George & Ann Slaymaker with their mother

  • George & Anne Slaymaker with their mother in 1908
Archive Notes:

Photograph of George and Anne Slaymaker as children in 1908 outside their cottage next to the Old Parsonage in the High Street. This George cannot be the same one who served in the Great War, unles the daye of the photo is wrong. See record 2130

Although not obviously related, there was another Slaymaker of note, Joseph Slaymaker. He was a 6 year old boy on the 1881 census, 4 years later he stole a purse from the vicar's house and as punishment was detained at an 'industrial school' for boys on a ship anchored 1/2 a mile off the coast from Portishead. He went on to serve his country in WW1 and died in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1918 having been promoted to the rank of Acting Sergeant Major.

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