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8 CommentsPhoto: Rev David Long
Item #: 27858
I've gone back among the ads I missed in the earlier batch to find this one after seeing a pic of his cycle shop among the Standish pics in the Album.
One reason is to ask if anyone knows whether he had a son named Edmund who was killed in WW1. He's on the Peace Gate and the Cenotaph memorials, but I can't identify him on the War Graves site.
Seems that Tom Wilding was single in 1911 and living with his mother Sybil in High St. May have married in 1914, a woman called Lloyd. If so, it seems they had no sons, only two daughters.
There is an Edmund Wilding in Church St on the 1901 census, aged 14. With parents Henry and Jane.
Correct Jackdog, Tom Wilding married Cordelia R Lloyd in 1914 in Wigan, their first daughter with the rather fancy name of Olwyn Rowena Elizabeth Cordelia Lloyd Wilding was a teacher at Standish 'Grammar' School on Green Lane, and taught me, and hundreds of other Standish lads in her time, i think every lad in the school could say her full name without hesitation, as you say she only had one sister, both stayed single all their lives. What i cant fathom out is why Olwyn RECL Wildng was born in 1915 in Abergavenny, South Wales and not Standish. I presume the Edmund Wilding that Rev Long is referring to, is probabbly the one in the 1901 census.
What is 'Incandescent Goods'? Is that the Hi Vis that we know today?
There's a Baptism in St Wilfrid's Registers on LOPC for Edmund W., for 14 November 1886 - 4th son of Henry (collier) and Jane. So that looks like the one. But he's not on the CWGC site - so perhaps the family put his name forward as a war casualty for the Memorial, but the Army didn't judge him so for their purposes (saved them paying his widow a pension).
I've found a few of those on the Standish Memorials.
Loz - incandescent goods sounds to me like the old bike lamps, and the carbide they used to fuel them.
Oh my goodness! I too was wondering about "incandescent goods"... I had consigned those carbide lamps to distant memory--and they had been lost!!
Roy you are absolutely right we all could say her name without hesitation. She was my Guide leader.