George Henry Harold Adams

St Matthew’s Church, Brixton, London. Mary Anne was said on the marriage certificate to be aged 20 and working as a clerk; and was given away by her father, Samuel, who said he was a manager. But according to the 1911 census, Mary was only 16 when she had to marry! The Wheatcroft family lived at 3 Mill Lane, Newark, and consisted of Samuel (born 1859), a general labourer, his wife Jane (1862) and their children Else (1900), Mary (1902), Ernest (1903) and Grace (1905).

Whatever Mary’s age, their son Harold George was born in Newark before the end of 1918; and once ‘the War to end all wars’ ended, the young family settled in Newark, at 77 Millgate.
George was buried in Newark Cemetery on 14 March 1941 (grave ED307).

The family mourned in private: there were no death notices about him in the local papers; no report of a funeral service; no In Memorium messages in the years that followed.

Extracts from Newark's Black Friday by Trevor Frecknall, Chris Grant, Shaun Noble.