Blackmore Area Local History

Frederick Root

War Memorial: Place and inscription
War Memorials at Highwood, Ingatestone and on the War Memorial Tablet at Fryerning.

Rank:
Private

Regiment:
Essex Regiment.  2^nd/ 6^th Battalion.  Service No: 5068

Service Details:
He died at “Home” [SDGW].

Personal and family information:
Additional information: Son of Samuel & Jane Root , of Great Baddow, Chelmsford; husband of Louisa Root, of Mill Green, Ingatestone, Essex. [CWGC]

1911 census.
Old Barn Blackmore Ingatestone
Frederick Roots. Head. Married. [Age] 50.  Farm Labourer.  [Born] Essex Great Baddow.
Louisa Roots. Wife. Married 18 years.  [Age] 50. [Born] Essex Roxwell
Charles Roots.  Son.  Single.  [Age] 16. Farm Labourer. [Born] Essex Roxwell
Ivy Roots.  Dau.  [Age] 10.  [Born] Essex Writtle
Harry Simons.  Stepson.  Single.  [Age] 21.   Farm Labourer.  [Born] Essex Roxwell

Electoral Roll 1914: Mid Essex / Chelmsford Division records Frederick Root as living in the ‘Writtle – Highwood Ward’. Abode, “Horsfrith Park – via Blackmore”; Description of Qualifying Property, “Old Barn” [ERO C/E 1/1/26].

Date of Death:
17^th May 1915

Age:
52

Where died:
At home

Place of Burial or Commemoration:
Cemetery: Chelmsford (Writtle Road) Cemetery.  Grave: C184

List of Sources:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Solider who Died in the Great War, Essex Record Office.