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William Pagdin.

Born in 1900 in Stanbury. Served in Liverpool Regiment as a Private. Service number 70289 and in the Labour Corps as a Private, Service number 45888. Eldest son of William ( born in Ackworth, Yorks. in 1867 ) and Sarah Hannah, nee Kellett , ( born in Lumbrook , Yorks in 1869) who were married in Halifax in 1899.

In 1901 the couple lived with infant William in Stanbury with another Pagdin family. They were Edmund ( born Ackworth in 1862) and Elizabeth with several children who like their father worked in textiles.This family of Pagdins moved to Stanbury around 1890, and in 1901 had a lodger, Elizabeth Haddon, who came from a London orphanage to work in the mill.

William( snr )was a stone quarryman.In 1881 he was a scholar living with his mother Sarah and several siblings at Ackworth. Sarah, a widow ,was a quarry owner and publican.

William and Sarah had, by 1911, three other children and still lived in Stanbury. He died in 1945 aged 77 years and she died in early 1922 aged 52. Both deaths registered in Keighley. Son William married Edith Webster in 1925.