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| The Family of Henry
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| The Family of Edward
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Florence A Cufflin 1871-
Frances Cufflin 1872-
Frances was born at Anstey and baptised on 5 December 1872.
Note:- The name is spelt Francis in the 1881 Census but is described as a daughter.
Catherine Elizabeth Cufflin 1875-
Catherine was born in 1874 in St. George's Parish Leicester.
Eliza Cufflin 1877-
John Thomas Cufflin 1878-
John Thomas Cufflin was born in Leicester in 1878 and baptised on the 15th April at St. George's Parish. He was a Private, military no 99210, in the 106th Foot 2nd battalion The Durham Light Infantry.
Sometime after WW1 he went to live in New Zealand where he has family members still living who bear the Cufflin name. He died in New Zealand in 1937 and is buried in the soldiers cemetery in Waikumete in Auckland N.Z. The inscription on his grave stone says he was a great war veteran.
Alice Cufflin 1880-
Alice was born in Leicester and baptised at St. George's on 1st March 1880.
Beatrice Cufflin 1881-1897
Beatrice was born at Leicester and baptised on 15th November 1881 at St. George's. She died on the 30 November 1897 aged 16 years at Ullswater Street Leicester. She is buried at Welford Road Cemetery with her parents in Plot T1232.
Elizabeth Cufflin 1886-1897
Elizabeth was born at Leicester and baptised at the parish church of St. George on 22 March 1886.
Elizabeth Cufflin 1872-1872
Elizabeth Cufflin died on 3 November 1872 at the age of 7
weeks. It is not known for certain that she was the daughter of William Cufflin
and Alice Smith but she died in Alfred Street which is where William was living
at the time of his marriage in 1872.
William Frederick Cufflin
1876-1955
William Frederick Cufflin was born on 20 October 1876 at
100 Gresham Street Leicester. On the 18th January 1888 a certified copy of his
birth certificate was issued "for the purposes of the Elementary Education Act
1876 or for any uses connected with the Elementary Education or Employment in
Labour of a Child" and it is probable that it was for the purposes of starting
work. He would have been 12 years old.
At the time of the 1891 census he was living with his father at
13 Larch Street Leicester, the home of his uncle, Samuel Cufflin and was
described as a Shoe Finisher.
On the 3 November 1894 he married Sarah Ann Gray (1875-1960) at
the Register Office in the County Borough of Leicester. Sarah was the daughter
of William Gray a Platelayer on the Railway, of 32 Clipstone Street and their
married life was spent just around the corner at 6 Swaffam Street Leicester. At
the time of his marriage he was employed in the shoe trade as a Skiving Machine
Operator. He later worked for various firms in the shoe trade including Gidley
Wright of Sanvey Gate and others at Baggrave St. and Wigston.
At some time he played football for Leicester Fosse. The first
football clubs were formed in Leicester around 1869 playing Rugby and
Association football but in 1880 they joined together as Leicester Football Club
alternating between the two games. The two sections then went their separate
ways and both clubs acquired their own grounds in 1891-92, the 'Tigers' (having
changed their name as a result of a change in strip) in Welford Road and 'Fosse'
in Filbert Street. Fosse played in the second division of the football league in
1894 going into the first division in 1908-09. So far we have been unable to
locate any records at Leicester City FC. but it may be that he played for the
reserves as Leicester City only have records of the first team players.
He died at Hillcrest Hospital Leicester on 4th July 1955 aged
78.
John Henry Cufflin 1879-1962
John Henry Cufflin was born on 14 April 1879 the son of
William Cufflin and Alice Smith. It is said that he was able to join the
Coldstream Guards early in his life by giving a false age but, it may be that he
was unaware of this at the time, believing that it was his true age since his
stated age at the time of the 1891 Census is shown as 14 years when in fact he
was only 12.
He married Alice Bertha Thornett (1876-1947) of Mountsorrel. At
the 1891 census Alice was aged 15 and was living at the Railway Inn Sileby,
where she was described as a 'General Assistant'. They had five children one of
whom died in infancy.
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The Family of Samuel
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Samuel Henry Clement Cufflin
1882-1914
Samuel Henry Clement Cufflin was born in 1882 the son of
Samuel Cufflin and Emma. In 1891 (census) he was living at 13 Larch Street. He
married Annie Laws Braden on 24th June 1911 at Archdeacon Lane Congregational
Chapel and was a General Labourer. At the time of their marriage they were
living at 7 The Newarke Leicester.
Annie Laws Braden was born on 3rd October 1882 at 38 East Bond
Street to John Laws Braden of Berwick upon Tweed, a Baker, and Fanny Hollinworth
whose family were also in the Bakery business.
Samuel and Annie had two children: Hilda Mary Cufflin of
Leicester (1912-1986); and David Braden Cufflin of Leicester (1914-2001).
Samuel served in the African Campaign from 1899
to 1902 and was a volunteer with the South Staffordshire Regiment in the first
world war, he died in September 1915 at the battle of Loos alongside 60,000 of
his companions leaving his wife and two small children.
His Memorial in France which is maintained by the War Graves Commission is inscribed:-
In Memory of
SAMUEL CUFFLIN
Private
16060
1st Bn., South Staffordshire Regiment
who died on
Saturday, 25th September 1915.
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LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France |
Grave Reference/
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Panel 73 to 76 |
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Loos-en-Gohelle is a village about 5 kilometres north-west of Lens. The Loos Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery where over 1,700 officers and men are buried, the great majority of whom fell in the Battle of Loos. Dud Corner Cemetery, which stands almost on the site of a German strong point, the Lens Road Redoubt, captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the battle, is located about 1 kilometre west of the village, on the N43, the main Lens to Bethune road. The Loos Memorial commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay, and who have no known grave. It covers the period from the first day of the Battle of Loos to the date of the Armistice. On either side of the cemetery is a wall 15 feet high, to which are fixed tablets on which are carved the names of those commemorated. At the back are four small circular courts, open to the sky, in which the lines of tablets are continued, and between these courts are three semicircular walls or apses, two of which carry tablets, while on the centre apse is erected the Cross of Sacrifice. |
In his book 'Stalemate' JH Johnson quoting from the official
history of the war Vol 2. 1928 writes: [Under pressure from Lord Kitchener at
home, due to the general position of the allies and from Generals Joffre &
Foch in France, the British Commander in Chief was therefore compelled to
undertake operations before he was ready over ground that was most unfavourable,
against the better judgment of himself and General Haig, and.....with no more
than a quarter of the troops, nine divisions instead of thirty-six, that he
considered necessary for a successful attack.]
The wire cutting artillery had also failed to adequately breech
the barbed wire defences and the gas attack was also a failure.
Although the gain was the capture of four miles of German front
line trenches involving a penetration of two miles, the cost was grevious: There
was over 50,000 casualities in the first army attack, of which, according to the
official history, some 800 officers and 15,000 men were killed, or missing and
never heard of again. When the losses of the French 10th Army and British
subsidiary attacks are included the total rises to 115,000 compared with
estimated German losses of 50,000.
William Cufflin 1883-1914
William Cufflin was born in 1883 he was the son of Samuel
Cufflin and Emma. At the time of the 1891 census he was living at 13 Larch
Street with his father. He served with the 1st Bn. The Northamptonshire Regiment as a
Private during the 1914-18 war and was killed at Ypres on the 1st November 1914. A Memorial is maintained by the War Graves Commission at Ypres Town Cemetery Extension Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
His medals are in the possession of his niece Mary Cave but little more is known about him.
Herbert George Thomas Cufflin
1895-1977
Herbert Cufflin was born on 16 Feb 1895 at 13 Larch
Street Leicester, he attended Green Lane Mixed School and his headmaster, Mr
George Dixon, said of him in a school report of 17 September 1908, "Herbert
Cufflin was a very steady boy. I always found him honest obedient and willing.
He should do well". A copy of his Birth Certificate was obtained on 1 Sep 1908
for the purposes of Elementary Education and Factory Acts and written on the
back is an address, 77 Sherrard Road.
He married Rose Braker on the 28 Feb 1914 and at that time was
living at 11 Thurlby Road Leicester.
Rose, a Shoe Machinist, was born on 12 July 1893 at 38 Jewry
Wall Street Leicester and was the daughter of Frederick Braker, a Carpenter and
Joiner, and Nora Braker (nee Donovan) who was living at 168 Mount Road when she
married.
During the first world war Herbert served with the Seaforth
Highlanders attaining the rank of Corporal. They had four children: Herbert
Fredrick who married Iris Edwards, they had two children; Norah who married Joe
Shaw, they had three children; Patrick George (known as Mick), married Mary
Murray, they had one son; and Mary, who is married to Cyril Cave, they have three
children.
Agnes Rose Elizabeth Cufflin
1897-1897
Agnes Cufflin was born in January 1897 and died on 13 Aug
1897 at the age of 8 months, she is buried at Welford Road Cemetery Plot
Q/623.
Vivian James Steed Cufflin
1887-1895
Vivian was born at Kensington London in 1887, it is not
known who his father was but his surname could well of been Steed. He died on 13
December 1895 at the age of eight and is buried at Welford Road Cemetery with
his mother in Plot T/73
John Edward Bland 1893-1966
Richard Bland
Adelaide Bland
Dorothy Bland
Sarah Bland
Alfred Bland
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