Birth: 6 September 1907 Sheerness on Sea, Kent, UK
Father: Matthias Legg 1874-1943
Mother: Gladys Muriel Evelyn Kettle [Thorning] 1888-1975
Marriage: July-September 1932 Epsom, Surrey, UK
Wife: Edith Louise Norwood 1911-1973
Death: June 1983 Mid Eastern Surrey, UK
Sheila M Legg [Crayden, Rapley] 1934-a1963
Shirley A Legg 1943
Linda J Legg 1943
Birth of Matthias Charles Legg, in FreeBMD in October-December 1907 in Sheppey (2a 979).
His two brothers and two sisters were born in Sheppey from 1909 to 1916.
In the 1911 census as Matthias Legg aged 3, born in Sheerness on Sea, Kent, and living with his mother (Gladys) and sister (Daphne) in two rooms at 116 James Street, Sheerness on Sea, Sheerness, Kent. His father was on the Endymion, a first class cruiser in Sheerness Harbour.
In the 1921 census as Matthias Legg born in Sheerness, Kent in 1907 and living with Matthias Legg (father?), Hayden and Ivan Legg (brothers?), Nora (should this be Udah?) Legg (sister?) and Bertha and Dora Hettle (sic - I assume this is Kettle and they are aunts) in Sheerness, Sheppey, Kent. His mother was living at St George the Martyr, Southwark, London, Surrey.
Marriage of Matthias C Legg and Edith L Norwood in FreeBMD in July-September 1932 in Epsom (2a 121).
His first daughter was born in Mid Eastern Surrey in 1934.
There are three entries in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Matthias Charles Legg address 2 Kemp's Cottages, Fairfield Road, Leatherhead, Epsom from 1936 to 1937, other occupant Edith Louise Legg (wife?), and 5 Oak Road, Leatherhead, Epsom in 1938, other occupants Edith Louise Legg (wife?) and Louise Lewin.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Matthias C Legg born 6 September 1907, married, a tram & trolleybus conductor and an ARP Warden - Crayford District Council, and living with William J F Clark, Lydia A Clark, Ethel V C Clark and Alberta M Clerk at "Millfield", Crayford, Kent. His wife was living at 5 Oak Road, Leatherhead.
his second daughter was born in Dartford in 1943, and third in Mid Eastern Surrey in 1949.
There are ten entries in Ancestry All Surrey, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1962 for Matthias C Legg address 40 Randalls Crescent, Leatherhead, Epsom from 1947 to 1962, other occupants Edith L Legg (wife?), Alan D A Sherwood in 1952, Charles R Crayden (son-in-law?) in 1954, and Sheila Crayden (daughter?) from 1958 to 1962.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Matthias Charles Legg, born 6 September 1907, in June 1983 in Surrey Mid Eastern (17 20).
There are fourteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Matthias Charles Legg.
Matthias Charles Legg (1907-1983) was the father of Sheila M Legg, wife of Charles Richard Crayden, husband of Collette V Freeman, wife of Kevin S G Booker, my fourth cousin once removed.
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