Edwin Allan HITCHON, b: 1894

^{1914 - 1918 World War I}
^{1922 USSR formed by Soviet states}
^{1939 - 1945 World War II}
^{1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)}
^{1950 Korean War begins}

^{1871 Franco - Prussian War}
^{1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy}
^{1899 Boer War begins}
^{1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight}
^{1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage}

^{1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeat}
^{1830 French Revolution}
^{1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne}
^{1854 Crimean War with Russia}
^{1869 Opening of Suez Canal}


		^{Ambrose HITCHON}^{b.1813 Whalley, Lancs d.1891 Burnley, Lancs}

	^{Amos HITCHON}^{b.1851 Whalley, Lancs d.1932 Blackpool, Lancs}	^{Agnes BAMBER}^{b.1817 Mearton or Marton d.1886 Burnley, Lancs}

^{Edwin Allan HITCHON}^{b.1894 Burnley, Lancs d.1975 Chester, Cheshire}

	^{Nancy SANDIFORD}^{b.1859 Compstall, Cheshire d.1896 Barrowford, Lancs}





^{Beatrice JONES}^{b.1899 d.1943 Chester, Cheshire}