This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 A. Marjeram (Albert Marjeram) (Marjeram, Albert) Service no 232420 Private, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 2nd/2nd Battalion Born in Brixton; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Lambeth Killed in action on 20 December 1917 at age 21 CWGC: "Son of William Marjeram, of 2 Kibworth Street, Dorset Road, Clapham, London, and the late Ruth Marjeram." Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 Information from the 1911 census In 1911 Albert Marjoram, then 15, worked as a van guard for the London & South West Railway. He lived with his family in 3 rooms at 2 Kibworth Street, Dorset Road. His father, William Marjoram, 55, was a night watchman born in Lambeth. His mother, Ruth Marjoram, 54, was from Manchester. The couple had had 15 children, of whom 7 had not survived. Three lived at home: Elizabeth Marjoram, 21, an ironer, born in South Lambeth James Marjoram, 19, born in South Lambeth, no occupation given Albert Marjoram, 15, a van guard, born in South Lambeth The census lists the family as "Marjoram". Albert Marjeram's older brother William Marjeram, 36, a coal man, lived at 8 Alfred Court, South Lambeth, with his wife, Florence, and his four children. Google trivia: There was another, rather more famous, Albert Marjeram, who was hanged in 1930 at Pentonville for the murder of Edith May Parker. |