WEEK 24 – Last man standing

 WEEK 24 – Last man standing

For “last man standing” I am going to use my grand aunt Margaret Lackey. The reason for this is she was the last of her siblings to be alive.

Margaret, known as Peggy was my dads cousin. Margaret was born 16 APR 1920 in West Rainton, Durham, she was the last child to be born to Gardiner and Margaret. There were 7 others born before her but only 4 made it to adulthood.


Peggy was listed on the 1921 census aged 1years old, so there isn’t much of interest here. In 1939 she was listed as single and a shorthand JUGF (im guessing this is linked to typing and office work.) There are no other census records available for her.

In April 1946 Peggy married Gerald Baglow in Durham central. Sometime after their wedding they moved to Nottingham where they had 2 sons Neil and Gerald, they stayed Nottingham way for many years and Neil went to university in Birmingham. Peggy and Gerald moved to Rotherham and that is where they lived out their lives.

Peggy was very close to her sister Olive, despite the 12year age gap, and they were often out and about together, especially before they married.

Although I never met Peggy, my dad did and spoke fondly of her and the time spent with her and her sons. In her later years of life I did make contact and we wrote letters to each occasionally and Peggy shared info on the family with me.

Aside from the 3 siblings who died as babies in 1916 and 1917, her other siblings died in 1959 (my Grandfather William), 1979 (uncle Cecil), 1986 (Uncle James), 2000 (aunt Olive) and then as the “last man standing” Peggy in 2017 aged 97. She is buried in Rotherham along with her husband.

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