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A Family Story
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Joseph Wyle 1860-1929
Joseph Wyle was born 1860, his father was a blacksmith and started a foundry around
that time. (Little is known about this at this moment). Joseph was the eldest son of
Thomas Wyle and, after Thomas died April 30th 1908, Joseph carried on the
factory which was named Joseph Wyle and Co., Providence Works, Birmingham Road,
Blackheath.
The Wyle’s lived at 8-9 Birmingham Road in the West Midlands, and they lived next
door to James and Eleanor Weston. Joseph married one of their daughters, Mercy Weston, and
they had nine children. The children worked in the factory, however, Mercy Wyle (nee
Weston) died at the age of 44yrs in 1904. Joseph then married Mercy's younger sister, Ann
Weston, about 1908. They had one child, Nellie Wyle. Nellie also worked in the factory,
and after Joseph died Feb 8th 1929, she took over from him with her mother Ann.
Although Nellie took over the running of the factory, it was found to be in trouble
financially and Nellie looked to the banks for a loan to build up the business again. When
her mother, Ann Wyle, died April 23rd 1950, the business was left to Nellie
Wyle. Nellie, or Ellen as she was known, was a very astute businesswoman and didn’t
suffer fools gladly. She married Stanley Samson Beese on Dec 25th 1933, he too, worked in
the factory.
Stanley Beese and Nellie were unable to have children, Nellie becoming severely bent
over owing to an arthritic condition that had developed over the years, so they fostered a
young girl Elizabeth, later adopting her. Elizabeth Beese became an employee at the
factory before it closed in the 1970’s.
Joseph Wyle and some of the workers at the factory photographed about
1920.
The names are back row
Walter Aldridge, William Bills, Nellie Wyle, David Wyle, Tom Downing, Joseph
Wyle (standing)
Middle row
Jack Armstrong, Jimmy Hughes, Billy Downing, unknown. Stanley Beese, Frank
Parks, Samuel Wyle
Front row
Turk the dog, Brother of Joe Aldridge, Harry Adams jnr (with ball), Joe
Aldridge, Jimmy Hughes's son.
Joseph Wyle and Mercy Weston had eight children, as in the photo they
are:-
Mercy Wyle Joseph James Wyle
Tom Wyle William
Wyle
b. 1883
b. 1884
b. 1887
b. 1889
Mary
Wyle Samuel Wyle
Sarah Wyle
David Wyle
b. 1892
b. 1894
b. 1897
b. 1899
Joseph’s wife, Mercy Weston, died in 1904 and Joseph married Mercy’s
younger sister, Ann Weston. They had one child
Nellie (Ellen) Wyle b. 1909 
Mercy Wyle married George Henry Goodwin they had the following children:-
Joseph James Wyle married Matilda Jeavons they had two children; Joseph Samuel Wyle b.
1909, Arthur Wyle b.1911.
Tom Wyle married Annie Painter they had two children; Hilda Wyle, Edith Wyle.
William Wyle married Anne Oakcroft they had two children; Ruth Wyle b. 1914,
Annice Wyle b. 1916.
Mary Wyle married Fredrick Hackett they had nine children of which two died at
birth; Horace Hackett b.1914, Joseph Hackett b. 1915,Harold Arnold Hackett b.1921,
Fredrick Hackett b.? Isobel Rosalie Scott Hackett b.1926, Raymond Hackett b.? Ruth Hackett
b. 1932
Samuel Wyle married Minnie Guest they had seven children; Samuel Wyle b.1918, Irene
Mercy Wyle b.1920,
Gladys Eve Wyle b. 1921, Lily May Wyle b. 1925, Ruth Mary Wyle b. 1931, Joseph Thomas
Wyle b. 1933, Myra Edith Wyle b. 1935.
Sarah Wyle married Fredrick Harry Adams they had one child Fredrick Harry Adams
jnr b.1919
David Wyle married Ida Edwards they had no children.
Nellie (Ellen)Wyle married Stanley Samson
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