Evenwood – Those left behind [1]

 For those commemorated on the Evenwood War Memorial there were at least 13 widows and 23 children who lost their father,  a minimum of 124 brothers and sisters who lost a brother and at least 56 parents who lost a son.

For those who were born in Evenwood but lived elsewhere there were a minimum of 10 widows and 17 children who lost their fathers.

Evenwood War Memorial

• T. W. Applegarth   – mother Hannah sister Cicely Annie and brother Maurice George
• J.W. Arkless – parents & siblings Henry, Thomas, George , Margaret and Mabel
• A.K. Atkinson  – parents
• D. Baister – wife Florence and son Jack
• W. Carrick – parents and 12 siblings
• G.T. Cox – parents & 6 siblings
• T. Davis – parents & 3 siblings
• H. Dixon – wife Rose and sons Tom & Cresswell
• G. Dowson – parents & 7 siblings
• T.H. Dunn – parents & 8 siblings
• J. Ellerker  – lived with sister
• W. Gray – wife Mary & children Sarah, Eva & John George
• J. Heseltine – wife Amy
• R. Heaviside – parents & 7 siblings
• J. Hewitt – wife Jessie
• W. Howlett – parents & 3 siblings
• J. Hutchinson – parents & 7 siblings
• A. Lynas – parents & 2 siblings
• J. Maughan – parents & 5 siblings
• J. W. Maughan – wife Alice & children Sarah, Elizabeth & Walter
• M. G. Middlemas – wife & children Dorothy, Mark, Elizabeth, John & Robert
• J. Million – wife & son Harold
• G. Parmley – wife Selina & children Maude, George, Joseph & Thomas (born after he’d died)
• F. Purvis – parents & 5 siblings
• J.H. Raine – wife Sally & 2 children Rachel & Rhoda
• S.R. Rutter – parents & 3 siblings
• T.W. Simpson – mother & step father, brother & half- sisters & brother
• J. Skelhorn – lived with his sister
• W. Snowball – mother & step father
• J.W. Spence – wife & 2 children Robert & Monica
• W. Storey  – parents & 3 siblings
• E. Towers – parents & 6 siblings
• J. Walling – wife Isabelle & son Edgar
• J.J. Walton – lived with grandparents
• R. Wardle – parents & 3 siblings
• R. Wilson  – parents & 6 siblings
• J.W. Wren – parents
• G. Bryant  – father & brother
• R.W. Conlon – lived with his cousin
• W.E. Earl – parents & 2 siblings
• J.C. Graves  – parents & brother
• W. Morley – parents & 8 siblings
• W. Moses – parents & 4 siblings
• M.T. Raine – wife Jane Anne
• J.J. Richardson  – parents & 4 siblings
• O. Rushford – parents & 3 siblings
• M. Simpson – parents & 4 siblings
• H. Wardle – father & brother

Elsewhere: these men were born within the Parish and moved elsewhere.  Full details will eventually be found in OTHER SERVICEMEN RESEARCHED.  Those highlighted are Gaunless Valley men and are detailed on this website under their village memorial.

• W. Featherstone – Etherley (lived at Wind Mill) – parents & 5 siblings
• A. Brown – Staindrop – parents & 5 siblings
• A. Burrell – Cockfield – parents & 4 siblings
• J.T. Cant – Kirk Merrington – wife Jane & 3 children Rose, Lily & John Thomas.
• C. Cree – Cockfield – wife & 5 children Patricia, Lydia, Laura, Edna & Ronald
• W. Dinsdale – Bishop Auckland – parents
• W. Heaviside – West Auckland – wife Edith & 4 children Annie, Wilson, John & Harold
• F. Hirst – Hamsteels – parents & 3 siblings
• J.C. Lee – Cockfield – wife Mary Jane
• J. Marshall – wife Ann
• T.R. Metcalfe – Witton Park – wife
• W. Million –Etherley (lived at Byker, Tyneside) – wife, Betsy
• J.J. Oates – Normanton, West Yorkshire – wife
• J.H. Pinkney – Stanley, Crook
• G. Priestley – Cockfield – parents & 3 siblings
• E. Robinson – Shildon – parents & 4 siblings
• W. Smith – not traced
• J. A. Wardle – Aycliffe – wife Martha
• E.J. Cooke – originally from the Malton/Norton North Yorkshire
• C.H. Lowson – St. Helens – parents & sister
• J. Richards – Etherley (lived at Morley) father
• J.T. Milburn – Shildon – wife Elizabeth & 5 children Elizabeth, William, Jane, Sidney& Thomas

References:

[1] These notes have been compiled using available service records, the 1901 and 1911 census details and Parish Magazines.