Jubilee Museum is
open from 2pm to 5pm on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays
and there is a small charge for entry.
Jane Ainsworth
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A FOLLOW-UP TO THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA
On reading the article about the sinking of the Lusitania by Jeff Chambers
in the April Journal, BFHS member Trevor Harvey sent us some interesting
information on the story behind the issuing of the Lusitania Medal. Not
exactly family history but a really interesting insight to the way
propaganda was used during the conflict.
KARL XAVER GOETZ AND THE LUSITANIA MEDAL
Karl Xaver Goetz (28th June 1875, Augsburg, Germany - 8th September
1950, Munich, Germany) German engraver and sculptor.
In the 40 years of his work Goetz made a total of 633 medals. In World
War 1 Goetz increasingly turned to war propaganda. From 1913 to 1923
he created a series of 82 medals, now called the ‘satirical Medals ‘.
Goetz's most famous work is the Lusitania Medal, the sinking of the
passenger ship RMS Lusitania by a German submarine on 5 May 1915.
Goetz privately produced the medallion in a small run in August 1915 it
was sold in Munich and to some foreign countries.
The original Goetz medal mistakenly gives the date as 5 May 1915 for the
torpedoing - two days before the actual sinking. The British claimed it
revealed that the sinking of the Lusitania was premeditated. Goetz later
blamed this on an incorrect newspaper account. Unfortunately for him, the
mistake was seized upon by the British propaganda machine.
One of the medals had made its way to British Foreign Office, and images
of the medal were shown in the New York Times where it caused outrage.
Although the medal was privately produced, the press claimed it was
endorsed by the German Government, awarded to the crew of the
attacking U-boat, and distributed throughout Germany.
The British Foreign Office used it as propaganda and issued more than
300,000 copies that are recognized by the English spelling ‘May’ for the
month which on the German coin is spelt ‘Mai’.
The Germans also reissued a new version, with the corrected date.
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Obverse (front)
The Lusitania slipping beneath the wave’s
stern first (opposite to what really
happened) and with obvious war
contraband on her deck: cannon, war
planes and armaments. Above is the
admonishment ‘Keine Bann Ware! - No
Contraband Goods!’ Below is written ‘Der
Gross Dampfer Lusitania Durch Ein
Deutsches Tauchboot Versenkt 5 Mai 1915
- The great steamer Lusitania was sunk by
a German U-boat 5 May 1915.’
Reverse
A skeleton (representing death) sells
passage at the Cunard Line ticket office
‘Fahrkarten Ausgabe.’ Along the top of the
medal are the German words ‘Geshaft Uber
Alles - Business Above All’ mocking the
Cunard Line for willingly placing
passenger's lives at stake?
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At left is a man reading a paper on which is written ‘U-boot Gefahrhe - U-
Boat danger’, while behind him is the figure of the German ambassador,
Count Johann-Heinrich von Bernstorff, raising a wagging finger as a
reminder that the Germans had placed a warning advertisement in the
same newspaper as the Cunard Lines sailing schedule.
The Edge
Often referred to as the third side of a piece, the edge of a genuine Karl
Goetz medal is sometimes marked with his special stamp (KgoeTz). While
its absence is not a sure sign of a counterfeit, its presence is invariably a
sign of authenticity.
Dimensions and Variations
Diameter 56.5mm (2¼ inches)
Thickness 2-3mm (⅛ inch)
Goetz First Medal (dated 5 MAI 1915)
Iron and Bronze
With and without edge mark
Goetz Second Medal (dated 7 MAI 1915)
Iron and Bronze
With and without edge mark
British Copies
Dated 5 MAY and 5 MAI
Differing styles of the "Y" in those dated with MAY
With and without the box and certificate of issue
American Copies
With and without the box and certificate of issue
Japanese Copies
Bronze and Silver
Modern Reproductions
Der Dienst Centrifugal Casting, Museum Reproductions.
Reference
A special thank you to Trevor Harvey (Mem. No. 110), for permission to
use the medallion and New York Newspaper notice images.
Jeff Chambers, ‘RMS Lusitania 1904-1915’, Domus Historiae, 23:2, April
2015, 10-12.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Goetz
http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-a-german-medallion-became-a-
british-propaganda-tool
Trevor Harvey
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ANOTHER LESSON IN BROAD YORKSHIRE
In the April edition we published a poem that Pam Danforth had sent in,
written by her uncle Kenneth Harper, voicing his concerns that the
Barnsley dialect was being lost forever. It put me in mind of the 'Old Sam
Sez' columns published in the Barnsley Chronicle when I was a child.
The older ones amongst us will know that the Barnsley dialect was almost
another language, and is part of our history just as much as our churches,
our mining heritage, and our BMDs. In view of this I was delighted when
one of the committee members handed me a copy of the 'Pogmoor
Olmenack 1891-1895' and suggested that selected pieces could be
included in the journal from time to time. There are differences between
Barnsley and Pogmoor dialects, but this is better than nothing!
In view of the fairly recent excitement over the total eclipse of the sun
during March this year, I thought that was a good place to start with Tom
Treddlehoyle's 'predikshunz'. See how you get on with this! (Translation
available on request.)
Maggie Bennett
Eclipsas e 1891
After spendin a deal a time i't weather offis, an castin a horrid-skope inta
kaos, ah obsarvad at thade be two eclipsas a't Sun an two a t'Mooin this
year, an thay weant all tak place e' wun day.
T' fust perfoamance al be wun a't Mooin on May 23rd, and although it's a
tooatal eclipse it al oany be partly seen at Pogmoor.
It's sattald t'hev t'Sun's yearly job dun on Jewne 6th, if it's a dull day yo
wean't see it. If it's fine it al be pairtly seen at Pogmoor.
T'next dooment iz up a Nuvember 15th an 16th, this time it's t'Mooin's
turn agean. It al be a tooatal eclipse an yo'll see it at Pogmoor if it's a
clear neet.
It's nobbut fair at t'Sun shud be trotted aht fer t'nxt job. It al be on
Disember 1st, but yo needn't look aht fer it, it weant be seen i' Pogmoor.
T' Obsarvaterry. Jenewerry Ferst 1891.
Even I had trouble with this one. ED
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A SATISFIED BFHS MEMBER
Barnsley Family History Society member Roy Jones and his wife, Jan,
recently paid a visit to Barnsley from their home in Devon and attended a
member’s night at the Society. He wrote to BFHS Chair John Westerman.
Dear John
Jan and I would just like to thank you and all the Barnsley FHS team for
your welcome last Tuesday. It was a successful evening for us and great
to meet you all. I have been practising my ‘Yorkshire’ all the way back to
Devon!
We have a lot of research to do into the Ward family in Barnsley and
Darfield from about 1875 to 1945 so I hope to be making several return
visits over the next couple of years, so we hope to see you all again before
too long. Thanks for all the help and also for the book about Barnsley’s
characters.
Jan and Roy Jones
WE DON’T ALWAYS GET IT RIGHT
New member, Karen Lawson contacted me thanking me for publishing her
interests in the new member’s section in the April journal. Unfortunately I
didn’t print her correct email address. Sorry Karen. Karen’s interests and
her correct email address are printed below.
Editor
Karen’s correct e-mail address is [email protected]
1804 MS KAREN LAWSON
11 Sycamore Rise
Nottingham
Notts
NG6 8ST [email protected]
Birkhead Barnsley YKS 1715 - 1900
Corker Knaresborough YKS Pre 1800
Morse East Dean GLS Pre 1850
Westhead Barnsley YKS c1800
Evans Barnsley YKS c1800
Shelton DBY Pre 1850
Stocks DBY Pre 1850
Spooner Chesterfield DBY Pre 1850
I would be particularly interested in any old pictures of the ‘Morning Star’ public
house, Dobie Street, Barnsley.
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ANOTHER BRAVE BARNSLEY WOMAN - MADAME AMY JOYNER
While researching one of the Old Boys on the Barnsley Holgate Grammar
School Memorial, I was very impressed by the talents, bravery and
generosity of Bernard Jaques Joyner's oldest sister, Amy. I had not
realised before that entertainment was provided for troops overseas
during World War One in addition to providing distractions for the
wounded at home and raising funds to provide comforts for men at the
front.
Amy was born in Barnsley and became a ‘Professor of Singing’, aged 20,
while in London. She married Archibald William Jarman, a colliery clerk, in
1906 and they lived at 57 Hopwood Street, Barnsley. The family
headstone in St John the Baptist's Churchyard in Cudworth tells the tragic
story of their only two children, who both died at an early age. Irene Hope
not quite 5 years and Charles, less than one day. Amy had already
experienced a great deal of death in her family with the loss of her father
and five younger siblings by 1900.
Amy’s youngest brother, Bernard, was killed in action on the Somme in
1916 at the age of 19 but despite this, Amy went out to France for five
weeks in summer 1917. She was with a group of vocalists who risked
their lives to entertain the men at the front in a series of concerts.
She was a soprano vocalist and was known professionally as Madame
Joyner. She organised and participated in concerts throughout the war
period. The first concert in September 1914 raised nearly £70 for the
main Barnsley Patriotic Fund and when war ended she started fundraising
for St Dunstan's Home for Blind Soldiers.
The Barnsley Chronicle provides a lot of details in articles, letters and
adverts from 1914 to 1919:
12th December 1914 - The second patriotic concert ... was very
successful. The chief attraction was the fact that Madame Amy Joyner was
announced to sing and she received a very hearty appreciation of her
beautiful rendering of three songs ...
26th May 1917 - The Matron of Lund Wood Hospital wrote: “I have this
morning received a cheque from Madame Joyner for the handsome sum of
£7, part proceeds of a concert given by her choir, a token of their great
sympathies for our sick and wounded heroes. In addition to this
magnificent gift our lads were the partakers of a sumptuous tea and
supper and were delightfully entertained by Madame Joyner and her choir
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a few weeks ago ….
4th August 1917 - “I know you will be pleased to know I have been
fortunate in coming across a few of our own Barnsley boys out here,”
writes Madame Amy Joyner from France . “I cannot describe to you what it
is like to be singing out here to the boys who are fighting to keep us safe
in England. If you could hear the shout when I am announced and see
even caps thrown up with intense delight; if you could see their faces light
up with pleasure – but more than all if you could feel the hard strong grip
of a hand thrust into yours as you pass through on your way to another
camp – you would never forget it. One boy said to me “You cannot
understand, Madame, what it has meant to us to see you, hear you and
really speak with you”. I looked at his war-worn face and my heart simply
went out to him and all of our brave boys...
“I am having a very busy and harassing time and it is really a great strain
but I am becoming daily more thankful and pleased that I stuck to my
promise and came. I shall have a large diary and some wonderful scenes
to describe; words cannot express them I am afraid. We are in the heart
of things and can hear the constant thud of guns.
“I have sung already to thousands and thousands of men, been miles out
in a huge dark forest to camps where boys are resting from the line and
where you would never think there was a living creature. Little do we
know in England what these boys are enduring and their wonderful spirit!
We take “Little Peter” with us (a small closed up piano) and we sometimes
sing outside in a valley. The boys sat up the hill all around and we have an
impromptu platform which wobbles about very ungraciously; always a
camp dog and sometimes hundreds of frogs leaping about. I used to be
afraid but I am now quite brave and don't mind the frogs at all. We travel
about in a car that ,was a car once upon a time, and we are often delayed
on our way home when it refuses to go. We give three shows a day most
days and we go anything from 10 to 40 miles out. We oftener than not
dine at the Mess and arrive back about 2 or 3 o' clock in the morning and
needless to say our mornings are spent in rest. I could write you pages of
all I have done but that must be kept for another time. I am the only one
from the North in this party except the entertainer who is a Lancashire
man. The others are London artistes”.
9th March 1918 - Lieutenant-Colonel J Hewitt presided at Amy 's latest
fundraising venture and the programme included her “ever popular
rendition of “Annie Laurie” plus her account of her experiences performing
at the front. Lt-Col Hewitt asked the gathering to consider the situation of
the lads at the front: “At that very moment those gallant soldiers might be
standing starved, war-worn and hungry looking across “No Man's Land”
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where perhaps death was awaiting them …. How these songs (of Amy and
her musical colleagues) rendered so sweetly on the battlefield must touch
the hearts of lads just as water to the lips of men in the thirsty desert!”.
Amy explained that despite some insinuations, she was not making money
from these concerts but doing them “to raise funds for the providing of
musical treats for the soldiers”. “I have the boys' interests at heart and I
am doing this work absolutely for the love of it”.
Jane Ainsworth
KEXBOROUGH CONNECTIONS
Between Horbury and Gartery Families
This document, created in 2014-15 from a variety of sources, is primarily
an account of the life of Hannah Horbury (1865-1943) who became an
Officer of the Salvation Army in 1902 and who retired as a Commandant in
1924. Her story is set in the context of her Yorkshire background,
especially Kexborough; of her Salvation Army career; and of the Gartery
family to which she was related and of which I am a member.
My mother Alice Hoyle (nee Gartery) was the youngest daughter in the
large family of William and Sarah Jane Gartery who lived in Kexborough in
the closing years of the 19th century. Her eldest sister, Edith Gartery,
married Elijah Horbury, the youngest brother of Hannah Horbury, so
connecting the two families.
My cousin Stephen Horbury Chappell, a direct descendant of the Horbury
and Gartery families, remembers his great-aunt Hannah Horbury. I
recollect visiting my Aunt Edith (Edith Horbury - née Gartery) during the
early 1950s, with my parents, and remember her as an elderly matriarchal
figure dressed in black, frail but decidedly tough.
The legend of Hannah Horbury lives on in Kexborough and within the
Horbury and Gartery families. In a family history context I offer this
summary as a tribute to her life and work in 2015, the 150th anniversary
year of her birth and of the foundation of the Salvation Army.
Brian Hoyle - March 2015
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INTRODUCTION
Migration, family interconnection and a sense of place
Family historians sometimes say that if you dig deep enough into the past
of your own place and others you find that, in one way or another,
everybody is related to everyone else. So it was, perhaps, in Kexborough
the South Yorkshire family home of Hannah Horbury (1865-1943).
Her story which was outlined by Bryan Danforth in the October 2013 issue
of Domus Historiae, the journal of the Barnsley Family History Society, is
linked to that of another Kexborough family, that of my maternal
grandfather William Gartery (1850-1929). I never knew him but
researching the Gartery family has revealed many connections with
Southern England where I now live with West Yorkshire where I grew up
and with other places further off. Using BMD records and internet
resources as well as Gartery family memories some specific links between
the two families have come to light.
Part of the context of these links is that in the later 19th century
employment prospects were generally rather better in the industrialising
north of England than in much of the mainly agricultural south, especially
for the younger members of large families. This was the reason why
William Gartery and several of his brothers migrated in the 1860s and
1870s from Alderbury, Wiltshire, where several inter-related Gartery
families lived and worked, mainly as agricultural labourers.
William and his brothers moved to South Yorkshire, usually one at a time
as opportunity arose, and eventually their parents came too, Other
Gartery relatives in Wiltshire went further afield to New Zealand, where
their descendants still farm near Christchurch. In 1877, at Wakefield,
William married Sarah Jane Gibson (1854-1927) who was a native of
Flockton. They settled in Kexborough, the village already associated with
the Horbury family including Hannah, her siblings and forebears.
THE HORBURY FAMILY
Hannah Horbury's grandparents, parents and siblings
John Horbury was born in 1786 and his wife Hannah Horbury (née
Hinchcliffe) in 1788, they were the paternal grandparents of the Hannah
Horbury on whom this story is centred. They lived in Kexborough and had
twelve children between 1815 - the year of their marriage - and 1835
unfortunately, not all survived to maturity. Joseph Horbury (1832-1913),
one of their younger children, married Mary Bennett (1830-1860) in 1855
in Darton. For a time Joseph worked with his older brother Elijah Horbury
in a joinery business in Accrington and trans-Pennine links continued as
these and other branches of the Horbury family developed.
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A son, John Hinchcliffe Horbury, was born to Joseph and Mary Horbury in
1857 but in 1860 Mary Horbury died at the age of 30. Joseph then married
Mary Lister (1834- 1906) and this second Mary became the mother of four
further children born between 1864 and 1873. Hannah Horbury was born
at Birchwaite, Kexborough, on the 9th February 1865, she was the second
child of Joseph and his second Mary. She had an older sister (Emma), and
two younger brothers (Frederick and Elijah). Joseph continued to work as a
carpenter and joiner and for some years the family lived at Tivy Dale,
Kexborough. Unlike her four siblings, Hannah Horbury never married, but
her links with her sister and brothers were significant factors in the pattern
of her life.
John Horbury and Hannah Hinchcliffe
The table shows the parents, siblings and paternal grandparents, uncles,
aunts and some cousins of Hannah Horbury (b. 1865). Her name was
shared by her grandmother, an aunt and at least one cousin.
John Horbury m Hannah Hinchcliffe
b 1786 Kexborough 1815 Cawthorne b 1788
d 1861 Darton (78) d 1870 Wortley (82)
James George Sarah Ann Benjamin Maria John Elijah Hannah John Joseph Jane Edward
b. 1815 b. 1817 b. 1818 b. 1819 b. 1821 b. 1823 b. 1824 b. 1825 b. 1826 b. 1832 b. 1832 b. 1834
d. 1890 d. 1858 d. 1913 d. 1896
m 1848 m (1) 1855 m (2) 1861
Jane Mary Bennett Mary Lister
b. 1824 Blackburn b. 1830 b. 1834 Wath d. 1860 Wortley d. 1906 Barnsley
Edward 1848 John 1857 Emma 1864 Benjamin 1852 Hannah 1865 Hannah 1854 Frederick 1869 Mary Ann 1856 Elijah 1873
Sarah Ann 1857 John 1861
John Horbury (b. 1786) – a carpenter and his wife Hannah Horbury (née
Hinchcliffe) lived in Kexborough in the 1841 census with their twelve children. Not
all survived to reach maturity.
James Horbury (b. 1815) – their eldest son also a carpenter
Elijah Horbury (b. 1824) – married Jane about 1848 and had six children. They
lived in Accrington where Elijah worked as a joiner.
Hannah Horbury (b. 1825)
Joseph Horbury (b. 1832) – married twice (see separate table).
Jane Horbury (b. 1832) – was probably Joseph’s twin sister, unmarried, lived with
Sarah Ann, died in Stockport.
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THE HORBURY - GARTERY CONNECTION
It was Elijah Horbury (1873-1955), Hannah's youngest sibling, who
became a barber and hairdresser and married Edith Gartery (1877-1959)
so connecting the Horbury and Gartery families within the Kexborough
village community. Hannah's eldest sibling, her half-brother John
Hinchcliffe Horbury (1857-1924), became a coal miner. He married Clara
Hannah Duncan in Barnsley in 1889 and they lived in Worsborough. At the
time of the 1911 census they had seven children.
Emma Horbury (1864-1946), Hannah's only sister, was employed in 1891
at the age of 27 as a domestic servant with Thomas Higson, a master
Joseph Horbury, Mary Bennett and Mary Lister The table shows the two spouses, five children and descendants of Hannah Horbury’s father Joseph Horbury
Joseph Horbury b. 1832 Kexborough
d. 1913 Penistone
m (1) 1855 Darton m (2) 1861 Darton Mary Bennett Mary Lister b. 1830 b. 1834 Wath
d. 1860 Wortley d. 1906 Barnsley
John Hinchcliffe Horbury Emma Horbury Hannah Horbury Frederick Horbury Elijah Horbury b. 1857 Kexborough b. 1864 Kexborough b. 1865 Kexborough b. 1871 Kexborough b. 1873 Kexborough
d. 1924 Barnsley d. 1946 Barnsley d. 1943 Barnsley d. 1961 Barnsley d. 1955 Staincross
m. 1889 Barnsley m. 1905 Barnsley m. 1897 Burnley m. 1901 Darton
Clara Hannah Duncan Walter Hawksworth Martha Alice Bridge Edith Gartery b. 1866 Barnsley b. 1863 Darton b. 1873 Burnley b.1877 Bretton (West)
d. 1931 Barnsley d. 1941 Penistone d. 1956 Barnsley d. 1959 Sheffield
Lucy b. 1892 Winifred Marjorie Brown b. 1907 Albert 1902-88
Willie b. 1894 Ruth 1904-83
Elijah b. 1897 Edward 1906-73
Joe b. 1898
Dorothy b. 1901
Emma b. 1903
Lilley b. 1905
Joseph Horbury was married twice. He first married Mary Bennett. They had a son, John
Hinchcliffe Horbury. Mary (Bennett) Horbury died in 1860
Joseph married again in 1861, his second wife was Mary Lister. They had four children, two
daughters and two sons.
John Hinchcliffe Horbury a coalminer, married Clara Duncan and lived in Worsborough
and had seven children
Emma Horbury and Walter Hawksworth lived in Mapplewell and had no children.
Frederick Horbury, a butcher, married Martha Alice Bridge and lived in Barnsley. They had
no children.
Hannah Horbury remained unmarried.
Elijah Horbury, a hairdresser and barber, married Edith Gartery and had three children.
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butcher, and his family in Burnley, Lancashire. Their younger brother
Frederick Horbury (1871- 1961) was also working there as an assistant
butcher. Frederick married Martha Alice Bridge in 1897 in Burnley where
they remained for some years. Emma returned to Yorkshire and married
Walter Hawksworth (1863-1942), another coalminer, in 1905 in Barnsley.
By 1911 Walter then 48 and Emma two years younger had been married
six years. They had no children of their own but had adopted Winnifred
Marjorie Brown (b 1907). Also a member of their household in 1911 was
Emma's father Joseph Horbury (79) who was by this date a widower.
DOMESTIC SERVICE IN THE 1890s
Hannah's early life in domestic service: Burnley and Barnsley
Although born in Yorkshire, much of Hannah's early life was spent in
Lancashire perhaps primarily because of the family connections with
Accrington and Burnley. At the 1871 census Hannah, then aged 6, was
staying in Victoria Street, New Accrington with her uncle Elijah, the
carpenter, his wife, her aunt Jane, and their six children who were
generally a few years older than Hannah and her siblings. Whether this
was just a short visit or whether Hannah spent some of her schooldays in
Lancashire is not clear.
We know, however, from census records, that as she grew up much of
Hannah Horbury's early life, like that of many young women of her time
and social context, was spent in domestic service in the households of
more prosperous families than her own. In 1881 Hannah, now aged 16,
was in domestic service with Joseph Race, a manufacturer, and his wife
Elizabeth and three children at 63 Padiham Road, Habergham Eaves,
Burnley, Lancashire. Ten years later in 1891, at the aged of 26, she is
listed as a cook/domestic servant nearby at 71 Todmorden Road,
Habergham Eaves, Towneley, Burnley. The head of this household was
Elizabeth Cowgill, a widow aged 60, living on her own means. Her
daughter Mary was married to Henry Robinson, described as a student of
medicine. The Robinsons had three children, George (8), Edith (4) and
Henry (2). In addition to Hannah Horbury as cook, the family employed
two other servants, a nurse and a housemaid.
Census records provide useful glimpses of lives and situations at ten-year
intervals but leave large gaps when other information sources are limited
or unavailable. It is possible, however, to compare the early life of Hannah
Horbury with that of Edith Gartery, who became her sister-in-law, by
placing officially recorded data within a context of family memory. It is
believed, although without documentary evidence, that after working for
two families in Burnley in the 1880s, Hannah Horbury returned to
Yorkshire in the 1890s and was for a time in domestic service with the
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family of John Pollitt a pork butcher of 34 Huddersfield Road, Barnsley.
Herein lies the likely origin of the Horbury/Gartery connection, because it
is known that Edith Gartery worked for the Pollitt family at about the same
time.
Edith Gartery's early life in domestic service: Darton and Barnsley
Edith Gartery was born at West Bretton on the 11th October 1877 as the
firstborn of the ten children of William Gartery and his wife Sarah Jane
Gibson. Edith appears on the 1881 Census, aged 3, living with her
parents, a younger sister Annie and her maternal grandmother Mary
Robertshaw in Brick Row, West Bretton. In 1891, aged 13, she was not
included on the Gartery family's census return but was listed as a general
domestic servant in the Darton household of John Litherland a colliery
agent whose wife (also called Edith) came from West Bretton. This was
probably Edith's first job and the Litherland and Gartery families were
probably known to one another locally. By 1901 at the age of 23, Edith
was no longer working with the Litherlands nor was she at home with her
parents in Kexborough but was listed on the household census return of
John Pollitt the Barnsley pork butcher. These census glimpses do not, of
course, tell us how long Edith worked for the Litherlands, the Pollitts, or
any other employers in the intercensal period 1891-1901.
Neither Edith Gartery, nor Hannah Horbury are listed in the 1891 census
return of the Pollitt household. There is thus no census evidence that
Hannah ever worked for the Pollitts, or for how long either Hannah or
Edith may have done so. It is quite possible, however, that both were
there for a time, perhaps overlapping for several years, during between
1891 and 1901 neither being recorded there in 1891 and only Edith being
listed in 1901. However, there is certainly a strong, if unsubstantiated,
family memory of Hannah and Edith working together, as housekeeper
and cook/housemaid respectively.
Acknowledgements
I am much indebted to my cousin Stephen Chappell, of Eastbourne,
formerly of Hoylandswaine, for information on Edith Gartery (his
grandmother and my aunt); for providing a photograph of Hannah
Horbury (his great-aunt) used here, and for many helpful comments and
contributions during the preparation of this paper.
Brian Hoyle
The next part of the story of Hannah Horbury and Edith Gartery, NEW
CENTURY, NEW BEGINNINGS, will be included in the October edition of
Domus Historiae.
ED.
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SNIPPETS FROM THE "BARNSLEY TELEGRAPH"
17th July, 14th August and 4th September 1852
DISTRICT NEWS
NEW SCHOOL AT GAWBER
No observant person can pass through this village without remarking the
neglected state of the children. The streets are thronged at all hours with
numbers of uneducated and rude samples of the future generation. A
Church has been built, but the congregation attending it is lamentably
small. May not the general deficiency of education in some measure
account for this fact, as also for the low state of meanness which, we are
informed, generally prevails. Messrs, Taylor and Sons, of Redbrook
Factory, have set a most praiseworthy example, in endeavouring to
remove the present stigma from the inhabitants of the village, in which
their works are situated. They have originated, and successfully concluded
a movement, for the introduction of an efficient School, upon the Glasgow
system, for the moral and intellectual training of children of both sexes.
The Holy Scriptures will form the basis upon which all the instruction will
be communicated, but any sectarian tenets or formularies will be carefully
excluded. The Messrs, Taylor and Sons subscribe £30 per annum; and the
support of the School is further aided by the generous contributions of W.
B. Beaumont, Esq., J. Spencer Stanhope, Esq., and Richard Thorp, Esq.
We are glad to hear that Mr. Garlick, late assistant to Mr. W. Lawton, and
teacher of the evening classes of our Mechanics' Institute, has obtained
the appointment of Master, although he had to contend with above fifty
other candidates. We wish him every success in his new field of labour,
and we trust that in due time the "wilderness will blossom as the rose.
ACCIDENT - On Wednesday a young man, named Pindar had the
misfortune to get his leg broken in the Moor-End pit. He was going before
a full corfe of coal down a steep board-gate, when his foot caught a plate,
by which he was thrown down, and the corfe passed over his leg. He is an
American by birth, and is stated not to have a relative in the world. We
are happy, however, to say that he will not be destitute, as by the
excellent regulations of this colliery he will receive 4s. per week during his
confinement. He is lodging with George Stringer, where we are sure he will
be properly attended to.
GARDEN ROBBERY AT DARTON - On Sunday night, or Monday morning
last, some thieves entered the garden of Mr. M. Dickinson, Bloomhouse-
Green, and stole therefrom a quantity of Potatoes to the value of about
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£2. They took away all the best they could find, and left the small. No clue has been obtained to the detection of the offenders. CAUTION TO TRADESMEN AND OTHERS - In a case it appeared that a
tradesman who had given credit for £1 to a woman, and knowing that her
husband was not aware of it, his Honour said he should disallow it, and
reduce the amount sued to £1 less, upon which the tradesman's wife
replied about having lent her lOs when she was lying-in, unknown to her
husband. His Honour: Then I shall reduce the amount lOs more. If people
will encourage wives to cheat and deceive their husbands by giving them
credit without the husband's knowledge, they deserve to lose every
farthing, for it cannot be anything else but an encouragement to swindle
their husbands, and they being accomp1icies in the act, deserve to suffer
for it.
Editor
HAVE YOU VISITED THE BFHS WEB PAGE YET?
Have your had chance to visit the BFHS webpage or logged on to the
Surname Interest page? Your membership card, sent out with the last
journal, includes the address, username and your password.
There has been a lot of work done on the website, to make it easier to
navigate and it has received quite a few positive responses from those
who have used it. Give it a go.
We hope that our website can help others and they in turn are willing to
share with us. That is the beauty of belonging to a Family History Society,
it puts you in touch with those who have a similar interest and enables
people to share resources.
When I wrote the article on Hannah Horbury in October 2013, I had no
idea that there were living relatives. However, BFHS member, Brian Hoyle
contacted me from Hampshire with news about research that he and is
cousin were doing about her life. If you have read KEXBOROUGH
CONNECTIONS you will see how by sharing family history stories you can
tap into a wealth of other research.
Editor
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NEW MEMBERS and THEIR INTERESTS 1811 Mrs Karen LOVELESS
1812 Mrs Margaret WILLIAMS
5 Summer Road
Royston
Barnsley
South Yorkshire S71 4HY
Gunns Wimbotsham NFK ENG 1750 - 1850
Ferry Marseille FRA 1700 - 1900
Marsh Halifax YKS ENG 1700 - 1850
Ferry Halifax YKS ENG 1700 - 1850
Williams East Dene GLS ENG 1850 - 1900
Ferry London LND ENG 1800 - 1900
Williams Barnsley YKS ENG Pre 1800
Bamforth Barnsley YKS ENG 18c
1813 Miss Anne-Marie CLEGG
1814 Ms Sheila JUBB
North West River
Labrador
NF
CANADA A0P 1M0
Jubb Ardsley, Darfield, Worsborough Post 1750
Orange Wombwell, Darfield, Leeds Post 1750
Bearshall Yorkshire, Darfield, Worsborough Post 1750
Allott Worsborough Post 1850
Russell Leeds Post 1700
Rimington Gargrave Post 1550
Waddilove Gargrave, Leeds Post 1600
Darwent Gargrave, Leeds Post 1550
Smith Burton YKS
1815 Mr Vincent PARKIN
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A MESSAGE FROM THE MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY
We like to be able to contact our members about forthcoming events,
publications or membership renewals for example. Unfortunately, some of
the emails we have sent recently have been returned. Therefore, I am
asking all members to email me with their current personal details so I
can update the membership list.
E-mails to the following members have been identified as incorrect :-
23
203
600
880
890
972
1075
1287
1425
1582
1691
1698
1718
We need up-to-date email addresses to be able to set up your surname
interests. Our Surname Interests Area has had a re-vamp and is working
well. Since 12th April 2015 we have added 79 new names.
To access the Surname Interests Area go to our website at the following
address www.barnsleyfhs.co.uk and sign in to the member’s section
using the 2015 passwords printed on your membership card. For the
Surnames Interest Area you will need your membership number and your
personal password. If you don’t yet have a password you can contact me
through [email protected].
Once you are logged in you can add your own interests (or we can do it
for you) and you can search for the surnames you are interested in.
Why not give it a try.
Elaine Jackson
Membership Secretary BFHS
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SEARCH SERVICES
The Society is offering all its members six free searches during the year. You don‘t
have to use them all at once, they can be spread out over the year. Arrangements
for non-members are unchanged. Phil Edwards
Baptisms
Barnsley Ebenezer
Methodist New Connexion 1862-1973
Barnsley St. George 1832-1844
Barnsley St. Mary 1813-1837
Barnsley Wesleyan 1839-1910
Darton All Saints 1813-1822
Cawthorne All Saints 1800-1844
Royston St. John 1813-1831
Silkstone All Saints and
Bretton Chapelry 1813-1840
Wentworth Wesleyan 1849-1980
Wortley St. Leonard 1813-1856
Marriages
Barnsley St. George 1832-1837
Barnsley St. Mary 1800-1837
Cawthorne All Saints 1800-1837
Darton All Saints 1813-1822
Penistone St. John 1800-1837
Royston St. John 1799-1837
Silkstone All Saints 1800-1837
Burials
Barnsley St. George 1832-1850
Barnsley St. Mary 1800-1840
Cawthorne All Saints 1800-1845
Darton All Saints 1800-1845
Dodworth St. John 1848-1934
Hoyland Nether St. Peter 1813-1861
Penistone St. John and
Denby Chapelry 1800-1856
Royston St. John 1800-1837
Silkstone All Saints and
Bretton Chapelry 1800-1840
Tankersley St. Peter 1813-1858
Worsbrough St. Thomas 1859-1903
Wortley St. Leonard 1800-1854
National Probate Calendars /
Wills Index 1858 to 1943
Please give full name and year of
death. Because wills were not always
proved immediately we will search up
to three years after the death.
National Burial Index; Third Edition
England & Wales. Please give full name,
year -range and county if known.
Soldiers who died in the Great War
Please give full name and age if known.
1851 Census, Barnsley Area
Please give surname and forename(s) if
known and age. Or request all occurrences of a given surname.
1891 Census, Barnsley
Please give surname and approximate
age. 1891 Search results supplied as
copy of enumeration page.
For searches or enquiries please
contact:
Phil Edwards, 8 Western Street,
Barnsley, S70 2BP
Please quote your membership number.
If applying by post please enclose a
large SAE (or IRCs.)
DIARY DATES
BARNSLEY F.H.S. PROGRAMME 2015
July 21st MEMBER’S NIGHT
Various topics by members also fiche readers, computers and
wills indexes etc.
August 18th GUEST SPEAKER - Ian Morgan - ‘The Pleasure Palace’
September 15th MEMBER’S NIGHT Various topics by members also fiche readers, computers and
wills indexes etc.
September 26th DONCASTER & DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY DAY - Doncaster College for the Deaf, Leger Way, Doncaster DN2 6AY. 10 am - 4 pm October 20th GUEST SPEAKER - Bryan Danforth - Kexbro’ Village ‘If You Cut One They All Bleed’ November 7th HUDDERSFIELD & DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY DAY - Cathedral House, St Thomas’ Road, Huddersfield HD1 3LG. 10 am - 4 pm November 17th MEMBER’S NIGHT Various topics by members also fiche readers, computers and
wills indexes etc.
BARNSLEY FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
This is the official journal of the Barnsley Family History Society, published in January, April, July and October of each year. Please send material for the October 2015 edition to the Editor, Bryan Danforth, 165 Brierley Road, Grimethorpe, Barnsley S72 7AR or email [email protected], by 31st August 2015. The Society accepts no responsibility for the views expressed in the articles published. The right to final editing lies with the Journal Editor. Meetings of the Society are held at Buckley Street Methodist Church Hall, Union Court, Barnsley, on the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 7.30 - 9.30 pm. There is no meeting in December. Free parking is available and there is full wheelchair access. The venue is within easy reach of Barnsley town centre. For more information visit the website at www.barnsleyfhs.co.uk
Copyright ©2015 Barnsley Family History Society. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction
of any part of this publication is not permitted without the written permission of the editor.
Private Harold Masters 28134
Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry
Died 2nd April 1918
Read his war story on page 10
