Clara May was the daughter of Clara Wolff and Frederick May. Known as 'Aunty May' or 'Toots'. She never married. She spent most of her early life as 'housekeeper' for her uncle Gustav Wilhelm Wolff.  She had a series of terriers. One called Twinky lent its name to the family expression 'Wait Twinky wait' which meant 'be patient'. Once on a birthday her Uncle Gustav gave her a string of pearls (see picture left) that were as long as she was tall which she wasn't very.  She had a Rolls and a Lancaster and lived in London and then Oxshott.

To view Clara May's photo album from the beginning of the twentieth century click on each page link below.  Note that the images have been scanned in at a VERY HIGH resolution and as result the files are very LARGE and for that reason the album has been broken up into separate pages.