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Member Since: May 2004 Posts: 3 Send Message	Glenda	Report	3 Dec 2004 05:18
Member Since: May 2004 Posts: 3 Send Message	My grandfather Charles Holland was born in Crewe in 1889 at 40 Maw Green Rd, Church Coppenhall, 1 of 9 children. His father was William Holland and mother Emma Hirst. Charles came to Western Australia in the early 1900's, enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces in 1915 and fought in France. His enlistment papers note his father William as next of kin, living at 46 Queen St, Crewe in 1915, and then his sister Annie Capper (I think Mrs Wil Capper), of 46 Queen St, Crewe in 1917. Charles married Jane Barnes or Thompson, or Thompson-Barnes (I am not sure which surname she used as her maiden name) in Bunbury Parish Church in 1919, and returned to Australia to farm and live in Narrogin, Western Australia where he died in 1968. Charles and Jane had two children Betty Eileen and Frank (Francis Henry) my father. Charles’s siblings were: Jack/John (b. 1878), William (b. 1882), Harry/Henry (b. 1883), Peter (b. 1885), Emma b. 1887), Mary Elizabeth/Polly (b. ?1888), James (b. 1891 who also came to Western Australia), and Annie (b. 1894) (Capper) I would love to contact any relatives - and I am sure there must be quite a few!