At the bottom of this tree we see ANPP.G (ANPG for short) and her adoptive parents John (known as ‘Jack’) Wilkinson and his wife, ‘Aunty Maggie’, and their natural son, Frank Wilkinson. John and his five siblings were the second family of Jonathan Wilkinson (born 1841) after he married Barbara Jones. His first family with his first wife, Bridget McKay, included Ellen Wilkinson, ANPG’s grandmother - see previous tree (click on the left-hand arrowhead above this tree to go to it).
Jack Wilkinson lived at No.1 Spring Grove, Whitfield, only a few doors away from 8 Myrtle Road, where Ruth Garner.Archer (my wife) lived when I met her in 1961, though in 1961 he had died many years before. He was a butcher in Radcliffe. I remember ‘Aunt Laura’ (the youngest of Jack’s siblings) was still living in my early years of being Ruth’s boy-friend. I have in my records photos of Jack and Maggie, and also of his sibling Joseph Wilkinson.
(Monday 11.2.2019, pba at 18 WC): Here is the row of houses on Tooting Bec Road, Balham, where, at No. 101 (probably at about mid-way along on the LHS, at about the locaiton of the 2nd lamp post, counting the one in the immediate foreground) was born on 1st September 1920, Audrey Nancy Parnell Philpotts, destined to be survived by her father only about 6 months, and by her mother only about 10 years, at which age she went to live with her (great) Uncle Jack Wilkinson and his wife, 'Aunty Maggie'. And almost exactly 80 years later she came to live in Uppingham, Rutland, and 12 years later, with us in Lyddington, Rultland.
'Good solid, respectable dwelling houses', for a catering-industry (if that is what you would have called it in 1920, only two years after the end of The Great War of 1914-1918, when the UK had been bled-dry by the war-effort.
And not many miles away in another district of London, completely unknown to the Philpotts, and not linked to them until 1966 when PBA married RG, were the Penfolds, namely Frank and Rosa Penfold, with their daugter Gwen and son Vincent, soon to be joined by (13 years younger-than-Gwen) Raymond, in 1921, living in
"Where Gwen lived, where Rosa and Frank Penfold lived, 1901 to 1936:
Here is my brother Edward's listing of Rosa and Frank's domiciles during these years. Including, diuring 1916 - 1918, No.10 James Avenue, Cricklewood, London NW2 - see below:
So, here is 10 James Avenue (**), in 2018, still pretty solid and respectable, though whether it has moved down a little in these respects since Frank, Rosa, Vincent and Gwen Penfold lived there 100 years before is probably moot. But anyway, what is 'respectability' , compared with what really matters, such as compassion. (**) which particular house is No.10 is not certain, but it doesn't really matter.
And here is 199 Melrose Avenue, Cricklewood, London NW2, where Rosa and Frank Penfold and their children Vincent and Gwen, lived from 1920 to 1927. So this is where, in London this branch of the family, joined since 1966 by PBA's marriage to RG, lived when ANPG was born in Tooting Bec. Which is about 12 miles due south of Cricklwood, the two being roughly equally spaced above and below the Thames flowing through London.
And although I have no actual evidence to support this view, it seems most likely that these London properties whee our forebears were living in the early 20th century, were indeed rented as opposed to owned in a freehold or even leasehold sense by these family members. Generel knowledge about the emplyment and other aspects of the lives of these people suggests that that must have been so. (11.2.2019).