We can’t tweet images unless they are saved as jpegs. Most of the archives are but this is worth
bearing in mind.
Things to tweet:
Birthdays:
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John: 2nd May 1866
Margaret: 1st March 1871
Evie: 11th October 1893
Nina: April 1895
Ken: 30th October 1897
Lois: April 1903
Valerie: October 1909
Weddings:
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John & Margaret: married 14 Sep 1891,
Church of the Messiah, Old Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
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Evie and John Crosskey: 1918 probs Church of the Messiah
Nina and Edward Piercy Quartermain Carter: married 5 Feb 1920
Church of the Messiah, Broad Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
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Ken and Phyllis Barsely: Probably around 1947 (he married when he was about 50)
Beatrice and Henry Raymond J Holmes: 1926 Witney, Oxfordshire, England
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Lois: [1] 1927, Alexander White
Witney, Oxfordshire, England.
[2] 1936, George William Ingle –
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[3] Changed name to Steyn by deed poll in 1948 which is a South African name so
assume with long term partner
Valerie and Peter Tennant: 1938
Grandchildren:
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Margaret Alice Crosskey: 28th September 1919
Roger Beasley Crosskey: 16th Feb 1921
Henry Evelyn Crosskey: 24th September 1923
Philip Harben Crosskey: 3rd August 1926
William Carter: 1922
Richard Carter: 1924
Jennifer Carter: 1932
Michael Holmes: 1928
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Charles Holmes: 1931
David White: 1929
Helena White: 1929
John White: 1933
Alison Tennant: 1939
Fiona Tennant: 1940
Sheila Tennant: 1946
Roofline – insistence on roofline being wobbly
Nursery – moving so that it got light and overlooked the garden
It wasn’t just Margaret who painted, we also have some nice flower sketches by Evie and also
Beatrice
We have a letter in the archives where a young MN (then Chamberlain) describes a performance of
Marriage of Figaro as ‘scrumptious’
Young Margaret was also very interested in politics.
Empire Day – Now second Monday in March but originally 24th May to coincide with Queen
Victoria’s birthday. Was introduced to the UK in 1904 by Lord Meath.