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Thanks anyone who bothered but I have found them!
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Sheffield City Battalion (Sheffield Pals)
debjohn replied to K Seavill's topic in Sheffield History & Expats
thanks for the info about william blenkarn, his niece is still alive and she was very interested, apparently he was a sunday school teacher engaged to be married,after his death his fiancee never married -
Sheffield City Battalion (Sheffield Pals)
debjohn replied to K Seavill's topic in Sheffield History & Expats
one of my relatives William Blenkarn was a lance corporal in the Yorks&Lancs 12 Sheffield Battalion . He was killed 10/09/1916 France/Flanders I think he had a mention in the paper but I have nt found it -
frank howarth was my grandfather. if your mum remembers him he lived on danville court and was brought up by his grandparents, she might remember his wife edith kelsey. her sister dorothy still lives on longley lane and well remembers life around the wicker
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anybody know the whereabouts of sheffield connected howarths now in south africa
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somebody out there must know something about doris howarth? her daughters jean? & margaret? and the family she married into (brashaw) please help me fill this family gap!!!
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Does anyone know of the whereabouts of the Brashaws possibly only Jean living, that my mum would know she married a 'Rose'? in a church in Attercliffe in the late 1950's She is my mum Rosalie Howarths 1st cousin Are you out there?
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would these songs have been sung on the streets? possibly by 'knife sharpeners'?
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can anyone shed light on the street mummers my granddad talked about perhaps 'little devildoubt' or the verse 'here comes me and our old lass plenty of money and plenty of brass' ring a bell with sheffielders
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hello would you know of the howarths who lived on danville st in particular frank
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did you know/know of frank howarth
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bill my grandad frank howarth worked at firth browns before and at the beginning of wwII he was involved in a legal issue where firth browns wanted to stop him from going to work at the royal ordnance any memories? debjohn
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frank howarth lived on Danville street , might your Harry have been related ? frank worked at Firth Browns at the beginning of ww2 sounds like you might be too young to have known him!!!!
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hello is the harry howarth mentioned frank howarths brother? frank was a universal grinder(is that right) at firth browns anyone remember him? he had a sister doris? married a brashaw and lived in attercliffe