Person:Percy Lewis (2)

Percy Lewis was born in 1892 at Luton in Bedfordshire, son of a straw hat sewer named Susannah Priscilla Moss and Thomas Lewis, a rag and bone man.

Percy appears in the 1901 census living at 148 Chapel Street in Luton with his parents and siblings. Some time between 1901 and 1911 they moved just around the corner to 29 South Road. By the time of the 1911 census Percy was working as a labourer in an iron foundry.

Percy served in the army during the First World War. By 1917 he had been discharged from the army and was working at Kent's factory in Luton. He was fined ten shillings in September 1917 for drunkenness, having been found by the police lying in a doorway.

Percy's father Thomas died in 1916. Percy does not appear to have married. He only outlived his father by two years, dying at home at 29 South Road on 8th November 1918, aged 26. He was buried in the same grave as his father at the General Cemetery on Rothesay Road in Luton. His mother outlived him.

1. ↑ Births index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   b. Percy Louis MOSS, June Quarter 1892, Luton Registration District, Volume 3b, page 434, mother's maiden name blank

2. ↑ England. England. 1901 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG13; Piece 1514; Folio 82; Page 28, 31 Mar 1901.

   Address: 148 Chapel Street, Luton, Bedfordshire
   Thomas Lewis, head, married, male, 50 [1850/1], Marine Store Dealer, own account, working at home, b. Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire
   Suey Lewis, wife, married, female, 35 [1865/6], b. Aley Green, Bedfordshire
   Thomas Lewis, son, single, male, 15 [1885/6], Straw Hat Blocker, worker, b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Arthur Lewis, son, single, male, 14 [1886/7], b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Ethel Lewis, daughter, single, female, 13 [1887/8], b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Lenny Lewis, son, single, male, 11 [1889/90], b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Percy Lewis, son, single, male, 8 [1892/3], b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Willie Lewis, son, single, male, 4 [1896/7], b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Suie Lewis, daughter, single, female, 1 [1899/1900], b. Luton, Bedfordshire

3. ↑ England. 1911 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom: The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.))
   Class RG14; Piece 9012; Schedule 53, 2 Apr 1911.

   Address: 29 South Road, Luton, Bedfordshire
   Five rooms occupied
   Tho[ma]s Lewis, head, male, 53 [1857/8], married, 12 children born alive, 10 children still living, Collector - Rags & Bones, own account, at home, b. Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire
   Suey Moss, female, 45 [1865/6], single, House worker, worker, b. Aley Green, Hertfordshire
   Arther Lewis Moss, male, 24 [1886/7], single, Labourer, worker, b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Ethel Lewis Moss, female, 23 [1887/8], single, b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Harry Lewis Moss, male, 21 [1889/90], single, Basket Maker - Mat Baskets, employer, b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Percy Lewis Moss, male, 19 [1891/2], single, Labourer - Iron Foundry, worker, b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   William Lewis Moss, male, 14 [1896/7], Straw Hat Trade - straw hat manufacturing, worker, b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Suey Lewis Moss, female, 11 [1899/1900], School, b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Bethia Lewis Moss, female, 9 [1901/2], School, b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Reubin Lewis Moss, male, 7 [1903/4], School, b. Luton, Bedfordshire
   Alfe Lewis Moss, male, 4 [1906/7], b. Luton, Bedfordshire

4. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Percy Lewis MOSS, December Quarter 1918, Luton Registration District, Volume 3b, page 812, aged 26 [1891/2]

5. ↑ Luton, Bedfordshire, England. Cemetery Registers of General Cemetery, Rothesay Road, 1854-1964 (Bedfordshire Family History Society).

   Surname: Lewis
   Given: Percy Moss
   Age: 26
   Grave ID: 4098
   Class: 4 - 2nd
   Date: 13 Nov 1918

6. ↑ Luton Reporter, in United Kingdom. The British Newspaper Archive
   Page 4, 12 Nov 1918.

   DEATHS.
   MOSS.-On Nov. 8th, at 29, South-road, Percy Lewis Moss, aged 26 years.

7.   Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle, in United Kingdom. The British Newspaper Archive
   Thursday 27 Sep 1917.

   UNABLE TO STAND.-At the Borough Court yesterday, Percy M. Lewis, of 29, South-road, a young discharged soldier now working at Kent's, was charged with having been drunk and incapable in Barber's-lane on Saturday. He was found by the police lying in a doorway, and had to be conveyed to the Police Station as he could not stand.-Defendant, who expressed sorrow, was fined 10s.

8.   Luton Reporter, in United Kingdom. The British Newspaper Archive
   Page 4, 3 Oct 1917.

   NEWS JOTTINGS
   ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTRY
   "Quite helpless," was the description of Percy Moss Lewis, 25 labourer, 29, South-road, who was fined 10s. by Luton magistrates on Wednesday for having been drunk and incapable in Barber's Lane at 10.5 p.m. on Sept. 22. P.c. Wright found him lying in a doorway and had to get the assistance of Sergt. Clarke and a barrow to get him to the police station.