Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameMiriam CHAPMAN
Birth15 Dec 1890, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Baptism7 Jan 1891
Spouses
1Thomas MADDOX, Half GG Uncle
Birth1880, Hulme, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Baptism7 Apr 1880, Hulme, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Death1 Jul 1916, France
FatherThomas MADDOX (~1842-1917)
MotherSusannah COUPE (1838-1892)
Marriage7 Apr 1909
ChildrenLeslie Coupe (1910-1974)
 Thomas Francis (1912-1993)
Notes for Miriam CHAPMAN
Parish records St. Clement, Longsight, Manchester, Lancashire
Baptism January 7 1891 Miriam Chapman, father John Chapman, mother Sarah Margaret Chapman, abode 5 Ducie? Street, father is a porter, ceremony by H. Anthony Noel, Rector
Notes for Thomas (Spouse 1)
In the January to March 1880 birth index Thomas Maddox, Chorlton, Lancashire, volume 8c, page 868

Parish Records Holy Trinity, Hulme, Manchester
Baptism April 7, 1880 Thomas Maddox, parents Thomas and Susannah Maddox, of 81 Booth Street, father is a joiner, ceremony performed by I. Stott.

In the 1881 census 70 Lancaster? Street, Hulme, Lancashire
Head Thomas Maddox, age 38, joiner, born ?? Liverpool
Wife Susannah Maddox, age 42, born Egmanton, Nottinghamshire.
Step Daughter Ada Sides, age 11, scholar, Salford, Lancashire.
Son Thomas Maddox, age 1, born ????, Lancashire
2 boarders a school mistress and an assistant school mistress

In the 1891 census 86 Howard Street, Salford, Lancashire
Head Thomas Maddox, age 49, joiner, employed, born Everton, Liverpool
Wife Susannah Maddox, age 52,born Egmanton, Nottinghamshire.
Son Thomas Maddox, age 11, scholar, born Hulme, Lancashire.
Step Daughter Ada Sides, single, age 21, school teacher, born Salford, Lancashire.

In the 1901 census 35 Avon Street, Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester.
Head Thomas Maddox, age 57, joiner, worker, born Liverpool, Lancashire.
Wife Sarah Maddox, age 55, provision dealer, own account, at home, born Manchester, Lancashire.
Son Thomas Maddox, single, age 21, office clerk, worker, born Manchester.

Parish Records Albert Memorial Church, Collyhurst, Manchester
Marriage April 7, 1909
Thomas Maddox, age 29, bachelor, clerk, residence 173 Queen’s Road, Manchester, father Thomas Maddox, joiner and
Miriam Chapman, age 19, spinster, residence 173 Queen’s Road, Manchester, father John Chapman, gardener
In the presence of Fred Whittaker Burgess and Emily Jane Chapman

1911 Census 88 Bersford Street, Mosside, Hulme, manchester
Head Thomas Maddox, age 31, commercial clerk for a cigarette manufacturer, worker, born Manchester
Wife Miriam Maddox, age 21, married 1 year, 1 child born alive, born Manchester.
Son Leslie Coupe Maddox, age 7 months, born Manchester.

UK WWI Pension Records
Thomas Maddox, Regimental Number 22/21413, Regiment 22nd Manchester, Rank PC.
Form received September 6, 1916
Date of Notification of Death July 19, 1916
July 1, 1916, killed in action
Widow Miriam, 68 Liverpool Street, Salford, date of birth December 15, 1891
Children
Leslie Coupe, born August 30, 1910
Thomas Francis, born August 13, 1912

UK Soldiers Died in WWI
Thomas Maddox
Birth Place: Manchester
Residence: Salford, Lancs
Death Date: 1 Jul 1916
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Manchester
Rank: Private, Manchester Regiment
Battalion: 22nd Battalion
Regimental Number: 21413
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

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Private Thomas Maddox
BIRTH 1880, Metropolitan Borough of Salford, Greater Manchester, England
DEATH 1 Jul 1916 (aged 35–36), France
MEMORIAL SITE* Thiepval Memorial
Thiepval, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France
* A structure erected in honor of someone whose remains lie elsewhere.
PLOT Pier and Face 13 A and 14 C.
MEMORIAL ID 12466882
Service No: 21413
Regiment/Service: Manchester Regiment, 22nd Bn.
Also
On 1 July 1916, supported by a French attack to the south, thirteen divisions of Commonwealth forces launched an offensive on a line from north of Gommecourt to Maricourt. Despite a preliminary bombardment lasting seven days, the German defences were barely touched and the attack met unexpectedly fierce resistance. Losses were catastrophic and with only minimal advances on the southern flank, the initial attack was a failure. In the following weeks, huge resources of manpower and equipment were deployed in an attempt to exploit the modest successes of the first day. However, the German Army resisted tenaciously and repeated attacks and counter attacks meant a major battle for every village, copse and farmhouse gained. At the end of September, Thiepval was finally captured. The village had been an original objective of 1 July. Attacks north and east continued throughout October and into November in increasingly difficult weather conditions. The Battle of the Somme finally ended on 18 November with the onset of winter. In the spring of 1917, the German forces fell back to their newly prepared defences, the Hindenburg Line, and there were no further significant engagements in the Somme sector until the Germans mounted their major offensive in March 1918.

The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916. The memorial also serves as an Anglo-French Battle Memorial in recognition of the joint nature of the 1916 offensive and a small cemetery containing equal numbers of Commonwealth and French graves lies at the foot of the memorial. The memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was built between 1928 and 1932 and unveiled by the Prince of Wales, in the presence of the President of France, on 31 July 1932. The dead of other Commonwealth countries who died on the Somme and have no known graves are commemorated on national memorials elsewhere.

In the winter of 1932-33, it was decided that a small mixed cemetery be made at the memorial's foot to represent the loss of both the French and Commonwealth nations. Of the 300 Commonwealth burials in the cemetery, 239 are unidentified. The bodies were found in December 1931 and January-March 1932, some as far north as Loos and as far south as Le Quesnel, but the majority came from the Somme battlefields of July-November 1916. Of the 300 French dead, 253 are unidentified.

The present count on this page is 72,135 interments. (They are not actually interments of course as these are the names of the missing, casualties who have no known grave.) The actual number of casualties recorded on the memorial is 72,195 though the records show 72354 names. There are two reasons for this:

In some instances where a casualty is recorded as attached to another Regiment, his name may alternatively appear within their Regimental Panel (or Pier and Face).
More than 150 of these casualties served under an alias, so the alias and the true family name will appear.
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