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I have come across the WWI service record for a Joseph Edward Dearne on 'Ancestry'
I am pretty sure it is this one on BCC.
Some of the pages of the soldier's record are not very legible, the edge of the page is missing where wife and childrens names are listed so a bit of detective work is required here!

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/fa ... rne-Family

Info. from the record is as follows...

Pioneer ( also listed as sapper and also Private) Joseph Edward Dearne of 32 Pound Rd, Causeway Green, Warley
Number 162144 30th Railway Labour Battalion RE
occupation:- chemical process ??
age at enlistment 40years 11 months
Attested 4 Dec 1916
To Army Reserve 6 Dec 1916
Mobilised 8 May 1916
Posted ( rank Pioneer) 8 May 1916
Embarked Exp Force France 7 June 1916
Married to wife Clara Annie .... getts , spinster ( edge of name missing...if the one on BCC this is Hodgetts
10 Dec 1899 Holy Trinity West Bromwich
Children..( edge of page missing! )
??? 2 Dec 1900
???..Annie 26 Feb 1902
??...y Apr 1905
?? Aug 1907
?? June 1910
??...y Oct 1912
??...ie? June 1914 All born West Bromwich

Transferred to Class 'W' Army reserve 16 Feb 1917 for munitions work.
To be employed by H.M. Factory Chance & Hunt Ltd, Site A Park Lane, Oldbury

At time of transfer Joseph E Dearne had a wife and 7 children.... 1 boy ( aged 10) and 6 girls (aged 17,15,12,7,4 and 2)

OK all you detectives out there.... can you work out who all the children are?

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1901 : Court 3, 5 House, Parsonage Street, Oldbury
Joseph Dearne, Head, 23, Labourer - Chemical Works, Born in West Bromwich
Annie Dearne, Wife, 21
Elizabeth Maria Dearne, Daur, 4 Months
Others Born in Smethwick

1911 : 1 Ashes Road, Langley, Oldbury (Next road to Causeway Green Road and Pound Road)
Joseph Dearne, Head, 32, Chemical Labourer
Annie Dearne, Wife, 29, Married 11 Years - No children have died
Lizzie Dearne, Daur, 10
Annie Dearne, Daur, 8, Born in Oldbury
Daisy Dearne, Daur, 5
Joseph Dearne, Son, 3, Born in Oldbury
Eva Dearne, Born in Castleford, Yorks
Others Born in West Bromwich

There are two possible births recorded on GRO (Ancestry)

Dorothy Dearne, Dec Qtr 1912, West Bromwich District - Mother's Maiden name is Hodgetts
Nellie Dearne, Mar Qtr 1915, Stourbridge District - Mother's Maiden name is Hodgetts

I was taught by a Miss Dearne at Langley Primary (Titford Road) c. 1954, probably local, born 1920s?

Thanks for the help
I will add info. on children to BCC,
...then this can be archived
Expat