| Title | Kendall Family Album |
| Date | c1895 |
| Location | Rawdon |
| Photo ID | N750 |
| Comment | See below… |
This photo album was a gift made to Mrs Emily Kendall. It was an event to have a photo taken in the early days of photography, the resulting images were treasured in albums such as this tooled leather example with strong card pockets to protect the photos. Not for the Victorians paper packets of photos jumbled up in shoe boxes and kept at the back of the wardrobe !
N751 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895
The first image in the family album is a patriotic portrait of Queen Victoria.
The writing on the left page reads:
Given to Mrs Emily Kendall by her daughter Constance Eva
Additional Research:
Mrs Emily Kendall 1842 – 1932. Emily was born in Hampshire to Charles (recorded as a labourer/ Parish Clerk) and Dinah. Aged seventeen she was an under housemaid to Justice of the Peace, Francis Marx in Hampshire. Less than five years later, on June 19th 1865, she married stonemason Henry Hudson Kendall at St. Peter’s in Rawdon. They were married for over fifty years – Henry died in 1917 – and had twelve children, with nine surviving. The Micklefield Lane/Little London area of Rawdon was where the family lived and the connection with their locality is very clear in the album as are some of the people therein.
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N754 – Rawdon National Pupils, c1895.
Kendall Family Album – c1895
An undated photograph of school pupils with the Master Mr Richard Brotherton and Miss Hesleton, Teaching Assistant.
Editor’s Note: The Headmaster of Rawdon National School in 1900 was a Mr Cockcroft and therefore this image must pre date 1900 and is possibly c1895. It is not known who in the Kendall family attended this school. The image is a photographed copy of the original and has been enhanced by the editor. JB. 26 Oct 2023.
Additional Research:
Constance Eva Kendall 1881 – 1970. Constance was one of three girls in the Kendall family. She married Mr. McKenzie in 1939 and in the same year was living in Intake Cottages, Rawdon. (Images of Intake Cottage can be seen on this site in Rawdon, Landmarks, Billing Wood (1) Ed. JB. 10 January 2024.)
Richard Brotherton 1849 – 1901. Richard was born in the Boroughbridge area and was the son of grocer and coal agent Henry and his wife Ann. He is buried at St. Peter’s. When he was thirteen Richard was a pupil teacher and ten years later he was lodging in Cavendish Street, Leeds at St. Andrew’s School House. He married Mary Clark in 1878 and they lived in Town Street, Rawdon. By now he was a certified school master. Richard was still in Town Street at his death (September 1901 at the School House), his daughter Annie May following in his teaching footsteps at the age of fifteen. His wife survived him, living in Horsforth, but on her death in 1936 was also buried at St. Peter’s.
Miss Hesleton – Annie Elizabeth 1863 – 1936. Annie was baptised in the parish of Coniston-with-Kilnsey, her parents were John and Amelia. They lived in the Buckden area and father John was a farmer, with two servants. By 1891 the family was at Wood Bottom Farm in Rawdon and Annie was a teacher. In 1895 she married commercial clerk George Platt and they moved to Bradford. A son was born in 1900 and Annie was no longer teaching. Her death was registered in Knaresborough.
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N769 – Rawdon Little London Pupils, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895
An undated faded image of Little London School pupils with the name Carrie Croxon on the caption.
Editor’s Note: It is not known who in the Kendall family attended this school.
The image is a photographed copy of the original and has been enhanced by the editor. JB. 26 Oct 2023.
Additional Research:
Carrie Croxon – Caroline Whitehead Croxon 1876 – 1963. Caroline, born in Rawdon, was the third child of Edwin and Mary (nee Whitehead). They lived at Cragg Bottom in Rawdon and by the age of fourteen Caroline was an assistant teacher. Of the five Croxon children, four daughters became teachers. Her marriage certificate (July 1918) has her occupation as a clerk; her husband John Calvert. In the 1939 register Mr and Mrs Calvert were living in Bradford where Caroline’s death was later registered.
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N756 – Miss Peters, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
An undated image of Miss Peters, Schoolmistress at Little London School which was on Micklefield Lane. It closed in 1960 and is now private housing.
Additional Research:
Miss Peters – Lavinia Minnie Peters 1855 – 1933. The daughter of a master tailor and draper, Lavinia was born in Leeds. Her early career was in a warehouse as an apprentice, but in 1881 her widowed mother, also Lavinia, was in Rawdon with two of her daughters and Lavinia the younger was a schoolmistress. They lived in Micklefield Lane, just a few doors away from Henry and Emily Kendall. In the 1911 census she has become a head teacher. Lavinia remained a single person, living in Ilkley when she died.
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N757 – Mrs James Houlden, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
An undated Portrait of a Mrs James Houlden. No further information available.
Additional Research:
Mrs. James Houlden. This entry to be proven. A James Houlden married Ann Elizabeth Kendall in 1875. She was the daughter of John Smith Kendall, a stonemason. In the 1881 census she was registered at her parents’ address and was a widow. James Houlden died in 1878.
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N766 – A mother and children, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
An undated family portrait of a mother with her five small children. No further information avaiilable.
N764 – Emily Jane Kendall, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
A undated Photograph of Emily Jane Kendall.
Additional Research:
Emily Jane Kendall 1885 – 1970. Emily was the youngest of the Kendall family, born when her mother was forty-two. Census records do not show an occupation for her and she spent much of her life in the Micklefield Lane area with her family. She did not marry and was living in Swaine Hill Crescent, Yeadon at her death.
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N765 – Wedding of E J Kendall, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
The wedding of E J Kendall, group outside the Rawdon Baptist Chapel. No further information available.
Additional Research:
Wedding of E. J. Kendall. Ernest James Kendall 1872 – 1963. As Emily Jane was single it is a reasonable supposition that this is her brother Ernest J. Kendall’s wedding. By the age of eighteen he was a pupil teacher and in 1899 he married Mary Hannah Wilkinson (1870 – 1953), starting married life in London Lane. His entry in the 1911 census shows him working in a Bradford Municipal Secondary School. During retirement he lived in Upper Lombard Street.
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N767 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
An undated posed group with a bearded man, two young men and two young boys. No further information available.
Additional Research:
This is a group picture of some of the Kendall boys with their father Henry Hudson Kendall, who was born in 1837. His children were born between the years 1867 and 1885 and when compared to the named photographs in the album there are definite matches.
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N758 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
An undated image of a couple with a small boy dressed in a sailor suit, the suits became popular fashion for boys after the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) had 5 of his children photographed wearing them. No further information available.
Editor’s Note: I believe that the man and woman in this photograph is Mr & Mrs Ben Downs with their child.
The image below (N761) is of Mr Downs when a police officer and below that image (N760 )is his wife Nellie Downs taken at a younger age. JB. 27 Oct 23.
N761 – Ben Downs, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
Ben Downs in police uniform, the caption on the image “her husband” refers to Nellie Downs seen in image N760
N760 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
Studio portrait of a young woman “Cousin Nellie Downs”.
N762 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
Baptist Minister Arthur Fayers.
Additional Research:
Arthur Parry Fayers 1851 – 1915. Arthur was a Southerner, born in St. Pancras, Middlesex to Thomas (a lay missionary) and Eliza. Ten years later the family was in Sedbergh and when Arthur was twenty-nine, he had married Emily Thomson (1877), was living in Armley and was a Baptist Minister with two children. He became minister at Cragg Baptist Chapel in 1883 (until 1904) and in the 1901 census he was perhaps on holiday with his wife, as he was registered at a guest house in St. Saviour’s Parish, Jersey. He lived in the Micklefield Lane area of Rawdon, in old age and there a nurse in the household for “The Head” – i.e. Arthur.
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N752 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
Portrait of the Rev. C H Spurgeon, possibly a Baptist Minister, other images in the album show wedding groups outside Rawdon Baptist Chapel.
Additional Research:
Revd. Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834 – 1892. Although a direct connection (perhaps there isn’t one and he is included due to the family’s Baptist ties) with the Kendall family or Rawdon is not evident, Reverend Spurgeon had become “world renown” in his time and many descriptions and articles can be found regarding his ministry. He was Essex born – Kelvedon – and was preaching at a very early age, becoming a Baptist at the age of sixteen – although he didn’t remain a Baptist throughout his ministry. He worked in the Cambridgeshire, Southwark, Clapham and Croydon areas and regularly preached to congregations numbering 10,000. He wrote many books, had his sermons, letters and essays printed and formed Almshouses, an orphanage and a Pastor’s College. Reverend Spurgeon had a history of poor health and liked to go to Menton in the South of France to rest. This is where he died.
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N759 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
“Brother Augustus Cecil Kendall” noted on the frame of the photo.
Additional Research:
Augustus Cecil Kendall 1880 – 1963. Augustus was the fifth son of Henry and Emily Kendall. He is found marrying Mary Smith in 1904 in Oxfordshire; he at an address in Banbury and she from a Glasgow address. By now he is a chemist which suggests the relocation from Rawdon was due to his work. Seven years and four children later the family was in Halifax. On May 8th 1925 Augustus, Mary and Leslie (aged fifteen) were aboard the Montroyal, heading for Quebec and Montreal from Liverpool. They arrived a week later and the passenger list gave a son’s address as his destination. The Canadian census of 1931 has the parents and now three sons living in Verdun, which is in Quebec Province. Augustus died in Vancouver at the age of eighty-two.
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N771 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
Image of a young man named as brother Francis Jesse Kendall.
Additional Research:
Francis Jesse Kendall 1882 -? Many of his brothers’ records show full names, but it is difficult to differentiate between Francis/Francis J. Kendall as there are quite a few. What is known is that at the age of eighteen he was a draper’s assistant and living at home.
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N772 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1910
Portrait of a woman, wife of Francis Jesse Kendall
N768 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1914
Alfred Henry Kendall.
Additional Research:
Alfred Henry Kendall 1868 – 1943. Alfred followed his father’s occupation, that of a stone mason, and he married Maggie Kendall (daughter of John and Ellen) in 1898. The 1901 census states that he was an assistant overseer to a mason and they had one son John Henry Kendall. Later in the year they were aboard the Whakatane, bound for Wellington, New Zealand. The ship’s manifest showed he was a builder and his son was two years old. New Zealand cemetery records list his death in 1943 and that of his wife in 1965 in her ninety-sixth year. (Tongaporutu Cemetery, New Plymouth District, Taranaki).
Helen M.
10 January 2024.
N753 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1914
This image shows a large group dressed in their finery, the caption reads “Alfred’s wedding at Ghyll Lane to Maggie Kendall”.
N763 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1914
A wedding group outside Rawdon Baptist Chapel, possibly that of Alfred to Maggie Kendall? – see N753.
N770 – Kendall Family Album, Undated.
Kendall Family Album – c1895/1914
A large wedding group outside Rawdon Baptist Chapel.
N710 – Albert Kendall, 1916.
Albert Kendall – 1916
Albert was born in 1899 and was 17 when his photo was taken in 1916. He served in the Royal Horse Artillery and fought at Passchendaele. In this image Albert is on the front row third from the right.
N712 – Albert Kendall, 1916.
Albert Kendall – 1916/17
A colourised image of N710 above.
N711 – Albert Kendall, 1916/17.
Albert Kendall – 1916/17
Albert is kneeling on the left of the front row. Location unknown.
Donated by his grandson Craig Kendall.
Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw. 27 October 2023.
Last updated: 27 October 2023.
