Private 18770 Henry Wilson

BMD details:
Marriage: 24/12/1909 Henricum WILSON to Elizabetham HEATON at Birchley St Mary's RC.

Family details:
Husband of Elizabeth Wilson, of 20, Fair View, Billinge, Wigan.

Census details:
Transcribed as Welson in the 1891 census. 1891 - 6 years old Henry is living at 2 Gorsey Brow, Billinge with parents James (a collier 39), Hannah (37) and two siblings: William (10), Ann (8). 1901 - 16 years old 'Colliery Labourer Henry is living at 16 Fair View, Billinge with parents James (49), Hannah (47) and three siblings: William (20), Annie (18), Mary A (5). 1911 Sees 26 years old 'Coal Miner' Henry living at 2 Piccadilly, Billinge with wife Elizabeth (22) and son Ernest (1 mths).

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

Henry was born on the 24th of March 1885 the fifth of six children to James and Hannah Wilson (nee Taylor), and was baptised on the 29th of March 1885 at St. Mary's R.C. Church. Henry lived at Fair View and married Elizabeth Heaton of Gorsey Brow on the 24th of December 1909 in St. Mary`s Church. They had two children, Ernest born on the 4th of March 1911 and Stanley born on the 2nd of June 1913. Both were baptised in St. Mary`s Church. The family lived at 20 Fair View, Billinge and Henry who was 6 feet 1 1/2 inches tall and weighed 11 stones worked at the Garswood Hall Collieries before he enlisted at St. Helens on the 3rd of February 1915. It would seam likely that he enlisted with Patrick Coleman as they both enlisted at the same place and both joined the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, an unusual regiment for Billinge men. He was serving with the British Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli where he was shot by a sniper at 08.30 hours on Wednesday the 29th of September 1915. He was 30 years old. Henry is buried in the Azmak Cemetery, Suvla, Turkey, grave I.E.11. His name is recorded on both St. Aidan`s C.E. Church and St. Mary`s R.C. Church Memorials. Sources:- Daughter-in-law; Grandson; St. Helens Local History Library, Soldiers killed in the Great War; The Commonwealth War Graves Commission; St. Mary`s Church Registers; The Wigan Observer, 30th of October 1915; St. Aidan`s Parish Magazine, May 1915 and November 1915. [url=http://sthelens-connect.net/sitefiles/billinge-history.pdf]Information Courtesy of The Billinge History Society[/url]