My great-great grandmother : Eliza Umpleby

Here's a photo of my great-great grandmother Eliza Umpleby. She was born February 22nd 1850 in Ripon, Yorkshire to Thomas Umpleby and Esther Brooks, and was one of eight children. She married John Lynch, an Irishman who came to Yorkshire from County Clare around the 1850s due to the potato famine. The two were married on January 10th 1869 in Stammergate, Ripon Yorkshire and had 12 children.

Their eldest, Mary, moved to Ealing in west London probably around the early 1890s where she met George White who had also moved there. In his case, from Odiham in Hampshire where he'd been born on March 27th 1870.

The two were married December 5th 1893 at the local Parish church. My grandfather, John George White, was born two months later at 19 Venetia Road, Ealing, followed by his brothers Hubert and Edward.

After the turn of the century, the family moved to Holloway, which was where my grandfather met my grandmother Adelaide Cooper. They were married Christmas Day 1926, and my father was born almost 9 months later to the very day.

Dad was an only child, but he made up for it when he met and married my mother, Annie McDonagh on December 22nd 1951. They had four boys, George, Phillip, David and me.