The filmstrip for the 5 January 1918 Batley News is missing. I have therefore used its sister paper The Dewsbury District News for this week’s round-up of newspaper pieces relating to the parish of St Mary’s. There was some overlap between the two papers. As usual the spelling and punctuation matches that of the newspaper. And the names of those in the military are in bold.
Three parish deaths featured in the Family Notices section. The first entry was the son of St Mary’s War Memorial man, Patrick Gallagher.
BATLEY
GALLAGHER.—On the 29th ult., aged 15 months, William, son of the late Patrick Gallagher, 16, Birch Street.
NAFSEY.—On the 30th ult., aged 49 years, Bridget, wife of Bernard Nafsey, 13, East Street.
BROMLEY.—On the 31st ult., aged two years, Thomas, son of Herbert Bromley, 3, James Street.
The death of Thomas Bromley marked the third child in the family to die since 20 December 1917. The deaths of his older brothers, seven-year-old John and the five-year-old Bernard, appeared in the 22 and 29 December 1917 editions of the Batley News.
John Hopkins and Annie Mullins were in trouble with the authorities.
Dewsbury Borough Court – Saturday
A BATLEY SOLDIER’S WIFE IN DISGRACE.—John Hopkins (28), soldier, Cross Bank Street, Batley, and Annie Mullins, rag sorter, Clement Street, Batley, admitted having been drunk and disorderly in Battye Street, Eastboro’, on Christmas Day, and Hopkins also admitted to damaging the window and fittings of a police cell to the extent of a sovereign.—The Chief Constable said Hopkins was convicted at Bradford in February, 1914, for an assault and for having used obscene language, but Mullins had not been in trouble before. The woman’s husband was a soldier in France, and he (the Chief Constable) would have to report the matter to the Ministry of Pensions. It was probable her allowance would be stopped. She was in receipt of 12s. 6d. per week, and earned 9s. per week as a rag sorter.—Mullins was ordered to pay costs, but Hopkins was fined 18s. and ordered to pay £1 damages.
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