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William James Patterson Smith
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by): William James Patterson Smith
Gender: Male
Date and Place of Birth: 1893 Yarraville, Victoria, Australia
Date and Place of Death: 1961 Footscray, Victoria
Nationality: Australian
Biography
Childhood:
Parents: William and Christine (nee Paterson) Smith
Parent’s occupations: N/K
Schools / universities attended and years of attendance: N/K
Occupation: Chemist
Place of residence at Gretna: N/K
Job title at Gretna: Chemist at Contact Sulphuric Acid Plant, Dornock
Marital status: F Smith
Children: N/K
Travels: UK
Awards/recognitions:
Trivia / any other information:
Bibliography
- Books published (Title, year of publication, publisher): N/K
- Books written about the individual or mentioning the individual (Title, year of publication, publisher): N/K
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Websites about the individual:
Encyclopaedia of Australian Science http://www.eoas.info
Further links, notes, and comments:
Forwarding address on Dornock Souvenir, c/o Agent General for Victoria,
Melbourne Place, The Strand, London WC2
Sailed on the “Devanha” 09/05/1919 from Devonport to Melbourne
Encyclopaedia of Australian Science
“William Smith was Raw Materials Superintendent at Commonwealth Fertilisers & Chemicals Limited during the mid-1900s.…
William Smullen
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by): William Smullen.
Gender: Male
Date and Place of Birth: 13th May 1888, Dublin, Ireland
Date and Place of Death: 13th May 1968 , Dumfries Hospital of Annan, Dumfriesshire.
Nationality: Irish.
Childhood: 1 of at least 7.…
Douglas Somerville
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by) : Douglas Ferguson Sommerville
Gender: Male
Date and Place of Birth: 9th April 1879. Hamilton, Lanackshire
Date and Place of Death: 27th August 1960. …
Edward Somerville
Appeared in the Dumfries and Galloway Standard, 2nd August 1916, charged with having assaulted a ticket collector.
John Ferguson Somerville
Appeared in Dumfries and Galloway Standard 05 September 1917, charged with thefts.
Douglas Sommerville
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by) : Douglas Ferguson Sommerville
Gender: Male
Date and Place of Birth: 9th April 1879. Hamilton, Lanackshire
Date and Place of Death: 27th August 1960. …
Agnes Mary Maude Sparkes
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by): Agnes Mary Maude Sparkes
Gender: Female
Date and Place of Birth: 29th December 1874, West Wittering, Sussex
Date and Place of Death: 7th January 1954, The Poplars, Chobham, Woking
Nationality: British
Childhood: One of at least 8 children
Parents: Robert Henry and Georgina nee Souter
Parent’s occupations: Farmer and miller employer
Schools / universities attended and years of attendance: N/K
Occupation: Teacher, Companion, WPC at Gretna
Place of residence at Gretna: WP Barracks, Eastriggs
Job title at Gretna: Police constable.…
William Dransfield Spedding
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by) :
William Dransfield Spedding
Gender: Male
Date and Place of Birth: 25th November 1874, Liverpool, Lancashire
Date and Place of Death: 13th December 1953, Scaffold Hill Hospital, Wallsend, Tyneside
Nationality: British
Childhood: William was born in Liverpool, where his childhood was spent living in different areas of Lancashire.…
Dr Robert Wilson Christian Spence
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by) : Dr Robert Christian Wilson Spence MD.
Gender: Male.
Date and Place of Birth: 16th August 1884. Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland.
Date and Place of Death: 8th August 1939.…
Edward Spencer
‘Many examples of heroic conduct were displayed in times of emergency by the staff and workers of H.M. Factory Gretna. At Dornock around about four thirty in the afternoon on November 5th 1917, due to an oversight, spent acid was run from No 2 Nitrator, Hill 1, into a charge of Nitro-glycerine which was being washed in the pre-wash tank.…
Harold Spencer
The Annandale Observer is not currently digitized, however a volunteer on this project is manually searching the physically copies of this paper stored at The Devil’s Porridge Museum. Spencer was mentioned in the AO on 01/02/1918 at p. 7 and column 4. He was described as a lead-burner and the details of the entry were ‘Matches in Factory
Joseph Edgar Spencer
Email from member of the public, May 2021: I just want to pass on to you a piece of information I collected on our last trip to the UK in 2016. We were in Halifax and went to a WWI exhibition. There was an interesting item that I recorded. Joseph Edgar Spencer, a plumber and glazier, faced tribunal for refusing to serve in 1916 because he was a Christadelphian.…
Sarah Evelyn Spencer
Sarah Evelyn Spencer 1875 – 1969
Sarah Evelyn Spencer was born on 26th June 1875 at Broxholme, Lincolnshire to Henry Spencer born at Crooks, Sheffield in 1841 and Sarah nee Smith born 1840 from Lincolnshire. Her father was an auctioneer and valuer. She was the 3rd of 8 children to be born to Henry and Sarah between 1872 and 1884 and the only one of two to be born in her mother’s native Lincolnshire.…
James Carter Spensley
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by) : James Carter Spensley. Reference 1
Gender: Male
Date and Place of Birth: 1866 Reference 1: 11 November 1886 Reference 2.…
Frances Helen Spinney
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by): Frances Helen Spinney
Gender: Female
Date and Place of Birth: 30th June 1885, Leamington Spa
Date and Place of Death: 11th June 1986, Cheltenham District
Nationality: British
Childhood: Youngest of 8. Father died in 1888, Lived in orphanage for a while. …
Thomas Robert Spratt
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by): Thomas Robert Spratt
Gender: Male
Date and Place of Birth: 29th May 1881, Shotley Bridge, Northumberland
Date and Place of Death: 10th April 1963, Morpeth, Northumberland
Nationality: British
Childhood: On of 10 born
Parents: Peter and Catherine J nee Forster
Parent’s occupations: Police Sergeant
Schools / universities attended and years of attendance: N/K
Occupation: Police constable at Gretna
Place of residence at Gretna: Factory Police Camp, Eastriggs
Job title at Gretna: Police constable at Gretna
Marital status: Married Ann O’Donnel.…
Samuel Frederick Coates Sprinthall
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by) : Samuel Frederick Coates Sprinthall
Gender: Male
Date and place of birth: 26th November 1894, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire
Date and Place of Death: 9th September, 1973. 8 Low Wood, Haverthwaite, South Cumbria
Nationality: English
Childhood: One of 2 children
Parents: Ernest Merwood ( Marwood/Maywood) Sprinthall and Eunice Hulse nee Coates
Parents occupations: District Traffic agent for railway companies , Carlisle
Schools / universities attended and years of attendance: N/K
Occupation: Insurance Clerk at 17 but possibly an engineer at Gretna – became a ships engineer in 1920
Place of residence at Gretna: Home in Carlisle – either 1 J(T)eck St, Stanwix of 181 Scotland Rd, Carlisle
Marital status: Married
Children: Not known
Travels: Trans Atlantic to N York as crew member
Awards/recognitions: None Known
Positions held: None known
Trivia / any other information: ?…
James Stackhouse
Full name of worker at H.M. Factory Gretna (and any other names they are known by): James Stackhouse
Gender: Male
Date and Place of Birth: 22nd January 1860, Bolton-le-Sands, Lancashire
Date and Place of Death: 25th April 1924, Ormskirk, Lnacashire
Nationality: British
Childhood: On of a least 4 children. His father died when he was very young.…
