Private 29943 Francis Anderton

BMD details:
Marriage: 5 Feb 1910 St Aidan, Billinge, Lancashire, England Francis Anderton - 22, Collier, Bachelor, 177 Main Street Billinge Isabella Smith - 20, Dressmaker, Spinster, 104 Upholland Road Billinge Groom's Father: James Anderton, (deceased), Collier Witness: Harold Anderton; Alice Crank Married by Banns by: W. J. Cumpsty Curate Register: Marriages 1891 - 1922, Page 148, Entry 296 Source: Original register at Wigan Archives

Family details:
Son of James and Ann Anderton; husband of Isabella Birchall (formerly Anderton), of 7, Newton Rd., Billinge, Wigan.

Census details:
1891 - Frank 4 is living with his parents James 45, Ann 44 and siblings Elias 19, Martha 17, Charles 15, Ellis 10, Harold 8 and Emily 6 at 177 Main Street, Billinge Chapel End, Billinge 1901 - Francis 13 is living with his parents James 55, Ann 54 and siblings Charles 24, Margaret 23, Ellis 20, Harold 18 and Emily 16 at 177 Main Street, Billinge Chapel End 1911 - Francis 23 is a coal miner drawer. He is living with his wife Isabella and twin children James Gilbert and Francis Harold 8 months at 10 Gleave Street, St Helens

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[url=lmem.php?lmem=39]Remembered On The St. Aidan's C of E Church Memorial[/url]

Francis was born in Billinge on the 24th of April 1887 the son of James and Ann Anderton, and was baptised on the 22nd of May 1887 in St. Aidans C.E. Church. The family lived at 177 Main Street. Francis who worked as a collier married Isabella Smith a dressmaker of 104 Upholland Road, and they went to live at 7 Newton Road, Billinge when he enlisted at Warrington in the middle of 1916 to join the South Lancashire Regiment. While serving in France he was reported missing and then killed in action on Sunday the 26th of May 1918 aged 29 years old. His name is recorded on the Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France, on St. Aidans Church Memorial and on the family grave headstone in St. Aidan's Churchyard, grave 10/164. Sources:- St. Helens Local History Library, Soldiers killed in the Great War; The Commonwealth War Graves Commission; St. Aidan`s Church Registers; St. Aidan`s Parish Magazine, October 1916. [url=http://sthelens-connect.net/sitefiles/billinge-history.pdf]Information Courtesy of The Billinge History Society[/url] [pic]tpics/29943_Anderton_.jpg [/pic] [caption] A family monument inscription in St.Aidens's Churchyard, Billinge. (Image courtesy of Jeff Keenan) [/caption] [url=http://www.sthelensrollsofhonour.co.uk/allsaintssutton][pic]/images2/f_anderton_r_brown.jpg[/pic][/url][caption]The panel on the Soissons Memorial bearing the inscription for Private Francis Anderton. (Photograph courtesy of Ste M. and FAG)[/caption]