Walter LONGDEN (1883-1968)
Walter
LONGDEN was born at Grasshill, Hasland in 1883 –
he was the fourth son of Henry and Hannah LONGDEN.
He
married
Mabel
HARROLD in 1905 at the Primitive Methodist Chapel
known as Mount Zion Chapel on Chatsworth Road in Chesterfield.
At the time Walter LONGDEN lived at Hampton Street in Hasland.
My Grandmother also lived in Hasland at Mansfield Road. The
witnesses to their wedding were Walter’s sister Florence
LONGDEN and her husband-to-be Walter Henry Holleworth.
Walter
and Mabel LONGDEN had three children:
Harold
Wilson LONGDEN, my father, was born in
1905. In 1931 he married
Doris BARKER at Christ Church, Stonegravels,
Chesterfield. My Mother died in 1986 and my father four years later.
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Ernest LONGDEN was born in 1907. He
married in 1939 and died, aged 61, in
1968.
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Margaret LONGDEN was born at 1 Hampton Street,
Hasland in 1915. She married John
Henry Brown at Holywell Cross Methodist Chapel in
Chesterfield in 1934. John
was killed in action over Malta in 1943.
Margaret remarried after the war and died, aged 47, in
1962.
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To
see the photographs of Mabel and Walter and their three children
- please click the PHOTOGRAPHS button at the bottom of this
page.
Walter
Longden worked and retired from Markham’s Broad Oaks
Works in Chesterfield where he was an engineer. Whenever I
saw him either at work or coming from work he always wore
a black bowler hat (and not, as my Father did, a flat cap)
which signified that he was a manager at the Works. There
is a photograph of him at the seaside in his bowler hat and
gold watch and chain. There is also an excellent photograph
of my grandmother paddling in the sea in a coat and hat.
Walter
LONGDEN died in 1968 aged 84 at 64 The Green, Hasland
and is buried in the same plot in Hasland Cemetery as his
wife. His death was registered by my Father and the Certificate
states that he was a Constructional Engineer (retired) and
died of cerebral thrombosis and arteriosclerosis.
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