Rupert Allan Carter 1893-1970

 

The last person from the Catlow Collection I haven’t mentioned before is Rupert Allan Carter, listed on the back of the wedding photo (previously posted) of his friend James Wilkinson to Connie Catlow in 1920.

Rupert was born in the 4qtr 1893 in Nelson, Lancashire, the son of Frank Carter & Mary Alice nee Spencer. In 1911 they were living at 40 Chapel House Rd, Nelson along with two other children Rose Lilian & Irvine Carter. In 1926 Rupert married Lily Stansfield, it seems they didn’t have any children and after Lily died in 1941 Rupert married Amelia Howarth nee Heys in 1951. Amelia died in Plymouth in 1962 and Rupert in 1970 also in Plymouth.

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the CARTER family please do contact me, I would love to pass the photos onto a family member, even a distant one. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora[at]kc.net.nz

The Dugdale Family of Nelson, Lancashire

Today’s photos start off with this unusual gathering, three Dugdale siblings plus Annie Catlow and her friend Cissie Burrows, and one unknown woman. I wonder what the reason was that a group of girl friends plus a brother went along to the professional photographers to have their photo taken? I guess I’ll never know! Annie & Cissie I’ve written about before so now it’s the turn of the Dugdales, mainly Polly who there are two more lovely photos of.

 

Polly is usually a nickname for Mary so I wasn’t too hopeful of finding this family straight away but as it turned out her brother Squire’s name was more unusual.

Ellen (Nellie) 1883, Squire 1884 & Mary 1886 were three of the five children of Joseph Dugdale & Martha Ann nee Haworth of Nelson, Lancashire.

Squire later emigrated to Philadelphia in America in 1909, married Anna Nichols in 1914 there and they had four children. He seems to have gone backwards and fowards between each country over the years and on one passenger list he gives his address as c/- Mrs Duerden, I then found a marriage for Ellen Dugdale to Herbert Duerden in 1911 but so far Polly has eluded me after the 1911 census as there are too many Mary Dugdale marriages to be sure which one might be her. Their other two siblings are Hartley Dugdale and Sarah Alice Haworth who was born just a few months before her mother married Joseph Dugdale.

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the DUGDALE family please do contact me, I would love to pass the photos onto a family member, even a distant one. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
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Stanley Fielding and Susie Moore

More photographs that came with the ‘Catlow Collection’, on the back is written that Stanley Fielding is a friend of Jim Wilkinson, Jim was the husband of Connie Catlow. Although I haven’t yet worked out which James Wilkinson married Connie I believe Stanley Fielding might be the son of William & Sarah Fielding, his birth was registered in the 4qtr of 1889 in Oldham (Lancashire) and that’s where he says he was born in the two census I found him in. In 1891 they are living at 42 Clyde St, Oldham and in 1911 they are at 45 Milton St, Nelson, not far from where the Catlows lived.

It looks like he might have been a swimming champion with that medal on his chest but I haven’t been able to find anything on him in the newspapers apart from this joke he sent to the Burnley Express for the Prize Joke Competition in 1906:-  

I haven’t been able to ascertain if Stanley married after the 1911 census or not. However, in this collection of photographs was one of a Susie Moore which was taken sitting at the same table with the same backdrop in the above photo, and taken by the same J. Harrison studio, so perhaps there is some sort of connection between them. One of the Catlow sisters, Annie, married Edward Dean Moore so I thought perhaps Susie was his sister but no she wasn’t.

On the back of another photo of Susie is written ‘farm up Barkerhouse Rd’ and for awhile I couldn’t find a Moore family living there in a census until I searched in Google and found that the Moore family who were living at ‘Higher Town House Farm, Nelson’ in the 1911 census were the right ones. It turns out that ‘Higher Town House Farm’ is situated in or just off Barkerhouse Rd, I found this photo online:-

©  is owned by Kevin Rushton and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Susannah Moore was the daughter of Ellis Nutter Moore & Betsy nee Crowther, her birth was registered in the 2qtr of 1887 in the Burnley RD. I think now that it is just a co-incidence the two photos were taken in the same studio because it seems that Susie later married Christopher Peck in 1921.

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to either the FIELDING or MOORE families please do contact me, I would love to pass the photos onto a family member, even a distant one. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora[at]kc.net.nz

Cissie Burrows

It wasn’t until I posted the last article about the Burrows Family that I noticed the one of Cissie looked almost identical to the person in the photo of the Catlow sisters who I thought must have been their mother. I’ve only just received the Catlow sisters photo recently and so I hadn’t compared it with any of the other photos in my possession. But now I’m quite sure that is Cissie Burrows in the photo with the Catlow sisters – what do you think?

The Burrows Family of Wickworth St in Nelson, Lancashire

Here we have four more photos from the Catlow Collection. In the first one is Cissie Burrows standing on the right, the second one is Cissie by herself; the third one is Harold Burrows and the last one is Mrs Burrows with her two grand daughters, the names are taken from the details written on the back of each photo.

I started off by trying to pinpoint Harold Burrows in a census, as it turned out there was more than one Harold of the right age in the area surrounding Nelson where the Catlows lived. In the first photo Annie Catlow is sitting in front of Cissie Burrows so they were obviously friends. However, the name Cissie is usually a nickname for something else so I thought Harold would be easier. After days of researching this family I’m no further on than when I started! Harold had two sisters, Mary Martha & Edith Annie, so ‘Cissie’ could have been either of them! There were also two brothers, Herbert & Ernest.

If this is the Harold Burrows I think it is then his birth was registered in the 4qtr of 1896 in the Burnley RD of Lancashire, Nelson is included in the Burnley registration district. He was the son of Thomas Burrows & Mary Jane Chadwick and in the 1901 and 1911 census he is living at home with them and his four siblings at 38 Wickworth St, Nelson. After that there are just too many entries on FreeBMD for a Harold Burrows to be certain that any of them are him. NB Cissie Catlow was living at 27 Wickworth St in 1911, which was soon after she married Harry Hartley who had also been living at 16 Wickworth St before he married.

So far I haven’t found TWO grand-daughters for Mrs Burrows so if anyone knows this family do get in touch with me, I would love to pass the photos onto a family member, even a distant one.

The others in the group photo are the Dugdale family who I’ll mention next time.

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to the BURROWS family please do contact me, I would love to pass the photos onto a family member, even a distant one. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora[at]kc.net.nz

The Catlow Sisters

You may remember I mentioned Julie who is a descendant of Nellie Catlow and who has been a mine of information on them all, well, she recently sent me three photos including one of the triplets that I didn’t have originally. And finally I have one of their mother Millicent who was missing in all of the photos I had. However, there is just one last question – who is the extra girl in the group of eight – not their mother surely? Not counting the triplets there should only be seven of them. There is nothing written on the back of the group photo so I’m just presuming that one of them is their mother, probably the one on the right with the large buttons on her skirt, if so then I’m coveting her tiny waist and trim figure after having ten babies! Thank you Julie for all your help, it has been great.

                          *** Lily – Rose – Violet – not necessarily in that order – 1900-1901 ***

                                     Millicent Catlow with her triplets at 8 weeks old – Oct 1900.

Addendum: we now know who the extra person is in this photo – Cissie Burrows (standing right with large buttons on her skirt) – was a friend of the Catlow sisters.

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