Five generations of local family

When, five months ago, Paul was born to Mrs P. Jeffery, wife of Mr Jeffery, of Clovelly Road, Bideford, he made the fifth generation of a family that has lived in the Woolsery and Clovelly areas for many years.

In this celebration picture great-great-grandmother Mrs C. Prouse, aged 92, is seen nursing young Paul. On the top left is her only daughter, Mrs F. Knight of Sunnyside, Woolsery, with whom she makes her home. Next to Mrs Knight is her only daughter, Mrs W. Jewell, of Lower Burscott Farm, Clovelly, and, bottom left, is Mrs Jeffery, Mrs Jewell’s daughter, who has a sister and a brother.

Gazette article 4 September 1959