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four girls – Lily (1891-1971), Amy (1893-?), Annie (1894-1970) and Gladys (1897-1993) - had all been born by the 1911 census.
George (1870-1914) who had married Catherine (known as ‘Kate’) Skelton (1871-1936) in Bradford in 1893 was in a similar position to his brother, John, except that his wife was still alive at the time of the 1911 census. The similarity was that George and Kate’s four children – for them, all boys (Robert Harold (1896-1948), Horace Arthur (1905-1977), Norman Eric (1907-1971) and Frederick (1909-1990) – had all been born before the 1911 census. George died aged 44 years in Bradford in 1914, while Kate lived on to live to 64 years, dying in Southampton in 1936. All their boys eventually married and went on to have children.
Their eldest boy, Robert Harold (known always as Harold), first married Violet Bower in Bradford in 1915. It seems that they already had a child, Lawrence (known as Laurie) (1914-1956). The birth of Laurie was followed by two more boys – Harold who was born and died in 1925 and Brian (1928-1985). Laurie went on to marry Emily Fox in Bradford in 1934. They had June in the third quarter of 1934, followed by Brian (1936-1998). June became Mrs Kneeshaw after marrying in Bradford in 1954, while Brian had earlier married Stella in Bradford in 1952. It seems as though Stella had already been married before as the surnames of Chorlton and Bebb are mentioned – one presumably being a maiden name and one being from a previous marriage. Brian and Stella went on to have three children – Janet (b.1953), Karen E. (b.1955) and Brian A. (1961). These all got married, but this comes in the next chapter.
Harold married a second time in 1941 – this time in Blackpool to Clara Liles. This marriage is presumably after the death of Harold’s first wife, Violet, who died around the age of 45 years in 1941. Harold and Clara had already had their only child, Jack, who was born in 1939.
George and Kate’s next eldest boy, Horace, married Jessie Newton (1906-1986) in 143