Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 30 September 1939

Great-Grandmother At 58

Wombwell Family’s Record Mrs. Margaret Swift, of 30, Milton Street, Wombwell, looks anything but a “grannie.” She has the light step and clear complexion of a woman still on the sunny side of middle age. Yet she is a great-grandmother!

Mrs. Swift holds that unique distinction at the early age of 58 which, she believes is a record. Only recently she noticed in a newspaper a “record” of a woman who was a great-grandmother at 60, otherwise she would not have thought anything about it.

The four generations in this case are as follows: —

Mrs. Margaret Swift, 30, Milton Street, Wombwell, aged 58.

Mrs. Amelia Embleton, 2, Findon Avenue, Sacriston, Durham, aged 36.

Mrs. Rosie Bradley, 4, Findon Avenue, Sacriston, aged 18.

Jackie Bradley (her son), aged twelve months. –

Mrs. Swift and her daughter and grand-daughter (Mrs. Embleton and Mrs. Bradley) were all married young as their ages suggest. Though she has experienced all the ups and downs of a working-class home, Mrs. Swift has had a happy married life with every comfort from five dutiful children.

She believes that young marriages are usually the happiest. She herself had five children before she was 30. She is the wife of Mr. John Swift, a miner, who has been an invalid for 12 months. The couple have lived in the same house in Milton Street, Wombwell, for 36 years.