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Please Archive - Edward & Betsy Shilton - Zeppelin victims
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 2:05 am
by mallosa
from The History Of Wednesbury websitehttps://www.facebook.com/TheHistoryOfWe ... 5021018711The 13 Zeppelin victims - also victims of the war - have no memorial at all, apart from this one here below:
January 31st, 1916
Mary Ann Lee aged 59
Rachel Higgs aged 36
Frank Thompson Linney aged 36
Susan Howells aged 30
Matilda Mary Burt aged 10
Joseph Horton Smith, aged 37
Ina Smith, aged 7
Nellie Smith, aged 13
Thomas Horton Smith, aged 11
Mary Emma Evans aged 5
Edward Shilton aged 33
Betsy Shilton, aged 39
Albert Gordon Madeley aged 21
Re: Edward & Betsy Shilton - Zeppelin victims
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 2:06 am
by mallosa
1911: 14 King St, Wednesbury, Staffordshire
Edward Shilton 29 Head Furnace General Labourer married 5 yrs, no children
Betsy Shilton 33 WifeJoyce Northall 59 Boarder Wid Atherstone
John Arthur Shilton 21 Brother S Out Rider Traveller
(others born Wednesbury)
Marriage 1906
SHILTON Edward NORTHALL Betsy West Bromwich Register Office (WBRO) Sandwell Register Office WBRO/44/97
The 13 Zeppelin victims - also victims of the war - have no memorial at all, apart from this one here below:
January 31st, 1916
Mary Ann Lee aged 59
Rachel Higgs aged 36
Frank Thompson Linney aged 36
Susan Howells aged 30
Matilda Mary Burt aged 10
Joseph Horton Smith, aged 37
Ina Smith, aged 7
Nellie Smith, aged 13
Thomas Horton Smith, aged 11
Mary Emma Evans aged 5
Edward Shilton aged 33
Betsy Shilton, aged 39
Albert Gordon Madeley aged 21
Photo courtesy of the Black Country Living Museum
- A glass negative of buildings on King Street, Wednesbury, bombed in the Great Zeppelin Raid,1916 copy.jpg (67.73 KiB) Viewed 605 times
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Re: Edward & Betsy Shilton - Zeppelin victims
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 8:40 am
by Northern Lass
You still working on this or can it be archived?
Re: Edward & Betsy Shilton - Zeppelin victims
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 10:41 pm
by mallosa
mallosa wrote:1911: 14 King St, Wednesbury, Staffordshire
Edward Shilton 29 Head Furnace General Labourer married 5 yrs, no children
Betsy Shilton 33 Wife
Joyce Northall 59 Boarder Wid Atherstone
John Arthur Shilton 21 Brother S Out Rider Traveller
(others born Wednesbury)
Marriage 1906
SHILTON Edward NORTHALL Betsy West Bromwich Register Office (WBRO) Sandwell Register Office WBRO/44/97
Looks like him pre-marriage...with his brother John (age fits)
1901: 13 Potters or Porters Lane, Wednesbury
James Shilton 55 Head Striker on Sockets Wirley, Staffs
Mary Shilton 55 Wife Wirley, Staffs
George Shilton 22 Son S Striker on Sockets
William Shilton 20 Son S Striker on Sockets
Edward Shilton 18 Son S FurnacemanCharles Shilton 14 Son Striker on Sockets
John Shilton 12 SonHarry Shilton 10 Son
Pollie Shilton 7 Dau
Thomas Starkey 35 Visitor S Striker on Sockets
(Others born Wednesbury)
Re: Edward & Betsy Shilton - Zeppelin victims
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:26 pm
by mallosa