Mabel HARROLD (1884-1958)
Mabel
HARROLD was born in Mansfield Road, Hasland in 1884 – she was the eldest child of Edgar and Jane HARROLD
.
She married
Walter LONGDEN
in 1905 at the Primitive Methodist
Chapel known as Mount Zion Chapel on Chatsworth Road in Chesterfield. The witnesses to their wedding were Walter’s sister
Florence LONGDEN and her husband to be Walter Henry HOLLEWORTH.
Mabel
and Walter LONGDEN had three children:
Harold
Wilson LONGDEN, my father, was born in 1905. In 1931 he married
Doris BARKER at Christ Church, Stonegravels,
Chesterfield. My Mother died in 1986 and my father four years later in 1990.
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Ernest LONGDEN was born in 1907.
He married in 1939 and died, aged 61, in
1968.
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Margaret LONGDEN was born at 1 Hampton Street,
Hasland in 1915. She married John
Henry Brown at Holywell Cross Methodist Chapel in
Chesterfield in 1934. John
was killed in action over Malta in January 1943.
Margaret remarried after the war and died, aged 47, in
1962.
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My grandmother
in her early married years loved to move house and my father
often told the story of how his father went to see him one
lunch time to say that they no longer lived at the house he
had left to go to work in the morning but had moved to Eyre
Street in Hasland. They did eventually settle, and from my
point of view always lived at 68 The Green in Hasland. When
my grandmother lived on The Green she used to spend many hours
sitting by the window watching the world go by – and
commenting on what she saw! I have often wondered whether
she enjoyed the vantage point of the front window of 48 Storforth
Lane where she could watch what was going on in the house
at 49 Storforth Lane (the home of her mother, sister and brother)
and 47 Storforth Lane (the home of her sister Ethel and her
family).
There is an excellent photograph of my grandmother paddling
in the sea in a coat and hat with Florence LONGDEN (with her
back to the camera holding up her skirt!)
Mabel
LONGDEN died in 1958 aged 73. Her son-in-law Sid Jenkinson registered
her death and she was buried in Hasland Cemetery.
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