Like many, I have been tracing my family roots back.  Through the Ancestry website, I have traced my Mothers side back to the 1841 Census, where they lived at that time in Barnard St, in Town.  They lived in many streets, including Gigant St, Milford Hill, Milford St, Culver St & Spring Court in St Edmund.  John Burton, my Great Great Great Uncle, was born in Salisbury in 1816.  This is as far as I have gone to date, but I intend to go further.  The family, including my Parents,  lived around the St Martin area for decades & decades and many still do!

I have been trying to trace my Granddad’s WWI service details along with his Brother, who, with thousands of others, was tragically killed.  Unfortunately, some 70% of all the WWI records were destroyed in WWII, by an incendiary bomb in 1940.  Their details, if anyone can add to this are:

32815  Pte Albert BURTON  3rd Reserve Cavalry Regt.  Was gassed in the war and survived.  Died in 1963.

267162  Pte William James BURTON  Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry.  Died on 9th September 1917, at the 3rd Battle of Ypres, aged 28.  He lived at 63 Rampart Rd, with his Wife Eliza Caroline Burton.