Pollie Jepson

Pollie was the daughter of George Jepson and his second wife, Eliza Ann Jepson (née Ashton).

George Jepson was born in Selston, Nottinghamshire, in 1847 (JAS). His first wife was Jane Ann Wilson, the daughter of Joseph and Isabella Wilson (both born Northumberland), who were living in Selston in 1861 where Joseph worked at the colliery. He and Isabella had four children, Isabella, Jane, Catherine and John, who were all born in Durham, Sunderland. George and Jane lived initially in Selston (1871), then Daisy Hill, Morley, Yorkshire (1881) and Station Road, Morley, in 1891 where they were living with Jane's widowed mother, Isabella, and Isabella's grandson, Albert Green (25 b. Selston), the son of Jane's sister, Isabella and her husband Ephraim Green (m. 1863 res. Selston 1872). Jane Jepson died in 1892 and was buried in Morley St Peter churchyard on 6 October. It does not appear that there were any children of the marriage.

George married Eliza Ann Jepson (b. Middleton, Yorkshire) in 1894 (reg. OND Leeds) and had four children; twins Alice Ashton and Pollie b. 7 March 1895, baptised Gildersome St Peter on 1 March 1896, and Georgina b. 1896 (OND), who were all born in Morley, Yorkshire, and Percy William born in Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, in 1899.

The family was living in Bolsover, Derbyshire, in 1901: George, a colliery deputy (below ground), and Eliza (40), Alice (6), Pollie (6), Georgina (5) and Percy (1).

They had moved to 169 Victoria Street, Mansfield, by 1911: George, a coal miner contractor, Eliza, Alice a machinist (boot factory), Pollie a draper's shop assistant, Georgina an assistant at a Penny Bazaar and Percy who was school age.

Pollie joined the QMAAC in July 1917 and was discharged, medically unfit, on 30 August 1918. Her marriage to Albert Johnson the same year was registered in Mansfield in the third quarter (JAS). Pollie died of tubercular meningitis at her parents' home on 5 November 1918. Albert's address on the death certificate was given as 12 Pheasant Hill, Mansfield.

Georgina married Joseph Clarence Wass in May 1920 (reg. Mansfield) and their daughter Dorothy was born the following year. Joseph had served with the RAMC in the war and joined the Territorial Force in 1921. (See 'Extra information). Clarence, who was serving with the 'Sherwood Rangers Defence Force Regiment', and Dorothy were recorded at 21 Goldsmith Street, Mansfield, in 1921. Georgina was a patient in the Samaritan Hospital, Raleigh Street, Nottingham, on the night of the census. The family had moved to Luton by 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled: Joseph a machine setter, Georgina 'unpaid domestic duties' and bar work, and Dorothy (later Molyneux), a cashier, probably in a department store. Joseph died in 1962 (reg. Luton) and Georgina in 1985 (reg. JFM Torbay, Devon).

Although they completed separate census forms in 1921, Clarence's parents-in-law, George and Eliza, were also living at 21 Goldsmith Street, with their children Alice, a machinist (boot and shoe) and Percy, a clothiers' assistant.

George Jepson died on 27 April 1924.

Alice married Claude F Ellis in 1922 (OND Mansfield) and in 1939 they were living on Springfield Road, Babbacombe, Torquay. Claude was a house decorator (the record of a second occupation is unclear). Also in the household was Alice's widowed mother, Eliza, who died in February the following year. Claude died in 1968 (reg. Torbay) aged 76 and Alice in February 1993 (reg. Torbay).

Percy William married Gladys Scothern (b. 1896) in 1923 and in 1939 they were living at 13 Market Place, Wednesbury, Staffordshire; Percy was a shop manager (clothing and outfitting). They were still at the same address when Gladys died in 1959. Percy died in 1981 (reg. Birmingham).