Another find in old newspaper. 

I first wrote about my grandmother Edith Butler in 1912 Edith Butler

This newspaper story is a sad one which is often on my mind.  This article is from a Sheffield Newspaper and was written to advertise an insurance policy they offered at that time.  My mum was only 3 so too young to know anything about the story at that time and knew very little as she got older. She always said that her dad must have loved her mum so much that he wouldn't talk about her as it upset him too much.  I wouldn't have know any of this either if not for the Sheffield Daily Independent  dated Tuesday 17th November 1925. 

Such a sad thing to happen to anyone but he was a man who had fought and suffered gassing in the trenches in World War 1.  Nothing was known about PTSD at that time but I would think that must have been affecting him.  He had not been married long and must have just been starting to get over it with a new home and a small daughter in their lives.  Then this tragedy hits.  Luckily both him and Edith had very supportive families nearby to take care of my mum Kathleen.  He did marry again when Kathleen was 5  and she went back to live with him and his lovely new wife Evelyn who I always knew as grandma. 

Second cousins once removed, May and Beryl Ingham

I have blogged about May and Beryl before in April 2012 https://sheilasancestralthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/04/beryl-ingham.html. 

They were a clog dancing duo from Lancashire in the early years of the 20th century century and my 2nd cousins once removed on my dad's side of the family. 

I've recently been spending a lot of time searching old newspapers online to see if I can find any interesting articles to add to my family history.  What I already knew was that Beryl was  married to George Formby and knew a lot about her from a biography of George (George Formby a Troubled Genius),written by David Bret. 

I found a couple of articles about the marriages of the sisters.  The first to be married was Beryl who, at the age of 23, was the youngest sister to marry in September 1924.

May married at the age of 27 in November 1926

The sisters had previously had their names in the newspaper in 1920 and had appeared in theatres all over Lancashire after this.