Descendants of George Barnes

Fourth Generation

37. Lionel Frederick Barnes (Frederick George , George , George ) was born in Dec 1883 in Pembroke.

Lionel married Ethel?.

They had the following children:

	46	F	i	Hazel Patricia Barnes
				Hazel married Daniel Perrin. Daniel was born 10 oct 1904?. He died sept 1962?.

38. Frederick Rupert Barnes (Frederick George , George , George ) was born about 1885 in Pembroke Dock.

Frederick married May.

They had the following children:

	47	M	i	William Barnes
	48	M	ii	Sid Barnes
	49	F	iii	Muriel Barnes
	50	F	iv	Mildred Barnes
	51	F	v	Marge Barnes
	52		vi	Win Barnes

39. Beatrice Mary Barnes (Frederick George , George , George ) was born about 1887 in St Marys, Pembroke Dock.

"Aunty Beat" lived on Bury Rd, Gosport, there was a large Mulberry tree in the yard, the fruit of which often stained the unwary childs hands and clothes.

Beatrice married Cunningham.

They had the following children:

	53	F	i	Daphne Cunningham
				Daphne married Leonard Wood.
	54	F	ii	Rosemary Cunningham
				Rosemary married Raymond Bayliss.

40. Gertrude Annie Barnes (Frederick George , George , George ) was born on 17 Oct 1888 in 1, Dimond Street East, Pembroke Dock USD. She died in 1962 in Gosport, Hants and was buried in Southampton (cremated).

Gertrude attended local fairs dressed as the "Pearly Queen" with her friend Mrs Hobs dressed as the "Pearly King".
She preserved home grown Runner Beans using salt from blocks kept in a box in the kitchen.

Heather Rawls writes June 2003:-

"I spoke to Marion about the Rawls family home in Gosport. I remember Mayfield Rd mentioned as a brat. The family moved there from Melplash and Marion says she was born there. They moved to Little Anglesey in Coronation year (1937?) Mayfield road is to the north of Alver Creek, near Stone Lane School. Mayfield Rd has very small terraced houses like dads on Park Rd. so Little Anglesey must have felt palatial when they got there. Aunty Beat lived on Bury Rd. with a Mulberry tree just outside her back door. I turned deep red a few times!!"

Gertrude married William Edmund Rawls, son of Thomas George Rawls and Mary Jane Mintern, on 18 Feb 1913 in St Johns Church, Llanreath, Pembroke Dock. William was born on 6 Mar 1887 in Melplash, Netherbury R.S.D.. He died on 22 Jul 1956 in 3, Little Anglesey Road, Gosport, Hants and was buried in Melplash, Dorset.

A big, tall man, only child of Thomas George...left school at 12 to help on the farm, later aprenticed as a wheelwright and carpenter (unfortunatly wooden waggon wheels went out with the advent of the car.) He left home at an early age to go to London and joined the Metropolitan Police on 16th Aug 1909. He was transferred to Her (His) Majesty's Dockyard Police and sent to Pembroke Dock, where he met his future wife, Gertrude Annie Barnes.

Subsequently, was transferred to H.M. Dockyard in Portsmouth and in 1935 bought a house at 3 Little Anglesea Road, Alverstoke, near Gosport (now a listed building) He retired from the police on 20 Aug 1934 at which time hs pay was 4 pound 15 shillings a week. He was an upright 'pillar of the local community' and was a sidesman at St Mary's Church in Alversoke for some years. Despite this, he was a hard man who held, by today's standards some views many would find intolerable.
~ For example, when his daughter Mary Beatrice (Molly to the family) became pregnant whilst unmarried, he refused to have her in his house, and she was obliged to go and live with her elder brother Tom. William Edmund is said to have broken down in tears, asking God why He had done this to him.

When he died, he left a legacy in his will to the church in Melplash of Š50. At the time of his death, Š50 represented a tidy sum, and it is likely that this legacy caused some fairly sharp family reactions.
The church yearbook entrys for 1957 include:-

“A legacy of £50 received from the will of William Edmund Rawles (misspelled) son of Thomas George Rawles sexton 1902 – 1944 enabled the lamps over the gate at the transept door to be renewed. The porch light outside was replaced by an old gilt lantern inside – presented by Lady Diana Tiarks” (so it wasn’t used for a stained-glass window)

He asked in his will that his body be taken back to Melplash for burial (a great expense in those days) and this was done. He had made life so unbearable for his wife, that she did not even attend his funeral. There is a chart of burial plots inside the church at Melplash, and this shows several entries for the name 'Rawls'. His precise location in the churchyard, whilst shown on the chart, cannot be easily veried since there is no headstone bearing his name.

1901 census gives surname as RAWLES

William and Gertrude had the following children:

	55	M	i	Thomas Frederick Rawls was born on 16 Dec 1913. He died on 13 Apr 1998 in Kitchener, Ont, Canada and was buried in cremated. Tom emegrated to Canada in 1955 to sell Hot Stamping Equipment for a british firm, when it did not sell he used it to set up his own buisness in the basement of his house in Kitchener, Ont. Upon his death his son inlaw Wally Blundon continued the Hot stamping , employing Toms dauhter Carol and making Event Badges, Plaques, Membership Tags ect. He purchaced a property on the cliff high above Colpoys Bay, Wairton where he built a cottage he named "The Resting Place". The property is now lovingly cared for by his daughter Diana and is decorated with many of his photos and artwork which was "shown" in the latter years.
				Thomas married Margaret Beryl Elkins. Margaret was born on 21 Mar 1912. She died on 16 Dec 1981 in Kitchener, Ont, Canada and was buried in cremated donated to science.
	56	F	ii	Mary Beatrice Rawls was born on 17 Aug 1915 in Melplash, Netherbury, Dorset and was christened in Melplash, Netherbury, Dorset. She died on 13 Jan 1975 in Hertfordshire, England from Stroke. Molly attended Stone Lane Girls School , Gosport from 1922 to 1930 as proven by a letter from the head mistress K.E.Gray dated 23 Oct 1930. Molly worked as a maid in a large house in the New Forrest? I have a letter of referance from Plumber Manor, Stirminster Newton, Dorset dated 2/6/41 saying that Mollie had served as a housemaid and parlourmaid for the last 7 years. In 1944 she attended the National Rally for Women at County Hall, Westminster Bridge,London where the Queen spoke. She was send by the local (Gosport) cival defence of which she was a member and A.R.P. Warden at that time. Around this time she was also a "postie" delivering mail to some "secure armed forces bases" In 1946/47 she looked after children at the Vegetarian Home for Children in Liverpool. A 1947-48 ration book in my possetion has the address of White Lodge,East Drive, Bracklesham Bay, Chichister. Also Worked in a grocery store in West Meon? Her ID card bears the address Sunnyside, East Meon, Petersfield, Hants. Circa 1949-50 In later years she worked for Bill Doidge (see Marion Rawls) as a Milk Delivery Lady, getting up at dawn to load heavy crates of milk bottles into a van and delivering them door to door. She did this from aprox 1955 untill retirement. She visited her son in Canada just before her death. Above information entered by son Don
	57	M	iii	Edmund Horatio Rawls was born on 22 Jan 1917 in Seafield, Alverstoke, Hampshire. He died on 5 Aug 1977 in Southampton and was buried in Portchester, Hants (Cremated). 1935 Eddie was in the R.A.F. and serving on the aircraft carrier Courageous Eddie finished his career in the R.A.F. as a Sqn/Ldr and at one time was Air Attache at the Brittish Embassy in Paris. He owned and operated "The Inn by the Sea" Lee on Solent for a number of years in the late 60s early 70s
				Edmund married Betty Hood, daughter of Frederick Hood and Evelyne Mary Robinson, on 1 Feb 1941 in Holy Trinity Aylesbury. Betty was born on 11 Jan 1923. She died on 17 Dec 1997 in Les Sables D'Olonne and was buried in Les Sables D'Olonne.
	58	M	iv	Lionel Willam Rawls was born in Oct 1918. He died in 1972. Bill joined the Territorials in 1938 at the time of the Munich crisis and so got called up as soon as the war started. He was on the heavy A.A. guns, and later went thru North Africa with the Desert Rats and up thru Italy
				Lionel married Irene M. Irene was born in 1919. She died in 1958 in Portsmouth.
	59	F	v	Marion Justine Rawls
				Marion married Frederick William Doidge on 2 Nov 1946 in All Saints Cathedral, Cairo, Egypt. Frederick was born on 5 Jun 1921 in Brixham, Devon, England. He died on 17 Sep 1998 in Barley, Royston, Herts and was buried in Cambridge Crematorium. Bill was a Spitfire pilot in the R.A.F during the war and served in Malta, Scicily and Italy. He led a raid from England on the V2 Rocket sites in Holland and was mentioned in dispatches. He stayed in the R.A.F. untill 1951. In 1954 he bought a village milk round

41. Elizabeth Hanna Barnes (Frederick George , George , George )

Elizabeth married Jack Sinnott.

They had the following children:

	60	F	i	Patricia Sinnott
				Patricia married John Whitticker.
	61	M	ii	Rupert Sinnott
				Rupert married Joan.

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