Hennen & Wadhams marriage Feb 1911

William Hennen, 94, and Fanny Wadhams, 80, who married after leaving the Medway Union workhouse, Chatham, where they had fallen in love while inmates. A number of such matches followed the introduction of the old-age pension which offered the possibility of independent living to some of the elderly for whom previously the workhouse would have been the only option

Chatham Fanny Followed Inmates Introduction Matches Medway Offered Option Pension Possibility Previously Whom

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