ETHEL IRENE MARIAN JENKINSON
1872 - 1955
and
WINIFRED LOVEL JENKINSON
1873 - 1939
Aunts of Margaret Ethel Hallowes née Johnson (1881-1943)
Compiler's Note
Tom Sawyer (e-mail:
sawyer.tom@btopenworld.com), who as a child was one of the evacuees taken in by Ethel Jenkinson, sent this to me 25.3.2005
Hello Giles Armstrong,
Just noticed your recent update in the Margaret Ethel
Hallowes section in connection with Ettie and Winnie (the little
aunts).
Actually, Ethel died Feb 1, 1955 (aged 82) and Winifred
died Feb 19, 1939 (aged 66). They are buried together in the churchyard of
St. Peter's Church in Heversham. Within a few years of their father's
death, they moved from Devon to Heversham and lived together for the rest of
their lives in a cottage called "Sunny Vale" opposite the church.
They were both socially active in the village (perhaps
Ettie more so than Winnie). Ettie was for many years the Sunday School
teacher, an enthusiatic member of the Womens Institute, and wrote an essay on
the history of Heversham, the people of the village and the houses they lived
in. (I have a copy of her hand written draft of the essay).
Winnie was a good amateur artist (watercolours) and is remembered as having
done voluntary nursing of the village sick and infirm.
So, it was Ettie approaching the age of 70 who in 1941
fostered two evacuees. I was one of them.
Regards,
Tom Sawyer.
ps. Carol Metcalf and myself are trying to discover why
these two unmarried ladies moved to an area of Britain where, as far as we
know, they had no connection of any sort.
Received and transcribed 25/3/2005