William Merryweather, son of Joseph Merryweather and Jane Smith , was born in January, 1870 in Battersea, London, England. He married Maud Beard . He died bef. December, 1949 in Chelsea, London, England. Maud Beard was born abt. 1870 in pos, Battersea, London, England.


Children of William Merryweather and Maud Beard are:

1. E J Merryweather, b. 1893
2. Alice Maud Merryweather, b. abt. 1894 See Hugh Benjamin Ridgway & Alice Maud Merryweather OR Leslie Walter Mathew Wynne & Alice Maud Merryweather
3. Alice Maud Merryweather, b. bef. March, 1903
4. William A Merryweather, b. 1890 See William A Merryweather & Rose Knowlson

Notes for William Merryweather:


Born Battersea Park Rd, Battersea, London.
1881 census shows age 11 living with parents at 36 Aurthur St, Battersea,
London, att school.
The Daily Mail 5th Oct 1948. William Merryweather also known as Pop aged
78 years a night watchman of Stammer St Battersea, was selected as the
largest family in Battersea and to celebrate the occasion he took his
numerous progeny to the Granada Cinema, Clapham Junction, the 80 members
of the family filled six rows of the Cinema.
St Cath's Death Ref V5c P318 Dec 1949 Chelsea, age 79.


Notes for Maud Beard:


Notes for E J Merryweather:


Born pos, Battersea Park Rd, London, England
Private G/2033 8th Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment
who died on Friday, 14th July 1916. Age 23.
Additional Information: Son of William and Maud Merryweather, of 66,
Arthur St., Battersea Park Rd., London.
Commemorative Information
Cemetery: DIVE COPSE BRITISH CEMETERY, Somme, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number: I. B. 7.
Location: Sailly-Le-Sec is a village in the Department of the Somme,
about 20 kilometres east of Amiens. The Cemetery is a little more than
1.5 kilometres north-east of Sailly church.
Historical Information: In June, 1916, before the Somme offensive, the
ground North of the cemetery was chosen for a concentration of Field
Ambulances, which became the XIV Corps Main Dressing Station. A small
wood close by, under the Bray-Corbie road, was known as Dive Copse, after
the name of the officer commanding the Main Dressing Station; and the
cemetery was made by these medical units. Plots I and II were filled in
the first three months' fighting. Plot III contains the graves of 77 men
who fell in August, 1918 (when the cemetery, occupied by the enemy in the
spring, was retaken), and of 115 whose bodies were brought in from
scattered graves and small cemeteries in the neighbourhood. There are now
nearly 600, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these,
30 are unidentified and four soldiers of the London Regiment and six of
the Australian Imperial Force are known to be buried among them and their
names are recorded on special headstones. The cemetery covers an area of
2,383 square metres and it is enclosed by a brick wall. The only
considerable cemetery concentrated to Dive Copse was Essex Cemetery,
Sailly-Le-Sec. This burial ground was 914 metres further North, on the
edge of the Bray-Corbie road. It was begun by the 10th Essex Regiment in
August, 1918, and it contained the graves of 30 soldiers from the United
Kingdom and three from Australia.


Notes for Alice Maud Merryweather:


St Cath's Birth Ref V1d P558 Mar 1903 Wandsworth.
St Cath's Death Ref V1a P287 Sep 1904 St Georges Han Sq, age 1.