Pettiford/Mary Dorothy Aileen COOK (General)

by barbarajane , Saturday, July 03, 2010, 17:06 (5334 days ago) @ m p griffiths

Thanks for the quick response. When I first posted about my family, the previous response was fantastic and sent me on a long journey with my grandfathers family. But on the Cook(e) side I still have problems. The burial record of my grandmother gives Gertrude Winifred Cooke but the information on the post was for a Gertrude Alice Green and the Green name was only a memory of my mothers and possibly nothing to do with my family at all.

Mary Dorethy Aileen Cooke was married on 12th December 1928. Her age was given as 22. Her residence given as Rodley Manor Farm and her occupation was domestic servant. Her father John Cooke was listed as a farm labourer. She married Worthy Norman Slade Pettiford, who lived at Cross Hands, the collection of cottages on the brow of Highfield Hill, Lydney. They were married at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Newerne by Mr George Ball. The witnesses were Edna and Edith Olive Pettiford. I have no other evidence of Mary's or any other family members existence before this.

Mum said Lensbrook Cottage was down the lane leading off the A48 on the Lydney side of the Viney Hill Crossroads. The family were either farm labourers or domestic servants and my mother went into service at Hurst Farm until the war broke out, when she went to work at Pine-end in Lydney.