From The Daily Item, Lynn, Massachusetts, Tuesday, February 18, 1964, page 15
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The Item Salutes Today
Ex-Stiles St. Couple Note 50th Anniversary
Marking Golden Anniversary are former West Lynn residents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pogson. The couple is celebrating 50 years of marriage today at their home, 738 54th Ave. North, St. Petersburg, Fla. Mr. Pogson retired from General Electric Co. River Works in 1952.
(This is the 1360th Greater Lynn couple to be saluted by The Item for having attained a half centry or more of married life. A handsom illuminated scroll suitable for framing, with the name and marriage date of the couple will be present to them by The Item. Greater Lynn residents are invited to submit the names of other couples about to observe their golden wedding day.)
A former West Lynn couple, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pogson, now residing at 738 54th Ave. North, St. Petersburg, Fla., are today celebrating their gold wedding anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Pogson, who lived 40 years at 31 Stiles St., West Lynn, were married in All Soul's Church in England, Feb. 18, 1914. Natives of Leeds, England, they came to this country shortly after their marriage.
They have been residing in Folorida since Mr. Pogson's retirement in 1952 from the General Electric Co. River Works, where he had been employed 37 years as a tool and die maker. Now they return annually to visit their family and spend the Summer at Alton Bay, N.H.
There are four children, Mrs. George Davis and Arthur Pogson, both of Saugus; Miss Beatrice Pogson, who resides with them in St. Petersburg; Mrs. Ernest Tarbox of Millbury and four grandchildren.
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My great aunt Hilda Mary Pogson was my grandmother's sister. She was the eldest of three children of John Peter Bawden Roberts (1865 - 1925) and Emma Frances Warren (1865 - 1927). Hilda was born 14 May 1891 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, and she died 1 July 1990 in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Hilda and Herbert Pogson were first cousins. Herbert's mother, Sarah Anne Roberts was the sister to John Roberts. Herbert was born 6 August 1889 in Leeds, and died 11 January 1971 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
This is the All Soul's Hood Memorial Church where they were married. My grandmother wrote about this church in her diary. She loved the church and all its social events including Sunday school, the "Needle Brigade" which made things to sell in the church bazaar, and the Girls Friendly Society. This church is still standing in Leeds.
Herbert's parents owned a drapery store in Armsley, a section of Leeds. In my grandmother's diary she wrote "I remember going over there when I was a little girl. We used to visit them. And I loved to go in the store and my uncle would let me measure the ribbons and I thought that wonderful. It was quite a nice store and they sold a lot of lovely things and they had five girls and just this one boy, Herbert." Herbert came to Boston in 1911 aboard the ship Franconia, and on the ship manifest he listed his occupation as "mechanic", his father as "Mr. Pogson" and his address as "Ramsey House, Hill Lane, Armsley, Leeds". He also appeared on the ships manifest of the Bohemian on 18 March 1914 (one month after his marriage) with his wife Hilda, and the port of arrival was Boston.
Some time before 1915 Hilda and Herbert came to Massachusetts and lived at 60 Colon Street in Beverly, Massachusetts. In 1915 Hilda's parents, brother and sister all came to the United States and lived at 7 Dearborn Avenue, a few blocks from Hilda and Herbert's house. In 1917 the Pogson family removed to nearby Saugus, Massachusetts.
I have found several other ship's manifests showing Herbert visiting England in 1920 (with his wife and two small children- Dorothy age 4, and Hilda age 2), 1949, 1957 and 1960.
Herbert died in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1971and is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery. When she was widowed Hilda moved from St. Petersburg back to Massachusetts where she lived at her daughter's house until she went to the Bolton Manor Nursing Home in Marlborough. She died there in 1990 and is buried next to Herbert in St. Petersburg. I remember visiting with Herbert and Hilda when I was a small child, and I loved to hear them talking in their Yorkshire accents, like my grandmother.
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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Look what I found on online! A Golden Wedding Announcement for a wedding 110 years ago!", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 4, 2024, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/03/look-what-i-found-on-online-golden.html: accessed [access date]).
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