Whitby, Jane ('ginny') And Robert Peart 1891
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Here we see Robert Peart and his sister Jennie, who was six, on the rocks below their home on Tate Hill Pier. Michael Yates identified them; he relates that Jennie, named after her mother Jane Peart (nee Leadley), later became Mrs Swales.

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The little girl is my grandmother Jane Peart born 18 September 1884. Her nickname was Ginny. Her daughter, my late Auntie was called Jennie. Beside her is my great uncle, Robert Leadley Peart who drowned at St Petersburg on 19 July 1908 aged 20 years.