Albert George Brooks Parsons

Other Events and Attributes:

• Miltary Service: Between 1914 and 1917; 1 - 5 Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• Service Number: Between 1914 and 1917; Private 203054

Notes:

In Memory of
Private ALBERT GEORGE PARSONS

203054, 1st/5th Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiment
who died age 26
on 23 August 1917
Son of George Brookes Parsons and Thirza Parsons, of 32, Coventry Rd., Warwick.

Remembered with honour
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The names of those from United Kingdom units are inscribed on Panels arranged by Regiment under their respective Ranks. The names of those from New Zealand units are inscribed on panels within the New Zealand Memorial Apse located at the centre of the Memorial.
The Tyne Cot Memorial is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war. The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence. There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele. The German offensive of March 1918 met with some initial success, but was eventually checked and repulsed in a combined effort by the Allies in September. The battles of the Ypres Salient claimed many lives on both sides and it quickly became clear that the commemoration of members of the Commonwealth forces with no known grave would have to be divided between several different sites. The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields. It commemorates those of all Commonwealth nations except New Zealand who died in the Salient, in the case of United Kingdom casualties before 16 August 1917. Those United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after that date are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war. Other New Zealand casualties are commemorated on memorials at Buttes New British Cemetery and Messines Ridge British Cemetery. The TYNE COT MEMORIAL now bears the names of almost 35,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by Joseph Armitage and F V Blundstone, was unveiled by Sir Gilbert Dyett in July 1927. The memorial forms the north-eastern boundary of TYNE COT CEMETERY, which was established around a captured German blockhouse or pill-box used as an advanced dressing station. The original battlefield cemetery of 343 graves was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when remains were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck, and from a few small burial grounds. It is now the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials. At the suggestion of King George V, who visited the cemetery in 1922, the Cross of Sacrifice was placed on the original large pill-box. There are three other pill-boxes in the cemetery. There are now 11,952 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Tyne Cot Cemetery. 8,365 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to more than 80 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 20 casualties whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.

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Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1881; Railway Engine Cleaner
• Residence: 1891, 3, Broad Street, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
• Occupation: 1891; Insurance Agent
• Residence: 1901, 16, Bowling Green Street, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
• Occupation: 1901; Railway Goods Checker
• Residence: 1917, 32, Coventry Road, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
• Residence: 1935, 47, Hill Street, Warwick, Warwickshire, England

Notes:

1901 Census for 16, Bowling Green Street, Warwick.
George Parsons Head 39 years Railway goods checker born Sutton Cheney.
Thirza Parsons wife 43 years born South Newington
Albert Parsons son 10 years born Banbury.
Frank Parsons son 8 years born Warwick.
Harold Parsons son 6 years born Warwick.
Elsie Parsons dau. 4 years born Warwick.
Alick Parsons son (Nine) would appear that this relates to age in months. Note in the column for occupation the word " DRUG " appears born Warwick.
Gertrude Jones stepdau. 21 years Packer and ? , warehouse born Banbury.
Ada Jones stepdau. 17 years cigar maker born Banbury.
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1911 Census32 Coventry Road Warwick
George Brooks Parsons 47 Railway Goods Checker L&NW b. Sutton Cheney
Thurza Parsons Wife 52 b. South Newington oxon
(Married 22 years 8 children 7 living)
Albert George Brooks Parsons son 20 Motor Trimmer b. Banbury
Frank Edward Parsons 18 Apprentice Cigar Mftur b. Warwick
Harold Gilbert Parsons son 16 Labourer Builders b. Waewick
Elsie Marjorie Dau 14 b. Warwick
Aleck William Parsons son 11 b. Warwick
Leonard Wilfred Parsons son 7 b. Warwick
Winifred May Parsons 5 b. Warwick
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George married Thirza Nicholls on 10 Oct 1888 in Saint Mary's, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. Thirza (daughter of Thomas Bailey and Susanna Nicholls) was born in 1860 in South Newington, Oxfordshire, England; died on 24 Dec 1935 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England; was buried in Dec 1935 in Saint Mary's Churchyard, Cubbington, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Feb 1861, Saint Peter ad Vincula, South Newington, Oxfordshire, England
• Residence: 1881, 5, Calthorpe Gardens, Neithrop, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England

Notes:

1881
5 Calthorpe Gardens Calthorpe St. Census Place: Neithrop, Oxford
Source: FHL Film 1341368 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 1528 Folio 98 Page 63

John L. JONES M 28 M Shoreditch, Middlesex
Rel: Head
Occ: Saddler
Thurza JONES M 20 F South Newington, Oxford
Rel: Wife
Occ: Saddlers Wife
Harry JONES 3 M South Newington, Oxford
Rel: Son
Emma JONES 1 F Neithrop, Oxford
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Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 5 Jul 1829, Saint Botolph's, Sibson, Leicestershire, England
• Occupation: Between 1851 and 1871; Agicultural Labourer - Carrier
• Occupation: 1851; On Farm of John Fox Mk Bosworth
• Residence: 1881, Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire, England
• Residence: 1901, 34 Stafford Street, Barwell, Leicestershire, England
• Occupation: 1901; Gardener

Notes:

1881 Census Market Bosworth; LEI Ref RG11 Piece 3134 Folio 63

George PARSONS M 50 M Upton, Leicester, England
Rel:Head
Occ:Gardener
Maria PARSONS M 51 F Atherstone, Warwick, England
Rel:Wife
Occ:Gardener Wife
Joseph PARSONS U 21 M Sutton Cheney, Leicester, England
Rel:Son
Occ:Ag Labourer
Walter PARSONS U 14 M Sutton Cheney, Leicester, England
Rel:Son
Occ:Ag Labourer (Ag)
Thomas PARSONS U 12 M Sutton Cheney, Leicester, England
Rel:Son
Occ:Scholar
Frank PARSONS U 10 M Sutton Cheney, Leicester, England
Rel:Son
Occ:Scholar
Maria BROOKS W 87 F Ratcliffe, Leicester, England
Rel:Mother In Law
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1901 Census 34 Stafford Street, Barwell.
George Parsons Head 70 years, gardener Born Upton.
Frank Parsons son 30 years labourer ordinary Born Sutton Cheney.
This is George born 1829 living with Frank Ernest Parsons.
Living three doors away is another son Joseph Parsons
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George married Maria Brooks on 9 Nov 1854 in Saint Botolph's, Sibson, Leicestershire, England. Maria (daughter of William Brooks and Maria Smith) was born in Apr 1829 in Atterton, Leicestershire, England; died in Jun 1892 in Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 12 Jun 1892 in Saint James' Churchyard, Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1829, Upton, Leicestershire, England
• Baptism: 3 May 1829, Saint Peter's, Witherley, Leicestershire, England

Thomas married Susanna Nicholls. Susanna (daughter of George Nicholls and Ann Wyton) was born on 29 Aug 1837 in South Newington, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Jan 1838, Saint Peter ad Vincula, South Newington, Oxfordshire, England

Notes:

Thirza's parents? clearly from her birth cert her mother is Susan
Nicholls, but from the two subsequent marriages her father is named as
Thomas Bailey Nicholls & Thomas Baley Nicholls, a groom. In the 1881 census
Susan Nicholls she is really Susanna, is living at 1 Calthorpe Street,
Banbury 45 a shopkeeper unmarried. There were also lodgers at the same
address but Susan is shown as head. My cousin says that not far from the
above is a Thomas Bailey age 45 a coachman also unmarried and the guess is
that he is the father.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Labourer
• Baptism: 29 Mar 1795, Saint Botolph's, Sibson, Leicestershire, England

Notes:

1851 Census Upton
Mary PARSONS Wf 36 b. Sibson
Joseph PARSONS Head 33 b. Upton Ag Lab
Mary Anne PARSONS Dau 10 b. Upton
Jane PARSONS Dau 8 b.Upton
Hannah PARSONS Dau 5 b.Upton
Eliza PARSONS Son 3 b.Upton
George PARSONS Son 1 b,Upton
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Joseph married Hannah Salt on 6 Nov 1815 in Saint Mary the Virgin, Congerstone, Leicestershire, England. Hannah (daughter of John Salt and Ann Knight) was born in Dec 1786 in Congerstone, Leicestershire, England; died in Oct 1857 in Upton, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 22 Oct 1857 in Saint Botolph's Churchyard, Sibson, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: of Independent Means (1841)
• Baptism: 29 Dec 1786, Saint Mary the Virgin, Congerstone, Leicestershire, England

Notes:

1841 Census Upton Leicestershire
Hannah Parsons 66 Ind (pentant Means) Y
Hannah Parsons 20 Y
William Parsons 13 Y
George Parsons 12 Y
John Parsons 1 Y
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Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 May 1787, Saint Mary's, Hinckley, Leicestershire, England

Notes:

In 1851 census a Visitor Beatrice Brookes age 15 b Witherley stayed with the family

William married Maria Smith. Maria (daughter of George Smith and Mary UNKNOWN) was born in Dec 1794 in Ratcliffe Culey, Leicestershire, England; died in Apr 1888 in Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 25 Apr 1888 in Saint Botolph's Churchyard, Sibson, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: George Nicol
• Occupation: Agricultural Labourer
• Baptism: 10 May 1801, Saint Peter ad Vincula, South Newington, Oxfordshire, England
• Birth: 1804, South Newington, Oxfordshire, England

Notes:

1841 Census
George NICHOLS 35 Ag Lab y
Ann 35 y
Jane 7 y
Dina 6 y
Susanna 3 y
John 75 Ag Lab y

1851 Census
Folio 72 HO 107/1733 South Newington
13, , NICHOLES, George, HD, m 49, Ag lab, OXF South Newington
, , , Ann, WI, m 44, , OXF Hook Norton
, , , Dianna, DA, u 16, scholar, OXF South Newington
, , , Elizabeth, DA, 6, scholar, OXF South Newington

1861 Census Moor Lane, South Newington.
George NICHOLS widower 57 years, Ag lab born S/N
Dinah NICHOLS dau. 26 years born S/N
Susan NICHOLS dau. 24 years, born S/N
John NICHOLS grandson 4 years, born S/N
Thurza NICHOLS Granddaughter, 7 months born S/N

George married Ann Wyton on 12 Jul 1831 in St. Mary's, Adderbury, Oxfordshire, England. Ann (daughter of John Wyton and Sarah Howse) was born in 1807 in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England; died in Sep 1851 in South Newington, Oxfordshire, England; was buried on 25 Sep 1851 in Saint Peter's Churchyard, South Newington, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Ann Whiting
• Adult Baptism: 29 Jun 1843, South Newington, Oxfordshire, England