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Lisbeth’s internment exemption card, October 1939

L is for Lisbeth

April 14, 2025by Xanthe Hall 1 Comment

Lisbeth had a tragic life, being sent away from her home in Austria at 16. Her parents were killed by the Nazis. How did she end up also being killed?

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Family History, Uncle Len, Wife-Killer

K is for Killing

April 12, 2025by Xanthe Hall 1 Comment

What happened exactly on the night of the killing? I put together the story through newspaper reports because the court records are closed till 2060.

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Family History, Uncle Len, Wife-Killer
Ministry of Information propaganda poster “Women of Britain come into the factories”, 1941. Design: Philip Zec

I is for Irene – The wife that got away

April 10, 2025by Xanthe Hall 3 Comments

Len’s first wife, Irene, married him during his war service. But she met someone else and they divorced when he returned.

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Family History, Uncategorized, Uncle Len, Wife-Killer

G is for Germany

April 9, 2025by Xanthe Hall 2 Comments

Germany was still occupied when I came to West Berlin, twenty-five years after Len went back to England and killed Libeth. But did he go back with Dinah?

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Family History, Uncategorized, Uncle Len, Wife-Killer

F is for Femicide

April 6, 2025by Xanthe Hall 2 Comments

Was the killing of Lisbeth femicide? The media gave the impression that Len was a devoted father who acted under provocation.

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Family History, Uncategorized, Uncle Len, Wife-Killer

D is for Dinah

April 4, 2025by Xanthe Hall 4 Comments

My Aunt Dinah married Uncle Len twice. Why did she divorce him? Did she find out what he had done and then later forgave him?

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Family History, Uncle Len, Wife-Killer
Headline, Daily Herald, 17 Nov 1960

C is for Care of the Children

April 3, 2025by Xanthe Hall 4 Comments

Len had six children and wanted to keep them together. He had promised to do so to his dying wife. But by his action, the opposite happened.

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Family History, Uncle Len, Wife-Killer
Berkshire Assizes, Crown Court, Reading. Image CC 4.0/Richard Kelly

B is for Berkshire, Basingstoke, Burnley

April 2, 2025by Xanthe Hall 2 Comments

Uncle Len, Wife-Killer, lived in many places, but three stand out. Berkshire, Basingstoke and Burnley.

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Family History, Uncle Len, Wife-Killer
Samuel Leonard Thomas Ashworth, about 2009

A is for Ashworth

April 1, 2025by Xanthe Hall 1 Comment

Introduction to the series “Uncle Len – Wife-Killer, in which Samuel Leonard Thomas Ashworth kills his 3rd wife and then marries my Aunt.

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Family History, Uncle Len, Wife-Killer

Maria Joy, 1843-1894

March 14, 2025by Xanthe Hall 1 Comment

Paternal 2nd great-Grandmother Maria was born in 1843 in Tottenham, Middlesex, to William and Maria, their first child. William was from Sandgate, a village near Folkestone, Kent, Maria was a […]

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