Biography of Leonard Humble SMITH
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Biography of Leonard Humble SMITH
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Daisy Emily Cheary was born in Ash, Kent on 29 April 1893, the only girl of the four children of Elvey and Mary Ann Cheary.
In 1901, the family is shown as living in Brands Hatch in the Kingsdown part of Dartford Rural District and that her father was a farmers labourer.
The 1911 census records Daisy employed as a parlour maid to the widowed Deborah Crosley and her family at Saddlers Hall in Eynsford.
On 24 July 1915, Daisy married Leonard Humble Smith at St.Nicholas of Myra church in Southfleet, Kent. She was a daughter of Elvey and Mary Ann Cheary of Ash. Leonard's occupation was given as that of labourer on the certificate.
Daisy and Leonard had two sons, Leonard Frank Elvey born in 1916 and Thomas Ivor born in 1923.
At some point, the couple moved to 5 Willow Terrace in Eynsford. They were living there in April 1931 when Leonard suffered an epilectic fit and and drowned in the river Darenth. The 1939 register shows Emily still living in Willow Terrace with her son Leonard and brother Bertie. It is understood that Daisy would lay out corpses to earn some money.
Daisy passed away at Leyton House in Wilmington, Kent on Valentines Day in 1974. Her home address had been 332 Eastern Avenue East, Gidea Park, Romford, Essex. She had suffered broncho pneumonia and a brain haemorrhage.
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