Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Eva Caroline Brinkman (929)

d.27/04/1926

Relatives

Leonard Harold Brinkman (929) — husband

Leonard Harold Brinkman (929)

01/11/1881 –20/08/1941

Market gardener and florist

Relatives

Eva Caroline Brinkman (929) — wife

Dinah Rachael Brinkman (966) — mother

Sarah Hannah Brinkman — other

Adelaide Frances Brinkman — wife

• Melanie Hilton

Plot 929 Leonard Harold Brinkman (1881-1941)

Leonard was born 1 November 1881, at home in the High Street and was baptised in St Peter’s on 28 November 1881. He was son of Albert William Brinkman, a cooper and Dinah Rachael (née Bennet).

In the records of Berkhamsted National School for 1889 he is listed amongst the boys who should be re-examined at the same level as last year as he had failed in reading and writing. However, later on his lack of academic skills do not appear to have prevented him running a successful business.

In March 1901 he was working as both a gardener and a cooper, and lodging with the family of Louis Nicholls, a maltster, at 50, Charles Street

Leonard married Eva Caroline King in St Peter’s on 3 June 1901. He gave his occupation as gardener and his address as Charles Street.

The couple lived in Northchurch for a while – their daughters Queenie (b.1901) and Alexandra (b.1902) were both born there but Violet (b.1903) and Annie (b. 1906) were born at Forest Gate, Essex.

By the time of the birth of Ivy in 1910 Leonard and Eva were back in Berkhamsted, living at 255, High Street and he was a self-employed market gardener, owner of West End Nurseries. Their final daughter, Vera, was born in 1919.

Leonard appears to have specialised in flower growing, as Kelly’s Directory for 1914 and 1937 enters him as a florist.

By the time of the 1921 Census the family were still at 255, High Street. Leonard was “Nurseryman and employer” and Queenie and Violet were employed as sewing machinists at Crosby, Palmer and Stewart’s mantle manufactory in Lower King’s Road.

His wife Eva died 27 April 1927 and is buried here.

Leonard married a second time to Adelaide F Warlow in 1928 in Pembroke.

In the 1939 Register they are shown as living at 275, High Street. Leonard was still working as a market gardener and was an employer.

He died 20 August 1941. Adelaide survived him until April 1944 and is laid to rest here.

His mother Dinah lies in plot 966 and his sister-in-law Sarah Hannah Brinkman, in an unmarked grave in this cemetery.

Adelaide Frances Brinkman

06/05/1886 –1964

Born in Wales, second wife of Leonard.

Relatives

Leonard Harold Brinkman (929) — husband

• Melanie Hilton

Plot 929 Adelaide Frances Brinkman (née Warlow) (1884-1964) 

Born 6 May 1886, baptised 5 July, Tenby, Wales. Daughter of  Richard Warlow, a cabinet maker and house painter and decorator, and Mary Ann (née Jenkins). She had four older brothers and an older sister.

Richard died in 1891 and Adelaide continued to live with her mother at 21, Culver Park, Tenby, working as a dressmaker.

She married widower Leonard Harold Brinkman in 1928 in Pembrokeshire when she was 42 and he was 47. Perhaps, as a market gardener, he had come in search of the famous Tenby daffodils.

In the 1939 Register they are shown as living at 275, High Street. Leonard died in August 1941. Adelaide survived him until 1964 and was buried her with him and his first wife Eva.