DURRANT Chart 0303

mThis is a Chart for William Durrant, Matilda Hensler and John William Yeomans

  married(1)
March quarter
1879
Bromley district
Kent 		(2)married
about
December quarter
1902
Bromley district
Kent

1
WILLIAM  DURRANT
 born about
September quarter 1856
Kirdford (1861, 1871)
Petworth (1881)
Sussex (1891)
Sussex
baptised
21st September 1856
St John the Baptsed
Kirdford
Sussex
(parents George and Ellen)
occupation
1871 Ag Lab
1881 Ag Laboourer
1891 Bricklayers Labouer
died
December quarter
1895
Bromley district
Kent
Aged 39
buried
 12th October 1895
Orpington, Kent

 2
 MATILDA HENSLER
 born about
1858
(registration not found)
Baughurst
Hampshire
occupation
1871 General Servant (aged 13)
1901 Laundress
1911 Laundress
died
24th February 1919
Swanley Junction
Kent
registered
March quarter
1919
Dartford district
Kent
Aged 61
administration
5th June 1919
London
to
John William
YEOMANS
platelayer
will
£72 18s. 		3
JOHN WILLIAM YEOMANS
 born about
September quarter
1869
Derby, Derbyshire
occupation
1911 Platelayer
(Underground Railway)
1919 Platelayer (administration of William Harold)
1919 Platelayer (administration of wife Matilda)
died
(registration not found)
4
Emily
DURRANT
born about
1879
Orpington
Kent
registered
December quarter
1879
Bromley district
Kent
died
September quarter
1882
Bromley district
Kent
Aged 3 		5
Alice
Ada
DURRANT
born about
1882
Orpington
or
St Mary Cray (1901, 1911)
Kent
registered
December quarter
1881
Bromley district
Kent
possibly
died
December quarter
1935
Dartford district
Kent
Aged 54

maried
25th December 1902
Orpington, Kent
James
ROGERS
 		6
Annie
Emily
DURRANT
born about
1884
Orpington
or
St Mary Cray (1911)
Kent
registered
June quarter
1884
Bromley district
Kent
possibly
died
25th December 1953
registered
December quarter
1953
Sidcup district
Kent
Aged 69

married
26th December 1903
Orpington, Kent
William
Henry
PINK
 		7
Louisa
Matilda
DURRANT
born about
1886
Orpington
or
St Mary Cray (1901)
Kent
registered
September  quarter
1886
Bromley district
Kent
occupation
1911 Laundress
died
March quarter
1970
Hillingdon district
Great London 
Aged 83

 8
Horace
Frederick
DURRANT
born about
1888
Orpington
Kent
registered
December  quarter
1888
Bromley district
Kent
occupation
1901 Inmate
died
(registration not found)
see notes

 9
William
Harold
DURRANT
born about
1892
St Mary Cray
Kent
registered
March quarter
1892
Bromley district
Kent
occupation
1911
Gardener
(Nurseryman)
1912
Nurseryman with Lowe & SHAWER
(on enlistment)
military
Serjeant
Service Number
TF/203463
Middlesex Regiment
1st/5th Battalion
also
Duke of Cambridge's
(Middlesex)
Regiment
Service Number
203463
and
Land Brigade L D C L B
(previous military on enlistment in 1912
Land Brigade L D C L B
medals
British War Medal
and
Victory Medal
died
16th August 1917
Belgium
memorial
Tyne Cot Memorial
West-Vlaanderen
Belgium
panel reference
Panel 113 to 115
administration
(with will)
16th June 1919
London
to
John
William
YEOMANS
platelayer
will
£72 18s.

 10
Mary
Elizabeth
DURRANT
born about
19th June 1894
St Mary Cray
Kent
registered
September  quarter
1894
Bromley district
Kent
occupation
1911 Laundress
died
March quarter
1978
Hillngdon district
Greater London
Aged83

married
September quarter
1921
Uxbridge district
Middlesex
Alfred
W
PERRY
born about
(registration not found
died
(registration not found
  1. 1861 Stradfold? Wood, Wisborough Green, Sussex
    1871 Marshalls, Rudgwick Sussex. There was a servant an Emily WALLER aged 24 a Housekeeper born Rudgwick, Sussex and also a Alice M M WALLER aged 8 months born Rudgwick, Sussex
    1881 No 2 Ash Cottages, Orpington, Kent.
    1891 Dellia Cottage, Orpington, Kent
  2. 1861 Stone Heath, Baughurst, Hampshire. Matilda is down as Grand daughter, Head was an Elizabeth HENSLER aged 63 born Baughurst, Hampshire, With her was her son Richard aged 29 an Ag Labourer born Baughurst, Hampshire, daughter Elizabeth down as married so assume wife of Richard and not down a Daughter in Law aged 31 born Baughurst, Sussex and then Matilda
    1871 1 Bensham Villas, Croydon, Surrey. Matilda was a servant to a Daniell BETERIDGE aged 56 a Retired Grocer born Baldon, Oxfordshire and his wife Eliza aged 58 born Southwark, Surrey
    1881 No 2 Ash Cottages, Orpington, Kent.
    1891 Dellia Cottage, Orpington, Kent
    1901 Wellington Road, Orpington, Kent.  (Matilda is a widow on this Census)
    1911 Glananore, Cowley Mill Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex. With the familly was an Archie ANDERSON a visitor aged 3 born Uxbridge, Middlesex. Matilda is down as having been married 8 years and having had not children. (second marriage)
    1919 14 Tachbrook Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex (address given at administration)
  3. 1911 Glananore, Cowley Mill Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex. With the familly was an Archie ANDERSON a visitor aged 3 born Uxbridge, Middlesex
  4. 1881 No 2 Ash Cottages, Orpington, Kent.
  5. 1891 Dellia Cottage, Orpington, Kent
    1901 Wellington Road, Orpington, Kent. 
    1911 14 High Croft Cottages, Swanley Junction, Kent. Alice is down as having been married 8 years and having had 2 children both survive at the date of this Census. Children Iris Matilda Minta ROGERS aged 3 born Farningham, Kent and Harold James Owen ROGERS aged 1 born Farningham, Kent
  6. 1891 Dellia Cottage, Orpington, Kent
    1911 4 River Cottages, St Pauls Cray, Kent. Annie is down as having been married 7 years and having had 4 children 3 survive and 1 had died at the date of this Census. 
    1954 1 Riverview, St. Pauls Cray, Orpington, Kent (address given at administration)
  7. 1891 Dellia Cottage, Orpington, Kent
    1901 Wellington Road, Orpington, Kent. 
    1911 Glananore, Cowley Mill Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex. With the familly was an Archie ANDERSON a visitor aged 3 born Uxbridge, Middlesex
  8. 1891 Dellia Cottage, Orpington, Kent
    1901 Stockwell Orphanage, Lambeth, London. Too many others to list)
    A family tree on Ancestry says he died in Australia in 1909 but I can find nothing to confirm this.
  9. 1901 Wellington Road, Orpington, Kent. 
    1911 Glananore, Cowley Mill Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex. With the familly was an Archie ANDERSON a visitor aged 3 born Uxbridge, Middlesex
    1912 Enlistment details Born St Mary's Cray, near Maidstone, Kent, Aged 20 years and 4 months Trade Nurseryman with Lowe & SHAWER, residence in 1912 Kosikot, Tachbrook Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex. Previous Cadet Corps of Battalion Land Brigade L D C L B
    1919 14 Tachbrook Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex (address given at administration)
    Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission web sit
    Historical Information
    The Tyne Cot Memorial is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war.
    The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence.
    There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele.
    The German offensive of March 1918 met with some initial success, but was eventually checked and repulsed in a combined effort by the Allies in September.
    The battles of the Ypres Salient claimed many lives on both sides and it quickly became clear that the commemoration of members of the Commonwealth forces with no known grave would have to be divided between several different sites.
    The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields. It commemorates those of all Commonwealth nations, except New Zealand, who died in the Salient, in the case of United Kingdom casualties before 16 August 1917 (with some exceptions). Those United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after that date are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war. Other New Zealand casualties are commemorated on memorials at Buttes New British Cemetery and Messines Ridge British Cemetery.
    The TYNE COT MEMORIAL now bears the names of almost 35,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by Joseph Armitage and F.V. Blundstone, was unveiled by Sir Gilbert Dyett on 20 June 1927.
    The memorial forms the north-eastern boundary of TYNE COT CEMETERY, which was established around a captured German blockhouse or pill-box used as an advanced dressing station. The original battlefield cemetery of 343 graves was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when remains were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck, and from a few small burial grounds. It is now the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials. At the suggestion of King George V, who visited the cemetery in 1922, the Cross of Sacrifice was placed on the original large pill-box. There are three other pill-boxes in the cemetery.
    There are now 11,961 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Tyne Cot Cemetery, 8,373 of these are unidentified.
    The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
  10. 1901 Wellington Road, Orpington, Kent. 
    1911 Glananore, Cowley Mill Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex. With the familly was an Archie ANDERSON a visitor aged 3 born Uxbridge, Middlesex

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