Friday 30th October 2020  

Quorn Families and People

Apart from the famous local names such as Farnham, Warner, Cradock and Firr; this site has plenty of interesting snippets concerning village folk. You can also use the search box on the upper right hand side to look for a family surname which interests you. We would like to expand this section, so if you can supply information about your family in Quorn, we would be pleased to publish it here.

		Opening of Quorn Football Club new ground, 1960 Loughborough Echo, Friday, September 2nd, 1960. QUORN F.C. - NEW GROUND AND ...... cont.
		Upset in Quorn Urban District Council! The Illustrated Leicester Chronicle Saturday 24th April 1926 DESPICABLE ...... cont.
		M Wright and Sons, Quorn - Centenary Celebration, 1960 - Programme M Wright and Sons, elastic webbing manufacturers, started in Leicester in 1860 and moved ...... cont.
		Quorn House, 1886 Quorn House on Meeting Street was originally known as the Over Hall and was the seat of ...... cont.
		Retirement concert for Jack Briers, Head of Quorn Primary School, 1971 These photographs were taken on the occasion of the retirement of Jack Briers, the ...... cont.
		St Barts Primary School football team, 1959-60 St Bartholomew’s Primary School football team, 1959-60. Teachers, left to right: Jack ...... cont.
		Phyllis Field (nee Broom), 1917 - 2007 Phyllis Broom was born at what is now 37 Farnham Street in Quorn and lived in the village ...... cont.
		Quorn Village Event, early/mid 1950s A village event in the early/mid 1950s. The gentleman holding the darts aloft is former ...... cont.
		William Henry Norman (PC Billy Norman) 1889 to 1958 William Henry (Billy) Norman was born on 29th March 1889 in Oadby. After distinguished ...... cont.
		PC Billy Norman – served in Quorn 1930 to 1944 In the 1980s and 1990s Harry Limbert, who lived in Quorn talked to a lot of the older ...... cont.
		Quorn St Bartholomew’s Primary School, early 1950s Taken in the early 1950s in the old primary school playground, when the school was on ...... cont.
		Schooldays at Quorn St Bartholomew’s Primary, 1957 to 1961 John Tweedie and his twin brother Jim were at St Barts Primary during the school years ...... cont.
		Thompson and Gamble, builders of the Cradock Drive housing development Who were Thompson and Gamble? Thompson and Gamble were a well-known ...... cont.
		The QUORN Tool and Cutter Grinder Since its launch in 1974, the Quorn Tool and Cutter Grinder has achieved legendary status ...... cont.
		Quorn Baptist Church Christian Endeavour Group, early 1900s The Baptist Church in Quorn has always had a large following since they came to the ...... cont.
		12 Freehold Street, Quorn – Shop and Off-Licence The first of these photographs was taken before 1910 and shows Joseph Birkin standing ...... cont.
		Quorn Ladies in Skegness, 1953 Four Quorn ladies enjoying the sunshine in ‘Skeggie’, in coronation year 1953. Only ...... cont.
		Quorn St Bartholomew's National School, 1908/1909 In the first part of last century, what we know today as primary schools kept children ...... cont.
		Robert Sutton, Quorn Family Butcher This photograph was taken on High Street in Quorn around 1920, and shows Robert and Gerty ...... cont.
		William Freer born 1830 in Quorn, died 17th February 1887, Denbighshire William Freer was born in Quorn in 1830. By the 1850s he was a kennel man for Quorn Hunt, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Harold Adams Died 13th May 1915, aged 29 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Reginald John Backhouse Died 9th August 1918, aged 31 Rosières, the Somme, France A Canadian ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harry Bagley Died 31st May 1917, aged 29, France George Bagley was born on Nursery Lane in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Bale Died 11th August 1917, aged 34 Ypres, Belgium Born in Quorn in 1883 and ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Bancroft Died Sunday 19th December 1915, aged 27 Ypres, Belgium Early years Ernest was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Ernest Barrett Died 9th March 1917, aged 21 Mesopotamia (Iraq) Marrying a Quorn girl Charles ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Arthur Benskin Died 25th September 1916, aged 19 Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, France Life ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Frank Brookes Birkin Died 25th September 1915, aged 21 Ypres, Belgium Life before the war Frank ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Blackshaw Died 29th June 1915, aged 17 Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey The youngest soldier to ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Harold Bonner Died 9th September 1917, aged 20 Villers-Faucon, the Somme, France Ernest was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Bowler Died 29th September 1918, aged 33 Second Battle of the Somme, St Quentin, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Boyer Died 3rd May 1918, aged 18 La Bassée Canal, France Percy Boyer was born in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Louis Brewin Died 14th July 1917, aged 23 St Leger, the Somme, France Before the ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Brewin Died 10th August 1918, aged 28 France A difficult start in life Walter was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edwin Brown Died 13th August 1915, aged 27 Hooge, Belgium George was one of five children. ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Burton Died 27th April 1917, aged 22 Loos, France Prior to the war Albert Burton was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Cawrey Died 30th October 1917, aged 40 Passchendaele, Belgium Growing up in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Cecil Chapman Died 21st April 1915, aged 22 Ypres, Belgium Early years Although Chapman is ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hilary Calvert Clarke Died 31st August 1918, aged 22 Bailleul, France Hilary Calvert Clarke was born ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Clay Died 27th April 1915, aged 20 Vlamertinghe, Belgium Before the war William ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John James Collington Died 28th January 1915, aged 28 Estaires, Northern France Pre-war days John ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Daft Died 20th September 1915, aged 29 Ypres, Belgium Walter Daft was the youngest ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James William Dockray Died 20th July 1918, aged 19 France The Dockray family moved to Quorn from ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Facer Died 9th April 1918, aged 18 Loos, France A well-known family in Quorn Facer ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Fewkes Died 26th September 1916, aged 48 The Somme, France A very old Quorn ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Cox Flanders Died 18th May 1916, aged 20 Mesopotamia, Iraq Family background William Cox ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Peer Flanders Died 25th September 1916, aged 21 Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Fletcher Died 25th September 1918, aged 34 Sorel-le-Grand, the Somme, France Early ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edward Gamble Died 16th August 1917, aged 22 Ypres, Belgium Gamble is a well-known name in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Albert Gartshore Died 1st September 1916, aged 24 Bienvillers, France Family history George ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Grant Died 21st March 1918, aged 31 Bapaume, France Early years The Grant family ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Hackett Died 18th September 1918, aged 21 Battle of Épehy, the Somme, France Early ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Hallam Died 22nd October 1914, aged 29 Rue du Bois, France The first to die The ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Matthew Henry Hickling Died 13th May 1915, aged 21 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James Martin Hollingsworth Died 5th October 1916, aged 28 The Somme, France James was born in Quorn in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James Howlett Died 5th October 1918, aged 33 Bellenglise, France Family history James ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harry Hubbard Died 12th April 1916, aged 32 Poperinge, Belgium Before the war Henry ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Hudson Died 3rd October 1918, aged 29 Bellenglise, France Early years William was ...... cont.
		WW1 Roll of Honour - James Hutton Died 6th October 1917, aged 25 France James Hutton was born in Quorn and was ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Thomas Hutton Died 26th September 1917, aged 35 Zonnebeke, Belgium Thomas Hutton was the ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Newton Jacques Died 27th September 1917, aged 25 Zonnebeke, Belgium A tough start in life At ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Joiner Died 8th July 1917, aged 22 Metz, France A childhood in Quorn Frank ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Jones Died 4th October 1917, aged 19 Broodseinde, Ypres, Belgium William and Mary ...... cont.
		WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Basil Langrish Died 3rd October 1918, aged 19 Grévillers, Bapaume, Second Battle of the Somme, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Ernest Lee Died 13th November 1916, aged 22 Hebuterne, France A hard start in life and moving ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harold Lockwood Died 3rd October 1918, aged 20 Bellenglise, France Early days Sarah Wilders, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Lovett Died 25th September 1916, aged 30 Gueudecourt, the Somme, France An old Quorn ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Jesson Lucas Died 13th May 1915, aged 20 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Samuel William Martin Died 28th May 1915, aged 25 North West of Festubert, Pas de Calais, France Early ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Daniel and William Moore Died 13th May 1915, aged 25 and 23 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hubert Mason Moore Died 5th September 1918, aged 24 Gavrelle, Arras, France The Moore family on ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charley Ottey Died 30th July 1916, aged 18 Wounded in France, died in a military hospital in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Gabriel King Peirce Died 26th October 1914, aged 39 Festubert, Western Front, France William ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Henry Pick 25th September 1917, aged 26 Marquise Quarry, France Roots in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Pollard Died 21st June 1917, aged 23 Lens, France Early years The Pollard family ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Edward Rennocks Died 3rd October 1918, aged 22 St Quentin, France Roots in Quorn The Rennocks ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Victor Rennocks Died 23rd April 1916, aged 26 Hinckley Hospital Family background The ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Bertie James Shenton Died 3rd August 1916, aged 19 Ovillers near Albert, France Early years Bertie ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Jack Shephard Died 18th July 1917, aged 43 Mesopotamia, Iraq Growing up in Quorn The 1881 ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Fred Squires Died 3rd December 1915, aged 32 Lemnos Island, Greece Frederick Charles ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William John Steer Died 13th May 1915, aged 28 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Silas Stevenson Died 15th September 1916, aged 28 The Somme, France Silas Stevenson was born ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Hall Taylor Died 30th October 1914, aged 30 First Battle of Ypres, Belgium Life prior to the ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Laurence Wakeling Died 12th July 1917, aged 33 Coxyde, Belgium Laurence Wakeling was the son of ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest William Ward Died 27th October 1914, aged 24 Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, French Flanders A ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harry Webster Died 26th November 1914, aged 37 Sheerness, Kent Early years in Quorn There ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Cuthbert White Died 13th May 1915, aged 20 Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Kirbell White Died 1st September 1918, aged 33 Beaulencourt, France Charles’ ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Sydney Francis Whysall Died 26th March 1918, aged 32 Gailly, the Somme, France Early years The ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Willday Died 4th January 1919, aged 31, buried in Quorn Churchyard. Died of wounds received ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Henry James Williams Died 26th December 1914, aged 26 Aldershot, England Prior to the war Henry ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Wood Died 9th October 1917, aged 19 Mendinghem, Belgium Born into poverty in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Arthur Wilfred Woodforth Died 7th April 1918, aged 20 Wesel, Germany Prior to the war Arthur Wilfred ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Wright Died 14th July 1916, aged 24 The Somme, France A difficult start in ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harold Wright Died 14th September 1915, aged 33 In hospital in London from wounds sustained in the ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ezra Wykes Died 4th December 1917, aged 29 Died of wounds, the Somme, France The 1901 ...... cont.
		Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Fred Wykes Died 21st April 1916, aged 24 Hooge, Ypres, Belgium Roots in Quorn Fred Wykes ...... cont.
		The Facer Family of Quorn Moving from Leicester to Quorn Henry Facer, a carpenter born in Leicester, and ...... cont.
		Facer family memorial bench – St Bartholomew’s Church, Quorn This bench sits in the porch of Quorn St Bartholomew’s Church. It was donated by Lucy ...... cont.
		Quorn Police Station, 1980s Quorn Police Station closed in 2011 and the land has since been redeveloped for housing. ...... cont.

Total: 872 artefacts returned over 9 pages

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