Chapter Four
Ethel & William Cook
Bridge Road, Ryde
The small girl in the c. 1900 portrait, standing beside her blind great-great-grandfather’s generation — and the bridge into living memory.
In the writing
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Ethel Ida Violet Robens, born at Newtown on 4 February 1898, married the boxmaker William James Cook at Ryde in 1926 and made a home on Bridge Road. She lived ninety-six years. As records are drawn together, its story will be told here in full.
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