A History of Preston
in Hertfordshire
Charlie Wray was Alfred and Emily’s second son, was born in the summer of 1884.
There is a note in Preston School log book, dated 11 April 1895, that he failed his writing examination on 11 April 1895.
In 1901, he was a ploughman on a farm.
He moved away from Preston after the Great War and married Annie Martin in the summer of 1919. The couple settled in Abbots Langley, near Watford, Herts where they had a son and a daughter.
Sources: Preston School log book by kind permission of Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (Ref DP 53/25/33) and the photographs of Maggie Whitby and Phyllis Varrall.
