Bostock family memorials - Penmaen church

 

Three memorials commemorating the Bostock family are situated inside St. John the Baptist church.

The first one is in memory of Richard Ashton Bostock.  There has been a blog previously written.

Also commemorated is David John Kneath, who was killed in Action on the 3^rd of August 1918.

The tablet is erected by the parishioners of Penmaen.

David was born in 1895, the son of Robert Kneath and Maria Jones.  They were married in 1894. 

1901 Census

By the 1901 Census, the family was living in Penmaen village.  Robert, 31, was employed as a Mason, Maria, 28.  Also present were two children, David John, 5, who was born at Ferry Side, Carmarthenshire, and Emmily S., 2.

1911 Census

A decade later at the 1911 Census, the family were living at Penmaen Cottage.  Robert, 42, was employed as a Domestic Gardener. Maria, 38, and four children, John, 15; Emily, 12; Glyn, 10; and Mary, 8.

Railway Employment Records

A year later, David was employed by the London and North Western Railway at Swansea, resigning by May 1914.

 David John Kneath
Saint Sever Cemetery,
Rouen, France
credit - findagrave

David during the First World War was ranked 2^nd Lieutenant and served with the 5^th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment.  He died from wounds on 5^th August 1918 and is buried at Saint Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France.

The second Bostock memorial commemorates John Yates Bostock, who died on July 20^th, 1885.

Dr. John Yates Bostock the younger brother of Richard.

Born in 1857, they were the sons of Dr. John Ashton Bostock.  

By the time of the 1871 Census, John, 14, was a pupil of Rugby.  He furthered his education at Pembroke College, Cambridge where he studied Medicine. 

1971 Census

By the 1881 Census, John, 24, residing at his family home at 73 Onslow Gardens, Gardens.

John A. Bostock, 65, Deputy Surgeon General. Harriet A., 56.  Two children John G., BA Cambridge, and Elizabeth A., 22. Also present are six servants, William Brown, 43; William H. Honiger, 18; Caroline Walker, 41; Anna Westmorland, 24; Mary A. Lawrence, 39 and Alethan Betts, 16.

1881 Census

John Yates Bostock
St. John the Evangelist Church,
Knotty Ash, Liverpool

Two weeks before John became a BA in Medicine, he died aged 28.  He was buried at St. John the Evangelist Church, Knotty Ash, Liverpool.

The third memorial the smallest commemorates Ashton Bostock.  Lieutenant R.A., aged 27.  Who was accidentally killed serving in India, on June 26^th, 1926.

Ashton is the son of Richard Ashton Bostock.  Born in 1898 at Godstone, Surrey.  By the time of the 1901 Census, is residing at Penmaen.

Ranpuna

1925, Ashton marries Alice Carmilla Kathleen Finlay, at Easthampstead. Two years later, in 1927, they were passengers on the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation  Company ship “Ranpuna”, bound for India.

Whilst playing polo, Ashton was killed, and he was buried in Bangalore, India.