Category: Scott

Wallace Scott & The Battle of Coronel

On November 1st, 1914, HMS Good Hope was sunk in the Battle of Coronel with the loss of all hands, including our 3rd cousin, Able Seaman Wallace Scott (1884-1914). This tragic loss was symptomatic of the disfunction of the Royal Navy and Admiralty during the early months of Word War One. The Battle of Coronel was Britain’s first naval defeat...

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Alfred Maddison & The Fleet Review

On this day in 1914 our 4th cousin, Boy 1st Class, Alfred Maddison participated in the Fleet Review at Spithead in the Solent, serving aboard the Royal Navy Cruiser, HMS Hawke. Alfred signed up, age 15, for twelve years service in 1913. He initially trained at the shore establishment, stone frigate, HMS Ganges. Upon achieving his Boy 1st Class rating,...

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Jane Scott & The Big C

Our 2nd Great Grandmother, Jane SCOTT, was born 1828 in Sutton on the Forest to parents Anne TAYLOR, originally from Oulston, and John SCOTT, an agricultural labourer, also from Sutton on the Forest, both in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Jane was the ninth of eleven children, all born in Sutton on the Forest, spanning the 17 years between 1813...

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Henry Bainbridge & Goodramgate Gentleman

Henry BAINBRIDGE, our 3rd Great Grandfather, was born 1831 in Tollerton, the sixth and youngest child of John BAINBRIDGE & Mary BAINBRIDGE. Raised in Tollerton, Henry followed in his father’s footsteps and aged 18, joined his elder brother Joseph as an agricultural labourer living with, and working for, the Sadler family, farmers in Tollerton.

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Bainbridge of Bainbridge

The Bainbridge family line can be traced back to Oulston, a small picturesque village in the Howardian Hills of North Yorkshire. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, our family migrated over twenty miles, across six generations, and almost 200 years, to arrive in Newton-on-Ouse.

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