May-Dunwell-1893-1985

May Tivey Nee Dunwell
May Dunwell was born in 1893 in  Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, the daughter of Joseph Dunwell, a Staff Presser and Sarah Ann Senior. Her father Joseph passed away when she was one year old and her mother remarried to Henry Allen in 1894, she was widowed again in 1900. In 1911 May was living with her mother at No 6 Clarkson Street, Worsborough Dale, within the household is a Boarder named Harold Tivey - he was to become May's husband several years later. At the time May was a waitress in a cafe and Harold was a teacher, they married after the War in 1919.   May had a brother and a half sister - Edwin Senior Dunwell and Freda Elizabeth Allen.   Harold and May lived in London (Streatham) after their marriage, Harold became an accountant, they didnt have any children.  May died in the Wandsworth district of London nearly 20 years after her husband died.  This photo belonged to her sister-in-law Gladys Tivey.
                                                              
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