[1]ancestry This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Gobbitt Surnames: HOWARD, BOUGHTON, Cooper, Culley, Faherty, Fisk, Heawood, Holmes, King, Tear, Teasdell Classification: queries Message Board: [2]Click here Message Board Post: Having recently learned that the Howard family's ledgers and negatives were destroyed about three years ago, I feel the need for some alternative means of dating the numbered prints produced in their Ipswich studios since the 1920s. My few dated portraits and notes from directories will become more helpful if further examples are kindly submitted by other contributors. The photographer James William Howard was born at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, in 1882. He was the son of a butcher, William Henry Howard (1842-1916), and Amelia née Teasdell (c.1847-1901), whose graves are in Lowestoft cemetery (http://apps.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/pages/cemeteries/Lowestoft/harper_hylto n.aspx). Lowestoft's census returns of both 1901 and 1911 show that James was employed as a photographer. He seems to have had his own business by 1912, being listed in Kelly's directory of Suffolk at Kendal(l) Road, Kirkley, in the borough of Lowestoft. After his marriage at Ipswich in 1914 he is absent from the next two county directories, published in 1916 and 1922. He reappears in 1925 at 25 Westgate Street, Ipswich, where Robert (Thomas) Boughton had been operating since 1914 (if not before) until the early 1920s. Although James William Howard died in 1938, his studio at 25 Westgate Street was carried on under the name of James W. Howard by his second wife, Margaret Emma née King (1913-1989), and his son, Ipswich-born Kenneth James Howard (1920-1988), whose mother was Ida Amelia née Heawood (1887-1937). According to widespread press reports (e.g. by Gloucester's The Citizen, 28 Sept. 1938, in which 62-year-old James is described as a well-known Ipswich photographer), Margaret was widowed at the age of 25, just two weeks after her wedding. She married Bernard Thomas Faherty (1914-1988) in 1949 and subsequently lived in Weybridge, Surrey, presumably leaving Kenneth in charge of the firm. The 1941 edition of Kelly's Ipswich street directory (the 39th) is the last to list the Howards' premises at 25 Westgate Street. By 1943 (the 40th edition) they are closer to the Cornhill, at 5 Westgate Street, which had been vacated c.1938 by the relocation of the Adolphus Tear studio to The Walk (http://photo-sleuth.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/derby-photographers-leonard -norman.html?showComment=1515590235992#c5394481092686265263). A few years later there is a change of name, from James W. Howard up to 1949 (42nd ed.) to James W. Howard Ltd in 1952 (43rd ed.). An advertisement in 1954 (44th ed., p. 759) proclaims James W. Howard Ltd to be "Established for over 30 Years". The 1956 directory (45th ed., p. 779) advertises a new company, Fisk & Howard Ltd, trading as two distinct entities called Tudor Photos and Howard's Studio, both at 8 Crown Street (where Tudor Photos had been since about 1940). Tudor Photos are still at Crown Street in 1958 (46th ed.) while K. J. Howard mentions his I.B.P. and City & Guilds qualifications in a separate entry for Howard's Studio at 6 Friars Street (p. 748). There it remains in all of Kelly's later Ipswich directories, up to 1975 (the final edition). My mother's aunts were thoughtful enough to write dates on the backs of their portraits in the 1930s: 58976.D by James W. Howard (late Boughton's) was dated 1 Aug. 1931 (the wedding day of Dorothy Kate Holmes and Walter Alfred Culley) 71146 by James W. Howard and Son was dated November 1939 by Georgina Eileen Cooper Just over 12,000 serial numbers were assigned during the intervening eight years, an average of about 1,500 per annum or 125 per month. This calculation ignores the economic depression in that era and the growing ranks of amateur photographers potentially taking business away from professional studios. If those factors make it more realistic to estimate annual quantities closer to 2,000 at the start of the decade and 1,000 at the end, a print numbered 65000 would have been created before 1935. But perhaps numbers remained relatively low until the prospect of war brought a host of military personnel and other customers to the studio in 1939. That could explain why a figure no higher than 65782 was allocated for what looks like a special wedding anniversary portrait of my great-grandparents, George and Eliza Cooper (m. October 1898), unless the occasion was George's 70th birthday in September 1936. A photograph of my grandmother by Boughtons of Ipswich, apparently taken c.1920, was numbered 32742, indicating that James W. Howard continued the series used by his predecessor at 25 Westgate Street. It may have commenced elsewhere; Walter Boughton & Sons of Lowestoft had a studio in Ipswich (at 24 Butter Market) as early as 1900 (http://www.early-photographers.org.uk/Suf A-B.html). I hope this rather sketchy outline will attract more images or information to fill in the gaps and extend its usefulness. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. [3]Contact Us [4]Online Help Please add [5]notifications@ancestry.com to your address book to make sure you don't miss an email. You are receiving this email because you have registered with Ancestry using the email address [6]SUFFOLK-L@rootsweb.com. Your privacy is important to us. 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