William and Eliza

William married his 2nd wife Eliza Rosina Arnold (Lea) Our Mum) in Walthamstow in 1943, then again in 1950. Ha-ha!! The reason for the 2nd marriage was that Eliza’s first husband Frederick Charles Lea went missing assumed dead but turned up on the doorstep after some 20 years and filed for divorce for bigamy which happened in March 1950 so my Mum and Dad married again shortly after that in 1950. The funny side of this episode is that it turned both me and my younger sister from being legitimate to illegitimate children.


You have to laugh at that one don’t you?


Marriage number one: 1943

















The Divorce: 1950




































Marriage number two




























William and Eliza on their wedding day.

William and Eliza had two children:


James Charles Yapp 1944 (Me)


Linda Carol Yapp 1948.