In the family we have several photos taken when Morgan, his wife Sarah Jane (Sellers) and his daughters were going to a wedding, probably about 1920. Here is the full family group. The McGRATH girls and their spouses are gathered around the bride and groom.

There is some controversy about whose wedding this was. Bill thinks he recognises everyone except the bride and groom. Vic says he has always thought it was Martha and Jim's wedding, and he should know, because he was there! ...which would still leave us with two unidentified people.

Back row, left to right: Jane PHILPOTT (nee McGRATH), her husband William Charles PHILPOTT, Harold GONELLA in the arms of his mother, Alice GONELLA (nee McGRATH).

Middle row seated: Morgan McGRATH, James SKELTON, unknown groom, unknown bride, Martha SKELTON (nee McGRATH), Sarah Jane McGRATH (nee SELLERS), Victor GONELLA.

Seated front: Charles GONELLA, John GONELLA.

Morgan and Sarah Jane McGRATH were of the generation who had been trained to sit for photographs, rigid and unsmiling for minutes on end, while the glass plate developed. As a result they look very stern and intimidating in their photographs. We have only one picture of Sarah Jane in which she is smiling. This picture will be posted on this site soon. It gives a completely different impression of her.

Probably at this time Morgan and Sarah Jane were living at 101, Southwark Park Road, in London. Their grandchildren have spoken very affectionately of this large family home, and of Morgan and Sarah Jane. Morgan was a cheerful man, who enjoyed the company of his grandchildren, and Sarah Jane was a sweet, kind person whom everyone liked. She apparently had a lovely sense of humour, and was always up to date with what was going on in the world. Even in her nineties she listened to the radio and often had a comment to make on some item of national or international news. At the same time she was determined, and knew her own mind. On one occasion, when she was very elderly, she called out to the coalman from her vantage point at a first floor window, to complain that he had delivered coal to a neighbour's house first, before coming to her.

There are two more pictures and some more background information on the next page: