June 1, 1921

Margaret Kathleen Maud Wilkinson, or Mamie, as the family called her, was married June 1, 1921, to the vicar, Frank Day-Lewis. She was five years older than her new husband, long a widower. Mamie was described thusly:

"...her social credentials were good, she had titled cousins... and her father... [was] a major...Moreover she was well off with a substantial private income that would have appealed to a vicar who was struggling to maintain on 600 [pounds] a year the household staff of a gardener and two maids that he felt a man in his position required.

Frank died in 1937. Mamie in 1955.

She left 146,000 [pounds] in her will, a fortune by the standards of the time. It was distributed between a cats' home, the Anglican diocese of Southwell in which her husband had served and an RAF benevolent home. 

Cecil Day-Lewis, not yet poet laureate of the United Kingdom, had always refused to call his step-mother Mamie, "mother." The interesting thing is that Mamie wanted to be addressed that way, since Day-Lewis was, after all, 17 when his father remarried. 

[C. Day-Lewis in fact] believed that Mamie's distribution of money was entirely fair....[He had received]  £1,000....with which he was able to buy a Hillman, his first decent car since setting up home with Balcon, [his second wife.] She was bequeathed Mamie's furs.....

It is my guess that Mamie married Frank because she loved him.