William Edward Naylor, 1895 - 1910 killed in the Pretoria Pit Disaster 1910

William Edward Naylor, age 15, of Water Nooks, Westhoughton, Bolton, Lancashire was one of the 344 men and boys who perished in No 3 pit on the 21st December 1910.  William was a chorister, and often sang for coins underground for his colleagues.  He was the son of James Naylor and Martha Mary Stokes (my ancestor).

Wow, my fingers are sore from typing into the family website all the new information found on my dad's family the Stokes's and Sharpe's.  Again through my cousin Joan Broome, someone emailed her about the Sharpe's, a young man from Wigan called Dean Sharpe and through talking to him I gained some information and photographs of the Sharp family.  We share the same great grandparents, his great grandfather being the brother of my great grandmother Annie Sharpe.

We have also found out a lot about the Stokes's and have found yet more living relatives, one in Lowton not far from here, one in South Africa and one in Ohio, USA.

Over 500 names associated with the Stokes's and Sharpe's has been added just this week, and one entry today which I will tell you about on my next blog.

Linda