Paddison family in Bury/Sawtry

[Stebie9173]

One further piece of information - a short article from the Peterborough Advertiser of 25-8-1917:

"Pte. Jack Paddison, son of Mr and Mrs Paddison, of the Manor, Sawtry, has been killed in action after being back in France two weeks. He was attached to the Northamptonshire Regiment and has been previously wounded by shrapnel in the advance at Arles. He leaves a widow, who is engaged at Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge."


Local directories suggest that the Paddisons lived in Sawtry through the war years (they appear in Kelly's Directory of Huntingdonshire for 1914 and 1920) but not either side (not in 1906, 1924 or 1928 Directories).


Steve.

[Graham705]

Hi,

 For some years now I, my wife and kids have been trying to find out more about Jack Paddison (the subject of these posts).

 Our interests stem from my wife who is the Grand Daughter of Daisy May Moore and she always remembers her mum talking of her mum's marriage to Jack and how he was tragically killed during the First World War.

 We were amazed to discover that other people were and have been researching Jack and are now curious to discover why.

 Please feel free to reply - any info would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards, Graham 

[Vercingetorix]

Hi, I'm the grandson of Jack Paddison's widow, Daisy May Moore. Just to round out her story:

Daisy May Moore (1892-1888)

Daisy was born in Whittlesey, Cambs on 6 May 1892, the daughter of James Moore (09/09/1868, an agricultural labourer) and Alice Mary Chalkley (31/08/1861). In the 1911 census her occupation is given as a Draper's Shop Assistant, presumably in Whittlesey, although the family were by then living in Eastrea, a couple of miles away. As others here have noted, she married Jack (John Frederick) Paddison in Coates on 14 April 1916.

My grandfather, Alfred Ernest Mills (born Lincoln, 07/03/1884) owned a drapers' shop in Whittlesey (presumably the one in which Daisy was recorded as working in 1911) and married Hilda Lucy Green (born Sudbury, Suffok, 12/1886) in 1910 and they subsequently had two children. After war service in the Balkans, Ernest returned to the shop. Lucy died suddenly from a stroke in 1919, leaving him with a young son and daughter to look after and family tradition has it that Daisy, the shop assistant, did most of that. They married in Cheltenham (where they moved at around the same time) on 1 August 1923. They subsequently had one child, my mother.

Daisy and Ernest remained in Cheltenham, he working in a variety of retail jobs and latterly as an insurance salesman. He died there on 18/02/1985 and Daisy died in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire on  14/01/1988. She always remembered Jack Paddison with great fondness and sadness, keeping a photo of him until her death.

[magslote]

Hello been watching your post, found in St Ives Hunts.
11.6.1873 Banns, Henry  Russell Paddison,20, Gent,son of Henry, Gent, of Arkesden Essex
=Harriette Arabella Mutton, 25 O.T.P dau,Frederick, also a Gent.
Witts were Henry Mutton.
Henry  Paddison.
Elizabeth  Wiles  Mutton.Margaret.

[Curttom]

Hi All,

I just wanted to say thanks so much for all the info you have provided. I didn't get any notification to say I had all these replies and I haven't been on rootschat for a good while so this was a great surprise when I logged in tonight.
I was researching for a friend who is trying to find out if John Paddison has any living relatives to contact as part of a tribute to all those on the Sawtry War Memorial.

C.