Born in Rochdale, June 1879 the son of Henry and Mary. Henry was the Curate of St Albans, Lancashire. The census of 1881, 1891 and 1901 all show Basil living with his mother and father in a Rochdale vicarage.

Basil was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Clifton College, Bristol and Lincoln College, Oxford, receiving a BA …

William John and Kate Cornish had eight children, four boys and four girls. Mary Caroline (Carrie), born 1883; Phillippa, born 1885; William Thomas, born 1887; Emma Jane, born 1889; John Henry, born 1892; Francis James, born 1894; Harry, born 1897; Hilda Kate, born 1900.

In the 1901 Census, all the family are living in St Wenn …

Samuel was born in the parish of Withiel in 1879 to William and Elizabeth (nee Osborn).

The Census of 1881 shows Samuel with his parents on Lanjew Farm along with his brothers Richard, William, Harry and sister Mary. His father is a farm labourer.

For the Census of 1891, Samuel is with his parents along with his …

John was born in St Wenn 1877, the second son of James Chapman and Margaret (nee Rowe).

John had eight brothers and two sisters, James born 1875; Reuben, born 1881; Rose, born 1883; Stephen, born 1885; Walter, born 1887; Sidney, born 1889; twins Charles and William, born 1892; Matty, born 1893; Thomas, born 1894.

The census of …

Thomas was born in 1895 the son of Thomas and Mary Stephens who already had a daughter Florence, born in 1893.

The census of 1901 shows our Thomas with his sister Florence living with his mother and father in Tregonetha. Also with the family is Thomas’s grandfather, another Thomas, a widower aged 79. His father is …