Victor Arthur POTTON

1911 - 1982  (70 years)

• Name	Victor Arthur POTTON
  Birth	30 Mar 1911	Biggleswade, Beds   [1]
  Gender	Male
  1939 Register	29 Sep 1939	Langford, Beds   [2]
  Greenways, Edworth Road, Langford, market gardener; auxiliary fire service
  Mourner	30 May 1942	Biggleswade, Beds   [3]
  the funeral of Charles Arthur Warner
  Mourner	20 Aug 1948	Biggleswade, Beds   [3]
  the funeral of Annie Elizabeth (Pates) Warner
  Death	1982	Stevenage, Herts   [4]
  Person ID	I7752	Freeman-Culpin | Pates Descendants
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Family	Marjorie Violet WARNER,   b. 12 Jun 1907, Biggleswade, Beds d. Dec 1987, Bedford, Beds (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	9 Jun 1934	Trinity Methodist Church, Biggleswade, Beds   [3, 5]
  Newspaper Report	15 Jun 1934	Biggleswade, Beds   [3]
  BEDFORDSHIRE TIMES & INDEPENDENT: POTTON-WARNER A wedding was solemnized the Trinity Methodist Chapel on Saturday afternoon, of Miss Marjorie Violet Warner, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Warner, of 41 Lawrence Road, Biggleswade, and Mr. Victor Arthur Potton, only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Potton, of Ashbury Farm, Langford. Both bride and bridegroom belong to well-known and much respected families, and each have been prominent in the Trinity Methodist choir and Wesley Guild, and workers in the Methodist Sunday School of Biggleswade and Langford. The chapel was decorated and the service was choral. Mr. E. Shepherd was at the organ. The chapel was well filled with guests and friends and the officiating ministers were the Rev. A. F. Wolton and the Rev. W. A. Underwood, the Circuit ministers. The bride, who was given away by her father, was attired in a gown of heavy white crepe, with veil of tulle, embroidered with true lovers' knots in pink silk, held in place by doubleere decorated with pink and white flowers. Mr. and Mrs. Potton later left for their honeymoon, which is being spent at Bournemouth, the bride's travelling attire being a duck-egg blue figured crepe ie-chine dress, with fur trimmed coat to match, and hat of same shade with fawn hose and shoes. Among the ninety nresents were a canteen of cutlery from officers and teachers of the Trinity Methodist Sunday School (where the bride has been organist for nine years), an oak table from Langford Methodist Church choir, and a tea service and fruit set from Langford Sunday School, where the bridegroom is the secretary. Mr, and Mrs. Victor Potton will reside at Langford.
  Family ID	F39	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2017

  
  

• Sources

  [S173] GRO BMD Indexes 1837-2018, (www.ancestry.co.uk), JQ1911, Biggleswade, 3b 310. [S18] 1939 Register, (www.ancestry.co.uk), RG101/2004A/021/5. [S290] British Newspaper Archive, (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk). [S173] GRO BMD Indexes 1837-2018, (www.ancestry.co.uk), JQ1982, Stevenage, 10 0970, age 71. [S173] GRO BMD Indexes 1837-2018, (www.ancestry.co.uk), JQ1934, Biggleswade, 3b 889.