Another photo from the family album, this time of my great-grandparents, William Henry – always known as Billy, and Fanny, née Seale. Billy’s father was also William, and his mother was also Fanny, Fanny Court. Fanny Searle’s mother was yet another Fanny, such a popular name, and despite so many little babies being given Victorian names, I’m sure none are now being called Fanny!
Back to the photo, and William Henry was born in 1861 and lived to be eighty-two, Fanny was born in 1862 and died in 1922, at the age of sixty-three! After she died, Billy married again, a woman called Annie
Behind them are their four sons, Percy, Wilfred and Stanley, known as Tom, and on the far right my grandfather William Reginald,always called Reg. I’m not sure when the photo was taken, but Reg looks to be in his early twenties so I would guess in the 1910’s.
Where you can find William and Fanny now.
Lois Elsden 