Lives of the First World War

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ID: 6535956

Reference: ADM188

Title: Royal Navy Seamen 1899-1919

Description: The Royal Navy Seamen records contain the complete service histories of 373,000 ratings who joined the service between 1899 and 1919.

UPP: GBM/ADM188/286485

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8805057

Title: Black and British: A Forgotten History

Description: BBC documentary series by David Olusoga. Recounts the murder of Wotton by a white mob in Liverpool on the night of 5th of June, 1919. Also, see "1919 - The Murder of Charles Wootton": http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/43_Blimp/LiverpoolKilling.html

Connected by: Sean64906

URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082x0h6
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Additional: Spelling of name varies. Appears properly to be Wotton, but pronunciation probably changed to Wootton due to Bermudians' long vowels. Baptism:SANDYS PARISH BAPTISMSName: Wotton, Charles HilgroveFather: JamesMother: PriscillaBaptism: 1892 July 3Parish: SandysComment: Labourer (father's employment)Reference: Bt4He appears named for a presumed uncle, Charles Carr Wooton, and llater adopted the middle name Carr himself, though it does not appear on his own baptism.SANDYS BAPTISMSName: Wotton, Charles Carr?Father: Thomas JamesMother: RebeccaBaptised: 1867 January 30Parish: SandysComment: Coloured; Labourer (father's employment)Reference: Bt2

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ID: 8917726

Title: Whither the Fates carry us

Description: Bermuda

Connected by: Deborah102878

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ID: 8917727

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

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UPP: BMD/D/1919/2/AZ/000988/041

Additional: agrees with external evidence

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8917742

Name: Article dated 06.06.1919: Bradford Telegraph; website accessed 16.05.2017

Title: Liverpool murder: Open verdict at inquest

Description: Details of the race riots in Liverpool. Charles was murdered in June 1919.

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URL: http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/43_Blimp/LiverpoolKilling.html
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ID: 8917792

Name: ISBN 978 0 7524 9760 0

Reference: Personal copy

Title: Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community & the Great War

Description: Stephen Bourne 2014

Connected by: Deborah102878

Additional: Charles' story is written on pgs 19, 124, 147, 150-3

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ID: 9419431

Title: Memorial plaque

Description: Charles was a victim of the Liverpool race riots, and is remembered by a BBC History Project plaque as part of BBC Black and British - A Forgotten History 2016. The plaque is sited by the Mersey, Liverpool

Connected by: Deborah102878

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