Dear DI
All the information I got was in the note I posted on the 14th of December. My aunt was interested back in the 30's and 40's but shedidn't dare ask her mother-in-law who played the matriachal - almost
Victorian - role towards her young daughter in law.
I know that Hilda Leworthy had a son called Cyril by a first marriage (hastily arranged) with a gent called
Cowden. I know that Cyril grew up with his Grandparents but is now dead. This "brought up by Grandparents" was pretty common with early and unexpected births. He must have some family information which he may have passed on to his own family. I don't know yet whether this "Cyril" had the surname of
Cowden or Leworthy. I know that the rediscovered
Swansea family of mine had contact with him through the years. But further information will have to wait until I have met and spoken to my long lost cousins and aunt.
The parents of my Hilda Leworthy were Sarah Anne Leworthy ( née
Hennessy - a seamstress from County
Cork) and ... Leworthy. There were five other children. Sarah Anne's husband (Leworthy) died young so she remarried and had another child, Ellen Jane. I don't know Sara Anne's last surname.
There is much more scandal - but this is not relevant to the Leworthy connection!
Steven
