William Edgar Askham (1889 - 1961) My Grandfather

Born: 17.3.1889, Huggate, Pocklington, S Kirby 

Parents: Joseph Moore Askham and Emma Jane Greenfield.

Married: 27.10.1920 Bar Church, Scarborough to Hilda Mary Briggs. At time WEA living Loftsome Farm, Selby, HMB living 52 Aberdeen Walk, Scarborough. Witnesses May Askham and L(?) Askham.  HMB: married in suit: ankle length skirt, long jacket, wide brimmed hat with deep crown, ermine tie.

Children:

Dorothy May b 11.3.1922, (m  Smale)

Muriel b 8.3.1925, (m Fearnley)

Kathleen Brenda b 2.10.1930 (m Thomson)

1891 Census: White Apron Road, South Kirby, living with parents.

1901 Census: living with parents.

1911 Census: Living Howden

Farmer, also Auctioneer and Valuer, with L Kirkman, operating from Newsholme, Howden, he did office part.  I have bill from 1930.  First lived at rented farm, Loftsholme Farm, now an hotel.

Lived there with his sister May as housekeeper until he got married.  Between the wars (prob 1920s?) hosted shoots for Lord Leconfield and the Lord’s friends with his wife doing the catering.

Car: WF87, bought 1925 motor show by father in law Arthur Briggs, black citroen, cloth hood.  In war pulled round farm by horses with top removed, it had a thermometer at front.  From end of road bus to Scarbro, took 3 hours (car took 2 hours) 60 miles.  Then had standard (s): FAT 59 and EBT.

Picture of Muriel and Ring: Ring was Airdale cross, the house dog not farm dog. He used to walk to Howden and beg a bone off the butcher, one day we was walking home and was knocked down by a car. Dorothy went with WEA to get the dog and WEA was very upset as it was his very own dog.  In picture pump behind (soft water for washing hair etc, hard water pump was inside the house), next to back door, Loftsholme Farm.                                                        Moved to Beech Tree Farm in late 1931.  bought beech tree farm in 1940s/50s for £9,000 – as sitting tenant.  Quiet, musical.  Bought bungalow at Bempton in 1949, I have photo.  On all sorts of Committees, pres Farmers union, water board, river board, parish councillor.  Methodist.  Westover Lodge, 8 Westover Road, Scarborough.

Died: 30.6.1962 Address: 9 Westover Road, Scarborough, Farmer (retired), pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis left leg.

Hilda Mary Briggs

Born: 20 November 1891, 38 Chapel Street, City of Graham, County of Bourke, Va, Australia.

Parents: Arthur Briggs and Minnie Temple

Died 9.10.1974, Cornwall/Devon.

1891 Census: presumably in Australia.

Returned to England about 1895.

1901 Census: Living 64 Castle Road, Scarborough with parents.

1911 Census: Scarborough with parents.

Went to Catering College in Leeds (about 1906?), didn't finish - ill?  Ill after having Brenda therefore no Christening.  After widowed stayed living at Westover Lodge, until moved down to Longmeadow Road, Saltash, Cornwall in late 1960’s after having had breast cancer.  Sewing, crochet, music, cooking. Disabled – what was it?  One of the first women to have a hip replacement, long convalescence in Harrogate.