The early Willetts take a bit of disentangling due to second marriages and marriages to other Willetts. What follows is a summary; there is a more detailed explanation with references on another post. (more…)
23 August, 2010
The life of HDS (Dick) Faulder
HDS Faulder WW2 or shortly afterwards
Harold Dick Sewell Faulder (1918-2005) was my father. I am currently trying to write up his life and am posting an outline that may provoke others to contribute. (more…)
18 August, 2010
Tom Clark’s Family Album (all believed deceased)
Believed to Be Thomas Clark
Photos (together with reverses to aid locating & dating) in the Album originally owned by Tom Clark (now in care of Liz Clark*). Families likely to be Clark, Pearson, Faulder, Sewell. In addition other names (e.g. Telford, Pattinson, James) linked to the family appear in the album. (more…)
Photographs of various family members (all deceased)
Photographs of Family members (all deceased) Picasa Photo Album
Ronald Faulder: Parachuting Pioneer
Ronald Faulder - Parachute Pioneer
Ronald was too young to actually fight in World War 1 (although I believe he was with the RAF) but he was involved in the testing of early parachutes “Guardian Angels”.
Postscript: Many years later when members of the Parachute Regiment display team were at the Rowledge Fête, Ronald was introduced to them. This resulted in an invitation to dinner at their mess in Aldershot at which he was presented with a current Parachute Regiment tie, which he wore with great pride.
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.
