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The Severn Clan

Inde to the Severn clam.  The Severn family were living and working in Derbyshire as poor miners in the areas around Heanor and Shipley Wood. The pickings were better in South Yorkshire ad the mining companies needed men, so they provided transport costs, higher wages and houses for the families to live in.

The following lists the main characters:

Generation 1

James Severn/Cefern1696 - 1774

Generation 2

James Severns/Seaverns - 1718 - 1795

Generation 3

James Severns1696 - 1765 - 1846

Generation 4

James Severn 1806 -

Generation 5

James Severn 1828 - 1898

Generation 6

James Severn 1857 - 1924

Joseph Severn 1863 - 1942

George Severn 1851 - 1941

Generation 7

Ada Severn 1884 - see James

Ada Severn 1896 - 1930

Ann E Severn 1882 - 1939

Albert Severn 1899 - 1980

Edward 'Ted' Severn 1889 - 1987

Elizabeth A Severn 1881 -1958

Emily 'Em' Severn 1900 - 1990

Ernest Severn 1892 - 1961

George Severn 1890 - 1956

Henry Severn 1886 - 1918

James Severn 1886 - 1917 - see James

John C Severn 1887 - 1966

Joseph Severn 1887 -

Joseph Severn 1890 - 1971 - see James

Joseph Severn 1894 - 1970

Lilian Severn 1894 - see James

Louisa Severn 1893 - 1971

Martha Jane Severn 1895 - see James

Mary Severn 1877 - 1932

Mary Emma Severn 1879 - see James

Mira Severn 1882 - see James

Myra Severn 892 - 1970

Nellie Severn 1908 - 1986

Sarah Ann Severn 1873 - 1948

Victoria may Severn 1897 -

William Henry Severn 1879 - 1951

Generation 8

Cathy Evans 1913 - 1967

Edmund Morgan 1931 - 2015

Edwin Severn 1911 - 1932

Eileen Severn 1934 -2001

Ernest Evans 1898 - 1967

Freda Severn 1924 -

George Evans 1896 - 1917

Irene Evans 1918 - 2002

Irwin Severn  1919 - 1984

James Evans 1918 - 1996

James Severn 1930 - 2017

Jane Evans 1905 -

Jean P Morgan 1928 - 1969

John Severn 1914 - 1943

John T Evans 1893 - 1963

Joseph Severn  1925 -

Joyce Severn 1926 - 2005

Kathleen Severn 1923 -

Marian Evans 1926 - 2016

Martha Jane Evans 1892 - 1973

May Evans 1902 - 1946

Muriel Severn  1921 -

Nancy Severn

Rose Evans 1923 -

Ralph Severn 1903 -

Severn - Scholey

Severn - Venables

Stanley Evans 1920 - 1963

Generation 9

Christopher Dixon 1949 -

Evans - Whitworth; Winstanley; Anderson

Evans - Gillespie

Evans - Haigh; Riley

Evans - Holcroft

Evans - Hughes

Evans - Johnson; Cawkell

Evans - Styring; Roebuck

James Severn 1915 - 1951

Jeremy Dixon 1952 -

John Rhodes 1924 - 2016

Ralph Derek Severn 1930 -

Sheila Evans 1941 -

Terry Brooks

Generation 10

James Dixon 1988 -

Rachel Dixon 1988 -

Generation 11

Clara E B Dixon  2020

My thanks to the following for giving their time, memories, photos and feedback iver many years.

Audrey & Reg Addy of Halifax, Yorks
Dorrie Bill of Honley, Yorks
Chris Brook of Parkgate, Yorks
Edith & Alan Brook of Swinton, Yorks
Freda & Albert Caddick of Mexborough, Yorks

Joy Carman of Swinton Yorks

Sandy & Ann Cawkell of Bridlington, Yorks

Eileen Cocking of Swinton, Yorks
Marian & John Dixon of Perth, Australia

Nancy Ellor of Mexborough, Yorks

Lilian Evans of Rawmarsh, Yorks
Maureen Evans & Jean Laskey of Hackenthorpe

Peter & Carol Evans of Walthamstow, Essex

Nancy & Colin Foster of Mexborough, Yorks

David & Pamela Heaton of Unsworth, Lancs

Rene Heaton of Whitefield, Lancs
Ron & Florence Hinchliffe of Harlington, Yorks

John Holcroft of Pickering, Yorks
Muriel Hoult of Mexborough, Yorks
Evelyn Jackson of Conisborough, Yorks
Joyce & Doug Lacock, of Denaby, Yorks
Hilda Longley of Harlington, Yorks
Margaret McAdam of Wath-upon-Dearne, Yorks

Bill Moore of Bradford, Yorks
Malcolm & Margaret Morgan of Conisbrough

Ada Newey of Whetherby, Yorks
Jack & Elsie Rhodes of Mexborough, Yorks

Lindsay Richardson of Mexborough, Yorks

Marjorie Scholey of Mexborough, Yorks
Albert Severn of Leicester, Leicst
Edna Severn of Swinton, Yorks
Jim and Joyce Severn of Leamington Spa, Leicestershire

Keith & Ann Severn of Swinton, Yorks
Mavis Severn of Conisborough, Yorks
Skip & Di Skipper of Leamington Spa, Leicestershire

Viv, Louise & David Slater of Mexborough, Yorks

Louie Thomas of Mexborough, Yorks
Maurice Scholey of Swinton, Yorks
Gail Tarantink of Crowle, Lincs
Louis Thomas of Mexborough, Yorks
Muriel & Steve Waugh of Pendleton, Lancs

Alma Webster of Harlington, Yorks
The Windle Family of Mexborough, Yorks
Jim Evans of Rawmarsh, Yorks
Hilda Longley of Harlington, Yorks
Derick Severn of Mexborough, Yorks
Joseph Severn of Conisborough, York

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