Leggett family East London

[STAN54]

Can anyone help me find information on this 'Leggett' family.

The family l believe lived in the Bethnal Green area and all died in the underground tragedy in March 1943.

They are named on the Bethnal Green memorial near the underground station which I have been supporting for some years. The secretary of the Bethnal Green Memorial Trust would like to find relatives of the family.

http://stairwaytoheavenmemorial.org/


The family were:

Benjamin Leggett aged 33,
Rose Leggett aged 31,
And Roy Leggett aged 7.

Thanks for looking at my post.

[PaulineJ]

We won't be able to help locate the still-living. Site Policy.

Free index on the 1939 reveals at a single address

Benjamin +
Ernest M    Leggett   1914
Rose M G   Leggett   1910
Livinid M   Leggett   1906

Don't know where Roy was...   

Birth indexes:
Births Dec 1931  Leggett    (girl's name)    Gable    Stepney    1c   172    
Births Sep 1935  Leggett    Roy B    Gable    Bethnal G.    1c   87   

Marriages Mar 1931   (>99%)
Gable    Rose M    Leggett    Bethnal G.    1c   209   
Leggett    Benjamin G    Gable    Bethnal G.    1c   209

[Ladyhawk]

Is this the same Benjamin?

Benjamin George Leggett of 16 Bandon Road Bethnal Green died  3rd March 1943
Tube Shelter Roman Road  Bethnal Green
 Administration Llandudno  18  Nov 1943 to Lavinia Martha Leggett widow & Ernest James Leggett railway platelayer

[keyboard86]

Hi Benjamin G Leggett married Rose M Gable March qtr 1931 Bethnal Green, two children prior to 1939 including a Roy B Leggett Sept qtr 1935 mmn Gable
Keyboard86

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[Ladyhawk]

Benjamin George had a brother

William John Leggett
Birth Date:   20 May 1907
Baptism Date:   26 Jun 1907
Baptism Place:   St James The Less, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, England
Father:   Benjamin Leggett
Mother:   Lavinia Martha Leggett

It looks as if he died

William John Leggett
Death Age:   80
Birth Date:   30 May 1907
Registration Date:   Sep 1987
Registration district:   Hastings and Rother
Inferred County:   East Sussex
Volume:   18 yPage:   874

[Ladyhawk]

UK, WWII Civilian Deaths, 1939-1945
Roy Benjamin Leggett age 7
abt 1936   3 Mar 1943   Bethnal Green, London son of Benjamin George, Rose Maud   
Parents also listed address 16 Bandon Road

[Ladyhawk]

Benjamin George Leggett’s brother died 1953

Ernest  J LEGGETT
Birth year   1914
Age   39
Death quarter   4 Death year   1953
District   Bethnal Green Volume   5C Page   131

[Ladyhawk]

Births Dec 1931  Leggett    (girl's name)    Gable    Stepney    1c   172    
Y

Marriages Mar 1931   (>99%)
Gable    Rose M    Leggett    Bethnal G.    1c   209   
Leggett    Benjamin G    Gable    Bethnal G.    1c   209

Did their daughter go to New Zealand ?

J Leggett Birth 15 9 1931
Marital status   S
Address 19 Somerville Road New Cross SE 14 (she’s at that address 1953/54 on London ER)
Occupation   HOFFMAN PRESSER
Departure year   1956
Departure day   8
Departure month   8
Departure port   Glasgow
Destination port   New Zealand
Destination   NEW ZEALAND

J L Leggett, spinster
Electoral Year:   1957
District:   Wellington Central
Region or Province:   Wellington

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Lavinia Leggett from the probate registry was Benjamin's mother. she's listed on  WW1 pension service lists but can;t find her husband's death

A tree on Ancestry has a daughter listed for Benjamin and Rose who emigrated to New Zealand, married, had children and died in 1992