Sidney Thomas Tappin was born in Watlington, Oxfordshire in 1890 where his father was a miller. He was one of five children born to John and Ann (nee Keeley) Tappin. His mother died in 1899 and Sidney, along with his younger brother Roland, was living with his grandmother at College Farm in Cuxham in 1901. […]
Arthur Henry Sutton was born in Thame in 1886 to parents William Robert and Ellen Sutton (nee Hitchman) and baptised at St Mary’s church on 28th March 1886 when his father was described as a grocer. The Sutton family grocer’s shop was at 1 Buttermarket, Thame. By 1901 both his parents had died and he was living […]
The 1911 census and his military record say that Frederick Stopps was born in Thame around 1869, but exactly when and who his parents were is not recorded. Other census records indicate that he was born in Lambeth, London, although in 1881 he was at school, boarding with a local boot and shoe maker in […]
Ralph Wentworth Stone was born in the only son of the late Lt. Col. Robert Warner Stone, former commander of the 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, and Lucie Alleyne Stone. The lived in the Manor House at Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, and Ralph was baptised in St Mary’s Church, Long Crendon on 12th February 1890. His father died when […]
Herbert Arthur Stockwell was born on 2nd June 1891 in Balcombe Street, London. His mother was Harriet Stockwell of Tetsworth, Oxfordshire. In 1901 Herbert (known as Bertie) was living with his grandfather Joseph in North Street, Thame. He worked for nine years at Joseph Putman’s hardware shop in the Cornmarket. A member of the local […]
Herbert Stevens was born in Thame in Spring 1886 the second son of James and Caroline Louise (nee Loosley Stevens. James was a butcher at 23 Upper High Street Thame and Caroline was a schoolmistress. By 1911 Herbert and his elder brother Fred are still living at home and are both butchers in the family business. The Thame […]
Joseph Squires was born in the autumn of 1891, one of eight children to Herbert and Amelia (nee Shurrock) Squires of Park Street, Thame. Employed as a carter for a corn merchant in 1911, the following year he married Susan Jane Munday of Long Crendon but by 1916 they were living in Princes Risborough. They […]
George Squires was born in Thame in 1878, one of five children to Benjamin and Emma Squires of 36 Park Street, later of 17 Park Street*. After serving an apprenticeship as a compositor with the Thame Gazette, he moved to Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire in 1901 to work as a print compositor for the John Dickinson […]
Benjamin Squires was born in Thame in 1897, one of the eight children of Herbert and Amelia Squires (nee Shurrock), living at 71 Park Street, Thame. Included in the eight are his brother Joseph, who was killed at Passchendaele in 1917, and brothers William and Albert who also served and survived the war. In February 1915 Benjamin enlisted […]
William Noel Smith was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire in 1892 to William Smith & Emma Elizabeth (nee Tew) the only son of six children. The family moved to Thame, firstly to Chinnor Road, and then to Elmdene, Essex Road and he attended Lord Williams’s Grammar School. Upon leaving school he joined his father in the family printers and […]