This photograph is of Josephine when she was May Queen, possibly Hartlepool Carnival after WW1?
Donor : Malcolm Hardy
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This photograph is of George Watkins.George used three chriatian names , one of those being Walter. He also had two familly names. Born 1849 in Sunderland he was apprenticed 1865-69 as a merchant seaman to Joseph Hill of Hartlepool on the brig"Safeguard"on voyages to the Baltic including St. Petersburg, taking coal out and bringing timber back.From at least 1876 he lived at 19 Charles Street where he died in 1919
More detail »This photograph is of Janet Carling (nee Watkins) who was married to Harold Carling, a barber and umbrella maker before the outbreak of WW1.
Also appearing in the photograph are their two dughters; Josephine Navy born in 1907 with her little sister Eve.The little boy on the right is their cousin Harold Whiteside.
Josephine and Eve were orphaned in 1915 when both parents died .
More detail »This photograph taken in 1982 is of Josephine Navy Hardy and Eva Fraser(nee Carling) both sister were widowed when this photograph was taken in 1982.
For most of her married life Eva lived in Raby Gardens and died in 2001 in Seaton Carew.
More detail »This photograph is of Josephine Navy Hardy (nee Carling) and her sister Eve harriet Carling.
Both sisters worked in Hartlepool Laundry where Eve met her husband Edward Fraser.
In this photograph of 1929 Josephine is with her husband Adam Scott Hardy.
Eve is the second from the right.
More detail »This photograph is of Josephine when she was May Queen, possibly Hartlepool Carnival after WW1?
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