Elizabeth was the daughter of James Dixon, a coal cutting machine man, who had died before her marriage to Alexander Sanderson Besford, known all his life as Alec.
Alec and Elizabeth’s first child, Mary Besford, was born on 20th December 1921 at 283 Maple Street, Ashington. This was Elizabeth’s address at the time of the marriage, so they were probably living with her mother.
Their second child was born at 90 Garden City Villas, Ashington on 8th May 1923 and was christened Janet after Alec’s sister Janet. Janet died at the age of just 7 months on 13th December 1923. The cause was enteritis.
Daisy Besford was born at 90 Garden City Villas on 21st August 1924, and was named after Alec’s sister Daisy. She lived just over 3 months before, like her sister Janet, she died of gastro-enteritis.
Ann Gregory Besford was born at 70 South Villas, Ashington on 1st November 1925.
Following the miners’ lock-out of 1926, Alec went with his brother Tommy to work as a hewer at Snowdown Colliery in Kent. Alec and Elizabeth were living at 367 Clarendon Road, Aylesham, Nonington, and their daughter Joyce was born there on 6th November 1927.
Alec and Elizabeth returned to Ashington. Their son Alexander was born at 90 Garden City Villas on 10th August 1929. He died 7 months later, on 9th March 1930, at the Fleming Memorial Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, of gastroenteritis.
The 1939 Register records Alec and Elizabeth at 49 Beatrice Street, Ashington.
Elizabeth died in 1969.