Lives of the First World War

1915 - 1917

Early in 1915, Allan Richmond married Mary Amelia Flaxman in Stokesley. Mary’s father George Whisson Flaxman was the proprietor of the Shoulder of Mutton Inn, and had recently moved into the town with his family from West Hartlepool. George’s wife Rose Amelia Ridsdale was also from Hartlepool, where they had married in 1892. They had seven children there, four of whom had unfortunately died. Their youngest daughter Joanna however was born in Stokesley in 1909. Allan and Mary had 2 children; a daughter Joyce was born at the end of 1915 and a son, Allan junior, was born in 1917.

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