Baby girl Dolly is fifth generation of Mansfield family to be born
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Great-great-grandmother Kathleen Clarke is 92 years old and has lived in New Houghton all her life.
She had four children; Sandra, Sheila, Neil and baby Kathleen, who sadly passed away at just 10 months old.
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Hide AdKathleen currently has eight grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and now her first great-great-grandchild, Dolly Gannon, was born on February 16 this year.
She had always promised her great-granddaughter Megan that she would be around to meet her great-great-grandchild, so they were all thrilled when this finally happened last month.
Kathleen’s daughter Sandra Carr, who is now 66 and also from New Houghton, is Dolly’s great-grandmother.
Sandra contacted the Chad when Dolly was born.
“It is so lovely to get all of us together in one photograph – five generations of girls.
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Hide Ad“I am obviously a very proud great-grandmother – Dolly is so beautiful.”
Tracy Simpson, 43, who gets married next month, is delighted to be a grandmother:
“I am so proud of my daughter, she has grown into a lovely young woman, and this is the icing on the cake for us all.
“She is already a great mum to Dolly.”
22-year-old Megan Nussey, who also lives in the village, gave birth to baby Dolly last month, completing five generations of the family;
“My great-grandmother always told me she would be around to meet my children, but I always worried whether it would happen.
“Seeing them together is just brilliant.”