Biography:
Gilbert Leggett (536)
27/01/1885 –17/12/1911
Gilbert Leggett (536)
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Plot 536 Gilbert Leggett (1885-1911)
Gilbert was born in Clapton, London on 27 January 1885 to Benjamin and Alice (née Nunn) Leggatt. Both his parents were from Suffolk and his father was a Civil Service clerk in the savings bank section of the Post Office.
The family eventually moved to Harpenden where Gilbert was baptised in 1900, aged 15, along with several of his siblings.
The next year he was employed as a nursery gardener and later became a florist and nursery foreman.
On 22 April 1905 he married Annie Parker in the parish church of Bexley Heath, Kent, and they settled in the area. Alice was born in 1905 and Bertram Eric in 1909. In April 1911 the family were living at 65, High Street, Welling, Kent, but on 17 December 1911 Gilbert died aged only 26 at “St Keverne”, King’s Road, Berkhamsted, his parents’ home.
His brother Ralph (died 1954) was buried here with him. His sister Olive and brother Cyril are buried in Plot 503.
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Plot 536 Gilbert Leggett (1885-1911)
Gilbert was born in Clapton, London on 27 January 1885 to Benjamin and Alice (née Nunn) Leggatt. Both his parents were from Suffolk and his father was a Civil Service clerk in the savings bank section of the Post Office.
The family eventually moved to Harpenden where Gilbert was baptised in 1900, aged 15, along with several of his siblings.
The next year he was employed as a nursery gardener and later became a florist and nursery foreman.
On 22 April 1905 he married Annie Parker in the parish church of Bexley Heath, Kent, and they settled in the area. Alice was born in 1905 and Bertram Eric in 1909. In April 1911 the family were living at 65, High Street, Welling, Kent, but on 17 December 1911 Gilbert died aged only 26 at “St Keverne”, King’s Road, Berkhamsted, his parents’ home.
His brother Ralph (died 1954) was buried here with him. His sister Olive and brother Cyril are buried in Plot 503.
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