Property: 5 Clarkes Yard ln year: 1911

Occupant: Richard Batson aged:  34  Born:  Redditch

Trade: Automatic Machine Operator – Cycle & Motor Works

Notes: Wife Alice Florence (Court) (32) plus 7 children at home. (Clarkes Yard was in Alcester Street) (On the 1911 census they stated that they had had 7 children born alive) On the 1901 census they lived in C1H1 Evesham Street. Found information about Richard who joined the Territorial Force for 11 years 1900?-1912 number 742080 67th Brigade, Worcester.., and then joined 5th Aug 1914 until an accident in 1917 and discharged 23rd July 1917 R.T.A., 3 Res. Bde. T.F. Number 830394. He was born 31st Dec 1877 and at the time he joined up was a Saddler and lived 5 or 6 (difficult to read) Alcester Street. Richard Batson died in 1959

Source: JC – Census