Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Stanley Charles Gregory was born on 17th November 1906. He was the second of three children born to Alfred and Ada Gregory. At the time of the census in 1911 the family was living at 65 Blythe Road, Kensington and Stanley was 4 years old. In 1921 Stanley’s mother Ada died. Stanley would have been 13 years old at the time of her death. Five years later in 1926 his younger brother Harold died. On 14th August 1932 Stanley married Hilda Mortimer. The marriage was celebrated at the parish church in Clapham. Stanley was 25 years of age and Hilda 26. Stanley’s address is given as 40 Old Town and his occupation, like that of his father and older brother Laurence was that of butcher. The electoral rolls reveal that Stanley and Hilda next lived at 30 Silverthorne Road, Wandsworth Stanley and Hilda had two children, Valerie, who was born in the first quarter of 1935 and Beryl, born towards the end of 1936. The births of both children were registered in Wandsworth. The 1939 Register tells us that at the date the register was compiled, Stanley was resident at 185 Manor Road, Mitcham. Stanley was still working as a butcher, his occupation being noted as “Butcher meat shopkeeper.” Neither Hilda or either of the girls were registered in 1939 as being resident at 185 Manor Road. Hilda was in Berkhamsted and had probably been evacuated from London with the two girls at the outbreak of the Second World War. Stanley’s father Alfred died in 1949 and his older brother Laurence died in 1974. Stanley himself died five years later on 10th June 1979 at the age of 72. His death was registered in Lambeth, so presumably after the end of the war he, Hilda and the children returned to live in London.  He was buried in Rectory Lane Cemetery in the same plot as his mother and younger brother Harold.