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Ooooops, I've confused George Henry's war dates with my own great grandfather's. Well spotted Chempat.

Neva was definitely named after the Russian river by George Henry and all successive Neva's in the family were/are named after her. As my mum-in-law understood it from her grandma Lois Mary, George got the name from the time he spent in Military service.

George Henry Tolley is an enigma I don't think I'm ever going to fully solve.

He was born in Leicester in 1868 to James Tolley of Warwick and Maria Hart. In 1889 he married Lois Mary Pick (born in Ibstock) in Leicester, their first child, Lois Maria was born shortly after their marriage. The couple went on to have another daughter in 1892, the same year that George Henry attested to the military.
George Henry bought his discharge in 1894 and in 1895 it appears that Lois Mary gave birth to another daughter, Nellie Tolley, however it seems that though George Henry was listed as the father Nellie was raised as Nellie Tolley Golby by William Golby and his then wife and the only record of Nellie being Lois' child is on the 1911 census where she adds Nellie onto the return and changes the number of children born in the marriage from 3 to 4. It appears that Nellie was not known to her half sisters as none of them knew anything about her and my MIL adamantly insisted that her grandmother had only 3 daughters.

The 3rd daughter was Neva Tolley born in 1903 in Lancashire and christened in Leicester shortly after her birth.
I have discovered that Neva had a daughter and another member of the family made contact with her family. All went well until George Henry was mentioned. Contact was immediately stopped and all attempts to reinstate it have been ignored. (I intend to have a try myself at some point as I'm hoping to barter information that they may not have.)

Anyway, I know that after some turbulence George Henry cleared off to Birmingham, where he lived for the rest of his life. (I believe he died in Birmingham in 1941)

I know that he enlisted during WW1 and transferred as a general something or other (ground crew) in 1919, or at least I think I know that, I now can't find the record I took some of this information from.

What I can't find is where the heck he was in 1911. I am almost certain he was in Leicester at this point because I've got a feeling I stored some info about him showing he was in Leicester the following year but the computer I used at that time has crashed and I have no access to that information.

One or two people have suggested he's there on the census but have not given me any idea where to look and he isn't coming up on either FindMyPast or Ancestry. I am hoping someone on here can point my in the right direction so that I can fill in that gap. Any hwelp will, as always, will be most gratefully received.

Thanks for the additional information on John Newton, Jool. I am certainly viewing him in a different light now. I know he was a POW in the first world war so maybe he changed when he came back to his family but my husband's mum and her older sister have opposing views about the kind of man their father was so I imagine he didn't actually change that much and Auntie Neva claimed that it was his fault that her mum lost the baby she was carrying and then died herself so I also imagine his poor wife, Lois, was not as happy in her marriage as I'd like to believe

I do have the date of the marriage of Cyril and Florence, Irish1120 but I hadn't been able to trace their child so that will help too, thank you. 

Thank you for the replies DCB and Gadget.

I thought Cyril may be the most likely person considering the style of the clothes. The dress may have been borrowed from a relative or friend who had married in the second half of the 1920s I thought.
My husband can recall being shown the photograph when he was a child and he is certain his mum told him who the people were but he can't with any certainty recall their names although he does have an inkling it was Cyril.
Sadly, Cyril's son died a few years ago and as we believe he never married we can't try to track down a relative who may know.

Thanks again for the suggestions. We really appreciate it.

Hi ShaunJ, Thanks for posting that image, I couldn't manage to do it. Yes. most of the family were framework knitters, it's the bit underneath thart I can't decipher. It looks like something fair. I was interested in finding out what it was but can't manage to see it clearely even when enlarged.

Thanks for the reply,
kind regards,
June