EPILOGUE
In 1911 May married Richard “Dick” Fowler then of Pump House Farm, Hanbury. They moved to Summerhill (which until then had been held in hand by the Vernon estate) and their son John Richard “Jack” Fowler was born in 1912.
George remarried in 1914; he and his new spouse, Clara Eliza Read, formerly Assistant Housekeeper at the Hownings, subsequently lived at Salwarpe Mill. They had no children. George died in 1933 at the age of 79, while out bowling; the Berrows Journal described him as “the well known farmer and sportsman”.
George had given up his tenancy of the Hownings in 1919. He was not without means; although a tenant at the Hownings, the sale particulars of land disposed of by his Executors in 1940 show that, in addition to the Mill House at Salwarpe with 48 acres, he owned 110 acres at Upper Bean Hall, Bradley Green with an "attractive half timbered house", a cottage and garden at Noah's Green, Feckenham, and 34 acres at Phepson.
Ned married in 1919, having served with the Worcestershire Yeomanry in Egypt and at Gallipoli. His wife Ellen (nee Lloyd) hailed from Cardiganshire but by 1911 her family had moved to Little Lodge Farm, not far from the Hownings.
Jack did not marry. The 1939 Register (akin to a census) taken shorty after the outbreak of the Second War, shows him living at the Hurst at Pershore with Ned and Ellen's eldest son George.
By then Ned and Ellen were living at Berry Hill Farm on the outskirts of Droitwich with their five other children. May's son Jack was then living at Summerhill and (Harriet) Joyce Hartwright, his wife to be, at Gordons Farm, Tibberton.
