Girls With Hats

This photo is from the early 1940’s, it is the “Williams Girls” outside what looks like Hoole All Saints Church, I don’t know what the occasion is but most likely a family wedding.

If you have been following my blog you will know that my mother Hilda came from a large family, eleven in total, eight girls and three boys.  This is the only photo I know of that shows just the girls.  

Gertie (born 1900) was the second child but the eldest daughter, Lorna (born 1924) was the youngest in the family.  

One of things I like to do is list the married names of my female family members, this helps any cousins to find me if they Google their parents/grandparents names. So in no particular order the Williams Girls married names are – Timmins, McDonald, Monkman, Griffiths, Cowmeadow, Jones, Wilcock, Hales.

Fathers Day – Bill Timmins (1916 – 1986)

Today on Fathers Day I am remembering my father William George TIMMINS who was born 20th May 1916 in Chester.  He died in 1986 and memories of him are slowly fading.  There is a photograph however that rekindles memories; it is one that mum always had around the house until she passed away in 2008.  This was of my dad aged about 27, he was in the Royal Navy; it was taken during the second world war when he was stationed in Gibraltar (c1943).

WGT – Gibraltar (c1943)
Bill TIMMINS
CPO Writer RN
1940 -1946
From his WW2 service record,
also a dictionary he used during the war,
these were his postings:
    HMS Royal Arthur
    HMS Glendower
    HMS Drake
    MS Sobieski (Polish)
    HMS Cormerant – Gibraltar
    HMS Ariguani – Gibraltar
    HMS Highlander
    HMS Owl
—– Happy Fathers Day Dad —–