A. E. Hogg
Service no. S/12345
Private, Seaforth Highlanders, 1st Battalion
Killed in action age 29 on 5 November 1917
CWGC: “Son of Edward Hogg, of 56 Sidney Road, Stockwell, London, and the late Jessie Mary Hogg (nee Skepelhorn).”
Remembered at Basra Memorial, Iraq
Information from the 1911 census
Edward (aka Alfred Edward) Hogg, 55, a mercantile clerk born in Bermondsey, and his wife Jessie Mary Hogg, 48, born in Blackfriars, lived at 56 Sidney Road, Stockwell with 8 of their 9 children (Alfred Edward Hogg was missing from the household). Two children had died by 1911.)
Ethel Josephine Hogg, 27, a shirt machinist, born in Stockwell
Edith hogg, 26, a shirt machinist, born in Stockwell
WInifred Jessie Hogg, 24, a clerk, born in Stockwell
Alice Mary Hogg, 21, a typist, born in Stockwell
Ernest Leonard Hogg, 16, a “boy clerk”, born in Southwark
Elsie Kathleen Hogg, 13, born in Southwark
Amy Lillian Hogg, 11, born in Southwark
Eric Douglas Hogg, 6, born in Southwark
Information from Roots Web
Jessie Skepelhorn was born in 1863 at at 127 Blackfriars Road, Southwark, Surrey, married Alfred Edward Hogg, a wharf clerk, born in Bermondsey, at St Saviour, Southwark, and died in Lambeth in 1915, aged 52. Alfred and Jessie had eight children, listed in the 1901 census at which point the family was living at 81 St George Road, Southwark:
Ethel Josephine Hogg, born 1884 at Clapham. In the 1901 census she is described as a shirt-maker.
Edith Nellie Hogg, born 1885 at Clapham, also described as a shirt-maker.
Winifred Jessie Hogg, born 1886 at Clapham
Alfred Hogg, born in 1888 at Clapham
Alice Mary Hogg, born in 1889 at Clapham
Ernest Cecil, born 1892 in Southwark
Elsie Kathleen Hogg, born 1897 in Southwark
Amy Lilian Hogg, born 1899 at Southwark
In 1901 Cecil H. Skepelhorn, Jessie’s brother lodged with the family. He was a 19-year-old general labourer, born in 1881, married in 1907, which was also the year of his death. The Skepelhorn family originated in Overton, Wiltshire.
In 1891 the family was living at 17 Market Place in Stockwell.