Look what I found on online! A Golden Wedding Announcement for a wedding 110 years ago!

 

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. 

All Soul's Church 1907

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.    

Photo from the 1970s - from left to right

Hilda (looking at the camera), her eldest daughter Dorothy May, her daughter Hilda Bertha, my grandmother Bertha Louise, and in front is Hilda's youngest daughter Beatrice. 

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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]). 

Roberts- Pogson Family Photo

This was actually an old family slide I found in my father's collection of family slides.  I don't know who photographed this image, since my parents aren't in this, nor any of my Dad's brothers.  It was possibly taken by one of his cousins and given to him.  The date appears to be the late 1950s or early 1960s, and the color is still great on the image even though most of the other slides in this box have faded or deteriorated.

I received this box of slides after my Dad and his brother had passed away.  Most of the people in this photo have already passed away, too.  When my Dad's surviving brother, my Uncle Richard, came to visit a few weeks ago, we tried to identify most of the people.  He took a copy of the image up to Alton Bay, New Hampshire to share with distant Pogson cousins, and we were able to learn the names of some of the rest of the folks.

This appears to be a gathering of my grandmother's extended family.  Her maiden name was Roberts, and she and her brother and sister were born in Leeds, England.

Kneeling in front (as if he were petting the dog that is escaping out of the frame...) is my grandfather Donald Munroe Wilkinson (1895 - 1977)

.... And next to my grandfather in the red skirt is Beatrice Pogson (1929 - 2005), daughter of my grandmother's sister Hilda Mary (Roberts) Pogson (1891 - 1990), who is standing behind her.  To Hilda's left is Marian (Hurd) Pogson, wife of Arthur William Pogson (1920 - 1993) (to Hilda's right, her son).  To the right of Arthur is my grandmother, Bertha Louise (Roberts) Wilkinson (1897- 1990).  Next to the right is Dorothy Pogson Davis (still living!) and then Bertha Pogson Tarbox (1917 - 2002) both daughters of Auntie Hilda.  To the far right are Ella May Townsend Tarbox (b. 1879), mother-in-law of Bertha, and her daughter Mildred Tarbox.  Missing from the photo is Ernest Tarbox (1915 - 1995), who probably took the photo since in includes all his family including wive's family and his mother and sister.

Family Tree Information:

Generation 1:  Samuel Roberts, son of John Roberts and Hannah Westeman, born about 1829 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, died before 1891; married on 21 March 1853 in Holbeck, Yorkshire to Mary Anne Stott, daughter of James Stott and Sarah Hesseltone.  Ten children including:

Generation 2:  2nd child: Sarah Anne Roberts, b. about 1855 in Leeds, died 1911 in Leeds; married in June 1872 in Leeds to William Pogson, son of John Pogson and Mary Unknown. Seven children including:

Generation 3:  Sixth child: Herbert Pogson, born 6 August 1889 in Leeds, died January 1971 in Saint Petersburg, Florida; married in 1914 in Leeds to Hilda Mary Roberts, daughter of John Peter Bowden Roberts and Emma Frances Warren, his first cousin (see below).  Four children  (all in the photo above)

1. Dorothy M.  Pogson, born 1916 in Massachusetts; married George Kenneth Davis, son of John Davis and Susie Parsons,  born 2 February 1907 in Lynn, Massachusetts, died in January 1982 in Alton, New Hampshire.

2. Hilda Bertha Pogson,, born 8 October 1917 in Beverly, Massachusetts, died 5 September 2002 in Milbury, Massachusetts; married to Ernest T. Tarbox, son of Ernest Frederick Tarbox and Ella May Townsend, born 9 October 1915, died on 16 October 1995 in Worcester, Massachusetts.  Two children.

3. Arthur William Pogson, born 21 December 1920 in Beverly, Massachusetts, died on 10 November 1993 in Melrose, Massachusetts; married first to Marion L. Hurd, two children.  Married second to Natalie Unknown.

4. Beatrice C. Pogson, born 14 October 1929 in Lynn, Massachusetts; died on 20 January 2005 in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.  Unmarried.

Generation 2: Sixth child: John Peter Bowden Roberts, born in August 1865 in Leeds, died 23 August 1925 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married on 24 May 1890 in Leeds to Emma Frances Warren, daughter of Obed Thomas Warren and Betsey Hannah Stimson, born about 1870 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, died in August 1925 in Beverly, Massachusetts.  Four children.

1.  Hilda Mary Roberts (see above, married to Herbert Pogson, her first cousin)

2.  Horace Warren Roberts, born 5 September 1895 in Leeds, died 2 November 1969 in Beverly, Massachusetts; married 23 June 1920 in Beverly to Katherine Bella MacDermid, daughter of Charles Colt MacDermid and Mary Ross, born 23 March 1896 in Marsboro, Quebec, died 30 December 1978 in Beverly.  Three children.

3. Bertha Louise Roberts, my grandmother, born 30 September 1897 in Leeds, died 17 March 1990 in Long Beach, California; married on 26 November 1926 in Beverly to Donald Munroe Wilkinson, son of Albert Munroe Wilkinson and Isabella Lyons Bill, born 23 October 1895, died on 24 July 1977 in Long Beach California.  Three sons.

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