Mexborough and Swinton Times December 20, 1929

Five generations at South Elmsall and Thurnscoe

It is rare that a family can claim to have five generations still living, but this distinction belongs to a family, the members of which live at South Elmsall and Thurnscoe.

Their ages range from 90 years down to six months, and some remarkable facts are associated with the family. The eldest is Mrs. Ellen Taylor, aged 90, of 109, Lidgett Lane, Thurnscoe, who with her husband, who died 18 years ago at the age of 82, left Derbyshire 36 years ago to live at Thurnscoe upon the reaching of coal at Hickleton Main, where Mr. Taylor worked for some years as a night dataller.

Mrs. Taylor was born at Darnall, and her husband at Worsbro Dale, and she had three cousins killed in tho Oaks Colliery disaster and has lived at South Kirkby for 29 years,

Mrs. Taylor’s eldest daughter, Mrs. Martha King, is 70, and lives at 36      King Street South Kirkby. She is a native of Sheffield, and has lived at South Kirkby for 29 years, her husband being employed as a miner at the colliery before his death four years ago.

Her daughter, Mrs Ellen Conroy, with 54, lived at Thurnscoe for 34 years, coming to South Elmsall 18 mouths ago to reside The fourth in the line of descendants of Mrs. Conroy’s son, Mr. Herbert Conroy, of 7, Whitworth’s Buildings, Thurnscoe .East. Aged 31, he has lived at Thurnscoe all his life, and is a miner at Hickleton Main.

The last and youngest member of this remarkable family is Mr, Conroy’s six-months’-old daughter, Mildred. Mrs. Taylor has three sons and four daughters living, and it is a peculiar coincidence that all the latter are widows, as are Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Conroy, who, incidentally, hail two sons killed in the war.

Mrs. Taylor has 88 descendants living-7 children, 26 grandchildren, 52 great.grandchildren, and three great great grandchildren, the last three name being grandchildren and Mrs Conroy.

The following shows Mrs King (inset), Mrs Taylor, Mrs Conroy, Mr Herbert Conroy and the baby Mildred.