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Private 16829 John Akins (Atkins)
31/7/1879 - 2/7/1916 (39)
https://www.tiptonremembers.net/index.php/akins-john

Dob 31/7/1879 at Dudley.
to Rebecca Davies (unmarried, Clay Carrier) of Court 4, Wood Street, Tipton.

Baptism -

Parents Rebecca Davies Unmarried

Mothers Marriage
12/4/1891 St Johns Kates Hill Dudley
Rebecca Davies & John Akins

Worcestershire Dudley
Church name St John (Kates Hill)
Register type Parish Register
Register entry number 374
Marriage date 12 Apr 1891
Groom forename John
Groom surname AKENS
Groom age 39
Groom condition bachelor
Groom occupation Miner
Groom abode Kates Hill
Bride forename Rebecca
Bride surname DAVIES
Bride age 32
Bride condition spinster
Bride abode Kates Hill
Groom father forename Joseph
Groom father surname AKENS
Groom father occupation Miner
Bride father forename Joseph
Bride father surname DAVIES
Bride father occupation Miner
Witness 1 James BAUGH
Witness 2 Charlotte HAMPTON
Notes The Bride, Groom & both witnesses signed with a X. Both fathers are deceased

1891 1 House 3 Court, Union Street, Tipton, Staffs.
Rebecca Davies (32, Head, Brickmaker, born Tipton), her 3 children: John (12, Scholar, born Tipton), Joseph (6, Scholar, born Tipton), Annie (2, born Tipton), and John Akins (38, Boarder !!, Coal Miner, born Tipton).

1901 8 Simons Passage, Tipton, Staffs. (John Davies/Davis/Akins was not living with the Akins family in 1901)
John Akins (49, Coal Miner, born Tipton), his wife Rebecca (46, born Tipton), Rebecca's son by her first marriage: Joseph Davis(16, Coal Wheeler, born Tipton), John and Rebecca's 2 children: Rebecca Akins (7, born Tipton), and Joseph Akins (5, born Tipton).

1911 19 Simons Passage, Tipton, Staffs.
John Akins (59, Labourer, born Tipton), his wife Rebecca (58, born Tipton), Rebecca's 2 sons by her first marriage: John Davies (32, Carter - Furniture Remover, born Tipton), Joseph Davies(24, Labourer, born Tipton), John and Rebecca's 2 children: Rebecca Akins (19, born Tipton), and Joseph Akins (15, Coal Wheeler, born Tipton).

WW1 Records
John Davies served under his mother's married name - Akins.
Private 16829 John Akins
Died of Wounds on Sunday, 2nd July 1916, age 39.
Buried in Grave A. 11. at Morlancourt British Cemetery No. 1, Somme, France.
1st Bn., South Staffordshire Regiment. 91st Brigade of 7th Division.
Son of Mr J. and Mrs R. Akins, of Tipton, Staffs.
Born: Tipton, Enlisted: Dudley, Resident: Tipton.
First landed France & Flanders, post 31st December 1915.
Medal entitlement: British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Soldier's Papers at National Archives did not survive.

A Dependant's Pension Card exists in the name of John's brother - Joseph Akins of 7 House 6 Court, Wood Street, Tipton. There is no evidence that such a pension was ever paid.

Dod 2/7/1916 (39)

Buried in Grave A. 11. at Morlancourt British Cemetery No. 1, Somme, France.

www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/570800/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59018168/j-akins

Commemorated on the Tipton Library Memorial.

Any other info
Tipton Herald 5th August 1916
The following soldier has died of wounds: R Atkins, South Staffs. (Mis-print for Akins)

Do I add John as his mother's maiden name Davies or as Akins as the death records have recorded ?

It needs to be birth name. So the children before marriage Davies.

Thanks Jo

Completed & all added
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Thank you