My great grandmother's name was Flora Elizabeth Wargent (1884-4th September 1969). She was the daughter of a teacher named George Wargent (1853-?) and Sarah Elizabeth Longton (1858-?). They married in 1878 and had many children:
Left to right: Trix, Helen Kathleen (1882-21 August 1979), Flora Elizabeth, Donald (1886-?), Madge, Dora Violet (1890-?), Karl Wilfred (1892-approx 1916), Dulcie Isabel (1895-?), Aileen Decima (1898-?), Patricia Mildred (1900-?).
There was also a son, George Longton (1879-1893), between Trix and Kath, who drowned at age 14 in the River Wye, the fifth-longest river in the UK, forming part of the border between England and Wales.
Karl was killed during WWI. Vi and Pat died in middle age, and all the rest lived to be very old. Pat, Aileen, Kath and Madge's boyfriends were all killed in the War, and so they never married, instead living together in a house called Grey Gables in Kingswood, Kington, Herefordshire:
Above: Grey Gables
Donald married a Welsh lady and had two daughters - Ibby, whose son Toby is a chef in Cardiff and has a family of his own; and Mary, who lived in London and had many children. Mary married famous plant breeder Richard Cawthorne (he died in early November 2002), who held for ten years the National Collection of Violas. Some of his sons continued to work for him despite their parents' acrimonious divorce which was apparently in all the papers at the time (although I haven't been able to find any articles yet). Trix also got married.
The Wargents were all buried in Kington cemetery, Herefordshire:
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