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k Street and they married at her home church in Pettistree,
Suffolk. They had two children, Margaret and Peter.
Information supplied by his son, Peter Coxhead, who now
lives in Woodnewton.
CRAYTHORNE Alfred
Private 62719 Royal Artillery
Private 62763 Royal Garrison Artillery
Alfred Craythorne was born into an army family in May 1865, in
Kings Cliffe.
His parents were Henry (b. 1830) and Mary (b.1831 nee Gimber)
Craythorne, who in 1881 lived on West Street, Kings Cliffe.
He was the fourth of their seven children. His father had fought
in the Crimean war (1853 – 1856) before he married. Although,
at that time, there was no local connection, the Crimea was
where one of the richest men in the country, and certainly the
world’s most successful railway engineer, built a railway line from
Balaclava to Sebastopol in just seven weeks, thus ensuring the
success of the siege at Sebastopol and the eventual capitulation
of the Russians. That man was Thomas Brassey, the great
grandfather of the present Lord Brassey of Apethorpe, which is
the next village to Kings Cliffe.
This Craythorne family does not appear in Kings Cliffe until the
1871 census, although there were many Craythornes in the
area long before that. At that date, six year old, Alfred is living in
the village with his parents and four of his siblings. They were
almost certainly there in 1865 as Alfred was born there.
The family were still in the village in 1881 but Alfred is no longer
with them, or at least not on the night of the census.
Our next sight of Alfred is on 19th April 1887, when the 21
year old is found guilty of being drunk and disorderly a week
previously on a Kings Cliffe street. He was sentenced at Oundle
Petty Sessions to imprisonment at HMP Northampton for one
month with hard labour.
Shortly after, in September 1887, he joins the British army,
enlisting in the Royal Artillery.
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Suffolk. They had two children, Margaret and Peter.
Information supplied by his son, Peter Coxhead, who now
lives in Woodnewton.
CRAYTHORNE Alfred
Private 62719 Royal Artillery
Private 62763 Royal Garrison Artillery
Alfred Craythorne was born into an army family in May 1865, in
Kings Cliffe.
His parents were Henry (b. 1830) and Mary (b.1831 nee Gimber)
Craythorne, who in 1881 lived on West Street, Kings Cliffe.
He was the fourth of their seven children. His father had fought
in the Crimean war (1853 – 1856) before he married. Although,
at that time, there was no local connection, the Crimea was
where one of the richest men in the country, and certainly the
world’s most successful railway engineer, built a railway line from
Balaclava to Sebastopol in just seven weeks, thus ensuring the
success of the siege at Sebastopol and the eventual capitulation
of the Russians. That man was Thomas Brassey, the great
grandfather of the present Lord Brassey of Apethorpe, which is
the next village to Kings Cliffe.
This Craythorne family does not appear in Kings Cliffe until the
1871 census, although there were many Craythornes in the
area long before that. At that date, six year old, Alfred is living in
the village with his parents and four of his siblings. They were
almost certainly there in 1865 as Alfred was born there.
The family were still in the village in 1881 but Alfred is no longer
with them, or at least not on the night of the census.
Our next sight of Alfred is on 19th April 1887, when the 21
year old is found guilty of being drunk and disorderly a week
previously on a Kings Cliffe street. He was sentenced at Oundle
Petty Sessions to imprisonment at HMP Northampton for one
month with hard labour.
Shortly after, in September 1887, he joins the British army,
enlisting in the Royal Artillery.
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