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My parents Frank (1904 - 1961) & Grace (1910 - 2000)
| My parents' wedding, Christmas Day, 1934. About ten years earlier my mother's mother had married my father's father and had moved in with her two children and his 8 or 9 children above the shop in Silvertown. The fact that my mother married her step-brother, so that both she and my grandmother changed their names from Ansett to Coughtrey in a short space of time has thrown a number of genealogists into confusion! Of all my uncles, I can definitely identify only my mother's brother Frank Ansett, on my father's right (your left) and, with a bridesmaid between them, his wife Ethel (born Martindale), the thin woman standing. But Tom, Eddie, Horace, Stan, George, Wally and my aunt Eva are all there! The one son who is missing is Bill, by the first marriage, who was killed in the First World War. On the lower right are my great grandmother Rosa Hayward, my grandmother Rosa Coughtrey and my grandfather Alf Coughtrey. |
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