VIOLET MARY SIMPSON

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VIOLET MARY SIMPSON (1898 – 1993)

			VIOLET was born at Cayton on the 8th May 1898, the 10th child of Harry and Sarah Simpson.

	Violet aged 13

	Like the rest of the family she went into service and it was whilst she was working on a farm at Grindale near Bridlington that she met her husband, HARRY PLEDGER, who was a Waggoner on a nearby farm. Harry was born on the 19th September 1892 at Hunmanby. They were married in Scarborough on 1st December 1917. After they were married, Harry obtained employment at Cayton, travelling with a threshing machine and they lived in a cottage (now demolished) near to the Star Inn. They eventually moved to 1 and then 4 Burton Terrace, Cayton, (now 47 Main Street). They had no children of their own but from July 1937 they brought up Roy (Cowton), who was 2 years old, and who was the son of Violet’s sister, Dorothy. They brought Roy up as their own child and he took their name of Pledger.

Violet and Harry		Harry Pledger

They remained in Cayton where Harry worked for the Rural District Council as a Water Inspector. Harry died when he was 69 years old on 11th April 1962. After that Violet lived at various addresses in the area before finally settling in Ayton.

Violet loved to tell stories about her childhood.
She lived in a sheltered bungalow at Ayton until she died at Crossgates
on 17th March 1983 when she was 84 years old.

Violet and Harry are both buried in Cayton cemetery
where a stone marks their grave.

Violet 1930's		Harry as 'Wolds Wagoner'

Violet & Roy & Harry	Violet	Violet & Harry 1950's	Violet 1970's

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