Lives of the First World War

1886 - 1911

Allan Richmond was born in Stokesley in 1886. He was the son of John Richmond, a tinsmith born in Thirsk and Elizabeth Martha Gilchrist who were married in Stokesley in 1871. Elizabeth Martha was the daughter of John Gilchrist from Lewis and his wife Elizabeth Skeen who was born in Hutton Rudby. Allan therefore shared the same great grandparents as John George Skeen (see Skeen J G) When Allan was born, he was the youngest of a family of seven, having three brothers (William, John and Charles) and three sisters: Cora, Annie, and Mary. In 1891 the family was living in Back Lane in the town, and Allan’s oldest brother, thirteen years his senior, was already working as a saddler’s apprentice. Ten years later, the 1901 census recorded that the family was living in South Side and that all of Allan’s older siblings were at work. Allan also had a younger sister, Mary, who was 9 years old. By 1911 Allan Richmond was 24. All his older brothers and sisters had left the parental home, but Allan was still living in South Side Stokesley with his parents and his sister Mary. Allan’s occupation was listed as house painter. The Book of Remembrance says that Allan was a member of the church choir, but does not say when or for how long.

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