Albert Henry Roe (1889), my grandfather, worked on the railways.
He met Ellen Hamnett, in Manchester  where she worked as a maid in South Manchester.
 He wooed her by throwing coal over the hedge backing onto the railway where she worked.

Ellen was born in Withington, Manchester in 1894. Her family lived in Lady Barn, South Manchester, but were originally from Northenden, a village which at the time was in Cheshire.

Albert and Ellen married in 1913, settled in Withington, South Manchester and had nine children, including three sets of twins. Sadly not all the children survived the traumas of birth. Only Marjorie survived.