Leonard
ARDRON IV (1907 – 1939)
Father: George
Henry Ardron I (1884 – 1954)
Mother: Sarah Ann Hepworth (1887 – 1956)
Tree extract starting with common ancestor to me:
My 4th cousin 2 times removed was born in 1907.
(GRO ref Rotherham 9c 461 Dec
1907)
On the 1911 Census Leonard was aged 3 and living
with his parents at 17 Court 5 House, Boston Street, Ecclesall, Sheffield,
Yorkshire:
a) George Henry Ardron, head, married, 27, file cutter, worker, Yorkshire,
Sheffield
b) Sarah Ann Ardron, wife, married (7 years), 24, Yorkshire, Sheffield
c) Leonard Ardron, son, single, 3, Yorkshire, Sheffield
d) Gladys Ardron, daughter, single, 5, Yorkshire, Sheffield
e) Annie Elizabeth Ardron, daughter, single, 0, Yorkshire, Sheffield
(PRO ref RG14 piece 27818)
1921 CENSUS?? AGED 13?
Leonard
married Rosetta Ashton on 18 My 1929 at St Mary’s Church, Bramall Lane,
Sheffield. He was aged 21, an oxygen cutter, and of 98 Boston Street. Rosetta
was aged 18 and of 50 Pearl Street. Their fathers were George Henry Ardron, a
file cutler, and George Ashton, a spoon and fork filer. Witnesses were
Leonard’s elder sister Gladys Ardron and her future husband Joseph William
Thorpe. (Sheffield
Archives - Parish Marriages, ref PR-56-2-20, pg 203 + GRO ref Sheffield 9c 1114
Jun 1929 – Ashton)
He
died on Tuesday 10 January 1939 aged 31 after an accident at the Grimesthorpe
Works of the English Steel Corporation, Ltd., where he worked. He was on top of
scaffolding and using an oxy acetylene torch to cut up girders in an old work
shop when he fell 30 feet to the ground and suffered fatal injuries. (GRO ref Sheffield 9c 670 Mar 1939 – [aged]
31 + Sheffield Telegraph and Daily Independent Newspaper, published 11 January
1939)
An inquest into his death recorded a verdict of
“accidental death”. He was living at 120 Swanbourne Road, Sheffield Land Top,
Sheffield with his wife and two young children as reported by the Sheffield
Telegraph and Daily Independent Newspaper on 11 January 1939:
CITY MAN DIES AFTER FALL AT WORKS
Leonard Ardron, aged 31, of 120, Swanbourne Road, Sheffield
Land Top, Sheffield, was fatally injured at the Grimesthorpe Works of the
English Steel Corporation, Ltd., last night.
Ardron, an oxyacetylene burner, was burning girders in an old shop at the works
when he fell from the scaffolding.
He was taken to Sheffield Royal Infirmary, but was dead on arrival. He leaves a
widow and two young children. (Sheffield Telegraph and Daily
Independent Newspaper, 11 January 1939)
Rosetta ASHTON
(1910 - 1982)
She was born on 16 October 1910. (1939 Register + GRO ref )
1911 CENSUS?? AGED 1?
On the 1939 Register
Rosetta was shown as a widow following Leonard’s death earlier that year and
living at 17 Palgrave Road, Sheffield C.B., Yorkshire:
a) Rosetta Oxley (Ardron crossed out), widowed, 16 October 1910, unpaid
domestic duties
b) The record for this person is officially closed – expected to be her
daughter Rosetta
c) The record for this person is officially closed – expected to be her
daughter Shirley
(PRO ref: RG101/3530E/018/41
Letter Code: KIKM) The
register was updated to reflect her marriage to Sydney Oxley in 1942.
Rosetta went on to
marry Sydney Oxley in 1942. (GRO
ref Sheffield 9c 1103 Dec 1942 – Oxley)
She died in 1982. (GRO ref Sheffield 3 2256 Mar 1982
– [born] 16OC1910)
LEONARD AND ROSETTA HAD THE
FOLLOWING CHILDREN:
1) Rosetta Ardron (1929 -)
She was born in 1929. (GRO ref Ecclesal B. 9c 664 Dec 1929 – Ashton)
Rosetta married Denis
Powers in
1947. (GRO ref Sheffield
2d 295 Sep 1947 – Powers)
Denis POWERS (-)
BORN??
DIED??
Rosetta and Denis had two sons – Stephen
Powers (1952) and Garry Powers (1958)
2) Shirley Ardron II (1935 -)
She was born in 1935. (GRO ref Sheffield 9c 518 Jun 1935 – Ashton)
Shirley married Raymond Hallam in 1955. (GRO ref
Sheffield 2d 250 Sep 1955 – Hallam)
Raymond Hallam
(-)
BORN??
DIED??
Shirley and Raymond had two children – Elaine Hallam (1956) and Ian G
Hallam (1963)
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