South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 18 July 1942

Never Wrote a Love Letter

Wombwell Couple’s Golden Wedding

Mr. and Mrs. Samson Fisher, of 19, Mellor Road, Wombwell, were married fifty years ago to-morrow (July 18th), and never wrote a “love letter.” The reason is that neither has ever been able to read or write.

But It has been a married life blessed with much happiness, on the whole with good health, and many children. Mrs. Fisher told a “Times” reporter, “We have nothing to regret.”

The wedding took place at the Parish Church, Brampton Blerlow, the Rev. J. Cheesman (Vicar), officiating. Mr. Fisher is a native of Cambridgeshire, and came to Wombwell at the age of 21 to work as a chargeman at Cortonwood, where he remained 48 years, up to being incapacitated through ill-health five years ago.

Mrs. Fisher was born at Dudley, Staffordshire, but came to Yorkshire when she was twelve, her father tramping north to get work at Cortonwood, where he also was employed for some time as a chargeman at the boilers.

Mr. and Mrs. Fisher had twelve children, of whom six sons and two daughters survive. One son, George William GC, is a sergeant in the Army, and now on the high seas. He served seven years in India before the outbreak of the present war.

Mr. Fisher is 73 and his wife will be 87 next Tuesday. She was married three days before her 17th birthday. The couple have 22 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.