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Elsie Lyons (née Rose)

c.1920s

c.1930s

Inscription reads: "I do hope you have some good news & I am Pleased to say I am feeling fine & I am Staying another week. Now what do you think of my photo. With Love from Alf & Anne, Best Love From Your ever Loving Ma"

Abraham Lyons (aka Alf) was one of Elsie's sons, with whom Elsie was obviously staying when she wrote this. Anne was Alf's wife.

Elsie was born in London in 1874, but was brought up in Leeds. In 1896, she defied her parents and married Isaiah (aka Dick) Lyons and moved to London. Her large family moved en masse to Leicester at the outbreak of World

War II, and she died there in 1945.

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The Lyons Siblings, c.1913

(top row, left to right)

Rose Lyons (later Lambert)

Frances Lyons (later Perlman)

(middle row, left to right)

Lily Lyons (later Lipman)

Eva Lyons (later Henry)

Sophie (aka Sybil) Lyons (later Newman, then Cooper)

Abraham (aka Alf) Lyons

(front row, left to right)

Jonas Lyons

Henry Lyons (on Eva's lap)

Josephine (aka Phine) Lyons

(later Delvalle)

This photo was probably taken in London to celebrate the birth of Henry Lyons, although

Elsie and Dick would have three further children after him, making a total of 12.

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The Lyons Family, c.1930

(top row, left to right)

Elsie Lyons (née Rose)

Maurice Lambert

Eva Henry (née Lyons)

Rose Lambert (née Lyons)

(bottom row, left to right)

Sylvia Henry (later Golding)

Jeanette Henry (later Beecham)

(unknown boy)

Alan Lambert

Leatrice Lambert (later Benson)

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Elsie Lyons (née Rose), Dick Lyons and their son, Jonas Lyons

Probably taken in Leicester, early 1940s

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The Lyons Siblings, c.1950s

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