Maude and Ernest Bentall by the sea, above. Photo is undated.

Maude Alice Miller Bentall is about 70 in the left photograph, wearing the fur coat, so about 1931. Maude and Ernest lived in Heybridge, Essex, England, where Ernest - Edmund Ernest Bentall, 1855-1945 - ran E.H. Bentall & Company, an agricultural machinery manufacturer which, at one time, employed 600-700 workers. The factory closed down in 1984.

Above: Maude Miller Bentall, right, her younger brother, Edwin Swainson Miller, 1869-1945, and her daughter, Dorothy "Dolly" Bentall, 1887-1932. Dorothy was married first to Lt. Eric Walter Poyntz Westmacott, 1887-1914, who died in the North Sea during the Battle of Heligoland Bight against the Germans in 1914. He is buried in Heybridge Cemetery. Dorothy then married Wilfred Caybourne Smith. Edwin Swainson Miller married Helen Beatrice Liardet, 1885-1965.

Photographs provided by Hope Healy Koontz, except for last photo, of Ernest and Maude, arm in arm, which was provided thanks to descendant Donald Grosvenor Main.