The name H T Wilson appears on both Thame War Memorial and St Mary’s Church Memorial Board as dying during World War One, but no further details are provided. Whilst the name Wilson is a reasonably common name throughout the country there was only one Wilson family in Thame at this time. They lived in Church Row andthere […]
William was born on 2nd December 1907 in Thame, the son of Henry and Jane Freeman, (nee Hall) of 3 Chinnor Road, Thame, and baptised at St Mary’s on 27th January 1907. He was a grocer’s assistant in January 1932 when he married Ethel Johnson at St Mary’s church, Thame. They went to live at […]
Eric Arnold was born on 19th August 1919 in Thame to William John Arnold and Edith Harriet (née Castle) of 26 Nelson Street, where they were all still living at the time of the 1939 Register. He was educated at Lord Williams’s Grammar School, Thame and on leaving was employed in the service accounts department […]
Colin George Price Cuthbert was born in Brecknock, Wales in 1918. He was the youngest of two children of James Cuthbert and Edith Jane (née Davies). His parents were both school teachers and the family moved to Chinnor from where Colin attended Lord Williams’s Grammar School in Thame from 1929 to 1936. He was awarded a closed exhibition […]
Alfred Willis was born in Thame 1886, to William Willis, a maltster and Harriett Willis (nee Grainger). He was one of six children and was baptised in St Mary’s Church at Thame, on the 1st July 1886, but by 1891 the family had moved to Bicester, Oxfordshire. By 1901 they had moved to Brackley, Northamptonshire. […]
Owen Charles Hawes was born into a farming family in Brill, near Oakley, on the 17th February 1896, and was the eldest of four children. His father was Charles Hawes and mother Ellen (Nellie, nee Porten). He was educated at Lord Williams’s Grammar School in Thame where he became a member of both the football and cricket XI’s. […]
Joseph Lovejoy was born in Thame in 1889, son of William and Annie (nee Johnson) Lovejoy. In 1911 he was a labourer living with his brother in Stokenchurch. He joined the local mounted territorial’s, the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars in 1912. The Regiment was mobilised in August 1914, moving to Churn before embarking to the […]
William Henry Wentworth was born in Thame in 1890, one of three children to Henry Wentworth and Mary (née Mortimer). His father was a labourer and in 1891 the family were staying in lodgings in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire. By 1901 his father was suffering from paralysis and unable to work and the family had […]
Herbert Hiscock Richardson was born in Thame in 1884, and was the eldest of three sons of Mary Ann Hiscock, and her employer John Richardson, living in East Street. After leaving school, Herbert took up his father’s trade as a coach maker. In 1910 he married Nellie Bowler at Woburn, Buckinghamshire, and they went to live at […]
William James Lewis was the son of William and Isabella Lewis, and was born in Corsley, Wiltshire in 1886. By 1891, the family had moved to Kingsey, near Thame, where his father was employed as a gardener at Tythrop Park. William was educated at the Royal British School in Thame, and from there he went […]