Caroline Trease, 'Carrie', was born in Leeds in 1864, the daughter of
William Trease and Caroline Loft
and the granddaughter of
John Trease and Esther Whitehouse.
Until her marriage the only information we have about her is that the 1881 census records that she was then visiting her father at
Burton-on-Trent.
In 1893, she married Charles Henry Taylor, a builder’s clerk, in Barrow in Furness, Lancashire. All that is known of her husband is that he was 23 when they married, and
was the son of William Taylor, clerk. They had two daughters, both of whom married, but neither of whom appears to have had surviving
children.
In 1917 her husband died in Ulverston, aged 49, possibly a casualty of the flu epidemic of that time.
After her husband’s death, Carrie stayed in Barrow possibly living with her youngest daughter after her eldest daughter got married.
Some time before 1930, her youngest daughter left for London.
In 1934, when she was 70, Carrie married
again in Barrow-in-Furness. Her new husband, Andrew White, an insurance agent, was 65, and the son of the late James White, a farmer.
It seems that after a time Andrew and Carrie may have separated, or possibly her husband died. Carrie then appears to have gone into
lodgings in the Barrow-in-Furness area.
Carrie went to live with her sister Minnie in Malvern Road, Acocks Green probably in 1946 after her eldest daughter died in Barrow-in-Furness.
She died there in the winter of 1947, at the age of 82. The death certificate states that her husband's occupation was
unknown but as it does not describe him as dead, it seems probable that they had separated and all contact with him had been lost.
- Daughter Doris May Taylor, 'Doll', was born in 1895, in Barrow-in-Furness. Nothing is known of her early life.
As William’s first grandchild, one can surmise that much attention was lavished on her on visits to William’s home in Acocks Green.
In 1917, when she was 22, Doll married a soldier called John William Bell at St. Marks Church in Barrow. John was aged 24 and the son of
John Bell, a plate layer. Nothing more is known about his parents or date or place of birth. John died shortly afterwards - it is not
known when but it could possibly have been during the First World War. They do not appear to have had any children who survived infancy.
Doll remarried in Barrow in 1921, aged 26. Her new husband, Sydney William Potts, had been born in Whitehaven in 1895 the son of William Potts.
He was a fitter and may have worked in the shipyards at Barrow. After their marriage, they lived in the Barrow in Furness area. Nothing
more is
known about their lives until Doll died aged 51 in Barrow in Furness in 1946. It seems that she left no children. It is not known when her
husband died.
- Daughter Marjorie, was born in 1902 in Barrow-on-Furness. Little is known of her early life. She left Barrow-in-Furness for London
probably and early in 1930 she was living in London, W2. Later that year, she married Edward William Finlay Mitchell, at Christ
Church in Paddington. 'Teddie', her husband, was a 34 year old accountant who had been born in Edinburgh in 1896, the son of William Grieg
Mitchell, coal merchant. Marjorie was 28.
It appears that until the early 1950s they lived in Pinner, a quiet and pleasant North West London suburb. During the War,
Marjorie worked at the local telephone exchange. Subsequently, they moved up to the Lake District where they resided at a number of
addresses. In 1953, Teddie took a job with Sedbergh school.
When her Aunt Minnie fell ill in 1955, Marjorie went to Acock's Green to nurse her, which she found particularly stressful as she was so
fond of Minnie. When Minnie died in 1955, Marjorie inherited the house at Malvern Rd. and Teddie and Marjorie left the Lake District. Clearing
Minnie's house must have caused Marjorie great sadness. The house had been home to almost every member of her family at some time for almost
60 years
and must have been
full of family mementos and associations.
Sometime between December 1955 and March 1957, Marjorie and Teddie bought a bungalow in Ruislip, a London suburb quite close to Pinner
where they had previously lived. Rather than sell the house at Malvern Road, they kept it and presumably sub-let it to provide them with
an income. The house was eventually sold in March 1961.
Marjorie's new neighbours appear to have been very welcoming and Marjorie and Teddie seem to have settled down to a happy retirement in
a quiet close in Ruislip where nothing ever happened. Apart from 1961 that is, when neighbours Peter and Helen Kroger turned out to be
Russian spies!
Teddie died there in February 1983. Marjorie died there in February 1984