Paddison family in Bury/Sawtry

[Stebie9173]

A second picture of John "Jack" Paddison - he looks a fair bit different with his moustache...

This one is from the Peterborough Advertiser of 25-8-1917

Unfortunately I don't have a picture of the article that would have appeared in the same issue.



Incidentally, I think this is link relates to the same Paddison family, the man to whom the article refers being John Paddison's nephew, I believe:

http://www.sawtry.net/hist5.htm

(Sawtry Historical Society seem to be fairly active and would probably have more information)

See: http://www.sawtryhistorysociety.btck.co.uk/



John's parents are on the 1911 Census at Sawtry:

Henry Russell Paddison, age 58, born at Cape Colony, horse dealer, married 38 years, 9 children, 7 surviving
Harriet A Paddison, age 63, born at , Hunts
May Paddison, age 24, daughter, dressmaker, born at Chesterford, Essex

The older children, including John are not prsent and have presumably left home.

[Stebie9173]

Jack Paddison's name on the Menin Gate:

[magslote]

Hello, found marriage at Coates/Eastrea, near Whittlesey
24.4.1916 John Fred Paddison,24, private,bac,soldier,of Exning Suffolk, son
Henry Russell, horse breaker, =
Daisy May Moore,23 of Coates dau, James,Brickyard  Lab,
witts were, Clement Fuller/James Moore.
Margaret.

[magslote]

Hello found this family in 1901 census
living in Bury
Henry Russell Paddison,born 1854 COLESBERG, SOUTH AFFRICA.
HARRIETT ANN  wife,born 1848 in Cambridgeshire??
ANNIE.E. PADDISON BORN 1880, S/A
JOHN FRED BORN 1892,?
MARGARET.BORN 1895 ELY, CAMBS.
Margaret.

[Stebie9173]

Very interesting post Magslote. I was going to pursue John Paddison's whereabouts in 1916 but you have provided the answer. Exning Camp at Newmarket in Suffolk was where the 2/4th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment - the "2nd Line" (i.e. Home Service) Territorials - were based from June 1915 to June 1916.

As far as I can make out John Paddison was part of a group of men transferring from the Territorial battalions of the Northamptonshire Regiment to be posted overseas in mid-December 1916. The Exning reference confirms he came from the 2/4th Battalion. This group were re-numbered from Territorial numbering (a personal number bewteen 1 and about 6000) to Regular numbering (e.g. 31347) when they moved between T.F. (Territorial) and Regular. The groups numbers were alphabetic by surname from 31324 Arthur Allibone to 31354 Frederick Ward.


This is my summary of his movements at present:

- Enlisted at Northampton
- Serving in the 2/4th (Territorial) Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment in April 1916
- Transferred to 2nd battalion in December 1916
- To France in December 1916
- Joined 2nd Battalion in France
- Reported wounded per the Times of 2-4-1917, probably with 2nd battalion at Moislains Ridge, Bouchavesnes, on 4-3-1917 (Peterborough)
- Wounded by shrapnel to the head at Bouchavesnes on 4th March 1917
- Evacuated to England
- Admitted to Salford Royal Hospital
- Per P. Adv. 31-3-1917: "Pte. J. Paddison, son of Mr & Mrs Paddison, of Sawtry Manor, has been wounded by shrapnel in the head, March 6th, and is now at Salford Royal Hospital"
- Returned to France before July 1917
- Joined 7th Battalion in France
- Reported as Killed as a Private per the Official Casualty Lists of 29-8-1917 Part III (Cambridge)
- Killed in action at Shrewsbury Forest, Ypres, on 31st July 1917
- Commemorated on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

- Born at Bury, Ramsey, Hunts in 1891 (OND Quarter)
- Son of Henry Russell Paddison and Mrs Harriett Arabella Paddison of Sawtry Manor, Peterborough
- Married to Daisy May Moore at Coates/Eastrea, Whittlesea on 24-4-1916


As has been mentioned, John's parents and paternal grandparents hail from South Africa.

This is his grandfather's marriage, I believe:

Grahamstown Journal 1845
Thursday November 13 1845
Married at Colesberg on Monday 10th November 1845 by the Rev. Thos. REID, Dutch Reformed Church, Mr. Henry PADDISON to Miss Isabella RUSSELL

http://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/grahamstown-journal/80-gj-1845-oct-dec.html



Henry Russell Paddision* was born on 21-11-1853 (Source: Cricketarchive.com) and died on 19-9-1939 at Grove Nursing Home, 159 Hills Road, Cambridge. In the 1930s he lived at 10 Summerfield, Newnham, Cambridge.

*Senior - note that the "Mr Paddison in the Sawtrynet article was also named Henry Russell Paddison




Steve.

[magslote]

Hello 1891 census, for BURY Hunts
H.R.PADDISON, can not read the age, due to poor wrighting BORN, COLESBERG, S/A
HARRIET.A. 43 CAMBS/CAMBRIDGE
EDITH.W.15, S/A
MAUD.E.13  S/A
ANNIE.E.11 S/A
REGINALD.9 HANOVER, S/A ?
LUCY 7, MEPAL CAMBS??/
MARY 4  GREAT  CHESTERFIELD CAMBS.
Margaret.

[Stebie9173]

This is my reading of the 1891 Census:

Address: Bury, Ramsey, Hunts

Henry R Paddison, Head, age 38, nagsman, born  at Colesberg, South Africa
Harriett A Paddison, Wife, married, age 43, born at Cambridge
Edith M Paddison, daughter, age 15, born at Graaff Reinet, South Africa (1)
Maud E Paddison, daughter, age 13, born at Colesberg, South Africa (2)
Annie E Paddison, daughter, age 11, born at Colesberg, South Africa (3)
Reginald H Paddison, son, age 9, born at Hanover, South Africa (4)
Lucy H Paddison, daughter, age 7, born at Mepal, Cambs. (died?)
Mary Paddison, daughter, age 4, born at Great Chesterford, Essex (5)


The numbers are the "number" of the surviving children from eldest to youngest.



The family in basics:

Father

Henry Russell Paddison, born 2-11-1853 at Cape Town, South Africa; of 10 Summerfield, Newnham, Cambridge in 1935/36 & 1939; died 19-9-1939 at Grove Nursing Home, 159 Hills Road, Cambridge (probate admin to Reginald Henry Paddison, innkeeper)

Mother

Harriette Arabella Paddison (nee Mutton), born 7-6-1947* at Cambridge. Married to Henry Russell Paddision in AMJ Quarter 1873 at St Ives Registration District.


* Per an Ancestry World Tree


Child 1

Edith Mary Paddison, born about 1875 at Graaff Reinet, South Africa
(Edith Mary Paddison married to John William Walker, OND 1901, Huntingdon)

Child 2

Maude Evelyn Paddison, born 12-9-1877 at Colesberg, South Africa
(Maude Evelyn Paddison married to Frederick Fordham, JFM 1906, St Ives)

Child 3

Annie E Paddison, born about 1879 at Colesberg, South Africa

Child 4

Reginald Henry Paddison, groom, born about 1882, Hanover, Cape Town, South Africa (married in 1909 at Hitchin to Beatrice Rainbow, born 1883 at Lower Stendon, Beds.); father of Henry Russell Paddison, born in 1910, Reginald J Paddison (1913) and Elsie M Paddision (1915); innkeeper of “The Barley Mow”, Histon in 1941; died on 11-6-1941

Probably: Driver Reginald H Paddison, No. 89069, Royal Field Artillery, in France from 27-7-1915

Child 5

May Paddison, born about 1887 at Chesterford, Essex

Child 6

John Frederick Paddison, born at Bury, Ramsey, Hunts in 1891 (OND Quarter)

Child 7

Margaret Paddison, born 1895 (AMJ Qtr) at Ely, Cambs


Children who didn't survive?

Lucy H Paddison, born about 1893, Mepal, Cambridgeshire (halfway between Chatteris and Ely)




Steve.

[magslote]

Death Refs  for H.R PADDISON, year of death, 1939,                 331/camb/10/297.
also HARRIET  A  PADDISON,year of death, 1929, aged 81 yrs
ref no.333/cam/13/255.
these are the ref nos, if you need to apply for their death certs.
Margaret.

[Stebie9173]

I suspect that the "Manor House" reference on the newspaper article may refer to Sawtry Manor House Farm on St Judith's Lane. It still seems to retain the connection with horses - now as Scallywag Riding Club.

http://www.scallywagridingclub.co.uk/index.htm


Steve.