Arthur Crabtree married Freda Molesdale on Saturday, 5 October 1946 at the register office, Hyde. Arthur was 26 years old and worked as a glove cutter, He was a bachelor and lived at 119 Nelson Street, Hyde, the son of Edward, a felt hat planker. Freda was 24 years old and a spinster, working as a trimmer at a rubber works and living at 20 Allen Avenue, Hyde, the daughter of Edward Molesdale, corporation labourer. The witnesses were George and Gladys Crabtree.