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Hi Rachel,
This post was from a long time ago and I'm not sure why I was chasing this information. This family is NOT in my family tree and I can only think that I was trying to eliminate them from my research.
I do have some family members who were living at the Fox & Grapes Yard in 1891, but they seem unrelated.
Regards
PeterB

My uncle, Harold Berry, was born in Leeds in 1911. His parents were Harry Berry and Lily Stringer, who were married in 1910, at St Edmund, Leeds.

Harold died in 1940, aged 28. I believe that he was married, but do not know to whom. The only evidence that seems to exist within the family is a couple of photographs. One is of my father and my uncle on my father's wedding day (Sept. 1939) and the other, taken the same day, of the two brothers with a woman and two small children.

There are two marriages registered in Leeds that could have possibly been his, in 1932 and 1933. I can discount the later one. The 1932 marriage is between Harold Berry and Ellen Hawkridge, at the Quaker Meeting House. Does anyone have access to the marriage registers for the Leeds Quakers?

Details of the St Edmund's marriage would also be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, PeterB

I'm looking for details of a marriage between Albert Berry and Laura Watson in the first quarter of 1917 registered in the Doncaster area.
Yorkshire BMD has the marriage registered for 1917 at St John the Baptist, Mexborough Doncaster CE34/73/500
If anyone has access to the register details, I would be grateful.

Thanks,PeterB

Hi Chelsea, I am well and hope that you and D are the same. I have been avoiding Facebook, which has become a toxic swamp of hate and stupidity lately.
The Clays and Blanchards are only remotely relevant to you, I think.

William Henry Clay (1842-1877) married Mary Ann Hargreaves (1842-1913)
They had 5 children who were the subject of this post.

William was the son of James Clay (1804- ?, born Otley)and Hannah Maude (1803-1856)
James was the older brother of John Clay (1806-1880, born Otley) My gg-grandfather

John Clay was the father of William (1836-1912) My great-grandfather
William was the father of John (1878-1959) My grandfather.
John Clay married my grandmother Beatrice Olivia Wilson.

Beatrice was the older sister of George Frederick Wilson (1883-1936) who was Fred Speight's father in law.
This won't help much with Fred Speight's ancestry, I'm afraid.

PeterB

Chelsea, here are a few more thoughts on your family-

It seems likely that GF Wilson (sr) and Ada Coleman/Tyreman had five (5) children:
Rose MW Tyreman b.1910
George Frederick 1912-1997
John Albert b. 1913
William A 1917-1917
Arthur 1918-1919

Ada died in 1921 at age 37

George Frederick (jr) married Lena Sharp
15th April 1933 George Frederick Wilson, 21, Iron Moulder of 3 Wilson Court, father also G.F.W., Plasterers Labourer, married Lena Sharp 22 of 17 Bedford Place, father John James Sharp, Tailors Presser.
Witnesses Doris Wilson and John James Sharp at St George's Church, Leeds

Notice the witnesses at this wedding, Lena's father and possibly George Frederick's stepmother.

There is a marriage of George F Wilson to Doris Linfoot at Leeds Registry Office in 1923

There is a birth of Dorothy J Wilson in 1925, Mother Linfoot

George Frederick (sr) died in 1936 age 53. Did his widow (Doris?) marry someone with children?

George (jr) and Lena's children - David J (1940) Graham J (1942) and John A (1944)
There is also a birth in 1935 - Neil F Wilson, mother Sharp, that you may be able to rule out

As indicated earlier Fred and Rose were married at St Stephen and St Agnes, Burmantofts

As for me, I came to Australia in 1954 with my parents and two older brothers. I have a younger sister, born in Adelaide, who lives in London.