Wilfred Heyman Joynson Wreford

Wilfred Samuel Joynson Wreford was born on the 30th July 1896 at 18 Belsize Grove, London. His parents; Dr. Heyman Wreford and Catherine Hannah Guerrier, later replaced Samuel with Heyman. Wilfred had an elder brother; Bertran William Heyman Wreford and an elder sister; Christabel Emma Catherine Wreford.

Heyman Wreford originally worked in his families Gents Drapers firm in Exeter, at the age of forty he was a medical student in London. In 1892 he married Catherine Hannah Guerrier, daughter of corn merchant; Henry John Guerrier, Catherine's mother; Emma was the daughter of William Joynson owner of Joynson's papermill in St Mary Cray, Kent.

The Wreford's moved to Brighton, before finally settling in Exeter where they lived at "The Firs, Denmark Rd, Exeter".
Wilfred was also known by the name Anthony (Tony) Joynson-Wreford, it is not known why he chose to be called Tony, his name was never changed legally and all his letters and legal documents were signed as W.H.J Wreford!

Bertran was killed in action on April 17th 1917 in France, Christabel married; Alan Maurice Gladwell on the 12th October 1921.

Tony married Mrs Frances Agnes Parker, widow of Captain. Alan Foggett Parker, they were married at the Chapel Royal at the Savoy on the 12th of December 1918. Frances had a daughter also called; Frances from her first marriage.
On 10th March 1926, Tony married Olive Vivian Fletcher, with whom he had been having an affair, they were married once their divorces were finalised. It was a very volatile marriage and does not seem to have been a happy one, Olive had a son; Anthony Patrick Joynson-Wreford, he was born on the 10th January 1928, in Paris, where the Wreford's had been living. Shortly after this they separated and later divorced .

Wilfred married again in 1932 for the third and final time to his "loved one" Amelia (Leila) Isobel Eccles McClintock.
 


Olive and Tony beside the "Princess Xenia" aircraft September 1927.



Tony and Leila.