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. 

 

George Stacey

George was the youngest of the Stacey children.  He was born in Rotherham 1882 and died in 1958 in Ravenfield.  He married Phoebe Griffiths, who was welsh, in Cardigan, Wales in 1909.  He brought Phoebe to live in Ravenfield.  How they met I do not know as Wales was quite a distance at that time.  Much closer now with modern transport but not as easy to get to at the beginning of the 20th century.  I have acquired several photos of George and Phoebe and this first one, I like to think, was of their wedding.  Why else would you wear such a marvelous hat.

Next is Phoebe with their their first child George Griffiths Stacey (known as Griff) on the occasion of his baptism at St James' Church in Ravenfield on 6th June 1910.  What a beautiful christening gown he is wearing.

These are pictures of George and Phoebe with their children, George Griffiths and Letitia Mary. Letitia was born on 19th May 1914.  The Photo on the right was taken earliest and I would have put it first, if only I could work out how to move them round the page. I can sometimes but only by a fluke. The picture of the children on their own looks as though it might have been over-painted as Letitia's dress is a delicate shade of green.  It is lovely to see the fashions of the period on these old photographs.  Letitia is also pictured on another post with her Aunt Kate.