Abinghall /Mitcheldean (Reg CROCKETT served WW1) (General)

by MPGriffiths , Friday, June 13, 2014, 07:56 (3810 days ago) @ ChrisL

On British History on Online -

Maps 1891 - Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 - Epoch 1 - England - Gloucestershire 023/SE

By enhancing you can clearly see Abinghall House marked -

Gloucestershire Records office hold earlier Ordnance Survey maps (not sure what particular areas) - I do remember also the GRO have information whereby planning applications are on record.

As an aside!!!!!

By looking at the 1911 census - to show the other side of Mitcheldean - Ernest W Crockett aged 38 and a cement labourer - with his wife Elizabeth (nee BARNETT) aged 33 and married 16 years - are bringing up their ten children (1 son + 9 daughters) - and they hadn't lost one child up to that point - and looking at Freebdm - they had two more children Clarence G in 1912 and Irene D - 1915 (so they made they round dozen!!)

By looking at the FoD records etc - this does highlight - not all children were christened or registered.

The Son, Reginald Godfrey CROCKETT aged 15 - his war records are on Ancestry (home address - High Street, Mitcheldean)

Name: Reginald Godfrey CROCKETT

Residence: May Villa Beaufort Road, Sirhowy, Tredegar

Document Date: 1914

Regimental No: 2706

Regiment Name: 5th (Reserve) Battalion Manchester Regiment

Number of images: 8

(gunshot wound to head - discharged 19 February 1915)