One hundred years ago today: a WWI death confirmed
From the Framlingham Weekly News, 28 April, 1917: The death announced in our last issue of 2nd-Lieut. H.G.Walne, second son of Mr and Mrs Walne, Kettleburgh Hall [my Great Great Uncle], is officially confirmed. We are indebted to the bereaved parents for the following particulars of his career :- After finishing his education, Mr Walne entered […]
200 years ago today – The Hoxne Association
A meeting of the Hoxne Association was advertised to take place on 11 April, 1817. The Association was a private prosecution association – the idea being, in a time before a nationwide Police force, that members paid a subscription which allowed the association to help pay the expenses of apprehension and prosecution of suspected criminals […]
100 years ago today: a death in Burnley
One of at least 15 Walnes in Burnley for the 1911 census, Thomas Walne, aged 53, died on this day in 1917. His death was recorded in the Burnley Express on 31 January. Thomas was born and married in Preston and appears there in each census until 1891, but the enumerator’s book of that year finds […]
