Some of the records in this section can
be quite gruesome and graphic. Please be aware of this, especially
if you are seeking family members. The writing style of our forebears
did not reflect sensitivities we might have today! We have also included
obituaries here.
| | Tragedy at a Quorn bus stop, 1966 Dennis Marchant, with the help of the Loughborough Echo and the Quorn Parish Council ...... cont.
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| | Obituary for Murray Rumsey from Quorn, 1963 Murray Rumsey came to Quorn in 1910 and settled here, close to his brother, Rev Henry ...... cont.
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| | Sad death of the Quorn Parish Clerk – 1852 Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties
Friday 26th November ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Harold Adams Died 13th May 1915, aged 29
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Reginald John Backhouse Died 9th August 1918, aged 31
Rosières, the Somme, France
A Canadian ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harry Bagley Died 31st May 1917, aged 29, France
George Bagley was born on Nursery Lane in ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Bale Died 11th August 1917, aged 34
Ypres, Belgium
Born in Quorn in 1883 and ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Bancroft Died Sunday 19th December 1915, aged 27
Ypres, Belgium
Early years
Ernest was ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Ernest Barrett Died 9th March 1917, aged 21
Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Marrying a Quorn girl
Charles ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Arthur Benskin Died 25th September 1916, aged 19
Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, France
Life ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Frank Brookes Birkin Died 25th September 1915, aged 22
Ypres, Belgium
Life before the war
Frank ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Blackshaw Died 29th June 1915, aged 17
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey
The youngest soldier to ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Harold Bonner Died 9th September 1917, aged 20
Villers-Faucon, the Somme, France
Ernest was ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Bowler Died 29th September 1918, aged 33
Second Battle of the Somme, St Quentin, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Boyer Died 3rd May 1918, aged 18
La Bassée Canal, France
Percy Boyer was born in ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Louis Brewin Died 14th July 1917, aged 23
St Leger, the Somme, France
Before the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Brewin Died 10th August 1918, aged 28
France
A difficult start in life
Walter was ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edwin Brown Died 13th August 1915, aged 27
Hooge, Belgium
George was one of five children. ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Burton Died 27th April 1917, aged 22
Loos, France
Prior to the war
Albert Burton was ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Cawrey Died 30th October 1917, aged 40
Passchendaele, Belgium
Growing up in ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Cecil Chapman Died 21st April 1915, aged 22
Ypres, Belgium
Early years
Although Chapman is ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hilary Calvert Clarke Died 31st August 1918, aged 22
Bailleul, France
Hilary Calvert Clarke was born ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Clay Died 27th April 1915, aged 20
Vlamertinghe, Belgium
Before the war
William ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John James Collington Died 28th January 1915, aged 28
Estaires, Northern France
Pre-war days
John ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Daft Died 20th September 1915, aged 29
Ypres, Belgium
Walter Daft was the youngest ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James William Dockray Died 20th July 1918, aged 19
France
The Dockray family moved to Quorn from ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Percy Facer Died 9th April 1918, aged 18
Loos, France
A well-known family in Quorn
Facer ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Joseph Fewkes Died 26th September 1916, aged 48
The Somme, France
A very old Quorn ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Cox Flanders Died 18th May 1916, aged 20
Mesopotamia, Iraq
Family background
William Cox ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John (Jack) Peer Flanders Died 25th September 1916, aged 21
Battle of the Somme, Gueudecourt, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Fletcher Died 25th September 1918, aged 34
Sorel-le-Grand, the Somme, France
Early ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Edward Gamble Died 16th August 1917, aged 22
Ypres, Belgium
Gamble is a well-known name in ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Walter Albert Gartshore Died 1st September 1916, aged 24
Bienvillers, France
Family history
George ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest Grant Died 21st March 1918, aged 31
Bapaume, France
Early years
The Grant family ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Henry Hackett Died 18th September 1918, aged 21
Battle of Épehy, the Somme, France
Early ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Hallam Died 22nd October 1914, aged 29
Rue du Bois, France
The first to die
The ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Matthew Henry Hickling Died 13th May 1915, aged 21
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James Martin Hollingsworth Died 5th October 1916, aged 28
The Somme, France
James was born in Quorn in ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - James Howlett Died 5th October 1918, aged 33
Bellenglise, France
Family history
James ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harry Hubbard Died 12th April 1916, aged 32
Poperinge, Belgium
Before the war
Henry ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Hudson Died 3rd October 1918, aged 29
Bellenglise, France
Early years
William was ...... cont.
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| | WW1 Roll of Honour - James Hutton Died 6th October 1917, aged 25
France
James Hutton was born in Quorn and was ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Thomas Hutton Died 26th September 1917, aged 35
Zonnebeke, Belgium
Thomas Hutton was the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Newton Jacques Died 27th September 1917, aged 25
Zonnebeke, Belgium
A tough start in life
At ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Joiner Died 8th July 1917, aged 22
Metz, France
A childhood in Quorn
Frank ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Jones Died 4th October 1917, aged 19
Broodseinde, Ypres, Belgium
William and Mary ...... cont.
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| | WW1 Roll of Honour - Edward Basil Langrish Died 3rd October 1918, aged 19
Grévillers, Bapaume, Second Battle of the Somme, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Ernest Lee Died 13th November 1916, aged 22
Hebuterne, France
A hard start in life and moving ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Harold Lockwood Died 3rd October 1918, aged 20
Bellenglise, France
Early days
Sarah Wilders, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Lovett Died 25th September 1916, aged 30
Gueudecourt, the Somme, France
An old Quorn ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Jesson Lucas Died 13th May 1915, aged 20
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Samuel William Martin Died 28th May 1915, aged 25
North West of Festubert, Pas de Calais, France
Early ...... cont.
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| | 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.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Hubert Mason Moore Died 5th September 1918, aged 24
Gavrelle, Arras, France
The Moore family on ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charley Ottey Died 30th July 1916, aged 18
Wounded in France, died in a military hospital in ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William Gabriel King Peirce Died 26th October 1914, aged 39
Festubert, Western Front, France
William ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Henry Pick 25th September 1917, aged 26
Marquise Quarry, France
Roots in ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Pollard Died 21st June 1917, aged 23
Lens, France
Early years
The Pollard family ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Edward Rennocks Died 3rd October 1918, aged 22
St Quentin, France
Roots in Quorn
The Rennocks ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Victor Rennocks Died 23rd April 1916, aged 26
Hinckley Hospital
Family background
The ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Bertie James Shenton Died 3rd August 1916, aged 19
Ovillers near Albert, France
Early years
Bertie ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Jack Shephard Died 18th July 1917, aged 43
Mesopotamia, Iraq
Growing up in Quorn
The 1881 ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Fred Squires Died 3rd December 1915, aged 32
Lemnos Island, Greece
Frederick Charles ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - William John Steer Died 13th May 1915, aged 28
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Silas Stevenson Died 15th September 1916, aged 28
The Somme, France
Silas Stevenson was born ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Alfred Hall Taylor Died 30th October 1914, aged 30
First Battle of Ypres, Belgium
Life prior to the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Laurence Wakeling Died 12th July 1917, aged 33
Coxyde, Belgium
Laurence Wakeling was the son of ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ernest William Ward Died 27th October 1914, aged 24
Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, French Flanders
A ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harry Webster Died 26th November 1914, aged 37
Sheerness, Kent
Early years in Quorn
There ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Frank Cuthbert White Died 13th May 1915, aged 20
Battle of Frezenberg, Second Battle of Ypres, ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Charles Kirbell White Died 1st September 1918, aged 33
Beaulencourt, France
Charles’ ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Sydney Francis Whysall Died 26th March 1918, aged 32
Gailly, the Somme, France
Early years
The ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - John Willday Died 4th January 1919, aged 31, buried in Quorn Churchyard.
Died of wounds received ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Henry James Williams Died 26th December 1914, aged 26
Aldershot, England
Prior to the war
Henry ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - George Wood Died 9th October 1917, aged 19
Mendinghem, Belgium
Born into poverty in ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Arthur Wilfred Woodforth Died 7th April 1918, aged 20
Wesel, Germany
Prior to the war
Arthur Wilfred ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Wright Died 14th July 1916, aged 24
The Somme, France
A difficult start in ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Harold Wright Died 14th September 1915, aged 33
In hospital in London from wounds sustained in the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Ezra Wykes Died 4th December 1917, aged 29
Died of wounds, the Somme, France
The 1901 ...... cont.
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| | Quorn WW1 Roll of Honour - Fred Wykes Died 21st April 1916, aged 24
Hooge, Ypres, Belgium
Roots in Quorn
Fred Wykes ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Rawlins Grammar School WW1 Memorial Shield This shield was presented to Rawlins Grammar School by George and Mary White from Quorn, ...... cont.
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| | Triptych War Memorial in Quorn St Bartholomew’s Church After the WW1 armistice, a permanent memorial to those who died was commissioned for the ...... cont.
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| | Quorn and the Spanish flu epidemic The worldwide ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1918 hit the UK in waves and it is estimated that ...... cont.
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| | Charles Tomblin – killed near Quorn Station, September 1936 Charles Tomblin was born in Barrowden in Rutland on 14th April 1871, one of five ...... cont.
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| | Firework Danger! – from 1892 Saturday the 5th November 1892 saw a dreadful accident in Quorn, outside the shops on ...... cont.
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| | Postcard – Mountsorrel Quarry 1909 This postcard raises many questions!
It may be asked how a Mountsorrel Quarry postcard ...... cont.
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| | Peter Preston 1938 to 2018 – Quorn boy edits the Guardian Peter Preston was born in 1938 and died on 6th January 2018. He was editor of The ...... cont.
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| | Death of Mrs Farnham - Funeral Quorn Leicester Daily Mercury - Saturday 14th October 1911
The death is announced of Mrs E B ...... cont.
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| | William Harris Inglesant, Quorn, died 1912 aged 101 This article about the life of William Harris Inglesant appeared in the Quorndon Magazine ...... cont.
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| | The death of Joseph Adcock, Quorn 1867 Joseph Bexton Adcock was born in Quorn in 1827, and died on 27th December 1867 from ...... cont.
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| | Sudden Death at Quorn Adult School - April 1905 Loughborough Herald - 13th April 1905
On Sunday morning, shortly after the opening of ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Wood Tragedy - Gamekeeper found shot - March 1917 Loughborough Herald - March 15th 1917
A sad tragedy was discovered in Quorn Wood on ...... cont.
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| | Death of Quorn tradesman - May 1934 Loughborough Echo - 25th May 1934
The death occurred in Loughborough Hospital on ...... cont.
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| | The Ashby Volunteers - Death of the Sergeant Instructor Derby Mercury - 16th February 1870
It is with deep regret that we have to announce the ...... cont.
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| | Mystery of Quorn Man's Death. 5th March 1925 - Loughborough Monitor and Herald
Facts concerning a Quorn man who ...... cont.
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| | Funeral of Mr J.A.G. Farnham - 1930 Loughborough Echo - 3rd October 1930
In the Farnham Chantry, on the south side of St ...... cont.
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| | Quorn Publican found drowned - 1926 Loughborough Echo - 24th December 1926
Quorn Publican found drowned.
A woman ...... cont.
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| | Sad death of Quorn woman - 1930 Loughborough Echo - November 28th 1930
Sad death of Quorn woman
It was revealed at ...... cont.
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| | Funeral of George Draper - 1925 Loughborough Monitor and Herald - 3rd December 1925
On Friday Mr George Draper, who ...... cont.
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| | Mourning/memorial card - Joseph Gamble 1882 to 1939 Mourning/memorial cards were particularly popular in Victorian times and continued well ...... cont.
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Total: 167 artefacts returned over 2 pages