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Human interest story!
I've just been watching Flog It!, from Morecambe.
One of the items shown was an album of beautiful embroidered postcards sent all through WW1 from a soldier named Gordon Atkinson to a Miss Gladys Harper.
The seller said she hoped Gordon and Gladys had eventually married, but had no idea if they had or not. They weren't relatives of hers, and she knew nothing about them. She'd found the album in a house she'd moved into.
So of course I had to look them up - and yes, they did marry!
Sadly they didn't have long together, and it seems they had no children.
Marriages Sep 1924 (>99%)
Atkinson Gordon H Harper Lancaster 8e 2099
HARPER Gladys Atkinson Lancaster 8e 2099
Gordon Henry Atkinson
in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995
Name: Gordon Henry Atkinson
Death Date: 18 Apr 1932
Death Place: Lancashire, England
Probate Date: 27 May 1932
Probate Registry: Lancashire, England
Atkinson, Gordon Henry of Westonia, Heysham Road, Morecambe and Heysham, Lancashire died 18 April 1932. Administration Lancaster 27 May to Gladys Atkinson, widow. Effects £638 5s 5d.
Gordon H Atkinson
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Gordon H Atkinson
Death Age: 41
Birth Date: abt 1891
Registration Date: Apr 1932[May 1932] [Jun 1932]
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration district: Lancaster
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 8e
Page: 818
Gordon Henry Atkinson
in the British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
Name: Gordon Henry Atkinson
Gender: Male
Birth Date: abt 1891
Enlistment Age: 24
Document Year: 1915
Residence Place: Kirklands Sefton Rd, Morecambe
Regimental Number: 62122
Regiment Name: Royal Engineers
Number of Images: 2
Form Title: Short Service Attestation
Family Members:
Name Relation to Soldier
Gordon Henry Atkinson Self (Head)
Charles Atkinson Father
Gladys Atkinson
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Gladys Atkinson
Death Age: 56
Birth Date: abt 1898
Registration Date: Apr 1954
[May 1954]
[Jun 1954]
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration district: Lancaster
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 10c
Page: 537
Gladys Atkinson
in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995
Name: Gladys Atkinson
Death Date: 6 Apr 1954
Death Place: Lancashire, England
Probate Date: 4 Jun 1954
Probate Registry: Lancaster, England
Atkinson, Gladys of 100 Sandylands Promenade, Morecambe, died 6 April 1954.
Administration Lancaster 4 June to Ethel Mortimer (wife of Joseph Mortimer) .
Effects £5099 19s 11d.
Ethel was Gladys's sister.
Marriages Sep 1915 (>99%)
Harper Ethel Mortimer Lancaster 8e 1913
Mortimer Joseph Harper Lancaster 8e 1913
Gladys Harper
in the 1911 England Census
Name: Gladys Harper
Age in 1911: 13
Estimated birth year: abt 1898
Relation to Head: Daughter
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Morecambe, Lancashire, England
Civil Parish: Heysham
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Street address: 11 Marine Terrace Sandylands Morecambe
Occupation: Student
Registration district: Lancaster
Registration District Number: 479
Sub-registration district: Heaton
ED, institution, or vessel: 11
Piece: 25520
Household Members:
Name Age
Hannah Marice Harper 51
Ethel Harper 24
Gladys Harper 13
Miriam Groves 19
Gladys Atkinson
in the 1939 England and Wales Register
Name: Gladys Atkinson
Gender: Female
Marital status: Widow
Birth Date: 23 Nov 1897
Residence Year: 1939
Address: 100 Sandylands Prom.
Residence Place: Morecambe and Heysham, Lancashire, England
Schedule Number: 235
Sub Schedule Number: 1
Enumeration District: NWDF
Registration district: 479-2 No. 3 B
Household Members:
Name
Gladys Atkinson
Hannah M Harper - 8 Dec 1859, widow [ Gladys's mother ]
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Glad you looked them up ArgyllGran :-) What a shame they had so little time together.
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