Photographs of Family members (all deceased) Picasa Photo Album
18 August, 2010
Photographs of various family members (all deceased)
Marjorie Fell Faulder (née Lendrum)’s WW1 scrapbook
Harold and Marjorie Faulder at Holy Trinity, Huddersfield on their Wedding Day
Marjorie Fell Faulder (née Lendrum)’s scrapbook based on her husband Harold’s service in World War 1
Picasa Photo Album This contains photographs, postcards and newspaper cuttings meticulously filed until April 1918. Marjorie Faulder was my Grandmother.
Emily Faulder: Co-founder of Universal Aunts
Emily Faulder, Co-founder of Universal Aunts
Emily Story Faulder (1883-1974), was the first child of Joseph Sewell Faulder and his wife Emily Story and was my Great Aunt.
Gertrude Maclean together with Emily Faulder set up Universal Aunts
in 1921 as the original concierge service although very much focusing on looking after children – particularly those travelling alone.
Their website reports:
Having found a partner, Miss Emily Faulder, she [Gertrude Maclean] started her business in a little room behind a bootmaker’s in Chelsea. Their lease did not allow them to work in the afternoons, so they went, with their papers in a capacious knitting bag, to Harrods’ Ladies’ Rest Room where they received clients and applicants on a sofa in the corner. So began a business that by its 80th year had employed over three quarters of a million men and women, and undertaken over a million services. (more…)
George Henry Williamson (b 1845): Briefly MP for Worcester
George Henry Williamson was (in 1906) briefly elected Conservative and Unionist MP for Worcester before being disqualified.
It was suggested that members of his team had bribed voters to vote Conservative. After a petition by the Liberal Party the result was declared void. (more…)
William Willett (b 1856): Advocate of Daylight Saving
William Willett is most memorable as the advocate of Daylight Saving or British Summer Time. He was the eldest son of my Great Great Grandfather (through my mother’s adoptive line), also William Willett, who started the building company.
(more…)“Faulder” Arms
Arms granted to a Faulder
There are arms linked to a Faulder name.
However, arms are granted to an individual and his legitimate male heirs – not to a surname. Can we trace the individual to whom they were granted?
The General Armoury* describes Faulder Arms as Ar. three chaplets vert, roses gu. Crest-On a mountain a beacon inflamed all ppr
. Translated this reads as Silver, three green garlands, roses red. Crest – On a mountain a beacon inflamed – normal colours
. My interpretation of this is on the right. (more…)
Potential Ancestral Links to Groups of Overseas Faulders
The Faulder surname appears in various parts of the world:
- Canadian Faulders (mainly in Ontario and Alberta)
- American (United States of) Faulders (mainly in Ohio – linking back to Sebergham in Cumberland – and Pennsylvania)
- Canadian citizen, Joseph Stanley Faulder executed in Texas
- Australian Faulders (mainly in New South Wales – again linking back to Cumberland)
- New Zealand Faulders
(based on BMD data)
Review of World War One records in the above countries is currently revealing more information.
Potential Ancestral Links to the Hertfordshire based Faulders.
There seem to be two main clusters of “original” Faulders:
- Our one in Cumberland
- Another in Hertfordshire
Everyone seem to trace back to one of these two areas. It will be interesting to see if they are linked at some point in history.
The origin of the Faulder family
Widespread belief that the Faulder family is from Southern Scotland
- Emigrated possibly during time of the Covenanters (1638 onwards)
- A number of signet rings in the family have an image of a flaming beacon.
- Belief that the family may have been involved in maintaining Armada beacons.
- However, beacons were also used in the north to warn of Scottish invasion.
- Beacons could also have been those used for navigation assistance.
- Others have suggested a reference to pillaging by Reivers.
The family links with the Woollen trade in Yorkshire, especially Huddersfield
There are various members of the family who have been involved in various aspects of the textile industry, most notably with the Woollen Industry in Yorkshire in particular the firm of Stothart & Faulder in John William Street, Huddersfield
. (more…)
