More Tirrell sisters

I have already told you what I know of two of my grandfather's sisters.  There were seven in all but I only have photographs of two others.

Violet was born on 15th April 1900 in Claycross, Derbyshire. She married Rowland Shore  in 1928. My mother told me they had a daughter called Hazel and I think they may have had more children but my mother didn't remember.  This photograph was taken when Violet was quite young.  She died on 5th November 1992 at the age of 92.  She is buried with her husband Rowland in Maltby, Yorkshire.

           

The other sister I have photographs of is Lily.  Lily was born on 4th February 1903 in Epworth , Lincolnshire.  She married Harry Singleton in 1921 and made a lovely bride as you can see from the photograph.  The other photograph is of Lily with her son Harry who was born in 1922.  Lily died in 1997 at the age of 94 years.

 

                                                                    

As I said I don't have photos of the other sisters and know very little about them.  

The second sister Elizabeth was born on 17th May 1891 in Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire.  She married Frank Davis in 1911 and they had four daughters.  Sadly Frank was run over by a bus on a foggy day in December 1925 and died in hospital on 27th December.  Elizabeth remarried in 1928.  She married  Sidney Shore who was the brother of her sister Violet's husband.  Elizabeth died in 1962 at the age of 81. 

Jane Tirrell was born in 1892 also in Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire.  She moved to Hampshire where she married James Heath in 1910, as far as I know they had four children.  I do not know when Jane died. 

The last daughter was Eliza Rose who was born on 23rd May 1904 in Ecclesall, Yorkshire, sadly she only lived a few weeks, dying in the September quarter of that year. 

I have already written about my grandfather's brother Joseph George.  The final sibling was another brother, Frank who was born in 1897 in Woodford, Northamptonshire and as yet I have no information about him. 

One thing I have noticed while writing my blog, which I hadn't noticed before is that Herbert and two of his sisters died at the age of 81, as did his mother.  His father didn't quite make it as he died at the age of 80 and his sister Violet died at 92 and Lily at 94.  Looks like there might be a longevity gene in the Tirrell family as my mother lived to be 89 years old. 

Joseph George Tirrell

Joseph George was my grandfather Herbert's elder brother and the eldest child of my great grandparents Joseph and Esther (Spencer) Tirrell.  He was born on 23rd March 1887 in Rochford, Essex.  He married Olive Elizabeth Scraggs on 3rd July 1909 in Maltby, Yorkshire.  Joseph and Olive had 10 children, all born in the Rotherham area of Yorkshire between 1910 and 1930.  Joseph died in 1930 at the age of 43.

This photograph was among my grandfather's belongings and nobody knew who the people in it were.  I only found out when one of the people I met on the internet through family history research sent me a photograph of her grandfather George Tirrell.  I think they must have called him George to distinguish him from his father Joseph.  Mum always referred to him as Uncle George.

I think this is a fascinating photograph and have been unable to find out the occasion.  It was obviously to celebrate some event and maybe a competition for the best decorated bicycle.  The flag at the front has pictures which look like King Edward VII and King George V with their wives on it.  Tied to the saddle is what appears to be a tank.  Could it be to celebrate the end of World War 1?  If anybody has any ideas I would be pleased to hear them.   I did send the photo to one of the family history magazines a few years ago and it was published but the person who wrote about it didn't really have any more idea than I have.

Joseph George is the one on the left but I have no idea who the man in uniform is or the young girl.  Maybe one of Joseph George's daughters.

This is the photo sent to me by Joseph George's granddaughter.  It certainly looks like the same person in the photograph above.  Obviously a studio photo with the backdrop of Nelson's Column.  Wonder if he ever visited London?