According to their marriage certificate, the couple married on 25th December 1924 at the parish church of All Saints in Westbrook, near Margate, in Kent. The couple had 4 children together but when they married Daisy already had a son fathered by another man. I don't know the father's full name but my Uncle Oliver was apparently named for him. According to my Dad, Daisy's father would not allow her to marry the father of her first born child but I don't know why.
Unfortunately the marriage was possibly not a happy one as Walter left Daisy in around 1934 when my Dad was about two and a half years old and Dad's youngest sister was about 6 months old. Walter left Daisy for a woman called Beattie. Walter and Beattie married after Beattie's husband died in 1976. I remember, as a young child in the mid seventies, visiting grandad. Beattie was at their bungalow and seemed a very frail figure sitting in an armchair in the living room. She died at their house in Birchington on 31st August 1978.
Grandad was a carpenter by profession and I remember he made me some wooden furniture for a dolls house when I was little. They gave me hours of amusement as a child.
On the 1939 register Walter was living with Beattie in Harrow in Middlesex. On the same register Daisy was living with her 5 children in her father's house in Margate. Also living with them was Daisy's Aunt Lil who my Dad remembers with great fondness.
Walter and Daisy's children seem never to have forgiven Walter for leaving Daisy, which is understandable under the circumstances. I don't think any of them were reconciled with my grandfather before he died which is very sad.
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| Christmas Day 1924 - Wedding of Walter Bristow and Daisy Newport |
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