Lives of the First World War

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ID: 8802052

Reference: bmd_marriages

Title: England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

Connected by: Kristen1288

UPP: BMD/M/1917/2/AZ/001088/032

Additional: The names match the family information that munitions worker Eva White married a man named Hepworth in 1917.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8802053

Name: Eva White

Title: National Trust - Forgotten Heroines of Barnbow

Description: A photographs and story about Eva White from a family member.

Connected by: Kristen1288

URL: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/forgotten-heroines-of-barnbow
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Additional: The details given in the story match the marriage record for Eva White and Rowland Hepworth.

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ID: 8802159

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/B/1893/4/AZ/000602/181

Additional: The name Eva White matches as does the approximate Birth Year 1893. She may have been born in Wakefield and moved to Leeds for work. No other record coming up with a closer match.Speculative but might serve for the time being pending improvement.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8802170

Reference: 1901gbc

Title: 1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBC/1901/0026604048

Additional: Eva White aged 7 in the 1901 Census. Living in Wakefield.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8802174

Reference: 1911gbc

Title: 1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: GBC/1911/RG14/27388/0287/4

Additional: Eva White aged 17 in the 1911 Census living in Wakefield.

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8802232

Title: Marriage Eva White to Rowland Stewart Hepworth

Description: Marriage solemnised in the Parish Church in the Parish of Ryhill Yorkshire

Connected by: Jonathan101862

Additional: Obtained through Ancestry.co.uk The names of Roland Stewart Hepworth and Eva White can be seen in the image.

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ID: 8802526

Name: Historic England (10/10/2016).

Title: Site of First World War Munitions Factory Where 35 Women Died in Explosion Given Heritage Protection

Description: From bullet points beneath the title: "Protected site saw the first major loss of female civilian workers in England during the war The death of the 'Barnbow lasses' was hushed up for fear of harming national morale and the recruitment of women, and the incident remained largely unacknowledged, even after the war Large-scale recruitment of women to do hazardous work at such factories helped change the status of female workers Barnbow provided a template for the design of all subsequent explosive factories, and produced a lot of the high-explosive shells used at The Somme" The article is very full and well worth reading.

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/fww-munitions-factory-given-heritage-protection
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Additional: Mrs Eva Hepworth née White is identified by the National Trust as being a munitions worker at Barnbow.

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ID: 8802528

Name: National Trust 2016

Title: Nostell Priory and Parkland

Description: Sub-title 18th-century architectural masterpiece with landscape park and gardens

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/nostell-priory-and-parkland
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Additional: At the foot of the National Trust article Forgotten heroines of Barnbow you can read " In 1917 Eva married the nephew of the game keeper at Nostell Priory." Nostell Priory

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ID: 8802529

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Jonathan101862

UPP: BMD/D/1986/3/75569445

Additional: This death record matches the married name of Eva Hepworth née White and can be improved upon if it transpires to be wrong. It is the only matching record coming up in the search.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 8802541

Name: University of Portsmouth, History of Claro, in Harrogate and West Riding |

Title: A vision of Britain through Time Claro in the West Riding of Yorkshire

Description: Claro, where the death of Eva Hepworth was registered is identified as being historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Full reference GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Claro, in Harrogate and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.Date accessed: 08th December 2016

Connected by: Jonathan101862

URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24988
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Additional: There was a death registered in Claro for Eva Hepworth in 1986. The district was historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as was Wakefield where her Birth was registered in 1893.

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ID: 8805947

Title: Eva White in her uniform.

Description: From the National Trust article Forgotten heroines of Barnbow with kind permission for use of the image given today the 13/12/2016

Connected by: Jonathan101862

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ID: 8809561

Name: British Pathé

Title: Women Munition Workers (1914-1918)

Description: Historic Film of Women Munitions Workers at an unknown Munitions Factory. The only clue is a lorry that can be identified as being from Bradford because of the name of the transport firm. The film opens with a scene of a " knocker up man" and besides the scenes of the Women Munition Workers there is also a scene of Nurses working in a Nursery with very young infants.

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URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwYrJQRg13Y
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Additional: This youtube film might be from Leeds and does show some of the work and conditions of work of Women Munitions Workers from 1914 - 18.

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