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Worthy Couple’s Golden Wedding – Mr & Mrs Ebdon

April 1937

Mexborough and Swinton Times April 16, 1937

Worthy Mexborough Couple

Mr and Mrs Richard Ebdon, 43 Belmont St, Mexborough, celebrated the 50th anniversary of their wedding on Friday, the day before one of their granddaughters, Miss Mary Elizabeth Henshaw, was married at Marlborough Parish Church to Mr E S Orme.

Mr and Mrs Ebdon were married at St Marys Church Barnsley on April 9, 1887 by Canon Kirkby.

Mr Hebden, who is 74, was born at Swinton, but was brought to Mexborough when only three years old. He started work at the age of eight at the Rock Foundry, for the princely sum of 1s 6d (7 ½ p). He left there at the age of 11, when he went to work at the Attercliffe Foundry; he later worked for two years at the Rotherham glassworks.

Mr Ebdon then came back to Mexborough and has remained ever since. Until he was 21 he worked at the Phoenix glassworks, leaving there, he was the next eight years at Waddingtons glassworks. He then decided that the coal trade offered more remunerative employment, and went to the Manvers Main Colliery as a surface man. He worked there for 20 years, and following that he worked for the Council until his retirement through ill health four years ago.

For 40 years he was secretary of the Sheffield District branch of the National Amalgamated Union of Labour for Foundrymen and Labourers, a position which he only gave up a few years ago.

He has been nominated three times for a position the Mexborough Council, but refused to stand. He has also been president of the Mexborough and Swinton Sunday School Union.

Mrs Ebdon was born in Mexborough 72 years ago, and has lived in Mexborough all her life, except for a period when she was in service in Barnsley.

Mr and Mrs Ebdon have two children living, Mr Reg Hebden, 39 Belmont St, Mexborough and Mrs Hilda Henshaw of Maltby, and five grandchildren.