A newspaper report of a wedding in 1935

    While searching through the news papers for an ancestor I stumbled on a different one. 

    My great grandmother Everill Stacey married Charles Butler in 1887.  They had 3 children: Ernest was born in 1888, Lily in 1890 and after a gap of 10 years Edith was born in 1900.  Sadly, before Edith was a year old both her parents Charles and Everill have died of pneumonia.  

    The 3 children were then brought up by the families of both their parents. Lily was brought up by her maternal grandparents John and Mary Stacey in the village of Ravenfield in Yorkshire. Ernest and Edith were with their paternal grandparents, William and Annie Butler, also in Ravenfield. It is a small village so they must have been in contact with each other. 

    On 23rd March 1911 Lily married Frank Garner in St James' church in Ravenfield.  Frank was born in 1886 in Quadring in Lincolnshire. 

  Frank and Lily had 2 children.  Everill, named after her late grandmother, was born in 1911 and Arthur in 1912. This photo of Frank and Lily with their 2 children was probably taken just after World War 1, when Everill was about 7 and Arthur 6 years old. 

    The wedding report I found in the newspaper was that of Everill  Garner.  The print isn't very clear but it is just about legible.  Everill married Robert Beevers on 11th June 1935 at The Methodist Church in Bramley Yorkshire. 

    The person I was searching for  when I found this was the bridesmaid Letitia Stacey who was the first cousin once removed of Everill. In other words she was the daughter of her  grandmother Everill's brother's George.  Now to find out more about Letitia.