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Very decorative, are you considering buying, Mike?

Hi Frank...…

No not looking to buy after all I have the silvered one and anyway who would want two..... LOL

Mike

Hello Mike,
You might want two, I think I would, they are certainly very pleasing and decorative, I don't think I've ever seen a single example for sale on my travels, despite always trying to make time to visit as many antique centres or individual shops as possible.
I think I'd be happy to buy one at some point in the future, but, we shall see.
Regards Frank

QSAMIKE wrote: Hi Frank...…

No not looking to buy after all I have the silvered one and anyway who would want two..... LOL

Mike

I have at long last got round to taking a reasonable photograph of the example I have in my collection.

As noted earlier in this thread (six years ago!), this one was presented to 7367, Lance-Corporal Fred HEAYSMAN, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regt. The ceremony took place in the Drill Hall, Reigate, on 22 May 1901, when 19 plaques were presented by Mr T.H. Roberts (Chairman of the Reception Committee and Horley Parish Council).

Since last writing on the subject, I have acquired the medals to another recipient - Captain J.F. WATERLOW, City Imperial Volunteers.
Unfortunately the plaque has become separated from this group. As had Waterlow's C.I.V. sword, but the latter has now been reunited with the medals.



WO97

Name: Frederick HEAYSMAN
Number: 7367
Born: Godstone, Redhill, Surrey
Age on 13/02/1900: 22 years, 6 months
Therefore born: 1877

Calling: Carpenter

Address: 26 Albion Road, Reigate, Surrey

Transferred from: 2nd Vol. Bn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment

Corps: 1st Volunteer Active Service Company, Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment

Attested, Guildford, for 1 yr’s service: 13/02/1900
Discharged (Termination of Period of Engagement): 25/05/1901

Home: 13/02/1900 to --/--/----
South Africa: --/--/---- to --/--/----
Home: --/--/---- to 25/05/1901

Next of kin: Emily Jane HEAYSMAN (wife), 26 Albion Road, Reigate, Surrey

Medal: QSA with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek & South Africa 1901


1881 Census
Fred HEAYSMAN, 3
Father: William HEAYSMAN, 38 (Lath Render)
Mother: Emma HEAYSMAN, 39
Address: Howard Road, Reigate
Number of siblings at this address: 3

1891 Census
Fred HEAYSMAN, 13
Father: William HEAYSMAN, 50 (Fencer & Lath Render)
Mother: Emma HEAYSMAN, 48
Address: 6 Howard Road, Reigate
Number of siblings at this address: 3

1901 Census
ON ACTIVE SERVICE
Grand-father: William HEAYSMAN, 82 (Retired Timber Yard Foreman)
Father: ABSENT
Mother: ABSENT
Address: 13 Lesbourne Road, Reigate
Number of siblings at this address: 2

1911 Census
Fred HEAYSMAN, 35 (Carpenter)
Wife: Emily Jane HEAYSMAN, 37
Address: 13 Hartfield Crescent, Wimbledon
Number of children at this address: 6




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Neville – to complete the life of Fred Heaysman

He married Emily Jane Chitty on 17th July 1898 in Reigate Parish Church

1921 Census shows Fred (43 years 10 months) & Jane (46 years 2 months) had added to their family. They were living at 12 Palmerston Road, Wimbledon and had 8 children. Fred was still a Carpenter working for “Garratt & Son, Bacham” and for “Place of Work” he has written “No fixed place”.

Fred’s death is registered in Kingston in last quarter of 1931.

Emily Jane outlived him by 21 years but never remarried. She shows up on the 1939 Register still living at 12 Palmerston Road with her two youngest and as yet unmarried children. Her probate shows she died on 15th January 1952 still living at 12 Palmerston Road.

A family tree on Ancestry shows at least 6 of their 8 children married and at least 3 had children – so perhaps surprising that the plaque came on the open market.

His parents William & Emma did not die until 1923 & 1926 respectively. You probably missed them on the 1901 Census because the Ancestry transcriber had (understandably) read Heapsman for a badly written Heaysman. They were living at 34 Effingham Road, Reigate with daughter Minnie.

David.

Thank you, David

On February 19th 1960, the Surrey Mirror recorded the death of Mr J. Jenkins, who had served as 860 Private J.A. Jenkins, City Imperial Volunteers. The Mirror noted that his death left one surviving recipient of the Reigate plaque, Mr E. Farrington (863 Sergeant E. Farrington, C.I.V.), who was then residing in Brighton.


Surrey Mirror, 19th February 1960

Young men like Joseph Jenkins who has died this month at the age of 84.
Eldest of the four sons of Mr and Mrs J.A. Jenkins, who lived in Nutley Lane, Reigate, from the sixties of last century until their death. Joseph as a youth joined the local volunteers who at that time had their headquarters in Slipshoe Street, and when war with the Boer republics broke out in 1899 he was one of about eight young men from the borough who enlisted in the C.I.V. On their return (while the war was still on) each serving member of the Force was presented with the Freedom of the City of London, and Mr Jenkins and each of his local comrades also received from the Borough Council a framed plaque entitled “A Gentleman in Khaki” – a phrase from Rudyard Kipling’s war poem, “The Absent-Minded Beggar”.
Of these recipients, I am told, the death now recorded reduces the number of survivors to one, a member of the well-known local Farrington family, who is spending the evening of his life at Brighton.

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