Ruth Johnson
The end of the line – or the start of the adventure – depending on which way you look at it.
Yorkshire
Steve Johnson
Father of Ruth and son of Joe and Lily Johnson
Born on 9 May 1919 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Married Gladys Crickmore on 11 July 1942
Died 27 October 2001 and buried in Undercliffe Cemetery
Gladys Crickmore
Mother of Ruth and daughter of Tommy and Flo Crickmore
Born Gladys Crickmore on 15 March 1913 in Bradford, Yorkshire
Married Stephen Johnson on 11 July 1942
Died 11 April 2005 and buried in Undercliffe Cemetery
Thomas Jarvis Crickmore
Father of Gladys and son of Harry and Kate Crickmore
Born Thomas Jarvis Crickmore on 3 December 1889 in Bradford, Yorkshire
Married Florence Bell Shearer on 1 October 1912
Died 15 January 1974 and buried in Undercliffe Cemetery
Florence Bell Shearer
Mother of Gladys and daughter of Hiram and Maria Shearer
Born Florence Bell Shearer on 8 December 1890 in Bradford, Yorkshire.
Married Thomas Jarvis Crickmore on 1 October 1912
Died 23 February 1979 and buried in Undercliffe Cemetery
Hiram Bell Shearer
Father of Florence, son of Mary Bell and acknowledged as the son of William Shearer
Possibly born in 1868 in Preston, Lancashire and baptised Hiram Smith Bell. Surnames he used are “Shearer”, “Bell-Shearer” and “Bell Shearer”
Married Maria Clark on 8 March 1887
Died in September 1933 and buried in Undercliffe Cemetery
Maria Clarke
Mother of Florence and daughter of Joe and Mary Hannah Clark
Born Maria Clark in about 1867 in Horsforth near Bradford, Yorkshire
Married Hiram Bell Shearer on 8 March 1887
Died 7 January 1951 and was buried in Undercliffe Cemetery
Catherine Brickley
Mother of Thomas Jarvis and daughter of David and Ellen Brickley
Born Catherine Brickley in late 1852 in Bradford, Yorkshire
Married Harry Crickmore in early 1877
Died December 1929
Harry Crickmore
Father of Thomas Jarvis and son of Henry and Eliza Crickmore
Born in 1852, baptised Harry Crickmore on 12 February 1854 in Kirby Cane, Norfolk (at the same time as his newborn brother Jarvis.)
Married Catherine Brickley in early 1877
Died in mid-1889 before the birth of his son Thomas Jarvis in the December of that year.
Mary Bell
Mother of Hiram and daughter of Thompson and Hannah Bell
Born mid-March 1851 in Bradford, Yorkshire
Married William Shearer on 1 August 1870 at Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire
Died 1890 and was buried on 18 June in Undercliffe Cemetery