Selected Biographies

Abbott, Ernest – Born: London in 1896. Parents: unidentified Abbott daughter. Home: Living with his grandparents Martin and Isabella Abbott at Bridge Street Farm, High Street, Long Melford (1901). Family Connection: Nephew of Hedley Westrop Abbott [b1861] and Percy Vickers Abbott [b1867]. Service Record: No definitive military record found.

Abbott, Hedley Westrop – Born: Lawshall, Suffolk on 28.12.1861.[1] Parents: Martin Thomas Abbott (Farmer) and Isabella [née Vickers]. Family Connection: Brother to Percy Vickers Abbott [b1867] and uncle of Ernest Abbott [b1896]. Home: Farm House, Audley End, Lawshall, Suffolk (1871 to 1881), Bridge Street Farm, High Street, Long Melford (1891 to 1901), Rose Cottage, Bures Hamlet, Essex (1911), The Filberts, Melford Road, Great Cornard, Suffolk (1939) to [1940]. Occupation: Farmer (1911), Incapacitated (1939). Died: Walnut Tree Hospital, Sudbury, Suffolk on 31.1.1940.[2]

Abbott, Percy Vickers – Born: Lawshall, Suffolk on 17.5.1867.[3] Parents: Martin Thomas Abbott (Farmer) and Isabella [née Vickers]. Family Connection: Brother to Percy Vickers Abbott [b1861] and uncle of Ernest Abbott [b1896]. Home: Farm House, Audley End, Lawshall, Suffolk (1871), lodging with his uncle Frederick Vickers at Bright House, Melford Road, Lawshall, Suffolk (1891), Bridge Street Farm, High Street, Long Melford (1901), The Firs, Weston St Mary, Spalding, Lincolnshire (1911), 15 Stukeley Road, Holbeach, Lincs (1939) to [1947]. Occupation: Farmer (1911), retired Coal Merchant’s Clerk (1939). Married: Cecilia Mary Frost (1868-1916) in 1901 and Alice Louisa Sharp in 1932. Died: Holbeach, Lincolnshire on 14.5.1947.[4]

Notes – [1] 1939 Register. [2] National Probate Calendar. [3] 1939 Register. [4] National Probate Calendar