Birth: April-June 1897 Ponders End, Middlesex, UK
Father: Alfred James Webb 1854-1902
Mother: Ann Cain (Kaine) 1857-1938
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: July-September 1937 Edmonton, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Constance Agnes Preston 1909-1984
Death: October-December 1965 Enfield, Greater London, UK
Sylvia A Webb [Quickfall] 1938-a1973
Frances C Webb 1943
Anthony L G Webb 1949
Birth of Leonard Moses Webb in FreeBMD in April-June 1897 in Edmonton (3a 465).
In the 1901 census as Leonard Webb aged 4, born in Ponders End, Middlesex, and living with his parents (Alfred and Annie), three brothers (James, John and William), two sisters (Jane and Kate), cousin (John Webb) and a visitor (Henry Webb) at 1 Suez Road, Enfield, Middlesex.
His father died in Edmonton in 1902.
In the 1911 census as Leonard K (sic - in the index, M on the original) Webb aged 14, born in Enfield, Middlesex, and living with his widowed mother (Anne), brother (James) and two sisters (Johana and Kate) in three rooms at 19 Napier Road, Ponders End, Middlesex.
Entry in Ancestry British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920 for Leonard Webb aged 18 years 9 month, a labourer, height 5 ft 8 in, Chester 32.5+2 in, Roman Catholic, next of kin mother Annie Webb address 170 Scotland Green Road, Ponders End, Middlesex, attested 10 January 1916 in Edmonton, put on Army Reservers, joined 7340 Durham Light Infantry at Mill Hill on 22 September 1916, embacked Folkstone 17 June 1916 to Boulogne, transfered to 325128 8th West Yorkshire Regiment on 5 July 1917, gassed on 22 July 1917, home 1 August 1917 and discharged on 29 November 1917 with tubercle of lungs, received British War Medal and Victory Medal on 19 January 1922.
Entry in Ancestry British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 for Leonard Webb private 325128 W Yorks R 8th.
There are nine entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Leonard Moses Webb address 170 Scotland Green Road, Enfield in 1931 to 1934, other occupants Ann Webb (mother?) and Catherine Frances Gutteridge and 233 Durants Road, Enfield in 1935 to 1937, other occupants Anne Webb (mother?) and Catherine Frances Gutteridge.
Marriage of Leonard M Webb and Constance A Preston in FreeBMD in July-September 1937 in Edmonton (3a 3559).
His three children were born in Edmonton in 1938 to 1949.
There are two entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Leonard Moses Webb address 116 St Mary's Road, Bury Street, Edmonton in 1938 to 1939, other occupant Constance Agnes Webb (wife?), and eighteen entries for Leonard M Webb address 116 St Mary's Road, Bury Street, Edmonton in 1946 to 1964, other occupants Constance A Webb (wife?), Sylvia A Webb (daughter?) in 1959 to 1961, Frances C Webb (daughter?) in 1964, and Teresa M Webb in 1964.
Death of Leonard M Webb in FreeBMD in October-December 1965 aged 68 in Enfield (5b 383).
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Leonard Moses Webb born in Middlesex in 1897 and died in 1964, and another adding his birth in Ponders End, Middlesex, parents Alfred James Webb and Ann Caine
Note Edmonton, Middlesex became part of Enfield, Greater London on 1 April 1965.
Leonard Moses Webb was the father of Sylvia A Webb, wife of Paul Gregory Quickfall, son of Johanna Augusta Guth, aunt of Joan Mary G Mehrtens, wife of Raymond Ian Frampton, my first cousin.
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