Donald Ernest Sefton

I wanted to put this photo in of a party at the Laurels.

Sitting on the left is my great grandfather, Philip Grubham. The three girls on right are Doris Hayward, her elder sister Mabel Hayward and their cousin Doris Jones. The photo I think was taken circa. 1929. Doris Hayward was born in 1921, Mabel Hayward in 1917 and Doris Jones in 1909. Doris Hayward married Benjamin Bayliss (14th January 1950), Mabel Hayward married Sidney Ganderton (14th February 1942) and Doris Jones married John Edward Holland (16th April 1938). On the far side of table in a suite is Bowden Wooton, who married Esther Grubham (15th June 1929), sat next to him.
So this may have been their wedding day!

I do not know any of the others in this photo.

Philip Grubham, b. 9th May, 1846. -  d. 17th April, 1934.
Bawden Wootton, b. 4th March, 1892. - d. September qtr., 1961.
Esther Elizabeth [Grubham] Flowers [later Wootton] [Daughter] b. 15th April, 1877. - d. 1947.
Doris Eliza Jones [Later Holland] [Grandaughter] b. 14th May 1909. - d. 27th November, 1974.
Mabel Lloyd Hayward [Later Ganderton] [Cousin to Doris Eliza Jones] b. 10th April, 1917. - d. 20th June, 2002
Doris Winifred Jones [Later Bayliss] [Cousin to Doris Eliza Jones] b. 18th May, 1920. - d. 1986

Mabel and Doris were living at the at the Post Office at Knightwick with their uncle and aunty, John William & Lucy Jones. This was due to something happening in their family, perhaps the death of their father. They stayed there until they married their respective partners. While their elder sister Nora Mary Hayward stayed with her mother Fanny May Hayward [nee Jones] who remarried to Joseph Petty on the 3rd December, 1928, in Bromyard.

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