150 years of marriage as brothers all achieve Golden Wedding milestone

Three brothers have made a special hat trick – by all celebrating Golden Weddings.

Geoff Denton, brother Alan, and most recently youngest brother David, originally from Hull, have all reached the milestone, notching up over 150 years of marriage.

For Geoff, the recipe for the success of his long marriage with wife Marjorie, is tolerance and love.

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He said: “I can’t think of any other families with three brothers who have had their Golden Weddings. It takes some doing. I wonder if it’s a record?

“Tolerance and love is the recipe for a successful marriage – you also have to fancy your wife. She was gorgeous and still is in my eyes.”

Geoff, the eldest brother, celebrated his Golden Wedding in 2005, while Alan and Elizabeth, who married at All Saints’, North Ferriby, but now live near Burnley, had theirs in 2010.

David and wife Maggie, who live near Cambridge, celebrated theirs in September.

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Geoff, of Willerby, near Hull, still vividly recalls the day he bumped into Marjorie. He had known her by sight since the age of 13 when they were in separate classes at Kingston High School.

Aged 22, he was auditing the books at Priestman Brothers when she walked through the door.

He said: “We were in a room and she walked through. She was a secretary there, a dark-haired beauty; when she came back I said: “Will you come out with me?” We went out regularly after that and got married the year later.”

David, who worked as a bank manager, met wife Maggie when she was a scorer at a cricket match when he was playing for Hull Banks. They later married at St Martin’s Church in Hull. The couple celebrated their Golden Wedding with two parties.

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His recipe for marital happiness is “GBH” – golf, bridge and holidays.

He said: “These days I think not many people are going to last 50 years. People seem to split quite easily.

“In a way we are lucky that we all had reasonable health.”

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