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- Rear Row (left to right): Andy McGibbon (best man), Richard Timmis Brereton, (unknown lady), Richard Brereton, Lydia Timmis, Harry Dittmer, and pageboy (unknown).
Front Row (seated, left to right): Margaret J Fisher (bridesmaid), Ellen Jane Brereton (bride), .Thomas Turner (groom) and Elsie Brereton (bridesmaid)
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- Ellen Jane Brereton (b.1888) and Thomas Turner about a month before their wedding day.
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- Photo labeled as Ellen Brereton’s marriage to Thomas Gladstone Turner. The old lady (front right) with big chin is Esther Eddowes. Left of her is my grandmother Elsie Brereton (Bridesmaid, aged 21). Behind the bride and groom (middle row) is Richard and Lydia Brereton. Then to the right of them it could be Ann Hale.
The man in the Scottish berry is most likely Tomks father, John Turner (born in Penrith).
Plenty of family members here, but who is who?
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- The wedding table, already laid out for a celebration
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- A Birkenhead couple, Mr. Thomas Gladstone Turner and his wife, Ellen Jane of Parkstone Road, Prenton, celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary last week.
The couple met at “Hamilton Square Congregational Church” Sunday School and after 10-years engagement they were married in St. Mary’s Church Birkenhead on September 13 1915.
Thomas worked for Cammell Lairds Shipbuilders as an engineer for 47 years. His wife worked as a dressmaker in Devours, Claughton Road, Birkenhead.
They are members of the Grange Baptist Church, Whetstone Lane, where Thomas has been a lay preacher for more than 35 years.
To celebrate their anniversary, Ellen and Thomas held a dinner party at the church last Saturday.
After 60 years of marriage their recipe is love and compatibility.