Hello Folks,
Some of you may recognise me from the GWF. My main area of interest is the KRRC as my grandfather served with them 1914-1919, but I'm currently researching the men commemorated on the
village war memorial in
Over Peover, Cheshire (just south of Knutsford). If you do a search on "Peover" on the GWF you 'll find my various posts so far.
One of these Over Peover men was
Private William STREET, 5048, 13th (Service) Battalion, The Manchester Regiment.
He died
25 April 1917 aged 28 somewhere in
Greece/Macedonia. He is buried in
KARASOULI MILITARY CEMETERY. 13th Btn were in
66th Brigade in
22nd Division at
Salonika at the time.
From CWGC, he was the
son of John & Agnes STREET of the
Mainwaring Arms, Over Peover.
This pub is now the well-known
Whipping Stocks Inn on the corner of the A50 and Stocks Lane about 2 miles south of Knutsford.
My researches into his family are by no means complete. There are a lot of potential "William Streets", but my leading candidate was
born in 1888 in the Holmes Chapel area, which is about 5 miles further south on the A50.
The
1891 Census for
Holmes Chapel (=Church Hulme Civil Parish) has ...
John STREET, 33yrs
Agnes STREET, 32yrs
William STREET, 3yrs
Then in the
1901 Census for
Lower Withington (about 4 miles NE of Holmes Chapel and about the same distance SE of Over Peover) there's ...
Agnes STREET; 42yrs; born Newport, Salop; housekeeper/domestic
Wm Hy STREET [presumably William Henry]; 12yrs; born Ches... [i.e. illegible]; attending school
No sign of John Street, however in
Twemlow Entire Civil Parish (the next village, ~2 miles away), I found ...
John STREET; 42yrs; born Kermincham [very near to Twemlow]; butler/domestic
It seems pretty likely this is the missing husband.
I cannot find an Agnes STREET in the
1881 census, and since John & Agnes would have been 23 and 22 respectively in 1881, it is likely that they were not married then. I found this household in
Blackden Heath (about 2 miles south of Over Peover):
Henry STREET; 47 yrs; born Blackden; Farmer of 11 acres
Sarah STREET; 46 yrs; born Withington
John STREET; 22 yrs; born Kermincham; footman (unemployed)
Piecing this together we have William's father moving from footman to butler to pub within a 5 mile radius and marrying a lass from 45 miles away in Shropshire along the way! I've had no luck on tracing the marriage yet. Also I have no info yet on whether the Streets ran the pub or merely lived and worked there.
William appears to have been born while his father was in service as a butler and before they moved the few miles N to the pub.
What I'd like some help with from all of you is filling in more detail of William Street's time in 13/Manchesters leading up to his death on 25 April 1917.
I have no access to SDGW, so I cannot say whether he was k-i-a, d-o-w, or simply died.
Can anyone help with a SDGW look-up?Also I have very little information about the exploits of 13th Btn. The date of death coincides with one of the more serious Actions at
Lake Doiran, but at Salonika it is just as likely that he died of sickness.
Can one of the experts help here?I'm aiming to write all this up to give to the villagers, though I think I'll only have basic details in time for Remembrance Day, so any assistance will be
greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Mark
