Here we are at Bell’s Huts again with Edie Lancaster sister of Daisy Maskell (nee Lancaster) standing outside one of the cottages built by Bell Brothers for the mine workers, demolished in the 1950’s; although No 1 was occupied until 1960. Hazel Banks asks us: ”Daisy’s sister Doris has a connection to my family via her husband Arthur Taylor. I know that Doris died in 1939 aged only 35. She had a daughter Doris Elizabeth Taylor (born in 1926), but I don’t know where she lived after her mum died, or who with. Her dad doesn’t seem to have raised her after this time. He set up home at some point with my maternal gran and was ‘dad’ to my mum and her older sister, I don’t know for sure if he was their genetic father or not. Do you have any information to help unravel this puzzle? Any help would be gratefully received.”
Image courtesy of Carlin How Community Centre; information and updates courtesy of Derick Pearson, Claire Wilson (Daisy Maskell’s grand daughter), Roxanne Maskell and Susan Brown, also thanks to Hazel Banks for the question; can anybody assist?
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