Moresby, Parton and Lowca WW2 Book of Remembrance

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Reference WMO/271743

Address:

St Bridget's Church

opposite Moresby Hall

Moresby/Parton

CA28 6PJ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Roll of Honour or Book of Remembrance
Materials:
  • Glass Glass
  • Other Other
  • Other Parchment
  • Timber Timber (any)
Lettering: Other
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Book of Remembrance made from parchment in a blue leather binding, in a glazed wooden case which lists the 434 men of the parish who served in WW2, on the south wall. The + notation marking those who fell is enclosed in a circle. Those names are notated alphabetically throughout the book, and repeated on two dedicated pages at the end of the book. The Moresby Mission referred to in the Dedication was the 'tin Church' up the hill in Moresby Parks Village- now closed-their Memorial is WMO/169323. William Chisholm (the 1946 casualty) is buried in a war grave in the Churchyard. The Burial Register states that he was from 5 Garfield Place, Parton and had died at Edinburgh Military Hospital.
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Front Cover-1939/+1945; Fly Leaf- To the GLORY of GOD & in memory/of THOSE who served in H.M. FORCES/in the World war 1939-1945/+/Presented by St. BRIDGET'S/Moresby Ladies' Guild &/Moresby Mission M.U.; Title Page-SAINT BRIDGET'S/MORESBY/ROLL/of PARISHIONERS/WHO SERVED IN HIS/MAJESTY'S FORCED during/THE WORLD WAR/1939 [the badge of the Diocese of Carlisle]/+ Marks those who gave their lives.; Pages 1 to 47- [names]; Page 48- +/[names of the fallen A to Messenger]; Page 49- [names of the fallen O to W, followed by the 1946 casualty)

Page 1- William Adair/ Matthias Addison/ Martha Agnew/ John Alcock/ Isaac Allan/ Stanley Allan/ George Allen +/ John Allinson/ Annie Anderson/ Mary Anderson/ Tom Anderson; Page 2- Claud J Armstrong/ Robert Armstrong/ Robert P Armstrong/ William J Armstrong/ Daniel Ash; Page 3- Robert Brady +/ Henry Banks/ George Barton/ John Barwise/ Daniel Belford/ David Bell/ George Bell/ James Bell/ Joseph A Bell +/ Joseph J Bell/ Thomas Bewsher; Page 4- William Bewsher/ Catherine Bird/ Humphrey Bird/ David Bowden/ Stanley Bowe/ Robert Bowman/ Samuel Boyd/ Thomas Boyd/ Henry G Bragg/ John Bragg/ Thomas Bragg/ William Bragg/ Joseph Branthwaite; Page 5- Joseph Branthwaite/ Frank Bray/ Thomas Bruce/ Alan Brunt/ Cyril Brown/ Douglas Brown/ John Brown/ Thomas Brown/ William Brown/ Edna Brown/ Elizabeth Burns/ Frances P Burns/ John Burns; Page 6- Robert Burns/ Robert Burns/ Robinson Burns/ Sarah Burns; Page 7- Colin Carruthers/ George A Carruthers/ Gerald Carruthers/ Gilbert Carruthers/ Stanley Carruthers +/ Cyril Carter/ William Carty/ John J Cass/ Sydney Cass/ James Coan/ John Coan; Page 8- Florence Coates/ John W Coates/ George Cockbain/ Kenneth Collins/ John Colquitt/ John S Colquitt/ Tom Colquitt/ John Cook/ William Cook/ Ernest Cooper/ Arthur Corlett/ Lily Coulson/ Samuel Cowan; Page 9- Benjamin Cowler/ Oswald J Coyles/ Robert Crellin/ Joseph Crone/ Thomas Crone/ Thomas Crowe/ Hugh J Cullen/ John Cunningham/ Jonathan Cunningham/ Richard Cunningham +/ William Chisholm 1946 +; Page 10- Annie Davidson/ Joseph W Davidson/ Sheila Davidson/ Robert Y Davidson/ Colin Denwood/ John J Denwood/ John S Denwood/ Joseph H Denwood/ Ronald Denwood/ Annie Ditchburn/ Freda Ditchburn; Page 11- John Ditchburn/ Freda Dixon/ James Dixon/ Leslie Dixon/ Wallace Dixon/ William Dixon/ Thomas H Dobson/ John Dockerty/ Johnston W Dockerty/ William Dockerty/ Alexander Dockray/ Thomas Dockray/ William Dockray; Page 12- Edward Dougherty/ John Dougherty/ Joseph Dryden/ Walter Dunbobbin; Page 13- George Eccles/ Raymond Eilbeck/ Henry Elliott/ Joseph Elliott/ Walter Elliott/ John Ennis; Page 14- Irving Ferguson/ Robert Ferguson/ Laurence Fisher/ Leslie Fisher/ Margaret Fisher/ Marion Fisher/ Thomas Fisher/ John Fitzsimmons/ Leonard Fleming/ Andrew P Flynn/ James Fort; Page 15- John Foster/ Joseph Foster/ Harry Fryer; Page 16- Joe Gallantry/ Tom Gallantry/ Cecilia Garner/ Ian Garner/ Joe Garner/ William Garner/ Douglas Glaister/ Martin Glaister/ Gilbert T Gordon/ Harry Graham/ Harry K Graham; Page 17- James Graham/ Joseph Graham/ Mary Graham/ Richard Graham/ William Graham/ John Greaves +/ Jonathan Greenop/ Leonard Greggain; Page 18- Desmond Haig/ Iris Haig/ John Haig/ Hubert Hall/ James F Harris/ Ernest Harrison/ John Harrison/ Donald Hartley/ Joseph B Hayton +/ Joseph B Hazeldon/ John Henney; Page 19- Westray Henney/ Arthur R Hetherington/ James G Hetherington/ Laurence F Hetherington/ Thomas D Hetherington/ Benjamin Hewer/ Isaac E Hewer/ John Hewer/ Robinson W Hewer/ Ronald W Hewer/ Montague Hocking/ William Hodgson/ Sydney Hodgson; Page 20- Joseph Holliday/ Thomas Holliday/ Wilfred Holliday/ Marjorie Hoodless/ John Hooks/ John Hornbrook/ George W Howe +/ Joseph Hutchinson/ Tom Hutchinson; Page 21- Sydney T Irons/ Annie Jackson/ Hannah Jackson/ Irene Jackson/ Oswald Jackson/ Thomas Jackson/ James Jennings/ John Jennings/ Thomas Jennings; Page 22- Christopher Johnston/ James L Johnston/ John J Johnston/ Robert Johnston/ Thomas Johnston/ Walter J Johnston/ William Johnston/ George Johnstone/ Arthur Jones/ Mollie Jones/ William Jones; Page 23- Ernest Kendall/ William T Kennedy/ James F Kerr/ James Kirk/ James W Kirkbride/ William Kirkbride/ John Kirkwood/ John S Kyle; Page 24- Robert W Law/ William Lewis/ Joseph Lister/ Vernon Lister/ Joseph Litt/ Arthur Little/ Basil Little +/ Joseph Little Joseph R Little/ William Little/ Samuel Lowe; Page 25- Leonard Lowrey +/ James B Lynn/ Percy Lynn; Page 26- Arthur Mason/ Norah Mason/ William F Mason/ Stella McClusky/ Peter McCormick/ Ann McCracken/ Elizabeth McCracken/ Martha McFarlane/ Finlay B McGregor/ Thomas McKaig/ Thomas McNamara; Page 27- James McPherson/ Ralph Melville/ Aaron Messenger/ George Messenger/ Joseph Messenger/ Robinson Messenger +/ Alan Milburn/ Harold Milburn/ William Miller/ Alex. Milligan/ Annie Mitchell/ James Mitchell/ William Mitchell; Page 28- Gordon Monaghan/ Henry Moore/ Joseph Moore/ Winifred Morgan/ William S Morris/ Sydney Moses/ May Mossop/ John Mossop/ Martin Mossop/ Mary Murray/ Thomas Murray/ Richard C Musson; Page 29- Annie Neen/ John Neen/ Margaret Neen/ Daphne Nicholson/ Joseph Nicholson/ Frank H Norman/ John Norman / Joseph Norman; Page 30- Francis O'Conner/ O P Ormrod +// Frank Park/ George Park/ Stanley Park/ John L Parker + Tom Parker/ William T Patterson/ James Pattinson; Page 31- Marjorie Pflaumer/ Elizabeth Phillips/ Thomas Phillips/ Leonard Pool/ Charles Proud/ Charles Proud/ Thomas Proud/ John Prudoe/ Thomas Prudoe/ John Pugh; Page 32- Joseph Quinn/ Michael Quinn/ Terence Quinn; Page 33- Ida Rae/ John Rae/ John R Rae/ William W Rae/ Albert Reed/ Isaac Reed/ June Ribchester/ Alvin Ritson/ Florence Ritson/ Ronald Ritson/ Charles Robinson; Page 34- George Robinson/ Harold Robinson +/ Henry D Robinson/ Molly Robinson/ Reginald Robinson/ Robert D Robinson/ William Robinson/ Ronald Rodgerson/ Jean Roe/ Thomas G Roe/ Tom I Roe/ W Arthur C Roe/ William Rothery; Page 35- George Rudd/ Jacob Rudd +/ John J Rudd +/ Joseph Rudd/ George Rule +/ Jean Rae; Page 36- Septimus Sanderson/ Douglas Sandwith/ Joseph Saunders/ Alfred Scott/ Ella Scott/ James Scott/ John R Scott/ William Scott/ William Scowcroft/ John B Scragg/ Frank Scurr; Page 37- William Scurr/ Frederick Severns/ Ernest Shepherd/ Isabel Shepherd/ John Shepherd/ William Shepherd/ Thomas Shield/ Edgar Shilton/ Henry Shilton/ Thomas Simpson/ James Skelly/ Charles M Skillicorn/ Jessie Skimmings; Page 38- William Skimmings/ Wilfred Skinner/ Robert Smallwood/ Thomas T Smallwood/ Edwin Smith/ George L Smith/ Harold Smith/ Harold Smith/ James Smith/ Minnie Smith/ Susan Smith/ Thomas Smith/ Alfred Smitham; Page 39- William H Smitham +/ Albert E Southward/ Alfred Southward/ John Southward/ Winifred Southward/ Robert I Spedding/ William Spencer +/ Joseph W Spiers +/ Joseph V Stalker/ Robert Stalker/ Leslie Staniforth/ Harold G Starkie/ Henry S Steele; Page 40- Alfred Stephenson/ John Stephenson/ Joseph Stephenson/ Alfred Storey/ John Storey/ Henry Swinburn; Page 41- Frank Tatton/ Thomas Taylor/ Mary Temple/ Henry Thompson +/ Charles Tremble/ Joseph Tremble/ Robert Tremble/ Thomas Tremble/ Christopher Turner/ Edward Turner/ William Tweddle; Page 42- Albert Twentyman/ Elsie Twentyman/ Harry Twentyman/ Ronald Twentyman; Page 43- Ella Vendel/ Fred W Vendel/ Thomas Vernon +; Page 44- Ernest Wallis/ Albert E Walker/ George Warbrick/ Edward Watson +/ John Watson/ Reginald S Westcott/ Henry Whale/ John White/ Frank Whiteside/ Maggie Whiteside/ John S Wilkinson; Page 45- Joseph Wilkinson/ Thomas Wilkinson +/ Robert Williamson/ Samuel Williamson/ Alan Wilson/ Edward Wilson/ Edward S Wilson/ Harry Wilson/ James G Wilson/ John J Wilson/ Norman Wilson/ Robert H Wilson/ Stanley Wilson; Page 46- William Wilson/ William B Wilson/ Harold Wren +/ John Wren/ William Wren/ James Wright/ John Wright; Page 47-Elsie Youdale/William Youdale Page 48 (the fallen)- George Allen/ Joseph Bell/ Robert Brady/ Stanley Carruthers/ Richard Cunningham/ John Greaves/ George W Howe/ Joseph B Hayton/ Basil Little/ Leonard Lowrey/ Robinson Messenger; Page 49 (the fallen)- O P Ormrod/ John L Parker/ Harold Robinson/ Jacob Rudd/ John J Rudd/ George Rule/ William H Smitham/ William Spencer/ Joseph W Spiers/ Henry Thompson/ Thomas Vernon/ Edward Watson/ Thomas Wilkinson/ Harold Wren/ William Chisholm (1946)

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