Family of Leonard Wilfred HOADLY and Elsie Josephine JENNER

Husband:	Leonard Wilfred HOADLY (1889-1973)
Wife:	Elsie Josephine JENNER (1902-1985)
Children:	Joyce Christine HOADLY (1927-2004)
Marriage	12 May 1927	Camberwell, Surrey

Husband: Leonard Wilfred HOADLY

	Leonard Wilfred HOADLY, 1916, age 26		Leonard Wilfred HOADLY, 1895?, age 6		Leonard Wilfred HOADLY, 1927, age 37		Leonard Wilfred HOADLY

	Leonard Wilfred HOADLY, 1889?, age 0		Leonard Wilfred HOADLY, 1917?, age 28		Leonard Wilfred HOADLY, 1967, age 77		Leonard Wilfred HOADLY, Len Joyce and Elsie Hoadly

Name:	Leonard Wilfred HOADLY
Sex:	Male
Father:	Frederick William HOADLY (1860-1946)
Mother:	Sarah Jane SMITH (1855-1930)
Birth	7 Sep 1889	Plumstead, Greenwich 1,2
Census (1)	5 Apr 1891 (age 1)	Plumstead, Woolwich, London 3
Christening	23 Sep 1896 (age 7)	Brixton, Surrey 4,5
Census (2)	31 Mar 1901 (age 11)	Peckham, Surrey 6
Occupation (1)		Pastry Cook
Education		Woods Road School, Peckham
Census (3)	2 Apr 1911 (age 21)	Peckham, Surrey 7
Occupation (2)	2 Apr 1911 (age 21)	Baker and Pastry Cook; Peckham, Surrey 7
Death	12 Mar 1973 (age 83)	Lewisham, Kent 8

Additional Information

Census (1)	136 Plumstead Road, Plumstead, London
Christening	Saint Jude, East Brixton, Lambeth, Surrey London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 about Leonard Wilfred Hoadly Name: Leonard Wilfred Hoadly Record Type: Baptism Date: 23 Sep 1896 Father's Name: Frederick William Hoadly Mother's Name: Sarah Jane Hoadly Parish: Saint Jude, East Brixton Borough: Lambeth County: Middlesex
Census (2)	198 High Street, Peckham, Surrey
Census (3)	198 High Street, Peckham, Surrey
Death	Cause: 1a Bronchio pneumonia: b: Chronic bronchitis and emphysema Address: 186 Lewisham Road, Lewisham, Kent

Wife: Elsie Josephine JENNER

	Elsie Josephine JENNER, 1928?, age 26		Elsie Josephine JENNER, Elsie Hoadly		Elsie Josephine JENNER, 1927, age 25		Elsie Josephine JENNER, Joyce&Elsie

	Elsie Josephine JENNER

Name:	Elsie Josephine JENNER
Sex:	Female
Father:	Charles William JENNER (1870- )
Mother:	May Elizabeth BEAL (1870-1951?)
Birth	25 Mar 1902	Bermondsey, Southwark, Surrey
Education	frm 22 Aug 1910 to Mar 1916 (age 8-14)	Woods Road School, Harders Road, Peckham, Surrey; Woods Road School, Harders Road, Peckham, Surrey 9
Occupation (1)		Worked At Jones And Higgins
Census	2 Apr 1911 (age 9)	Peckham, Surrey 10
Occupation (2)	2 Apr 1911 (age 9)	School; Peckham, Surrey 10
Death	16 Jan 1985 (age 82)	Lewisham, London 11

Additional Information

Education	Woods Road School, Harders Road, Peckham, Surrey School Number:6513 Father: Charles William Address: 3a Clifton Square Previous School: Infants Dept. Reason for leaving: Over age
Census	3a, Clifton Square, Peckham, London SE
Death	186 Lewisham Road, Lewisham, Kent

Child 1: Joyce Christine HOADLY

	Joyce Christine HOADLY		Joyce Christine HOADLY, 2003, age 75		Joyce Christine HOADLY, 1967, age 39		Joyce Christine HOADLY, 1928?, age 1

	Joyce Christine HOADLY		Joyce Christine HOADLY		Joyce Christine HOADLY, 2003, age 75

Name:	Joyce Christine HOADLY
Sex:	Female
Birth	25 Dec 1927	Camberwell, Surrey 12
Occupation		Ran hosiery dept. Jones and Higgins, Rye Lane, Peckham 13
Death	3 Jun 2004 (age 76)	Sydenham, Surrey
Cremation	18 Jun 2004 (age 76)	Lewisham, London

Additional Information

Death

Cause: Bronchio Pneumonia Address: Pear Tree Private Residential Care Home ,195 - 199 Sydenham Road , Sydenham Died at 12.30pm (Lunchtime)

Cremation

Cause: Bronchio Pneumonia Address: Lewisham Crematorium, Cremation at 10.30. Attended by Valerie Glen-Pearce (Joyce's cousin) and her daughters Ruth, and (?). Ruth's children Max and (?) and (?)'s children Alice and (?). Also Graham Hoadly and Sally Richards. Service presided over by lay preacher Liz Rhys-Jones. Music - Schubert Ave Maria, Verdi Requiem and Walting In The Clouds by Max Jaffa. Joyce's ashes to be scattered with those of her parents, Len and Elsie at Lewisham Crematorium. Len and Elsie were scattered at adjacent plots by the small lake. Joyce's ashes will be scattered in the shape of a cross on the boundary of the two plots.

Note on Husband: Leonard Wilfred HOADLY (1) - shared note

According to his daughter, Joyce, Len was born at midnight - his father maintaining that he was born on the 8th September, whilst his mother was adamant that he was born on the 7th!

 

By the 1891 census, he is at 136 Plumstead Road, with his parents and step sister, Margaret. [RG12/537/22].

 

He went to Woods Road School, and was a choirboy at the Wesleyan Church.

He was fond of cricket.

He left home to work for the Post Office at Littlehampton, regularly driving the mail van to London.

He once shared a cab in Brixton with the great Music Hall star, G.H. Chirgwin.

He joined the Royal Army Service Corps in 1914 and was in the Salonica Campaign.

He also went to North Africa, Mesopotamia, and Palestine.

Was a great boxer in the army, and also joined an army Concert Party, with whom he tap-danced and acted.

Appeared in "Hemlock Shears", a spoof on Sherlock Holmes, which was commended by the Commanding Officer.

He returned from the War via Italy, and a terrible storm, of which his mother was unaware!

After the war, he worked as a pastry cook with his father. Len was mad about cars, and was a better driver than his father, so much so, that his mother would only travel by car if Len was driving.

This became a source of jealousy on the part of Frederick William (who once knocked a milk cart over on Brixton Hill!)

 

[Letter of reference 1911]

 

"The Chantry Mottingham Kent 9/3/11

 

I have known Mr. F.W. Hoadly the Father of Leonard Hoadly for many years he having been in my employ. His son Leonard is a respectable young fellow and well up to any mechanical job he would undertake.

T.G. Cannon"

 

[This would be Thomas G. Cannon who in 1901 census is listed as a flour factor aged 42 and living in Mottingham.

In the 1881 census he is at 2 Pickford Road, Bexley, Kent and is listed as a "phonographer"]

 

In 1918(?) Len appeared as one of the Thing Boys [presumably a burlesque of the Bing Boys with George Robey] in "Top Hole - a Burlesque by members of 738 M.T. Company A.S.C.

It may be that at short notice he took over the role of Hemlock Sheers - a send up of Sherlock Holmes. A note in the programme states:

 

"Dear Cpl. Hoadley [sic]

Many congratulations on your performance tonight. It was the most able work I have ever seen done by an understudy. [illegible name] 11 June 18"

 

Mr. Robert Farrer, who worked alongside Len in 1934 kindly wrote these reminiscences in 1996:

 

"Leonard: of average height, very dark eyes, dark hair, and of slim build.

Served in the first World Way in the Royal Army Service Corps as a driver.

Saw service in Mesopotamia and joined the Army entertainment section. He was very versatile, could tap dance, and had a fund of stories, which during my employment with him, I became the recipient.

His wages as Pastry cook were the envy of the regular Baker and the jobbers.

I remember him telling me "He gets six pound ten shillings a week, while I as a Baker get four pound five!"

He lived in Albert Road in the High Street with his favourite pub, "The Red Cow" on the corner.

His wife often came into the shop with their daughter, who must have been seven or eight years of age and who went to school at the Marist Convent, Queens Road, Peckham.

Incidentally, Len went to school locally; it was at Woods Road School.

Len also boxed as a young man at the Orchard Club in Peckham.

He was at fifty still lithe and agile, and loved to recall his youth."

Note on Husband: Leonard Wilfred HOADLY (2)

Joyce Hoadly, Len's daughtre also said that she thought her father was a featherweight.

 

Len worked in his brother jack's shop until it was bombed in WW2.

He then went to work for Miller's Bakery in Poplar / Stepney, and then for Allied Bakeries.

Note on Husband: Leonard Wilfred HOADLY (3)

Medal card of Hoadly, Leonard W

Corps Regiment No Rank

Army Service Corps M2/116923 Private

 

Date 1914-1920

Catalogue reference WO 372/9

Dept Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies

Series War Office: Service Medal and Award Rolls Index, First World War

Piece Hampton E - Holland D

Image contains 1 medal card of many for this collection

Sources

1

GRO, Birth Certificate. Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: Shortened Birth Certificate BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ACT 1874 CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION OF BIRTH I, the undersigned, Do hereby certify that the Birth of Leonard William Hoadly born on the 8th day of September 1889, has been duly registered by me Witness my hand, this 17th day of October 1889 C.G.S. Godwin Registrar of Births and Deaths East Plumstead Sub-District According to his daughter, Joyce, Len was born at midnight - his father maintaining that he was born on the 8th September, whilst his mother was adamant that he was born on the 7th!

Graham Hoadly.

	Source: Birth Certificate, Birth Certificate of Sophia Hoadly

2	"Information from Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths website: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/" (Internet). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: Births Dec 1889 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hoadly Leonard Wilfred Woolwich 1d 1239
	Internet. Call Number: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (electronic).

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

3	"Census 1891 (Frederick William Hoadly) Plumstead, Woolwich, London RG12/537/16/22". Assessment: Primary evidence.

	Source: Census 1891 (Frederick William Hoadly) Plumstead, Woolwich, London RG12/537/16/22, F W Hoadly 91

4	"Baptismal Registers of Saint Jude, East Brixton, Lambeth, Surrey".
	Ancestry. Web: http://www.ancestry.co.uk/.

5	"Bill, Len, Eva & Dorrie Hoadly 1896". Assessment: Primary evidence.
	Ancestry. Web: http://www.ancestry.co.uk/.

6	"Census 1901 (Frederick William Hoadly) Peckham, Surrey RG13/514/30/11". Assessment: Primary evidence.

	Source: Census 1901 (Frederick William Hoadly) Peckham, Surrey RG13/514/30/11, Frederick William Hoadly a 01

7	"Census 1911 (Frederick William Hoadly) Peckham, Surrey RG14/PN2576".

	Source: Census 1911 (Frederick William Hoadly) Peckham, Surrey RG14/PN2576, F W Hoadly Snr 1911

8

Death Certificate. Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: CERTIFIED COPY OF AN ENTRY DEATH Entry No. 143 Registration District: Lewisham Sub-district: Lewisham Administrative area: London Borough of Lewisham Date and place of death: Twelfth March 1973 186 Lewisham Road, Lewisham Name and surname: Leonard Wilfred Hoadly Sex: Male Maiden surname of woman who has married: - Date and place of birth: 7th September 1889 Plumstead, Greenwich Occupation and usual address: a Pastry Cook (retired) 186 Lewisham Road, Lewisham Name and surname of informant: Elsie Josephine Hoadly Qualification: Widow of deceased Usual address: 186 Lewisham Road, S.E. 13 Cause of death: 1a: Broncho pneumonia b: Chronic bronchitis and emphysema Certified by A. Gordon Davies Coroner for Inner South London after post mortem without inquest I certify that the particulars given by me above are true to the best of my knowledge and belief: E.J. Hoadly Signature of informant Date of registration: Fourteenth March 1973 Signature of registrar: M.K. Fisk Registrar CERTIFIED to be a true copy of an entry in a register in my custody. M.K. Fisk Registrar 14/3/73 Date IM 001931

Family Records Centre, 1 Myddleton Street LONDON EC1R 1UW. Tel: 020 8392 5300.

9	"Woods Road School, Peckham: Admission and Discharge Register" (Microfilm). Cit. Date: from 1905 to 1920. Assessment: Primary evidence. Viewed at London Metropolitan Archive 17th June 2003 by Graham Hoadly
	London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road London EC1R 0HB. Tel: 020 7332 3820.

10	"Census 1911 (Charles Jenner) Peckham, Surrey RG14/PN2576".

	Source: Census 1911 (Charles Jenner) Peckham, Surrey RG14/PN2576, Charles Jenner 1911

11	GRO, "Family Research Link" (www.1837online.com). Cit. Date: 23 July 2003. Assessment: Primary evidence. Text From Source: Name: Elsie Josephine Hoadly Date of Birth: 25 March 1902 Registration District: Lewisham Year of Registration: 1985 Month of Registration: January Volume Number: 14 Page Number: 774 Registration Number: 185
	Family Records Centre, 1 Myddleton Street LONDON EC1R 1UW. Tel: 020 8392 5300.

12	"Information from Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths website: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/" (Internet). Assessment: Secondary evidence. Text From Source: Births Mar 1928 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hoadly Joyce C Jenner Camberwell 1d 1059
	Internet. Call Number: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (electronic).

	Source: Free BMD website, marriage certificate - Lucy Jaques Alexander Davis - 25Dec 1902

13	Joyce Christine Hoadly, "Information given by Joyce Christine Hoadly, to Graham Hoadly". Assessment: Primary evidence.