Alfred Chattaway and Alice Maud Chattaway nee Aris
Alfred Chattaway was born on 31 January 1878 in Kenilworth and baptised at St John's there on 5 May. He was the first of seven children born to Joseph and Catherine nee Fell. Joseph worked on the Stoneleigh estate all his life as a hedger and fencer, and although much of Alfred's childhood was spent in Hill Wootton, by 1901 the family lived at 3, Hudson's Bridge - today known as Motslow Cottage. At the age of 23, working as a road labourer, Alfred was living with his parents, but married the following year on 21 August 1902, in Leamington. His wife was Alice Maud Aris.
Alfred served in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War even though by its outbreak he was 36 years old and had three children. [Another child was born in 1919.] His brother William Henry Chattaway was killed during the Battle of the Somme on 3 July 1916 and is commemorated at Thiepval and on the Stoneleigh Church war memorial.
By 1939 Alfred and his family lived on Birmingham Road; he died aged 65 on 7 April 1943.
Alice Maud Aris was born on 16 February 1881 in Middleton Cheney in Northamptonshire, another location associated with the Leigh family. Her parents were Richard and Alice Eva nee Capell and she was one of seven children. Her mother died when Alice was just ten years old, and her father remarried and had three further children. Alice had a child whilst still single at the age of seventeen - Ernest Aris, born in 1898. In 1901 she had boarded him out in Hornton while she went to work as a servant in Leamington, first in Willes Road and later at Lansdowne Terrace. She and Alfred had four children together, and by 1911 her son Ernest had come to live with them in Stoneleigh.
Alice died on 21 April 1950, aged 69. Her daughters
Hilda Chattaway and
Alice Hancox are also buried in the churchyard, at
B23.1 and
B11.7 respectively. Alfred's sister
Edith Mills is buried at
B1.21.