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7 April, 2021

Carte de visite – Martha Fell (née Keighley)

Filed under: 1837-1911,England,Fell,Keighley — Tags: Carte de visite, Fell, Huddersfield, Somerville — David @ 8:38 pm

I have recently acquired a Carte de visite (CDV) of my Great Great Grandmother, Martha Fell. The purpose of this post is to record some details of it and see whether others who find this post can offer any thoughts on the card’s origin.

Carte de visites are small cards 2⅛ x 3½ inches (about 55mm x 9mm) in size. Typically they were made in the mid Victorian era by photographers. They consisted of a piece of cardboard – usually with the photographer’s details on the back with a thin albumen print pasted to the front. The process was patented in 1854 by André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri, and their usage continued until the early 1870’s when they were superseded by Cabinet Cards (about the size of a modern post card). [Ref: Wikipedia: Carte de visite, accessed 7 April 2021].

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27 May, 2017

Identifying the Fells at Huddersfield

Filed under: 1837-1911,Canada,Crowther,England,Fell,Lendrum,Photographs,Status: Update as Information Arises — Tags: Crowther, Fell, Golden Wedding, Huddersfield, Lendrum, Photograph — David @ 5:25 pm

Family of Robert & Martha Fell at Somerville, Huddersfield

I came across a photograph believed to be of the Fell Family. A count of the people was consistent with Robert Fell and his wife Martha (née Keighley) and their children and the spouses of those children.¹

Robert and Martha had eleven children – all of whom are believed to have outlived their parents. Eight of them married.

Three faces have been pasted (old fashioned scissors and paste!) into the picture* – the two characters directly behind Robert Fell and another standing at the back on the left. * Or more accurately the negative – my print is a single sheet without pastings. (more…)

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17 August, 2010

Ancestors outside the main paternal line.

Filed under: - 1837,1837-1911,Blaylock,Family Tree Charts,Faulder,Fell,Sewell,Status: Update as Information Arises,Story,Willett,Williamson — Tags: Allan, Blaylock, Box, Caruthers, Clark, Colvill, Faulder, Fell, Hall, Harrison, James, Keighley, Lendrum, Neal, Palmer, Ramsden, Rayson, Renny, Ridley, Sear, Sewell, Snape, Story, Wilks, Willett, Williamson — David @ 9:38 pm

The following family trees show my cousins (living generations though are not shown). (more…)

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The Family of Eileen Fell’s father-in-law Francis Steinthal

Filed under: 1912-99,England,Family Tree Charts,Fell,Germany,Petrie,Status: Complete,Steinthal — Tags: Fell, Ilkley, Petrie, Steinthal, Yorkshire — David @ 9:23 pm

The Family tree of Eileen Fell’s father-in-law Francis Steinthal and his wife, Emeline Petrie.

In World War One, their children changed their surname to Petrie (see The Family of Eileen Fell)

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The Family of Eileen Fell

Filed under: 1914-18 WW1,1939-45 WW2,Biography,Deed Poll,England,Fell,Honours,Petrie,Status: Complete,Steinthal — Tags: Deed Poll, Fell, Honours, Ilkley, Petrie, Steinthal, War, World War One, World War Two, Yorkshire — David @ 7:22 pm

Eileen Mary Fell was a first cousin of my paternal grandmother, Marjorie Fell Faulder (née Lendrum). Her mother Elizabeth Fell was a sister of Eileen’s father Henry Fell.
Eileen was shown by Marjorie Fell Faulder (in her notes) to have married a Paul Cuthbert Petrie, but I could not find a reference to this marriage.
I could however find a reference to a marriage to a Steinthal – but not to his death.
It turns out that Paul Steinthal had changed his name during WW1 to Petrie (his mother’s maiden name).
Searching through on-line sources such as the London Gazette and the London Times plus being provided with photographs of a family memorial helped identify Eileen’s descendants and their immediate cousins.

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