FAMILY SCANDEL....
DERBYSHIRE TIMES
8TH MARCH 1913
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MARRIED FOUR TIMES
WHITTINGTON MOOR WOMANS EXPERIENCE
TO BE MARRIED FOUR TIMES IS THE REMARKABLE IF NOT UNIQUE RECORD OF A WHITTINGTON MOOR WOMAN.
HER NAME IS NOW MRS WM. BEESON AND HER ADDRESS; 54 STATION ROAD WHITTINGTON MOOR.
SEEN BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DERBYSHIRE TIMES ON FRIDAY MORNING MRS BEESON WAS VERY RELUCTANT FOR HER EXPERIENCE TO BE GIVEN PUBLICITY. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER WHERE SHE HAD GONE THROUGH THE MARRIAGE CEREMONYS. BUT ONCE WAS IN SHEFFIELD, ANOTHER TIME AT ST THOMAS? CHURCH, BRAMPTON AND THE LAST TIME WAS ON WEDNESDAY WHEN THE NUPTIAL KNOTT WAS TIED AT
NEWBOLD CHURCH.
THE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED BY THE REV.L.C.CUTLACK.
HER FOURTH HUSBAND IS MR WM. BEESON, A FOREMAN PLATELAYER, EMPLOYED ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.
THE BRIDE WHO IS NOW 54YRS OF AGE AND WAS FIRST MARRIED WHEN QUITE A GIRL IN HER TEENS, WELL KNOWN IN THE DISTRICT THE
SOLEMNISATION ON WEDNESDAY CREATED CONSIDERABLE INTEREST.
MRS BEESON WORE A NAVY BLUE COSTUME TRIMMED WITH ORIENTAL LACE. SHE WAS ATTENDED BY TWO BRIDESMAIDS- MISS FLORRIE BEESON, DAUGHTER OF THE BRIDEGROOM WHO WAS ATTIRED IN A CREAM ALPACA DRESS AND MRS CROFTS HER DAUGHTER WHO WAS DRESSED IN A GREY COSTUME.
MR GEORGE TAYLOR WAS THE BEST MAN AND MR HAROLD NUNNEY ACTED AS A GROOMSMAN.
AFTER THE CEREMONY A RECEPTION WAS HELD AT THE BRIDES RESIDENCE. THE HAPPY COUPLE WERE THE RECIPIENTS OF NUMEROUS HANDSOME AND USEFUL PRESENTS.
THE WILLAM BEESON MENTIONED ABOVE WAS MY GREAT GRANDFATHER ON MY FATHERS SIDE,