Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948
Name: Willie Tom Lockyer
Death Date: 1 Nov 1917
Rank: Private
Unit: 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles
Service Number: 687961
Cemetery: Oxford Road Cemetery
Cemetery Location: 1 1/2 Miles North East of Ypres, Belgium
Burial Place: Belgium
New Zealand, Naturalisations, 1843-1981
Name: Eileen Mary Haskell
Birth Date: 9 May 1913
Age: 66
Birth Place: Crowborough, Sussex, England
Naturalisation Date: 11 Jul 1979
Certificate Register: 375
Register Page Number: 14
Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society
Volume 10, No. 4, December 2001WHO MURDERED TEDDY HASKELL?
By Des BunselTeddy Haskell was a little crippled boy who would have passed unnoticed by the world if he had not become the victim of a hideous crime, but in 1908 the whole of Edwardian England was to know his name.
His funeral in Salisbury, the city of his birth and death, was attended by the mayor and local dignitaries. Schoolfriends and teachers followed his small coffin to the grave, as well as representatives of the Salisbury City Soccer Club, who were there to say farewell to one of their most avid supporters.
The one person who should have been there was missing. His loving mother, Flora Fanny Haskell, 34, was in prison charged with his murder.
Christened Edwin Richard Haskell, Teddy was just 12 years old at the time of his death. His father, also named Edwin, had died in 1904. Since then Flora Haskell had worked as a washerwoman to support herself and her only child.
A few years earlier Teddy had suffered a tubercular infection of his right leg, for which the only treatment had been amputation. Throughout his illness Flora had nursed and cared for him. People who knew her said she was, 'Everything a mother should be.' Despite his infirmity, Teddy was a lively twelve year old who lived an active life. Always cheerful and friendly, he was well liked by his schoolmates. A keen soccer fan, he even managed to play goal in school games.
It was his effort to become as normal as possible that may have given the only motive for his murder. For Teddy had a savings fund, which he kept locked in the top drawer of a chest close to his bed. It was not for a toy or a special treat that Teddy was saving but for an artificial leg, which was to be fitted when he was fully grown. Many people had helped to add to his fund and at the time of his death it had reached the total of £8 20s. A quite tempting sum in those days.
[This article then details the evidence of the murder. Also discussion on the first trial of the mother that ended in a failure of the jury to agree on a verdict. The retrial ended in a not guilty verdict.]
British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
Name: Thomas King Brown
Gender: Male
Birth Date: abt 1877
Enlistment Age: 38
Marriage Date: 28 Mar 1903
Marriage Place: Lymington
Document Year: 1915
Residence Place:6 Bruce Rd, Barnet
Regimental Number: 46050
Other Regimental Numbers:204061
Regiment Name: Lancashire Fusiliers
Number of Images:1
Form Title: Short Service Attestation
Family Members:
NameRelation to Soldier
Thomas King BrownSelf (Head)
Margaret Amy HackellSpouse
Frederick George BrownChild
In the 1911 census, Ethel Rose is listed as grandchild of Frank and Celia Haskell.
Need birth certificate to determine her parents.