William Hindley

William Hindley was the third son of Thomas and Mary Hindley (née Fletcher). His father Thomas was born in 1856 (reg. East Retford bap. Everton Holy Trinity), the son of William and Sarah (née Shay) who were married at Sutton cum Lound St Bartholomew in 1853. In 1871 the family was living on a 50 acre farm in Sutton cum Lound. His mother Mary was born in North Leverton, Nottinghamshire, the daughter of Robert Fletcher, a labourer, and his wife Elizabeth. She was baptised at North Leverton in 1858. Thomas and Mary were married in 1876 and had nine children. The first three children were born in Sutton and the others in Lound but all were baptised at Sutton cum Lound St Bartholomew: Tom, John, Sarah Ann, William, George, Frederick, Jessie, Lily and Mary. In 1881 Thomas (24), an agricultural labourer, and his wife Mary (22) were living in Whetwell Cottages, Sutton with their three children Tom (4), John (3) and Sarah (1). By 1891 they had moved to Bell Moor Low Farm, Lound, where Thomas was still working as an agricultural labourer. In the home on the night of the census were seven of their eight children: John, Sarah, William, George (6), Frederick (5), Jessie (3) and Lily (under one year). The oldest child, Tom, was working on a farm an living on Sutton Street Sutton, with his maternal grandfather, Robert Fletcher. The youngest child, Mary, was born the following year. The second son, John Robert, died in 1898 aged 20 and was buried in Sutton cum Lound on 2 July. Thomas and Mary were living on Village Street, Lound, in 1901; he was employed as a groom ('not domestic'). Only two sons, George and Frederick, both horsemen, and the three youngest daughters, Jessie, Lily and Mary (8), were in the home on the night of the census. By 1901 William was living with his paternal uncle, William Hindley (40), wife Lucy and their children on Sheffield Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. His uncle was a malster as was William. Thomas and Mary remained in Lound where they were recorded on the 1911 Census; Thomas was now working as a horseman on a farm. Only two of their children were still at home: George, a farm labourer, and their married daughter Mary Addison together with her husband George Walter (20), also a horseman on a farm, and their son George Arthur (under one year). William was still living with his uncle and his family in Chesterfield in 1911. Although William enlisted in Chesterfield an army record gave his residence as Sutton. However, he may have given his parents' address as his permanent residence since presumably they were nominated as his next of kin. William's mother Mary may have died in 1929 (reg. East Retford) and his father in William's sister Sarah Ann married Thomas William Whittaker in 1906. Her husband served in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and was killed in action in 1917 (See record on this Roll of Honour). Sarah probably married secondly John T Pagdin in 1924. George Walter Addison, the husband of his sister Mary, served in the Royal Field Artillery (1707, 776880 Gunner, later L/Bdr) from 14 January 1915. He served in France from 7 January 1917 but suffered a gunshot wound to the knee and was invalided to England on 28 April the same year, He returned to France on 5 December 1917 and remained in France until he embarked Boulogne on 15 January 1919 for the UK and demobilisation at Clipstone Dispersal Station.