born 1893 in Goldenhill.
died 18th December 1925.
married 1920 St John's Goldenhill.
Leonard was the son of
William Henry Caton and
Annie Pimblot.
Leonard Caton was born in Goldenhill in 1893 and worked as a coal miner in the
nearby Colliery of Birchenwood, where he was involved in the mining disaster at
Birchenwood on 18th December 1925 that led to the loss of his life.
Link to the Birchenwood mining disaster.
Leonard and Elizabeth had three children all of them girls.
Grace Caton, Fanny
Caton Gladys Caton.
Grace married ?
Fanny married Owen Sherrat in 1951.
Gladys was born on 22nd December 1925 and married
Frank Gibson in 1953.
Gladys was born a week after
Leonard died in the pit disaster and never knew her
father.
Elizabeth remarried William Grocott and had several more children Ronald, Annie, Roy, Jean, Arnold and Muriel. Arnold died in a house fire in Tunstall 30th June 2007.