Jack Gething ARDRON (1906 -
1974)
Father: Reuben Ardron (1880 - 1937)
Mother:
Mary Ann Gething
Tree
extract starting with common ancestor to me:
My 2nd cousin 3 times removed was
born at the Greyhound Public House in Dronfield (DBY) on 31 August 1906. (Jack Ardron II
+ GRO ref Chesterfield 7b 800 Dec 1906 + date of birth on GRO death index) (Photo - Greyhound P.H., Dronfield)
1908 on
27 April Olympic Games open at
1908 on
27 October Parliament approves old age pensions (weekly means-tested pension of a maximum of five
shillings to all those aged over 70)
1910 Death of King Edward VII, succeeded by King George V
1911
National Insurance Act provides cover against sickness and unemployment
On
the 1911 Census (2 April) he was aged 4, living with his parents at 9
Piccadilly, Swinton. (PRO ref 14 ??)
1912 on 15 April sinking
of the SS Titanic
1913 on 4 June Suffragette
Emily Davison is killed by the king's horse
1914-18 The Great
War (World War I)
1918 in May a massive flu
epidemic reaches
1918 All men over 21
and all women over 30 get the vote
1921 in July unemployment reaches a post-war high of 2.5 million
1922 The
1927 on 1 January the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is created
1928 Equal Franchise Act -
All women are given the same voting rights as men (all over the age of 21)
1928 on 30 September
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1929 on
24 October the Wall Street Crash sparks the Great Depression
He married Florence Ada
Trickett on 18 October 1930 at St Margaret’s Church, Swinton after
banns. He was aged 24 and of
1931 Financial crisis and
run on the pound (
1935 in July
the first Penguin paperbacks go on sale, costing just 6 pence, bringing
literature to the masses
1936 Death of King George
V, succeeded by King Edward VIII
1936 Abdication of King
Edward VIII in order to marry Wallace Simpson, succeeded by King George VI
In 1937 Jack was a miner of Wyke
Terrace,
1939-45 World War II
1944
1947 on 1 January
1948 National Health
Service established
1948 on 29 July the Olympic Games open at Wembley
Stadium in
1952 Death of King George
VI, succeeded by Queen Elizabeth II
1954 Rationing resulting
from ends
1955 on 22 September commercial television starts with the first ITV broadcast
1956 on
17 October
1959 M1 Motorway punched
through the Midlands from Watford to
1963 The Profumo Affair
1965 on 8 November the
death penalty is abolished
1966 on
30 July
1967
Abortion and homosexuality are legalised
1969 on 2
March Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner, makes its maiden flight
1971 on
15 February decimalised currency replaces 'pounds, shillings and pence'
1973 on 1
January
Jack died on 26
March 1974 at home,
He is buried at
“In
Loving memory of
Jack Gething
Ardron
Died 26th March 1974
Aged 67 years.
Also
Ardron
Died 26th December 1998
Aged 87 Years
Reunited” (MI)
She was born on 14 July 1911 at
Swinton. Her parents were William Lambert Trickett and Elizabeth (nee Holmes). (Jack Ardron II
+ date of birth / place on GRO death cert / index) GRO REF??
JACK AND
1) Barbara Trickett Ardron (1930 -)
My 3rd cousin twice removed was
born on xx xx 1930 in the registration district of Doncaster. (Jack Ardron II + GRO ref Doncaster 9c 1150 Dec 1930 -
Trickett)
Barbara married Harold Lowe in
1951 at