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From: "Jennifer Ohmes" <>
Subject: [GEORGE-L] Fw: Photos : ROCKETT (Dewsbury, Philadelphia & elsewhere)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:11:12 -0600


-----Original Message-----
From: Amanda Jones <>
To: <>
Date: Monday, November 16, 1998 5:40 PM
Subject: Fw: Photos : ROCKETT (Dewsbury, Philadelphia & elsewhere)

>Hi everyone -
>
>Apologies, this is off-Powys, but may be of interest to our friends over
>the pond (or indeed anyone researching elsewhere in the UK, and New
>Zealand is also mentioned). Below is a posting to Yorksgen about
>photographs found which will be of value to the family concerned, so
>they have been rescued from possible sale for the moment in an effort to
>trace more information, and we have been asked to circulate to other
>lists. Please reply to Mary direct if you have any knowledge of the
>names mentioned, and by all means pass her message along elsewhere if
>you think it will help. Thank you.
>
>Best wishes
>Amanda
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mary Pendlebury <>
>To: <>
>Date: 16 November 1998 22:00
>Subject: ROCKETT - Dewsbury and Philadelphia
>
>
>>Hi everyone
>>
>>Recently we received a collection of photographs at our local Oxfam
>>(charity) shop. There were some names on them and so I decided that we
>>had better do something about seeing if we could find the descendants
>of
>>these people rather than sell the photos on to a stranger (or passing
>>dealer).
>>
>>Many of the photos are from studios in Dewsbury, others are from
>>Halifax, Wakefield, Barnsley, Leeds, Bradford, Stowmarket & Newcastle
>>(Staffs),
>>
>>There are also two from Blenheim, New Zealand and two from
>Philadelphia.
>>
>>There are three copies of the same photo of small boy from
>Illingworth's
>>studio in St. Stephens Road, Bradford. On the back of one is written
>in
>>ink - 'Boy Rockett, 33, Vulcan Road, Dewsbury'.
>>
>>There is one photo with no studio name on it but on the back in ink is
>>written 'Elijah Burrows'.
>>
>>The 2 photos from Philadephia are from different studios. One of a
>>middle-aged man with a grey beard is from the studio of Sawyer, 159, N.
>>8th St., Philadelphia.
>>
>>The other is of a woman and is from the studio of Louis Greenig,
>>1800-1802, N. Front St., Philadelphia, Pa. On the back of this photo
>is
>>written in ink 'Mrs. H. Rocketts'.
>>
>>There is another photo of a woman with no markings identifying a studio
>>and on the margin is printed in purple as if with a home printing set
>>'George W. Rockett'.
>>
>>I looked up Rockett in the 1881 indexed census for Dewsbury and found
>>the family of George Rockett, a master tailor born in Brotherton, his
>>wife Ann and children Joseph, Eliza Ann, George Henry and Ernest (all
>>born in Dewsbury).
>>
>>Can anyone shed any light on these people - or claim the photos as
>their
>>own?!
>>
>>Please would list members who subscribe to other lists pass this
>message
>>on so that the word can be spread - particularly in the U.S. - so that
>>as many people as possible read about this collection of photos.
>>
>>Regards
>>Mary Pendlebury
>>Oldham, Lancashire, England
>>
>>==== YORKSGEN Mailing List ====
>
>

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