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Leonard George (1) Woodhurst was born at Leicester in 1894 to parents George Richard Guy Woodhurst and his wife Elizabeth Ellen Lewey. The GRO reference is [Birth Index: Leicester 7a 243, 1894 (March)].
The 1901 Census finds him at age 7 living in the household of his step-father Eustace Charles Collins at 56, Ropery Street in Mile End Old Town.
His descendants report the following. He was born on January 19th 1894 at New Park Cottages, Nottingham Road in N. Evington, Leicester. Around 1905 he arrived in Canada in the course of his mother's emigration there with her second husband Eustace Charles Collins, and soon after was living in Montreal. At age 11 he began work as a mail-boy in the offices of the Canadian National Railways. He served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the Great War and was wounded twice, at Ypres and at Vimy. In 1920 he received from England a birthday gift in the form of an autograph book - which still survives - containing the signatures of various Woodhurst relations, in particular some of his aunts and uncles; it was sent by his cousins Blanche (2) and Winifred (1). In June 1928 (or possibly 1929) he married Sarah McClelland. She was born on January 25th 1907 at Dunmurry, a few miles south-west of Belfast in Northern Ireland.
He was hospitalized around 1952 and died at Montreal on January 4th 1955, and his wife Sarah died at Barrie, Ontario on February 10th 1995.
All three children listed above were born at Montreal.
George Brian married twice, in the second instance to Anne-Marie D. Moses on June 12th 1982 in Montreal.