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Florence married the Reverend Hugh Scott Chignell.
It is
believed that he
and his brothers would
visit Castle Hill to play
tennis and before long Florence became
engaged. It is just possible that he was an acquaintance of the
missionary who failed to win the Peace hand some years before because
Hugh and
Florence were also to travel abroad through Hugh's work for the church.
It would
appear from photographs and ships’ records that Florence did
return home
at least once. She died in the 1920s and had no
children. Hugh was to become the Very Revd Hugh Scott Chignell, Dean
of Kimberley Cathedral, South Africa, from 1935 to 1941.
A photograph still exists of Nellie, Edith and Florence with
their
fiancés
the year all three became engaged.
What a year that must have been! Lilian, the youngest, never
married. After her mother died
Castle
Hill was sold to Daniel Clarke and Lilian went to look after her 
father
in
his new home in Easton Street.
William was the last to marry, in 1905, to Florence Eliza
Wane, almost
20 years his junior. Florence and William met through their
mutual
friends and relations, the Redingtons, who lived along the London Road
at Harlow House. The house was
later to become St Bernard’s Convent (now
demolished). As William’s
mother had been a ward of the Redington family it was only natural that
William would visit them regularly and that they would
‘adopt’ him as one
of their own. During these visits he would join in the
activities
of the Redington children who were often accompanied by their cousin,
Florence
Wane. Time passed and one day, when Florence was 22, he told her that
he
loved her and asked her to marry him. Go to page 5