WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 154986 (RGA) 446798 (LC) |
Bombardier Charles Edwin Blackburn | Royal Garrison Artillery. Labour Corps |
Born 1876 |
| Medal card | Awarded British and Victory medals
No service/pension records on Ancestry |
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| AVL Roll of Honour |
Address: Camera Villas, Long Acre RoH: Injured on the Western Front |
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Family history etc
| Bombardier Charles Edwin Blackburn | |||
| 1876 FREEBMD | Born Dec qtr. Wortley, Leeds, Yorks | ||
| Census 1881 | Living on Wakefield Rd, Ossett-cum-Gawthorpe, Yorks with: Father: James Blackburn, b. 1838 Havenbank, Wildmore, Lincoln Mother: Catherine b. 1840 Stevenage, Herts Siblings; James, b. 1870 Cambridge John Henry, b. 1871 Cambridge Florence E, b. 1872 Cambridge |
Station master GNR |
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| Census 1891 | Living at 58 Victoria Rd., Carlton, Notts with: Father: James Mother; Catherine Sister: Florence E |
Railway guard |
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| Census 1901 | Living at 6 Bourne St., Carlton, Notts with: Father: James Mother: Catherine Sister: Frances E Boarders: Harry Smith, b. 1875 Buckingham Albert G Smith, b. 1883 Buckingham |
Grocer Railway guard Railway clerk Railway clerk |
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| 1908 | Charles married Constance Shepley Sep qtr 1908, at Kidderminster Children: Charles Shepley Wray b 1910 Basford Kathleen L b. 1912 Bingham |
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| Census 1911 | Living on Long Acre, Bingham with: Wife: Constance, b. 1883 Norton Bridge, Staffs Son Wray aged 1 b. Netherfield, Notts |
Grocery branch manager for Co-op society | Charles and Constance married Sept 1908 in Kidderminster |
| 1918 AVL | Camera Villas, Long Acre | ||
| Electoral Rolls | 1921- 1923 Camera Villa, Long Acre | By spring they had moved to Conway Road, Carlton and were there in 1931. | |
| 1939 register | Living at 21 Valmont Road, Nottingham : Charles E, b. 8 September 1876 Constance M, b. 3 May 1882 Kathleen L Greene (Blackburn) b. 2 June 1912, single Gordon M, b. 14 May 1922, single |
Warehouseman Unpaid domestic duties Stripper Tobacco Machine operator (cigarettes) |
Kathleen’s entry of Blackburn is crossed out and GREENE substituted. |
| 1957 | Charles Edwin Blackburn died at Sherwood Hospital, 7th November 1957, aged 81 | Probate granted 1959 to Charles Shepley Wray Blackburn (son), Dispatch Clerk and Gordon Maurice Blackburn. Estate £706 7s. 6d | Charles Edwin’s address was: 40 Bessecar Avenue, Gedling |