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Charles and Pamela Leonard were buried at St. Nicholas Cemetery, Rochester, Kent, England The inscription reads: West side IN LOVING MEMORY OF CHARLES LEONARD DIED FEBY. 23rd 1913 AGED 68 PAMELA LEONARD DIED JUNE 10th 1911 AGED 65 “Thou hast set our life in the light of thy countenance” east side IN LOVING MEMORY OF […]

Charles Henry Kettle was born on 6 April 1821, probably in Elham, Kent, England. He was the youngest son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Kettle. He married Amelia Omer on 10 September 1845, in Sandwich, Kent, England. They arrived at Otago by the Mary Catherine on 23 February 1846. Charles Henry died on 5 June 1862, […]

James Alfred Leonard was born in 1879 to Charles and Pamela Leonard in Kent, England. The Leonard family was living in Rochester, Kent, where Charles had a drapery business on the High Street. In 1891, James, 13, was a boarder at Buckland Hill school in Maidstone, Kent. His brother William John, 14, was also there. […]

Amy Louise Ellis was born in 1874 in Anerley, London, England. Her parents were George Ellis and Charlotte Matilda Rogers. George was a wine merchant. Amy had two brothers, George and William John. The younger George Ellis married Amelia Amy Theobald in 1888. There are other family connections between the Angliss, Ellis, Theobald, Torond and […]

Photograph of shop frontages of Charles Leonard and Sons, 108-120 High Street, Rochester, drapers and H. Jasper and Sons Ltd., 106 High Street, confectioners, looking diagonally across the High Street from a point slightly to the west, showing window displays, roofline and tramlines. c.1923-c.1924.The building at 106 High Street still exists, but the other Leonards shop buildings […]

Elizabeth Frazier was born in 1780 in Ninfield, Sussex, England. Her parents were Jasper Frazier and Mary Briant. Two of Elizabeth’s younger siblings, Jasper and Ann, were born in Goudhurst, Kent, and the next two, Martin and Zebulon, were born in Hawkhurst, Kent. On 27 January 1801, Elizabeth married George Cheesman, at Hawkhurst, Kent. At […]

Jane Cheesman was born in 1808 at Hawkhurst, Kent, England. Her parents were George Cheesman and Elizabeth Frazier. On 12 February 1839, she married John Leonard at the Parish Church of Hawkhurst. In the 1901 Census, Jane Leonard is recorded as living at Highgate Hill, Hawkhurst, at age 92, “Living on own means”. She lived with her […]

John Leonard was born on 6 November 1812 to William and Ann Leonard of Hadlow, Kent, England John Leonard married Jane Cheesman on 12 February 1839, at the Parish Church of Hawkhurst, Kent, England. The England and Wales Census records his occupation as follows: Sources

Charles Leonard was born in 1845 to JOHN and JANE Leonard of Hawkhurst, Kent, England. Charles Leonard married PAMELA ROBERTSON on 14 March 1871 at Christ Church, Saint Albans, Hertford, England. Charles Leonard had a drapery business on the High Street in Rochester, Kent (LEONARD & SONS). Charles died in 1913 aged 68. Sources

Mary Ann Eames was born in 1845 in Wellow, Somerset, England. Mary Ann’s parents were William Shore Eames and Lavinia Hill. Mary Ann married George Hall on 21 December 1872 at St. Lukes Church in Bedminster, Somerset, England. In the 1901 census, the Hall family was living in Tudor Street, Bristol. William, 27, was a Dairy […]