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This photograph features Clara Elizabeth Tivey, she was born in Melbourne, Derbyshire in 1849 to William Tivey and Ann Collyer and died in 1926;

She married Matthew Stephen Cratchley (Pictured below)  (1843-1915) in 1867 and the couple had 9 children in total -  Alfred William, George Henry, Amelia Elizabeth, Louisa, Frances Emma, John Thomas, Albert Ernest, Maud Lizzie and Reginald - all of them born in Melbourne.

Many thanks to Mal Hamilton-Warwick for sending me these pictures and for all her help with the Cratchley line.

Clara's son John Thomas Cratchley served in WWI - his grand daughter Mal, has recently transcribed part of his war diary which you can read on-line - see http://www.pals.org.uk/sheffield/cratchley_journal01.htm