Johnson Gibson Family History
Francis Edgar LEIGH
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Generation: 1
Generation: 2
Generation: 3
1. Francis Edgar LEIGH was born in 1873 in Mirfield Yorkshire; died on 16 Feb 1912 in Shildon Lodge Colliery Shildon Co Durham. Notes:
1911 RG14 29745 504 at 18 Dent Street Shildon 4 rooms head married coal miner hewer aged 38 born Mirfield Named as Frank Also had Mary Pickles mot in law widow aged 52 born Dewsbury
Birth:
1911 Census
Died:
Durham Mining Museum website
Age: 39
Died: 16th Feb 1912
Accident: 16th Feb 1912
Year Born: abt. 1873
Colliery: Shildon Lodge
Company: Bolckow Vaughan and Co. Ltd.
Occupation: Hewer
Notes:
he was kirving at the face of a bord when a large stone fell from a "roll" in the roof and killed him instantly; both he and his marrow were aware of this "roll" and had timbered it as they thought securely, but the stone apparently moved sideways and canted the timber out
Buried: [not known]Francis married Edith PICKLES in 1903. Edith (daughter of Timothy PICKLES and Mary DOWNS) was born on 9 Apr 1878 in Beck Hill Wilsey Yorkshire. [Group Sheet]
Children:
- 2. Leslie LEIGH
was born on 19 Mar 1904 in Dewsbury Yorkshire; died in 1997.
- 3. Edith LEIGH
was born in 1907 in Shildon Co Durham.
- 4. Muriel LEIGH
was born in 1910 in Shildon Co Durham.
- 2. Leslie LEIGH
Generation: 2
2. Leslie LEIGH (1.Francis1) was born on 19 Mar 1904 in Dewsbury Yorkshire; died in 1997.
Other Events:
- Baptism: 20 Apr 1904, All Saints Dewsbury Yorkshire
Notes:
1911 RG14 29745 504 at 18 Dent Street Shildon son single aged 7 born Dewsbury
1939 Register 547/4 FGAG 235 at 35 Foundary Street Shildon male married minister of labour employment clerk born 19th Mar 1904
Birth:
1939 Register
Baptism:
Ancestry West Yorkshire CofE records All Saints Dewsbury No 3400 20th Apr 1904
Leslie to Edgar & Edith Leigh of 37 Woodville Leeds Road clerk DOB 19th Mar 1904
Died:
Ancestry Civil Registration Death Index Apr 1997 Reading & Wokingham WOK35 3202 142 aged 93 DOB 19th Mar 1904Leslie married Nellie JACKSON in 1933. Nellie (daughter of John Henry JACKSON and Mary J ROBINSON) was born on 3 Nov 1908 in Shildon Co Durham; died in 1984. [Group Sheet]
Children:
3. Edith LEIGH (1.Francis1) was born in 1907 in Shildon Co Durham.
Notes:
1911 RG14 29745 504 at 18 Dent Street Shildon dau single aged 4 born Shildon
Birth:
1911 Census4. Muriel LEIGH (1.Francis1) was born in 1910 in Shildon Co Durham.
Notes:
1911 RG14 29745 504 at 18 Dent Street Shildon dau single aged 1 born Shildon
Birth:
1911 Census
Generation: 3