Monthly Archives: August 2011

Hacker, Benjamin (1805-1890)

1805 born in Broad Hinton and christened in St Peter ad Vincula, Broad Hinton

1831 married Elizabeth Church at St Peter ad Vincula, Broad Hinton

1841 Census, age 36, occupation Tailor, Broad Hinton

1851 Census, age 46, occupation Tailor-Master, Broad Hinton

1855 Post Office Directory of Wiltshire records his occupation: baker and shopkeeper in Broad Hinton

1859 Post Office Directory of Wiltshire records his occupation: shopkeeper in Broad Hinton

1861 Census, age 56, occupation: Master tailor and grocer, Broad Hinton

1867 Kelly’s Directory of Wiltshire records his occupation as shopkeeper, Broad Hinton

1871 Census, age 66, baker and grocer, Marlborough Road, Broad Hinton
1875 Post Office Directory of Hampshire, including the Isle of Wight, Wiltshire & Dorsetshire / ed. by E. R. Kelly. Occupation listed as shopkeeper, Broad Hinton

1881 Census age 76 Baker and Grocer (Master Employing Son),living The Street, Broad Hinton, Wiltshire

1890 year of death

Young, Alfred Mansel (1895-1916)

1895 born Southsea

1901 Census living at 2 Woodland Cott, Woodland St, Portsmouth
age 5, born Southsea, Hants
1911 census, occupation: Assistant Bottling Stores, Brewery                                                   living 9 Graig, Newcastle Hill, Bridgend

Enlisted in Bridgend, Glamorganshire in late 1914
No. 14165
Served with the 5th Battalion of the South Wales Borderers (local regiment to the Bridgend area).
Killed in Action, France and Flanders (the official battlefield designation) 24 July 1916
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France

Not mentioned in the War Diary or the Regimental History

Name is in the Book of Honour at Llandaff Cathedral, Wales.

Name is on the Bridgend War Memorial

Soldiers Effects Records:
No Probate Record

Winchcombe, Robert Charles (1876-1956)

Born in 1876 at Canney Cottages, Chiseldon, Wilts (one cottage out of four)

1881 Census, age 5, scholar, living at Draycott Foliatt, Wiltshire

1891 Census – age 15, agricultural labourer, living at Draycott Foliatt, Wiltshire

1901  Census, age 24, General Labourer at Railway Works. Single.                                     Boarder at 40 Haydon Street, Swindon.

1911 Census, age 34, general labourer, Locomotive Department Railway Company, living in Chiseldon, Swindon

1915 married Florence Lawrence at St Paul’s Church (now demolished), Swindon

Date of death: 1956

Worked for Great Western Railway, Swindon, as a Storekeeper.