Jennie Lunt

Jennie Lunt, born July 1932 was the daughter of James Lunt and Jane Weldon. She married Edward Charles Martin Harker in 1965 at Whiston Methodist Church. He was born July 1915 and died abt 1991. He was the son of Edward Harker and Florence Maude Mary Harker.


Jennie went to Whiston Central School which was a segregated boys and girls school on Portico Lane. She left when she was 14 years old, just after the war in 1946.

This coincidently was the same school that I attended when the family moved back to Whiston, from Liverpool, in 1969.

Jennie worked as an Electrical Assembler at BICC in Prescot, Lancashire. It was there that she met Edward Harker, who was working at the same type of job.

When Jennie and Edward were first married, they lived with her mother Jinny Lunt (Jane Weldon) on Hazel Avenue, Whiston.

In a side story, when I was talking to Jennie she told me that her dog is called Jane and it is a common misconception that she named the dog after her mother, it wasn't so, the dog already had this name when she chose her at the Freshfield dogs home.

She remembers visiting her late husbands grave and being horrified that a part of the slab had been broken off, she worried about this for a while but then imagined what Edward would have said "they've pinched part of the slab, but they haven't pinched me" which made things seem alright.