GEORGE HENRY BEEVERS BORN WORKSOP 28TH SEPTEMBER 1905-1979 NORTH LEVERTON FATHER EDWARD BEEVERS BORN 1859 GREASBOROGH
AND CARA ELIZABETH BEEVERS NEE ALLISON BORN 1905 GAINSBOROUGH
MY GRANDFATHER GEORGE HENRY BEEVERS HAD HIS ARM AMPUTATED IN 1944, THERE WERE NO COMPENSATION IN THOSE DAYS SO HE GOT A JOB BY BEING A GANG MASTER PICKING PEOPLE FOR FIELD WORK IE POTATO PICKING, PEA PULLING, AND TURNIP CHOPPING. BEFORE THIS HE WAS AN ELECTRICIAN WORKING FOR BASSETLAW DISTRICT COUNCIL.HE GOT A POSITION ON CAPTAIN FOLGAMBES ESTATE AS A GAME KEEPER, BEING A GAME KEEPER MY GRANDFATHER BROUGHT HOME PHEASANTS AND RABBITS WHICH MY GRANDFATHER CAUGHT, MY GRANDMOTHER PLUCKED PHEASANTS AND SKINNED RABBITS SHE MADE PIES TO SELL, THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THEY COULD MAKE ENDS MEET AS FOOD WAS RATIONED OWING TO WAR DAYS, THEY ALSO KEPT PIGS AT THE TOP OF THE GARDEN, MY GRANDMOTHER USED TO BOIL POATOES IN THE COPPER IN THE KICHEN ON RADFORD STREET AND WE ALL HAD ONE TO EAT, GOOD OL DAYS.
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CARA ELIZABETH ALLISON 1905 GAINSBOROGH -1966 WORKSOP |
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JOYCE WINIFRED BEEVERS BORN 1924 24TH MAY, SHE MARRIED KENNETH ROSTRON GREENWOOD IN 1942, JOYCE DIED IN 1994 WORKSOP |
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MAVIS MARY BEEVERS BORN 1926 WORKSOP AND SHE DIED 1986 WORKSOP, SHE MARRIED JOHN GREGORY |
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CARA CYCELIA BEEVERS BORN 1927 WORKSOP - 1997 WORKSOP SHE MARRIED JAMES JACOBS, ERNEST BAGSHAW. |
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CARA CYCELIA BEEVERS MARRIED TWICE, HER FIRST HUSBAND WAS A CANADIAN IN THE WAR TIME, HER SECOND HUSBAND WAS ERNEST BAGSHAW WHO LIVED IN WORKSOP, HER FIRST HUSBAND RETURNED TO CANADA BUT CARA CYCELIA STAYED IN ENGLAND.
JOYCE WINIFRED BEEVER, MAVIS MARY BEEVERS, CARA CECILIA BEEVERS AND THEIR MOTHER CARA ELIZABETH ALLISON
Cara Elizabeth Beever (nee Allison) died at Kilton Hospital Worksop Nottinghamshire on the 16th May 1966. She was my Grandmother.
GEORGE HENRY BEEVERS