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Beryl was born back in Halifax, suggesting that the family had had some movement, but came back to their base of Halifax. Certainly Sam died at the young age of 44 years in Halifax. Of the three girls, only Irene is known to have married - in Calder in 1939.
Tom married Annie Louisa Edmondson (1869-?), but the date of the marriage is not known. They had two children, both girls – Hilda N. (1889-?) and Ethel (b.1893). Hilda was born in Massachusetts, but was in the 1901 census, probably visiting from the United States. Ethel was born in Lancaster in 1893. Ethel eventually married John F. Miller, but the date is unknown. This part of the family certainly is part of the narrative of those who went to the United States and will be re-visited in Chapter 6.
Of the four boys who married, there is finally Benjamin (1872-1937). Benjamin married Mary Hannah Forbes (1876-1929) in Halifax in 1899. Mary was born in Kirby Stephen, Westmorland, but it is not known how and where Benjamin and Mary met. However, their lives seem to have been spent in the Halifax area. Benjamin and Mary produced five boys within an eight-year period – Fred (1900-1948), Jack (1902-1948), Charles Forbes (1904-1983), Frank (1906-1920) and Harry (1908-1910). Neither Frank nor Harry reached adulthood, dying at 14 and two years respectively. However, the other three all reached adulthood and married.
Fred married Laura Marsden (1902-1936) in Halifax in 1933, but there is no evidence that they had any children. Jack married Janie Park (1901-1967) in Halifax in 1925. They had three children, two girls and a boy – Audrey M. (b.1926), Jean M. (b.1929) and John B.P. (b.1937). Audrey married in Calder in 1949, while Jean married in 1951 also in Calder. Ten years later, John married Christine Field in Calder in 1961, but the rest of the story is in the next chapter.
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