Biography:
Herbert Tofield (964)
1874 –25/06/1903
Herbert Tofield (964)
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Plot 964
Kate Elizabeth TOFIELD died 25th May 1941 aged 64.
Also of Herbert TOFIELD died 25th June 1903 aged 29.
Herbert TOFIELD
Herbert Tofield was born in July 1874. His parents were Albert and Emma TOFIELD, living in 8, West Passage, Tring. Albert was an agricultural labourer, and Herbert was the second of their nine children. The family seems to have been quite peripatetic, moving around as their children were born. By the time Herbert was 16, he had followed in his father’s footsteps and was also an agricultural labourer, working for Mr Swanson in Tring and now living in Halton, Bucks, still with his parents and siblings.
In May 1892, when Herbert was nearly 18 years old, he decided on a change and enrolled with the 4th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment. His term of service was to be 6 years. By the time he married a local girl, Kate Elizabeth BILBEY in 1897 in Berkhamsted, he must have been a very different young man.
By the 1901 census the couple were living in Berkhamsted at 7, Prospect Place and Herbert had now found a job working as a labourer in a chemical works, almost certainly Coopers chemical works Herbert was 26 years old and was the father of two small children.
One wonders what caused Herbert’s death at the young age of 29. Possibly an accident at work? But he left behind his young wife, aged only 27 at the time, with three children aged under five. He died on the 25th June 1903 and is buried in Plot 964.
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Plot 964
Kate Elizabeth TOFIELD died 25th May 1941 aged 64.
Also of Herbert TOFIELD died 25th June 1903 aged 29.
Herbert TOFIELD
Herbert Tofield was born in July 1874. His parents were Albert and Emma TOFIELD, living in
8, West Passage, Tring. Albert was an agricultural labourer, and Herbert was the second of their nine children. The family seems to have been quite peripatetic, moving around as their children were born. By the time Herbert was 16, he had followed in his father’s footsteps and was also an agricultural labourer, working for Mr Swanson in Tring and now living in Halton, Bucks, still with his parents and siblings.
In May 1892, when Herbert was nearly 18 years old, he decided on a change and enrolled with the 4th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment. His term of service was to be 6 years. By the time he married a local girl, Kate Elizabeth BILBEY in 1897 in Berkhamsted, he must have been a very different young man.
By the 1901 census the couple were living in Berkhamsted at 7, Prospect Place and Herbert had now found a job working as a labourer in a chemical works, almost certainly Coopers chemical works Herbert was 26 years old and was the father of two small children.
One wonders what caused Herbert’s death at the young age of 29. Possibly an accident at work? But he left behind his young wife, aged only 27 at the time, with three children aged under five. He died on the 25th June 1903 and is buried in Plot 964.
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