Jul 22, 2014 | Packard Memorial List of Names
Henry Norrington Packard was the only son of Henry Woods Packard and Agnes Marian (née Norrington) Packard and a grandson of Edward Packard, the founder of the chemical fertiliser works in Bramford. He was born in Ipswich on 12th March 1870 and educated at Dedham,...
Jul 22, 2014 | Packard Memorial List of Names
Benjamin Moates was an employee of Packards working in Haddiscoe, Suffolk where they appear to have taken over a chemical manure manufacturing works from at least 1895. Benjamin was born in Norwich in 1879 and was the son of Benjamin and Agnes Moates. In 1911 Benjamin...
Jul 18, 2014 | WW1 Casualties With Bramford Connections
Arthur was the son of Frederick and Lavinia (née Squirrell*) and born in 1884. In 1881 the family was living in Bramford at the “Works” in Paper Mill Lane but by 1891 they were living in Landseer Terrace, Bramford Road. This terrace of houses now forms part of numbers...
Jul 18, 2014 | WW1 Casualties With Bramford Connections
A search through the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury archives for 1919 produced the following entry: In Memoriam Column, 28th March 1919: Corporal C. Pearce, 9th Lancers, husband of Ethel R. Pearce of Bramford and father to Jack. Killed in action 27th March 1918. The...
Jul 18, 2014 | WW1 Casualties With Bramford Connections
The Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury for the 11th August 1916 carried the photo of Sgt Thomas James Woollard (No. 17010, Essex Regiment) and the information that he died on 10th July 1916 of wounds sustained on 3rd July 1916 and that he was the son of Thomas James...
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