CFHS code : PL426
Parish : St Paul
Inscription : Sacred to the Memory of CHARLES WILLIAM ALLEN Staff Sergt ASC 6th Essex Regt d November 18th 1924 aged 46
Monument : Headstone (small)/Kerb stones
Above information from Cambridge Family History Society Survey
Monument
This small headstone with kerbs and corner posts all intact is located in the centre of the parish roughly 14 rows east of the central path and 11 monument north of the south path.
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Inscription
Sacred to the Memory of CHARLES WILLIAM ALLEN
Staff Sergt ASC 6th Essex Regt. Died November 18th 1924.
Aged 46 years
“To live in the heart of those we love is not to die”
Charles William Allen (21 July 1878 – 18 November 1924)
Charles was born in Clerkenwell and baptised at St. George’s East church on 11 August 1878. He was the son of Robert and Charlotte (née Hopkins) and grew up at Old Gravel Lane, Chandler Street. Robert Allen worked as a lighterman (a worker who operated a flat bottom barge). Aged 22 (1901) Charles was living with his parents and siblings at 13 Sherrard Road and working as a wheelwright.
He married Florence Mabel Cox (1881-) at St. Mary the Virgin in Plaistow on 21 November 1903 and they had two children: Charles and Florence. In 1911 the family were living in Forest Gate in Essex.
Sometime after 1911 the family moved to live at 37b Russell Street and Charles died there aged 46 years old.
Source:
Ancestry
by Claire Martinsen. Many thanks to Peter W, great-grandson of Charles Allen for providing some information and permission to use the family photos.
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