Keep it in the family
From Lincolnshire to Los Angeles and back.
Harold C Harrison.
Harold Harrison was born in Stickford, just north of Boston in Lincolnshire in 1892. He was the son of John Thomas Harrison and Maria Florence Palmer. His uncle, John Palmer, married Mary Ann Frith and their daughter Polly married Charles Plummer Creek.
At the end of the Great War Harold married his first wife, Edna who was five years older than him., and in 1923 they emigrated to California. Within ten years Harold was making his money through the fabrication of trailer homes.
Violet Joyce aged 3.
In 1925 Polly Creek gave birth to her ninth child, a daughter Violet Joyce. When Harold lost his first wife in 1956 he returned to England where he met his cousin Polly’s daughter Violet. They married in 1958 and returned to the USA with Violet’s son Billy.
Harold was not the first member of the family to marry a relative. When James Creek sailed from his birthplace, Newcastle upon Tyne, to Hull he met and married Mary Crane. Their youngest son William married Mary Ann Stones in Boston, Lincs where he was born. William’s eldest daughter, Mary Elizabeth met her father’s cousin, Tommy Thompson Crane (he was Mary’s youngest brother and was only 3 years older than Mary Elizabeth) It is unclear where they met but Tommy was born in Grimsby which is 50 miles from Boston. Once married they settled in Grimsby and had three children, Stephen, Mary & Helianna.