Robbie Affleck
and Helena Affleck

All these names are derived from a newspaper cutting saved by my grandmother, Valencia Ann Harper Olsen (née Penney) of the wedding of Herbert Gillies Penney and Lottie Affleck on Saturday 11 December 1909. Joyce and William Affleck have been most helpful, confirming what I had thought and supplying much new information. If you are a Penney (from South Shields) or an Affleck (from Gateshead) and are able to shed more light, I would be most grateful.

n063 Robert Affleck was the third son of Robert and Georgiana Affleck. He was born on 27^th. July 1890 (1890 quarter 2, Newcastle T, folio 10b page 146). In 1891 he was living at Bloomfield. He was known as 'Robbie'. In 1901 he was a pupil living at Colchester Tower, Corbridge. He went to Durham and then Cambridge where he studied classics. He married n062 Helena Cummins, an Irish girl, always known as Biddy, in 1916 (1916 quarter 1, Marylebone, folio 1a page 1448). He had one son and one daughter. He died in Falmouth in 1955 (1955 quarter 2, Falmouth, folio 7e page 29).

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n062 Helena P. Affleck (née Cummins) was the wife of n063 Robert Affleck. She was born in 1889 (1889 quarter 3, Cardiff, folio 11a page 267). They married in March 1916 (1916 quarter 1, Marylebone, folio 1a page 1448). She died in 1939 (1939 quarter 1, Lewisham, folio 1d page 1330). She had one son and one daughter.

n024 Robert Affleck is son of Robert and Helena Affleck. He was born on 19 April 1917 (1917 quarter 2, Lewes, folio 2b page 209), and died 1983 (1983 quarter 4, Bath, folio 22 page 0159). He had a daughter, n066 Elizabeth, with his first wife, n065. His second wife was n067 Pam.

n064 Mary A. Beard (née Affleck), known as Molly was born in 1921 (1921 quarter 3, Reigate, folio 2a page 369). She is the daughter of Robert and Helena Affleck. She married n068 Kenneth Beard in 1955 (1955 quarter 2, Westminster, folio 5c page 749). Like her father she studied classics, and made a career in teaching.

n068 Kenneth W. Beard was husband to n064 Molly. They married in 1955 (1955 quarter 2, Westminster, folio 5c page 749). He died from cancer in 1961 (1961 quarter 2, Kensington, folio 5c page 973).