Apparently Clara ASHFORTH met a gentleman from New Zealand, they married and emigrated to New Zealand. Clara died, and some time later Jessie RENWICK the daughter of Harry RENWICK and Jessie RENWICK (née ASHFORTH) travelled to New Zealand and married the widower of Clara ASHFORTH.
Clara Ashforth, Jessie Renwick, New Zealand and intrigue
Clara Ashforth
I'm not sure I fully understand this myself, but I will try to explain:
During a telephone conversation with my mother I passed on a few of the more tangible discoveries I have made while researching my ASHFORTH line. We were chatting about some of the family photographs I have recently scanned and uploaded to this site.
Jessie Renwick
People
Note: 1 This took some getting my head around! Thanks to the families having 2 women by the name of Jessie, and 2 women by the name of Clara. Even now I am not absolutely certain I am correct.
The four children in this photograph were born in New Zealand though whether to Clara or Jessie I cannot recall. What I do recall quite clearly and I remember it often being repeated, is that in the 1960's one of these children (by now in their late teens or early twenties) travelled to Sheffield, England and while taking some photographs from the newly erected Cole Brothers building (a large local department store) fell down a lift shaft and died of his injuries. It was certainly reported in the Sheffield Star so a trawl though their archives should probably give me the exact date.
Hopefully sometime soon I will ask my mother to go over this story in more detail and try and establish a more comprehensive timeline of events.
Update: 2007-07-31 Very exciting news. Descendants of the ASHFORTH / RENWICK line have left comments and sent an email regarding this post and provided further details of this line of the family tree. I will endeavour to repost with corrections and amendments as soon as possible.
Update: 2007-08-02 I have amended, corrected and created a new post regarding the death of Douglas Roy (Dion) WILLIAMSON. Click here to read this update.
Update: 2007-08-04 Using FreeBMD I have found a marriage record for Clara ASHFORTH and Henry J WILLIAMSON. The marriage took place at Sheffield in the June quarter of 1919. Click here to read this update.
Update: 2009-01-28 Thanks to KW for kindly contacting me and providing a great deal of information regarding the families of Henry James WILLIAMSON, enabling me to correct and clarify this article.
It was Douglas Roy (Dion) WILLIAMSON that died as a result of injuries sustained in a fall.
The four children in this photograph were from the marriage of Henry James WILLIAMSON and Clara WILLIAMSON (née ASHFORTH).
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Douglas Roy (Dion) WILLIAMSON was from the marriage of Henry James WILLIAMSON and Jessie RENWICK.
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Comments
ashforth/renwick
harry renwick is my great grandfather,clara renwick is my grand mother who married john barber ,my mothers name was joan barber and she had a sister called rene and a brother called jack.ernest renwick was my uncle ,my sister and i visit the ashforth and renwick graves at wardsend cemetary.we have several family photos of all these people and also frank and bob .i was born at 41 burton street where we used to live with my great grandparents,sadly my grandparents and my own parents are deceased, i would love to hear from anyone who knows of our family .the person who you mention that fell to his death from cole brothers was my mothers cousin dion williams (son of jessie from nz).please do not hesitate to contact me for more information if wanted. sue