Carleton Rode First World War Archive
Ernest George Calton was born on the 21st May 1896. The family were living on Boosey’s Walk in New Buckenham. His father, Charles, was from Rickinghall in Suffolk and he was a yardman on a farm. His mother, Laura (nee Self), came from Winfarthing. Ernest had four siblings, Walter, Lily Mary, Leonard James (known as Ned) and Sidney. We know that Ernest is …
Wesley Herbert William Ewart Gladstone Chilvers was born on the 31 May 1898 in Carleton Rode to farm labourer, John and his wife, Alice (nee Youngs); both born in Bunwell. His birth came just a couple of weeks after the death of the venerable former Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone and Wesley was probably given these three middle names in tribute. He was …
Hugh Ralph Cholmeley was the grandson of the Reverend John Cholmeley who was rector in the village until his death in 1895. Hugh was born on 24th April 1891 in Carleton Rode rectory to Robert Francis Cholmeley and Blanche Elizabeth Roberta Darling. He had one sibling, Dorothy Frances, born in 1889. The Cholmeleys were a well-respected and pre-eminent family from Lincolnshire. John was …
(William) Ernest Colman was born on the 20th July 1888 in Carleton Rode to William Bowles Colman, farmer, and his wife Caroline Selina Bryant (born in Kenninghall). He had three sisters, Evelyn Mary, Doris May and Ruth Bryant; the family lived at Kendal Lodge. Ernest was educated at a school in Bracondale, Norwich and in 1911 he was working as a bank clerk. …
Leonard Horace Foster was born in Carleton Rode on the 14th April 1890. His parents were Horace, a horseman on a farm, and Ellen Page (both were born in the village). On the 1911 Census, it records 12 children, 5 of whom have died. Known siblings include Alice, Herbert, Agnes, Bessie, Dorothy, Reginald James, May and Walter. (There is a Clara Foster admitted …
(Herbert) George Fuller was born on the 19th November 1895 in Carleton Rode. His father, George, was a cattleman from New Buckenham and his mother, Jane Self, came from Tibenham. By 1911, the family were living on the Turnpike. George was a grocer’s errand boy. He had a sister, Maud May (aged 10) and a younger brother, Edward Albert (known as Ted). Also …
Ambrose Leverett was born on the 13th August 1885 in Forncett to Frederick (originally from Bunwell) and Emma (nee Briggs from Aslacton). He had a younger sister Polly. His father worked on farms and for many years was employed as a teamsman for William Bowles Colman at Kendal Lodge. In 1901 the family were living at The Warren in Old Buckenham and Ambrose …
George Page was born in Tivetshall, Norfolk on 27th October 1884. His parents were William, a labourer from Swainsthorpe, and Maryann from Moulton. The 1911 Census records his parents living in a farmhouse on Ash Lane in the village. They had 9 children, 6 of whom were still alive; Laura, Anna Elizabeth, Edith, Walter Cecil and a step-sister, Lily. Another sister, Jessica Ellen …
Robert Palmer was born in New Buckenham, Norfolk on 22nd November 1892. His parents were Robert, an agricultural labourer, and Mary Ann Bunn from Bunwell. There were ten children in the family; Tom, Bessie Elizabeth, Mary, (Ethel) May, Sarah, Robert, Hilda, John, Elisa (Elsie) and Minnie. Robert was the only one of these children who was not born in Carleton Rode but he …
Ernest Edward Saker born 12th of September, 1899 was the youngest of six brothers who fought in the First World War. James Saker, was killed and is remembered on the Carleton Rode War Memorial (and there are four brothers in the Survivors section of this website which give details of the family history). Ernest served in the army. He enlisted in the Middlesex …
