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Monument Details
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Very large flat stone covering plot. |
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Limestone Engraved |
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Tablet: "He that believeth on the Son / hath everlasting life." / In Loving Memory of / Thomas Leonard / 18th Aug. 1865. / Charles Unwin / Leonard / 11th. Feb. 1874 / son of the above. / Isabel Wilson / Leonard / 29th March 1900. / Interred at Norwood, / widow of the above / Thomas Leonard. / Ellen Leonard / 5th January 1885. //
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Good but easily covered by grass cutting and moss. MI clear when cleaned and in good light. |
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ChNW8 |
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Thomas was a Master Miller from Calne, working in Oxford Rd, Speen. He was widowed by the 1851 census with 2 daughters, working as a Miller employing 5 men at Donnington Bridge. His first wife was Sarah Bunting. His 2nd wife, Isabel, was the daughter of a clerk in the Navy Office from Brixton, London and returned to the area when widowed, dying there & being buried in Norwood Cemetery. Charles had 7 siblings and 2 half-siblings. No record of any occupation but two brothers became Auctioneer's clerks. one a solicitor and the youngest, John worked as a Scenic artist in the Theatre. Ellen was Thomas' sister who lodged in Hungerford at her death. She had earlier lived with her widowed father, also a Milller and Magistrate in Kingston, Surrey. Thomas's sister, Mary Leonard, married Joseph Adey, Coal Merchant of West Mills. Both families are buried in NRC: His sister Jane Leonard in NE25(A); his nieces, Augusta, Mary Ann & Louisa Adey in ChNW20; his nephew Joseph & his infant son Clifford Plummer Adey in Ch10(C); & his nephew Rupert John with his wife Fanny in Ch5(C). Source: Ages at death calculated from Ancestry burial & death records & other information from Census records. Name of first wife on daughter, Mrs Elizabeth Leonard Cooper's Pennsylvanian death ceritificate.
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01 November 2017 |
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EAC |
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