From Rosemary Gray 7 April 2015
In discussions with my sister Marian, we think Beatrice and William George Page were our Grandparents, their marriage in 1907 fits the family timeline.
My Mother only met William once, after she became engaged to my Dad, who had to get special permission to take her to Clacton due to the War time restrictions. William had died suddenly before their wedding took place in Nottingham 1942, which Beatrice attended. The family story was that George was a printer and came from the East end of London, which ticks the boxes.

Beatrice had four children,
William George Ralph in 1909, always Known as Ralph or Son;
Daphne Dixon née Page 1911;
Doreen Dabbs née Page 1917;
and Denis Frank Page 1919.

Ralph had two children, Peter who died as a baby and Gerald Anthony,
Daphne had two children Alan and Valerie,
Doreen didn't have children;
and Denis was my Dad, he had three children Marian Denise my sister, myself Rosemary Joan, and Phillip Stuart.
My Dad was posted to work in the Pay Corp to Nottingham during WW2 where he met my Mum.
Gerry's Mum and Dad moved to live in Grantham.
Aunties Daphne and Doreen continued to live in Clacton.
Both Ralph's and Denis's families visited Clacton in the summer for holidays, generally to stay with Aunty Doreen. We would also meet up with Beatrice.
When Beatrice died only Dad and Uncle Ralph went to the funeral as we were only kids.

One summer Dad did take our family to Mersea Island where we met some of the Farthings who ran a Dairy but I only have hazy memories of it.

From Alan Smith 7 April 2015
The information from Rosemary fits with the information we have. I attach the latest version of the chapter on Beatrice (which is very thin) and the information we have on the earlier Farthings. Pix and I are both working on the book on the Farthing family. We have two photographs of Beatrice but none of her husband or family. If Rosemary has any photographs (or other information on the Pages) we would love to add them to the book.

Pix and I are the only products of the large Smith and Farthing families of West Mersea.

Pix's father was Peter Farthing, a son of Beatrice's youngest brother James Farthing and his wife Ada Saye. Her mother was Dorothy Smith, a daughter of my Grandfather's younger brother Preston Smith. Peter and Dorothy did not marry and Pix was brought up by Jim and Ada. The full story is in Pixie Farthing's book "From when I can remember".

My mother, Win Farthing, was a daughter of Alan "Many" Farthing who ran the Dairy in West Mersea that Rosemary mentions although if she visited after Many Farthing died in 1957, the Dairy was being run by his son Bill Farthing.

The chapter of the Farthing book sent by Alan does include Farthing family trees. [TM]