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Family of David Lugsden 1864-1946

Genealogy

David Lugsden was born on the 29th March 1864 in Bedford Square Eaton Bray. His father Jabez was at different times a Straw Plaiter and Agricultural Labourer and his mother Deborah (nee Gadsden) a Straw Plaiter.

He married Sarah Ann Rollings on the 2nd August 1884 in Eaton Bray and set up home in the High Street working as a Livestock Labourer and Groom. David and Sarah were to have 8 children, 3 daughters and 5 sons of whom were to serve King and Country in the Great War. Only one son Jesse was to survive. That was not the end of the family loss as daughter Lizzie also lost her husband Harold Smallbones to the war in 1917.

But tragedy was to strike the family before the war as in 1907 Sarah Ann died age 45 leaving David with 8 children although only one, Arthur was still at school.

After the war at age 54 David married 30 year old Kate Clark and they were to have 5 more children, 4 daughters and 1 son. Again the luck was not with the family as 2 of the daughters did not survive infanthood and another daughter died at only age 20.

Son Frederick went on to serve in the second world war in the Royal Navy surviving to the age of 75.

A grandson of David, Ronald son of first son Albert also served in the RAF also surviving and living to the age of 89.

David died in 1946 age 82. He and Kate are burried in the same plot in Bower Lane Eaton Bray.

Registrations for the David & Sarah Lugsden Family

David Lugsden
Birth June 1864 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 409
Marriage to Sarah Ann Rollings September 1884 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 677
Marriage to Kate Clark June 1918 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 757
Death September 1946 Leighton Buzzard Beds age 82 4a 88

Sarah Ann Rollings
Birth March 1862 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b ???
Death March 1907 Leighton Buzzard Beds age 45 3b 282

Children

Ada Lugsden
Birth June 1885 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 414
Marriage to Walter Ryder June 1906 Kingston Surrey 2a 894
Death Unknown at present.

Albert Lugsden
Birth March 1887 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 398
Marriage to Ada Gadsden September 1913 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 889
Death July 1916 France & Flanders

Lizzie Lugsden
Birth September 1889 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 403
Marriage to Harold Smallbones June 1911 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 879
Marriage to John Turner December 1920 Luton Beds 3b 1128
Death Unknown at present

Jesse Lugsden
Birth June 1891 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 435
Marriage to Albinia Nicholls December 1922 Luton Beds 3b 983
Death March 1973 Luton Beds 4a 571

Rose Lugsden
Birth March 1893 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 391
Marriage to David Hill September 1916 Luton Beds 3b 930
Death Unknown at present

Fred Lugsden
Birth March 1895 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 415
Death March 1917 Palestine

Amos Lugsden
Birth December 1896 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 405
Death July 1918 France

Arthur Lugsden
Birth March 1899 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 401
Death September 1918 France & Flanders

Registrations for David and Kate Lugsden

Kate E Clark
Birth Unknown at present
Marriage to David Lugsden June 1918 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 757
Death December 1926 Leighton Buzzard Beds age 39 3b 404

Children

Dorothy R Lugsden
Birth June 1919 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 437
Death September 1919 Leighton Buzzard Beds age 0 3b 327

Eileen B Lugsden
Birth June 1920 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 743
Death December 1940 Luton Beds age 20 3b 998

Frederick A Lugsden
Birth September 1921 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 598
Marriage to Sarah Ann Elvin September 1943 Luton Beds 3B 1021
Death March 1997 Hull Yorks A54A 42

Maisie J Lugsden
Birth June 1924 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 525
Marriage to Sidney Hutchinson December 1942 Biggleswade Beds 3b 817
Death February 1995 Aylesbury Bucks age 70 A16C 236

Rose Lugsden
Birth December 1925 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 486
Death December 1925 Leighton Buzzard Beds 3b 409

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Also please see the Eaton Bray Roll of Honour.

1911 census as transcribed on Genes Reunited

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