top of page

Ella Manning (nee Harrison)

websiteella.JPG

Born Frances Ella Harrison in 1876 - in Lutterworth, Claybrook Magna, Jenny's paternal grandmother, Ella Manning, became a draper's assistant in Bristol. There she met Bert Manning and married him in 1909. They moved to Topsham, South Devon to set up a draper's shop of their own and had two sons, Arthur and David, Jenny's father. Widowed in 1918, Ella continued to run the business, retiring in the 1930s and moving to Bristol where she set up home with her younger son, David. In her later years she lived in a hotel in Newquay and died there in 1943, aged 67.  

ellayoung.JPG
ella young2.JPG
sarahannieharrison.JPG
davidellaarthur.JPG
arthurelladavid.JPG
hampdenroad  .JPG
ellaolder.JPG

©  Carol Komaromy and Jenny Hockey

 This website was not created by, nor is it managed by, Palgrave Macmillan 

bottom of page