-----Original Message----- From: Amanda Jones <aj.ffrwd@tesco.net> To: POWYS-L@rootsweb.com <POWYS-L@rootsweb.com> 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 <mary@magic-cats.demon.co.uk> >To: YORKSGEN-L@rootsweb.com <YORKSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> >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 ==== > >