I don’t remember meeting Aunty Suzanne, but I do remember getting birthday presents of pretty – fancy – dresses from her, the sorts of clothes I didn’t normally have. Ethel Suzanne Poulson was actually a great aunt, the youngest of my grandfather’s (Gamps) five sisters.

You can read about wife v2.0 for John Walden Poulson – the Wastrel; Ethel Suzanne, his last child,  was born March 9, 1905, in Knottingley, Yorkshire. Her Mum was Emily, aunt to the Wastrel’s four older children and the Wastrel’s second wife. Just after Suzanne’s fifth birthday, her Dad took off for Canada and she spent a large chunk of her childhood with her maternal grandfather, John Henry Shepherd in Ferrybridge – he had variously been an inn keeper, horse dealer and farmer over the years.