Edna was a dancer. Her niece Cynthia, daughter of Clifford and Kay McLaglen came to visit her at Woolacombe in Devon, when Edna was making her yearly trip to her and Denise's old home at "The Outlook; Sunnyside Road, overlooking the beautiful sands and Ocea. Cynthia had never met her Aunt before, but they got on very well, and Edna told Cynthia what had happened. Cyril had left for Hollywood to try and make a living and the War started and London was getting badly bombed. Edna decided to take her l;ittle girl Denise out of harms way and they both took the journey to Woolacombe, and there Denise grew up. Edna showed me several big books of her dancing days where she was a showgirl doing many sorts of dance from ballet to tap in musicals in London. Many of the photographs showed her rehearsing and practising. It was very good to see. I felt proud of what Edna had achieved. She taught Denise all she knew. She told me that Denise was also a good horse women and that she joined a riding club determined to save up buy her own horse that she could earn money from. This she managed to do and she helped to manage a riding school and do trick riding as well. Denise could ride two horses at once like her father and Uncle Clifford did in the film, "Boadicea".
Eventually became such a good dancer that this tall 6 foot girl joined the Folies Begeres in Paris. She eventually went to America and met her father and she was an able compare and introduced show and was iin shows such as "Gipsy", which travelled to Australia where she met her husband who happened to be a horse breeder. John Cobcroft and Denise fell in love and married happily, and Edna joned them eventually reaching the age of 90. Edna visited the old house as she still loved the place and had many friends there. Edna , Denise and John are all interred at Morthoe Church cemetary , overlooking the seaside that they all loved.
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