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- Collection: Gillian Holt collection
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Mahoney family - HOL00125
Seated: John Mahoney and wife Maggie (nee O'Rourke). Standing at back L - R: Joe, Annie, Jim, Jack, Mary and Margaret Mary (Peggy) standing next to her mother.
Letter from Clarance Holt - HOL00135
Letter from Clarance Holt to his youngest son, Derrick, on his 8th Birthday 1st July 1917.
Note on letter - HOL00137
Derrick's handwriting, the envelope contained the last letter he received from his father. Derrick was 8 years old on 1st July 1917 and his father, Clarance, was killed at Passchendaele 9th October that year.
Back of Postcard - HOL00138
Postcard from Clarance Holt, June 1917
Gladys, Claude and Mary Monica Longbottom. - HOL00143
Claude Served with the Kings Royal Rifle Corps in the first world war. He is in uniform here so this was possibly taken in about 1915. He would have been 18 in 1915 and Gladys would have been 21 and Monica 15.
Back of Postcard - HOL00144
It is not known whose Birthday it was for. Possibly their mother, Clara Ann whose birthday was 28th September.
Longbottom Family - HOL00145
Claude and Ada Mary Longbottom (née Cockcroft) sitting on the right with their sons Philip and Maurice (in front).This would have been taken in the mid-thirties., Philip would have been 13 and Maurice 9 in 1935. Back L-R Philip and Claude Longbottom…
Wedding Guests - HOL00147
Betty Greenwood's wedding to Maurice Longbottom, with her father, Frank Greenwood, and Bill Jones (brother-in-law)
Maurice Longbottom - HOL00148
Maurice Longbottom (1926-2009), in his naval uniform in WW2
Longbottom Family Group - HOL00149
The father of the children was Sandy Longbottom, who sailed from Liverpool to New York in January 1907. His wife, Clara Ann, nee Robinson, was pregnant with their 4th child. He never returned. L-R Gladys, b 1892, Mary Monica, b 1900, Clara Ann,…
Grace Schofield in her finery. - HOL00150
Grace married Joseph Longbottom at Leeds Parish Church in February 1865. Their first child, Martha Jane was born at Roe Head near Mirfield 10th April 1865. They had five more children, Amy, Edwin and Sandy born at Hunsworth Mill, Cleckheaton, Fred…
Fred Longbottom & Anne Jane Plunkett - HOL00151
Anne Jane Plunkett b 1873 and Fred Longbottom (1873-1960.) Probably on their engagement to be married in 1902. They married on 17th May 1902. Fred was the son of Joseph Longbottom and Grace Schofield of Cooper House, Luddenden Foot.
Family Group - HOL00152
Taken in the mid-twenties. Philip was born 25th September 1922, Ada Mary Cockcroft born at Hawksclough, Mytholmroyd on 28th April 1896 and Claude Longbottom was born 1st February 1897 at Boulderclough.
