| [Index] |
| Doris WANE (1922 - 1997) |
| weaver, teacher |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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Living Living |
Doris WANE (1922 - 1997) + James William MUSKER (1911 - 1984) |
William WANE (1898 - ) | ||
| Alice NUTTALL (1898 - 1983) | Richard NUTTALL (1864 - 1909) | Ricahrd NUTTALL (1821 - 1893) | ||
| Ellen (NUTTALL) (1823 - 1886) | ||||
| Elizabeth AMOS (1858 - ) | Daniel AMOS (1835 - 1885) | |||
| Alice HARTLEY (1831 - 1902) |
| b. abt Mar 1922 at Barnsley, Yorkshire, Engalnd |
| m. 1940 James William MUSKER (1911 - 1984) |
| d. 1997 aged 75 |
| Parents: |
| William WANE (1898 - ) |
| Alice NUTTALL (1898 - 1983) |
| Children (2): |
| Events in Doris WANE (1922 - 1997)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| abt Mar 1922 | Doris WANE was born | Barnsley, Yorkshire, Engalnd | |||
| 1940 | 18 | Married James William MUSKER (aged 29) | |||
| 1983 | 61 | Death of mother Alice NUTTALL (aged 85) | Lancashire, England | ||
| 1984 | 62 | Death of husband James William MUSKER (aged 73) | |||
| 1997 | 75 | Doris WANE died | |||
| Personal Notes: |
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Born in Standish in 1921 and was named after the midwife who helped deliver her. She wanted to go to the Grammar School for a good education but her mother could not afford the uniform so she went to the local school. She was a very weak child, always ill, often with pleurisy, she was warned that she ‘would not make old bones’.
She was very close to her Uncle Amos and often visited them at the Police Station at Cliviger. She used to ‘walk the beat’ with Amos, pushing her cousin in the pram up and down the hills. She went into weaving at 14. She met James William Musker (Jim) in 1938 and married him in 1940. She began studying for her GCEs in 1968, did two A levels and went to Chorley to train to be a teacher. She qualified as a Primary Teacher but never went into school to teach, she just wanted the education denied her as a child. Doris had her tonsils out on the kitchen table when she was 7. Her mother, Alice, wanted her to have all the material things she was deprived of herself as a child, clothes, dolls shoes and socks. In preparation for the Whit Walks her mother and grandmother used to make her a new outfit for every day of the walks. Once, the dress which Elizabeth Nuttall had crocheted did not fit, Elizabeth Nuttall stayed up all night to crochet another one. Doris once had a pure silk dress in eau de nil. She cycled to her grandfather’s house (Levi Wane) and cycled home. On the way home it started to rain. The dress got soaked and started to shrink. When she got home it had shrunk to the tops of her legs –very immodest ! She was very close to her father and couldn’t cope when he died. She went out dancing that night, trying to ‘run away’ from his death. Doris worked most of her life as a weaver, except during the war. During the war years Doris lived in Little Hulton at 5 Peel Grove. She could not sleep at night fearful of bombs and air raids so she worked night shifts in a munitions factory at Trafford Park. After the war, Doris and Jim had their daughter Josephine in 1949 at Davy Hulme Hospital, Manchester. They moved back to Blackburn in 1953. They bought 29 Craig Street for less than £100. They lived at 29, Craig Street, near the Fire Station, and near Canterbury Street. Their son, Nigel was born here. |