Florence Mary Bogg (1898-1971)

Florence Mary on her wedding day 1934

My memories of my grandfather, Vincent Edward Knowles, are sparse and I only have one recollection of his wife, my grandmother, Florence Mary Bogg.

The single image I have is of an old lady with a vacant expression, sitting silently in her special chair, in the dining room of my grandparent's home in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire. This memory must date from around 1970, when I was five years old.

She was unwell - I believe she had suffered a stroke and was unable to do anything for herself. She died in 1971.

Florence Mary Bogg was born in 1898, the daughter of Thomas Bogg and Sarah . Her father was a butcher and lived in Moss Side in Manchester when she was born.

I have no idea how my grandfather, Vincent Edward Knowles of Lincolnshire, encountered a girl from Manchester in an age when travel was less common than it is now. But he did and they married in 1934, when she was aged 36. The wedding took place in Wilmslow, Cheshire, as this was where Thomas Bogg had retired to.

Florence Mary was the mother to two children: Angela (b.1935) and Vincent Arthur (b.1939).