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Dear Sylvia,
I have made the silliest mistake! My great grandfather was John Gozzard not Henry. It didn't look right as I was typing it, so today I got out my grandparents' marriage certificate. My great grandfather is John Gozzard and is described as a bricklayer. So your grandmother and mine were sisters!!!! I remember my Aunt Ada , my mother's older sister ,telling me she got splinters in her bottom sliding down a wooden cart which was stored in the Blossom Street yard. Also your grandfather liked a drink at The Scarborough Taps, the pub opposite Leeds train station. My mum and aunt knew your grandmother, she was nice, one of the sisters was an absoloute tartar, it may have been Ada who lived with her family in Lower Wortley. The two Gozzard bothers were our grandmothers' brothers, they emigrated to America and were never heard of again. I have tracked them down and have a few facts about them. My grandmother's favourite brother Walter died from pneumonia when he was a young man.
My grandmother married Samuel Ingle in 1902 and was married in Wadsley parish church in Sheffield. I don't know why she got married there, probably because her sister Alice lived there.My Aunt Ada was born 1902/03 and my mother Dorothy in 1917. My aunt married Walter Fynn and had one son Jack.
My mother married Henry Hellaby in 1939 and they had three daughters Linda (1944) Ann(1947) and Janet (1948). Ann has two daughters Kate and Aideen. Janet has two boys Michael and David. My mother died in January 2002 aged 85. I am trying to remember all the many stories my grandmother told me about her family. All our branch of the family still live in Leeds.
Look forward to hearing from you Linda
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