William Jeremiah and Ellen Christmas.
Nellie, Rose, Ellen (Mother), Maude & Lilly Christmas
Post Card from Millie to sister, date unknown
Marriage of May Christmas to Jack Barratt, October 1st 1918 web
Harold and William Christmas
Ellen Christmas, at East Meon Almshouses.
Reunion, in 1971. L to R, Nellie Goddard, May Barratt, Dolly Wilson, Millie Atteberry, Lily Nicholson, Rose Mauback.
William Jeremiah Christmas worked as a link man, looking after a stretch of village streets and helping to build new ones. He married Ellen, and they had five daughters, three of whom married Canadians. Click here for Hazel Pamplin’s account, on the History website, of how they met and married their husbands.
These are photos of William Jeremiah and Ellen, and their daughters, including of a reunion in 1971 when the three North American sisters came back to East Meon. (A PDF is attached of local newspapers’ reports of the reunion of the Christmas sisters.)
Place
East Meon Contributor
Hazel Pamplin Copyright
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EM/0072/EM/0167/0001 Accession number
2014-08-062 Storage location
The photos and documents are held by Hazel Pamplin. Larger resolution digital scans on application Resources/People/Collections/Goddard Format
Digital scans of photos Downloads
Hampshire Telegraph and Petersfield Post reports on re-union of six sisters in East Meon, September 1971.
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