Herbert Gwydor Rix

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Dawson Rix
• Miltary Service: Between 1914 and 1918; 35th Bat, Australian Infantry
• Service Number: Between 1914 and 1918; Private 6821

Notes:

Private DAWSON RIX

6821, 35th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F
who died age 19
on Thursday 29 August 1918.
Private RIX, Son of Robert and the late Mary Rix; brother of S. Rix, of Warialda Railway, New South Wales.

Remembered with honour
DAOURS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
The preparations for the Somme offensive of July 1916 brought a group of casualty clearing stations (the 1st/1st South Midland, 21st, 34th, 45th and Lucknow, section " B " ) to Daours. The extension to the communal cemetery was opened and the first burials made in Plots I , II, Row A of Plot III and the Indian plot, between June and November 1916. The Allied advance in the spring of 1917 took the hospitals with it, and no further burials were made in the cemetery until April 1918, when the Germans recovered the ground they had lost. From April to the middle of August 1918, the extension was almost a front line cemetery. In August and September 1918, the casualty clearing stations came forward again (the 5th, 37th, 41st, 53rd, 55th and 61st) but in September, the cemetery was closed. There are now 1,231 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Daours Communal Cemetery Extension. The total includes special memorials to four men of the Chinese labour corps whose graves in White Chateau Cemetery, Cachy, could not be located. The adjoining communal cemetery contains two First World War burials made before the extension was opened. The extension was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
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Notes:

Robert Rix arived with his family emigrated to Australia on the Parsee which arrived in Moreton Bay on 11 Jan 1853

Robert married Mary Ann Bolstridge in 1871 in Queensland, Australia. Mary (daughter of Richard Bolstridge and Eliza Greenwood) was born on 29 Jan 1853 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1851; Agricultural Labourer

Notes:

1851 Census Mill Street, Elsing Norfolk
HO/107/1824 Folio 283
Brian RIXHead M 40MAg LabBylaugh-Norfolk
Susanna RIX Wife M 43F---Leatheringsett-Norfolk
William RIX Son - 14MErrand BoySparham-Norfolk
George RIX Son - 12MMillers BoyElsing-Norfolk
Robert RIX Son - 9MAg LabElsing-Norfolk
Ann RIXDaur6FScholarElsing-Norfolk
Charles RIX Son - 4M---Elsing-Norfolk
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Brian married Susanna Griffin in 1833 in Norfolk, Norfork, England. Susanna was born on 16 Mar 1807 in Leatheringsett, Norfork, England; died on 30 Aug 1885 in Warwick Reserve, Queensland, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Feb 1828, All Saints, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England

Notes:

From Bolstridges alias Bulstrode of Bedworth by Norman Dudley :-

Richard Bolstridge, who was baptised at Bedworth on 3rd February 1828, emigrated to Australia in 1848, leaving Plymouth on the " Artemisia " on 15th August and arriving at Brisbane on 16th December. Richard, of whom it was said that he was Church of England and could read and write, married Eliza Greenwood at Brisbane in 1850. The daughter of William Greenwood, she had arrived from Northern Ireland on the " Earl Grey " at Sydney on 6th October 1848. Richard and Eliza had three daughters but Richard died in 1857, the year in which their third daughter, Sarah Jane, was born. Although the Bolstridge name did not survive for long in Australia, Linda Collett of Brisbane, one of the many descendants of Richard and Eliza, is actively researching their Bedworth origins. Incidentally, she reports that three different locations are recorded as Eliza's birthplace.

Privately Published 1992
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Richard married Eliza Greenwood on 10 Jun 1850 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Eliza (daughter of William Greenwood) was born about 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: John Boltridge
• Occupation: Ribbon Weaver
• Baptism: 15 May 1799, All Saints, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1841, Congreave's Yard, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1851, Newtown, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England

Notes:

1841 Census Congreaves Yard Bedworth (by Church St & Mark's Yard)
John Bolstridge 37 Ribbon Weaver
Mary " 37
Richard " 12
Sarah " 10
Eliza " 6
Naomi " 2
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1851 census
John BOLSTRIDGE Head M 53 M Ribbon Weaver Silk Bedworth - War
Mary BOLSTRIDGE Wife M 53 F Ribbon Weaver Silk Hartshill-War
Eliza BOLSTRIDGE Daur U 15 F Ribbon Weaver Silk Bedworth - War
Neomi BOLSTRIDGE Daur U 8 F Silk Winder Bedworth - War
Address: New Town, Bedworth
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John married Mary Hudson on 14 Nov 1819 in All Saints, Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. Mary (daughter of Richard Hudson and Sarah Garratt) was born in 1798 in Hartshill, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 May 1798, Saint Peter's, Mancetter, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: 1851; Ribbon Weaver
• Occupation: 1855; Washer Woman

Notes:

Also Married this Day
Charles X Friswell otp & Hannah X Burrows of Astley
Thomas X Harper & Ann Butler
with the same witnesses