The Family of George Nelson Hatten and Harriet Griffin Blomfield
The purpose of this small web-site is to share the family pictures I've inherited myself or received from other members of my extended family. I still need information on many of the people pictured. For my complete family tree, see here.
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Revised: 29 April, 2024
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George Nelson Hatten (1839-95) was born in Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, son of Robert Hayward Hatten (elder brother of my great-great grandfather George Hatten) and his second wife, Mary Ann Barker. George had been a wealthy farmer, living at Berghersh House in Witnesham near Ipswich, which he’d inherited from his father. He married Harriet Griffin Blomfield (1847-1907), daughter of Samuel Blomfield and Jane Griffin, at Lion Walk Congregational Chapel in Colchester, Essex, in 1867 and they had ten children, listed below. |
 Lion Walk United Reform Church, Colchester, Essex, Sep 2016. Only the spire of the 1863 church is left |
 Lion Walk United Reform Church, Colchester, Essex, Sep 2016 |
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The Lion Walk Congregational Chapel is now Lion Walk United Reform Church built in 1986, so not the church that stood when William and Harriet married, which was built in 1863, replacing an earlier church built in 1766, where Harriet and her mother Jane Griffin were christened. Only the original spire of the 1863 church is left, the rest of the church is above the ground floor shops in the Lion Walk Shopping Centre! The respected Colchester department store Williams & Griffin, now owned by Fenwicks, was originally founded by Harriet's Griffin family. Harriet's mother Jane Griffin (1822-1907) was the daughter of William Griffin and Charlotte Lainson. William owned a drapery and haberdashery shop in Colchester which was expanded by his sons (Jane’s brothers) to become Griffin's Department Store, later H. L. Griffin & Co. under Henry Lainson Griffin (1855-1916), William's grandson and Harriet's first cousin. This was merged with the H. E. Williams & Co. department store in 1963 to become Williams & Griffin. Harriet's father Samuel Blomfield (1819-98), the son of Samuel Blomfield and Harriet Ellis, was a farmer from Berechurch outside Colchester. The name Blomfield is quite rare (it's normally spelled "Bloomfield") and it's intriguing that the full name of the singer Paloma Faith is Paloma Faith Blomfield - she may be distantly related to this branch of the Hattens! |
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George Nelson Hatten was unsuccessful in his farming career, perhaps due to cheap imports of cereals from North America, and lost the farm and the grand house in 1886 - he died in rented accommodation in Ipswich in 1895 at the early age of 55. Harriet is pictured above left with Sarah Anne Hatten née Day, by then the widow of William Green Hatten, George's elder half-brother, who died in 1874. For her family see here.
George Nelson Hatten and Harriet Griffin Blomfield had ten children: George Arthur Hatten (1871-1956), Janet Mary Hatten (1872-1932), Hayward Hatten (1874-1952), Nelson Joseph Hatten (1876-1951), Emily Kate Hatten (1878-1958), Harold Blomfield Hatten (1880-1973), Ella Harriet Hatten (1883-1965, twin of Spencer), Spencer Wilfred Hatten (1883-84, twin of Ella), Ethel Victoria Hatten (1886-1967) and Frederick Stanley Hatten (1888-1971). Among her siblings Harriet had an elder brother Samuel, born in 1845, and a younger sister Emily, born 1850. Emily is pictured above and Hatten Blomfield who appears in photos below, must have been Samuel's son.
In 1901 Harriet Griffin Blomfield Hatten was the proprietor of a boarding house in Worthing, West Sussex, living with two of her daughters, Janet Mary Hatten and Ella Harriet Hatten. She died at the age of 60 in Hendon, Middlesex, in May 1907 (before her mother, who died aged 85 in Dec 1907).
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These three photos from the collection of Gary DeBeaubien are unidentified. The photo on the left shows two women, one of whom must be a Hatten family member. Thanks to Jayne Shrimpton of "Family Tree Magazine" for dating the photo to 1910-13 based on the clothing, which means they were both born around 1880. I have looked for all female Hattens of around this age in the 1911 census to find a possible match, but so far without success. This picture has also been sent to the London School of Economics Women's Library and Cardiff University "Women in Trousers" project for inclusion in their photo collections. The photo immediately right is of an unidentified officer in World War 1. His uniform is that of a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, although he must be newly commissioned because he hasn't yet earned his pilot's wings. The uniform badges match those of Major Reginald Hugh Carr, RFC, see the Cooper page here. The photo at far right is of an unidentified pipe smoker. |
 Unknown RFC officer |
 Unknown pipe smoker |
George Arthur Hatten
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 Hatten Blomfield, first cousin of George Arthur Hatten, Missouri, USA, 1908-11 |
 Hatten Blomfield, first cousin of George Arthur Hatten, Missouri, USA, 1908-11 |
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George and Harriet's eldest son, George Arthur Hatten (1871-1956) emigrated to the USA in 1888 to become a farmer in Martinsville, Harrison County, Missouri. He married Ida Nancy Delilah Vanhoozer (1873-1961) on 15 Jul 1897 in Martinsville. Ida was born in Martinsville although her parents came from Tennessee. They had three children and their descendants still live in the Martinsville area today. The photo on the right comes from John Stewart Richards and is believed to be George and Ida. Thanks to Jayne Shrimpton for confirming that the photo dates from the 1910s and the couple are the right age to be George and Ida. The later photo is definitely George, pictured during his US Army military service. George served first in the US Artillery and then in the US Cavalry between 1891 and 1898. He took part in the Spanish-American War and was at the Battle of San Juan Hill, Cuba.
Hatten Blomfield, who was the first cousin of George Arthur Hatten and his siblings, must have been the son of Harriet's elder brother Samuel Blomfield. Hatten lived in Missouri from 1908-11, presumably working on the farm of George and Ida.
These three photos all seem to have an American or Canadian setting:
 Unidentified young couple - possibly Hatten Blomfield and a cousin |
 Unidentified old couple - a suggestion is that they may be Ida Hatten's parents, John Valentine Vanhoozer (1837-1920) and Sarah Adeline Vanhoozer née Jones (1839-1922), both born in Tennessee, USA |
 Family group with the same unidentified old couple in the centre |
Janet Mary Hatten
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George and Harriet's eldest daughter, Janet Mary Hatten, was born at Berghersh House, Witnesham, in 1872. She was living at home in Berghersh House in 1881, and in Ipswich in 1891. In 1901 she was living in Worthing with her mother and younger sister Ella, and working as a housekeeper. In 1911 Janet was working in Kentish Town, London, as a librarian, living with another younger sister, Ethel Victoria Hatten. She married Jesse Clarke in Newport, Shropshire, in 1921, and lived in Eccleshall, Staffordshire, until her death in 1932. They may have had a son, Peter, who was cared for by Ethel and Roly Cryer (see below), because of Janet's ill health. |
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Hayward Hatten
George and Harriet's second son, Hayward Hatten (1874-1952) married Annie Ansel in Bromley, Kent, in 1902. They had four children before Annie sadly died in 1914 at the age of 34. Two of these, William Harold Hatten (Harold) (1903-65) and Ernest Hayward Hatten (1905-70) are in the photo below with Hayward. Hayward subsequently married Maud Mary Barnfield (1891-1985) in Bromley 1915 and had seven more children!
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Four pictures of
Hayward Hatten (1874-1952). The first is from
around 1900, the second is from around 1910 on a Suffolk beach. In the third he's pictured in the
1920s with his two eldest sons, Ernest Hayward Hatten (1905-70) on the left, and
William Harold Hatten (1903-65) on the right. The soldier in the centre is Harold
Hatten's best friend Fred Clarke. Harold Hatten's son Roy Hatten thinks his
uncle Ernie served in the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Ox &
Bucks), while his father and Fred Clarke served in the Gloucestershire Regiment
in Germany after World War 1. The fourth photo also looks to be from the 1920s.
Hayward can also be seen in two photos below with his younger brother Frederick
Stanley Hatten.
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These are two photos taken in the same location showing Hayward Hatten's second wife Maud Mary Barnfield, who married widower Hayward in 1915. Maud already had a daughter Dorothy E Barnfield, born in Feb 1914. The left hand photo has on the back "Maud with Nancy and Jackie". Nancy was born in 1923, Jack (Jackie) in 1916. The right hand photo has on the back "Maud with Harold, Eileen and Jackie". Harold was William Harold, Hayward's son by Annie Ansel born 1903, "Eileen" may have been Dorothy E (Maud and Hayward didn't have a daughter with an "E" initial), and I think the little girl on the right of this picture is Nancy again, and Jackie isn't in the photo.
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On the left are two photos of Ernest Hayward Hatten (1905-70). The first was taken at Aldershot, the second has on the back "To Aunt Ella from Ernest, 1921" (Ella was Ella Harriet Hatten below, by then married to Earl Bruce Sutherland and living in Youngstown, Alberta, Canada)
Leonard Norman Hatten, born 1926 in Stroud, Glos., was the son of Hayward Hatten and Maude Mary Barnfield. He joined the Royal Navy at fifteen in 1941 after lying about his age and served on the Russian Convoys during World War II. Leonard was belatedly awarded the Arctic Star by the Russian government in 1988. The first picture is his second marriage to Patricia M Stephens in Stroud on 4 Aug 1962 (he previously married Cynthia N Barnard in Gloucester in 1949), the second shows Len holding his Arctic Star in 1988. Leonard died in Gloucester in May 2001.
Nelson Joseph Hatten
Nelson Joseph Hatten (1876-1951) was the third son. I don't have any photos in which he's identified, but he may be in some of the group photos. Nelson was born in Witnesham and in 1891 was a printer/compositor living in Ipswich. In 1901 he was a commercial clerk living in Stoke Newington, London, and he married Grace Annette Ford in St. Pancras, London, in 1907. In 1911 he was a solicitor's clerk living in Ilford, Essex. Nelson and Grace had a son, Cyril Nelson Hatten, born in 1908, who married Ethel Jones in Liverpool in 1938.
Emily Kate Hatten
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The second sister, Emily Kate Hatten ("Katie"), born 1878, married Edward Alfred Conder "Ted", born Ipswich, Suffolk, 1865, in St. Pancras, London, in early 1904. The couple left from Liverpool for Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on the "SS Afric" on 2 Nov 1904. The photo of "Ted" Conder on the right is definitely identified, and he looks something like the unidentified bridegroom on the left. If this is them, this is the only photo I have of Emily. Ted Conder aged 65 died at St. Kilda station, Melbourne on 16 Sep 1931, after being hit by an electric train. At that time the couple were separated, after their three farms had burned down in bush fires and left them in much reduced circumstances, but Ted died before their divorce was finalised. Emily Kate Conder died in a nursing home in Elwood, Melbourne, Australia, in 1958, aged 80. I have no record of them having any children. Ancestry has records of an Alice Emily Conder and Robert Edward Conder in Victoria, Australia, in the 1930s - I believe these were Ted's relatives. Jayne Shrimpton of "Family Tree Magazine" dates the unidentified wedding photo as between 1905 and 1914, but doesn't think the groom is Ted Conder. |
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Harold Blomfield Hatten
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George Nelson Hatten's fourth son, Lt. Cdr. Harold Blomfield Hatten, MBE (1880-1973) is the longest serving commissioned officer in the Royal Navy (just under 54 years) and his record cannot now be beaten. He served in the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy continuously from 1896 until 1950, joining the HMS Ganges training school in Suffolk at the age of 16, and later serving aboard HMS Lion. Harold transferred to the RAN as a gunnery instructor in 1913, and served on the light cruiser HMAS Melbourne. At the start of World War I, HMAS Melbourne was involved in attempts to locate the German East Asia Squadron, and participated in the capture of German colonies in the Pacific, before being assigned to the North America and West Indies Stations. In 1916, the cruiser joined the Grand Fleet in the North Sea, where she remained for the remainder of the war. |
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 HMS Lion, 1910 (picture from Wikipedia) |
 HMAS Melbourne, 1912 (picture from Wikipedia) |
Harold was in charge of naval reserve training in Western Australia from 1926-35. During World War II he was a staff officer at the Australian Admiralty in Sydney in charge of Defensively-Equipped Merchant Ships. He ended his career as Commander of the Western Australian training establishment HMAS Leeuwin. Harold was the first cousin, once removed, of Rear Admiral Sir William Evelyn Hatten Jolly (1887-1961), see above, who also served in the Navy throughout both World Wars, and whose career was much more elevated, but not as long. The picture below left was taken in Subiaco, Western Australia, March 1972, and is of Harold before taking the salute at the passing out ceremony at HMAS Leeuwin, 21 Mar 1972. He married Violet Hilda Thomsen, born 1891, daughter of Danish immigrant Hans Hubertus Thomsen and Jane Green, in Queensland, Australia, on 21 Apr 1913 and they had a daughter Edna May, born in 1922, who married Colin J Hawkins in Perth, Western Australia, in 1953. For details of Harold's MBE, awarded in 1951, see http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/48144856.
"Western Australian", Perth, 5 Jan 1951
VETERAN OF THE NAVY - Commander Hatten Awarded M.B.E.In recognition of long and meritorious service in the Royal Australian Navy, Lieut.-Commander H. B. Hatten, of Swan Road, Bicton, has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, He was informed yesterday that the award was in the New Year honours list. He received telegrams congratulating him on his award from the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) and the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Francis). Lieut.-Commander Hatten retired in October after 53 years' service in the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy. He said yesterday that the award had been a most pleasant surprise "coming completely out of the blue."
"Western Australian", Perth, 2 Nov 1953
Mrs. Colin Hawkins, who was married at St. Mary's Church, West Perth, on Saturday, was Miss Edna May Hatten, the daughter of Lieut.-Commander and Mrs. H. B. Hatten, of Subiaco. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hawkins, of Fremantle. Heavy white satin brocade was used for the bride's short trained classic gown. Her attendants, Mrs. J. Mathison and Miss Edna Grosvenor, wore little matching caps trimmed with hand-made roses with their ballerina length frocks of pale-gold faille. Mr. J. Mathison was best man and Mr. B. Lawrence the groomsman. After the ceremony the bride's parents held a reception at Tintern Lodge.
Edna May Hawkins died on 27 Nov 2018 aged 96, leaving behind a son and daughter.
Ella Harriet Hatten and Spencer Wilfred Hatten
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 Sutherland Homestead, Youngstown, Alberta, Canada |
 Headstone of Ella Harriet Sutherland née Hatten (1883-1965) and Earl Bruce Sutherland (1872-1953), Youngstown, Alberta, Canada |
 Headstone of George Hatten Sutherland (1914-2002), Youngstown, Alberta, Canada |
Ella Harriet Hatten (1883-1965) was the twin of Spencer Wilfred Hatten, who died aged one. In 1901 She was a photographer's assistant living in Worthing with her mother and elder sister Janet. In 1907 Ella travelled out to Missouri to join her brother George Arthur Hatten, where she also worked as a photographic assistant. Ella subsequently married Earl Bruce Sutherland (1872-1953) in Burt County, Nebraska, in 1912, and moved to Youngstown, Alberta, Canada, where her descendants live today in the Calgary area. Some of the information here comes from her son George Hatten Sutherland (1914-2002), who was a keen Hatten genealogist, using a company called Kintracers to research the family back through Suffolk and Norfolk to the 17th Century. The second photo of Ella above was probably taken in Worthing around 1903, the third photo has a 1909 calendar behind her head, and the month shown is either February or March 1909, so it must have been taken in the USA. There is another photo of Ella with her younger brother Frederick Stanley Hatten below. Her children were George Hatten Sutherland (1914-2002), May Ruth Sutherland (1919-2003) and Jean Ella Sutherland (1927-2022).The three colour photos from Youngstown, Alberta, are from Pat Dziuba, son of Jean Ella Sutherland who married John Dziuba from Poland (1924-2003) in 1950.
Ethel Victoria Hatten
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Ethel Victoria Hatten was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1886. After her father died in 1895 she was sent to the Reedham orphanage in Purley, Surrey, where she was in 1901. In 1911 she was living in Bartholomew Road, Kentish Town, London, with her elder sister Janet Mary Hatten (born 1872). She first married Harold Crofts, son of John Crofts, in Margate, Kent, on 23 Nov 1912 (the 1911 postcard below shows she was living in Margate at the time). Sadly, Private Harold Crofts of the Leicestershire Regiment was killed on the Somme in France on 15 Jul 1916. I haven't found a record of any children from this marriage. |
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Gary DeBeaubien's photos above show that Ethel Hatten later married Roland Walter ("Roly") Cryer (born Islington, London, 1883), son of Harry Percival Cryer, in Cardiff, South Wales, in 1927, although the marriage record on FreeBMD is for Ethel N Hatten. However, the 1927 FreeBMD index has been mistranscribed - the original index and the marriage certificate both prove it was indeed Ethel Victoria Hatten, daughter of George Hatten (deceased), farmer, who married Roland Walter Cryer at the Parish Church in Penarth, Cardiff, on 28 Nov 1927. She misleadingly described herself as a spinster instead of a widow and was married under her maiden name. A daughter Hazel J Cryer was born in Cardiff in 1929, but sadly died in infancy. Ethel and Roly Cryer also looked after a boy called Peter, who may have been the son of Janet Mary Hatten and her husband Jesse Clarke. Roland Walter Cryer died in Hove, East Sussex, in 1951 aged 68. Ethel Victoria Cryer died in Cheltenham, Glos., in 1967, aged 80.
Frederick Stanley Hatten
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George and Harriet's youngest son, Frederick Stanley Hatten (known as "Stan") was born in Ipswich in 1888. He was also sent to the Reedham orphanage in Purley, Surrey, where he lived for 7½ years, leaving at the age of 15 in 1903. Between 1908 and 1909 he worked as a clerk in a solicitor's office in Paddington, London. Shown here are references from the Reedham Orphanage and the solicitor's office. Stan emigrated to Canada in 1910, first working for the Canadian Pacific railway in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His story after that is told below. |
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The Story Of Frederick Stanley "Stan" Hatten
Frederick Stanley Hatten and Florence Gabrielle Wilton
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Stan also spent time in the USA including in Martinsville, Missouri (home of his elder brother George Arthur Hatten and family), where he met met Florence Gabrielle Wilton, daughter of John Wilton and Mary Emeline Stewart, who was born in Augusta, Arkansas, USA, in 1893, and subsequently lived in Nebraska. Stan and Florence married in Seattle, USA, in 1913, and set up home in Vancouver, BC, Canada. They had two daughters, Thora Mary (1914) and Fredericka Christina (1916), and were the grandparents of celebrated prima ballerina Eva Evdokimova, Thora's daughter (see below). Stan served in the 7th Seaforth Highlanders of Canada (72nd Infantry Battalion, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces), the Vancouver-based kilted regiment, from 1915-19. He is listed in one of the Appendices in the book “History of the 72nd Canadian Infantry Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada” by Bernard McEvoy (Cowan & Brookhouse, Vancouver, 1920) - thanks to Gary DeBeaubien for the copy. |
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Attestation papers for Frederick Stanley Hatten joining the Canadian Army, 11 Sep 1915 |
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Florence's later life
 Thora Hatten (1914-91) in Portland Oregon USA, 1918 |
Unfortunately the marriage did not survive Stan's absence in Europe. Florence subsequently married George DeBeaubien and had two sons, Stewart James and George Antoine DeBeaubien ("Antoine"). She died in California in 1956. Gary DeBeaubien who supplied many of these pictures is the son of Antoine DeBeaubien. Stan remained in the Canadian Army for some years after the end of World War 1. |
 Thora and Fredericka Hatten in Portland Oregon USA, 1918 |
 Fredericka (1916-2007) and Thora Hatten with their mother Florence, Long Beach California USA, 1924 |
 Thora Hatten in Oakland California USA, 1925 |
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 Fredericka Hatten in Oakland California USA, 1925 |
 Fredericka and Thora Hatten with their mother Florence and half-brother George Antoine DeBeaubien "Antoine" (1926-2000), Oakland California USA, 1931 |
 Thora and Fredericka Hatten in Oakland California USA, 1931 |
 Antoine and Stewart DeBeaubien, Oakland California USA, 1930s |
 Florence DeBeaubien née Wilton formerly Hatten with son Antoine DeBeaubien, Oakland California USA, 1930s |
 Florence DeBeaubien née Wilton, formerly Hatten, Oakland California USA, 1930s |
 Thora Hatten, Oakland California USA, 1930s |
 Thora Hatten, Oakland California USA, 1930s |
 Thora Hatten, Oakland California USA, 1930s |
 Thora Hatten with Antoine DeBeaubien, Oakland California USA, 1930s |
 Thora Hatten, California USA, 1940s |
 Florence DeBeaubien née Wilton formerly Hatten with son Antoine DeBeaubien, in Manhattan Beach California USA, 1943 |
 Antoine DeBeaubien, in the US Navy, 1940s - he subsequently became a pilot for American Airlines. |
 Stewart James DeBeaubien (1919-2000) in Hawaii in 1941 - he was there when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor |
 Thora Hatten with her son Boris, Manhattan Beach California, USA, 1943 |
 Antoine DeBeaubien with Fredericka's son Gene Borges, Manhattan Beach California USA, 1951 |
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Frederick Stanley Hatten and Lily Maud Drury
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Stan moved to Calgary in Alberta and worked as an advertising copywriter for the "Calgary Herald" for 30 years, retiring in 1957. He married widow Lily Maud Richards née Drury in 1930 and died in Vancouver in 1971, so he saw his granddaughter become a famous dancer. Lily Maud Hatten died in New Westminster, BC, Canada, in 1974. |
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 Frederick Stanley Hatten and daughter Fredericka Hatten Borges |
 Frederick Stanley Hatten |
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Letter from "Calgary Herald" to John Dziuba (grandson of Ella Harriet Hatten) about Frederick Stanley Hatten's employment record, 28 May 1986 |
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 Lily Maud and Frederick Stanley Hatten on ferry from Vancouver to Victoria, BC, Canada |
Lily Maud Drury was born in 1896 in Greenwich, Kent, and married John Griffith Herbert Gordon Richards ("Griffith", born 20 Nov 1898, Brightside, Sheffield, Yorkshire), in Greenwich in Jun 1918. Griffith had emigrated to Canada before WW1, but returned to Europe whilst in the Canadian Army. They subsequently moved to Alberta, Canada, where Griffith Richards became a colliery manager and was killed in the Midland Mine Disaster, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, 2 Aug 1924, at the age of only 26. Lily had four sons in Canada: Lloyd Griffith Richards, Dr. Albert Gerald Ceredig Richards ("Jerry"), James (adopted by the Yousph family), and Gordon Daryl Hatten ("Daryl"), born 11 Aug 1928. Daryl was adopted by Stan upon his marriage to Lily in 1930 and given Hatten as his family name. Lloyd and Jerry retained Richards as their family names. Contributor John Stewart Richards is the son of Lily's son Jerry Richards, born in Alberta, 17 Dec 1921, who died in Victoria, BC, Canada, on 13 Oct 2013. Gordon Daryl Hatten died on Sunday 2 Jun 2013 at his home in New Westminster, BC, Canada, at 83. |
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Fredericka de Beaubien (Hatten)
 Fredericka Hatten, Oakland California USA, 1930s |
Both Thora and Fredericka considered careers in Hollywood and Fredericka was a model and a professional dancer before marrying Brazilian Milton Veloso Borges in 1941. While working as a dancer aboard a cruise ship in South America in Dec 1939 she witnessed the Battle of the River Plate off Montevideo, Uruguay, when several British ships defeated the German pocket battleship "Admiral Graf Spee". Her son Virginio Veloso "Gene" Borges was born in Mill Valley, California, in 1944. Fredericka was an enthusiastic genealogist who kept in touch with her father all his life and also made regular visits to her cousins in Alberta, Canada, and in England. I have many letters of hers sent to my second cousin Sheila Waterfield in Bromley, Kent. Fredericka died in the USA in 2007 at the age of 91. |
 Fredericka Hatten, Oakland California USA, 1931 (from Nu Art Studio) |
 Fredericka Hatten, Oakland California USA, 1931 (from Nu Art Studio) |
 Fredericka Hatten, Los Angeles California USA, 1935 |
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 Magazine article featuring Fredericka Hatten, Los Angeles California USA, 1935 |
 Magazine article featuring Fredericka Hatten, Los Angeles California USA, 1935 |
 Fredericka Hatten, New York City USA, late 1930s ("Bruno Hollywood NYC" - "Sol Tepper, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC" on back) |
 Fredericka Hatten, New York City USA, late 1930s ("Bruno Hollywood NYC") |
 Fredericka Hatten, New York City USA, late 1930s ("Bruno Hollywood NYC") |
 Fredericka Hatten, New York City USA, late 1930s ("Bruno Hollywood NYC") |
 Fredericka Hatten, California USA, late 1930s |
 Fredericka Hatten, California USA, late 1930s |
 Fredericka Hatten, San Francisco California USA, late 1930s/early 1940s ("Romaine Studio") |
 Fredericka Hatten, San Francisco California USA, late 1930s/early 1940s ("Romaine Studio") |
 Fredericka Hatten, San Francisco California USA, late 1930s/early 1940s ("Romaine Studio") |
 Thora Hatten, California USA, late 1930s/early 1940s |
 "Friends" magazine article featuring Fredericka Hatten on the "SS America", USA, 1940 |
 "Friends" magazine article featuring Fredericka Hatten on the "SS America", USA, 1940 |
 Fredericka Hatten with her first husband, Brazilian Milton Veloso Borges, 1940s. She had a son Virginio Veloso "Gene" Borges in 1944. Fredericka later married Lynn Jerome Hewitt (1919-96). Milton died in Brazil in Feb 1984 |
 Fredericka Hatten Borges with her son Gene, California USA, 1944 |
 Fredericka Hatten Borges with her son Gene (born 1944) and Thora's son Boris (born 1941), Switzerland, 1947 |
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The two colour(ised) photos of Fredericka from 1931 were taken at Nu Art Studio, Oakland, CA. The first magazine article featuring Fredericka is from 1935 because her age is given as 19.
The beautiful photos (one of Thora, the rest of Fredericka) taken in the late 1930s/early 1940s are studio publicity shots. Four photos are from "Bruno, Hollywood, NYC". Bruno Bernhard (1912-87), also known as "Bernard of Hollywood", was the most famous American celebrity photographer of his day who photographed actors and actresses such as Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Gregory Peck, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Elvis Presley and Lucille Ball! One of the photos of Fredericka has the name and address of Sol Tepper on the back - he was a New York theatrical agent and presumably the intended recipient of that copy. Bruno/Bernard moved back to his native BerIin in the 1960s, but in 1999, his photo "Marilyn in White", of Marilyn Monroe in her wind-blown dress from the movie "The Seven Year Itch" (1955), was selected as the "Symbol of the Century" by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Three photos are from Romaine Studio, San Francisco, CA, taken by Karl and Emilie Romaine. Karl Romaine (1906-2004) married Emilie Ganiard (1908-72) in 1929. Originally vaudeville artistes, they became acclaimed photographers who produced hundreds of portrait and publicity photographs for ballet dancers, actors, and other performers from the mid-1930s. The business lasted into the 1980s, continuing for a while after Emilie's death in 1972.
The second magazine article featuring Fredericka is from 1940 and is about the maiden voyage of the "SS America", on which she was an entertainer.
Eva Maria Evdokimova
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Eva Maria Evdokimova (1948-2009) was the daughter of Thora Hatten and Evdokim Ivanov Evdokimov (1919-2008), a refugee Bulgarian journalist from the Danube town of Vidin on the Bulgarian-Romanian border. Eva's parents married in Geneva around 1947 where Thora (by now an American citizen) was working for the UN, and where Eva was born in 1948, and later moved to Munich, Germany. Eva studied dance at the Royal Ballet School in London before joining the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. She later joined the Ballet of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, where she was quickly promoted to Prima Ballerina Assoluta, after which she joined the Kirov Ballet in Russia as a soloist. She became the first "American" (because of her mother's US citizenship) dancer to win the Gold Medal at the International Varna Competition in Bulgaria. In the 1980s she was the world's highest earning female ballet dancer. Eva married musician/composer Michael S. Gregori in 1982 but sadly died in New York in 2009 aged 60. There are many web-sites with pictures of her, for example see http://www.ballerinagallery.com/evdokimova.htm, which has a short biography. Eva is the subject of "Portrait of an Artist: Eva Evdokimova" by Dr. Annemarie Kleinert (Dance Books, 1982). Many thanks to Annemarie for the personal photos. Thora moved to Oxford in 1975 and died there in 1991 aged 77 (her death certificate misleadingly gives her maiden name as "de Beaubien"). |
 "Portrait of an Artist: Eva Evdokimova" by Annemarie Kleinert (Dance Books, 1982) |
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 Thora Hatten, probably Switzerland, 1940s |
 Thora Hatten, probably Switzerland, 1940s |
 Thora Hatten, probably Switzerland, 1940s |
 Thora Hatten, probably Switzerland, 1940s |
 Thora with Eva Evdokimova aged two weeks, Geneva, Switzerland, Dec 1948 |
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 Thora with Eva Evdokimova aged 3½ weeks, Geneva, Switzerland, Christmas 1948 |
 Eva Evdokimova and her brother Boris, Geneva, Switzerland, Jun 1949 |
 Eva Evdokimova, Geneva, Switzerland, Jul 1949 |
 Eva with her father Evdokim Evdokimov and her brother Boris, Parque Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland, 1950 |
 Eva Evdokimova with her parents Evdokim Evdokimov and Thora Hatten, Munich, Germany, 1951 (from Annemarie Kleinert's book) |
 Eva Evdokimova and her brother Boris on holiday, Manhattan Beach, CA, USA, Jan 1956 |
 Eva Evdokimova and her brother Boris, Switzerland, Easter 1952 |
 Eva Evdokimova, Munich, Germany, 1952 |
 Eva Evdokimova, Munich, Germany, 1952 (this picture is also in Annemarie Kleinert's book) |
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 Thora with her son Boris, Munich, Germany, 1953 |
 Eva Evdokimova, Munich, Germany, 1955 |
 Eva Evdokimova (1948-2009) - prima ballerina of the Ballet of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, and who also partnered Rudolf Nureyev for 15 years © findagrave.com |
 Eva Evdokimova (1948-2009), daughter of Thora Hatten - prima ballerina of the Ballet of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin © danzahoy.com |
 Eva Evdokimova with her mother Thora Hatten, Berlin, Germany, Christmas 1971 |
 Berlin Opera House, Germany, Nov 1977 |
 Berlin Opera House, Germany, Nov 1977, with Annemarie Kleinert on right |
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 Berlin Opera House, Germany, Nov 1977 |
 Schlachtensee, Berlin, Germany, Summer 1978, with Annemarie Kleinert on left |
 Schlachtensee, Berlin, Germany, Summer 1978, with Annemarie and Hagen Kleinert |
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 Schlachtensee, Berlin, Germany, Summer 1978, with Annemarie and Hagen Kleinert |
 Schlachtensee, Berlin, Germany, Summer 1978, with Hagen Kleinert |
 Berlin Opera House, Germany, Sep 1978, with Annemarie Kleinert on left |
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 Schlachtunsee, Berlin, Germany, Summer 1978, with Annemarie Kleinert on left |
 Schlachtunsee, Berlin, Germany, Summer 1978, with Hagen Kleinert |
 Berlin Opera House, Germany, Sep 1978, with Annemarie Kleinert on right |
 Berlin Zoo, Germany, Nov 1978, with Annemarie Kleinert on left |
 Berlin Zoo, Germany, Nov 1978, Annemarie and Hagen Kleinert |
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 Berlin Zoo, Germany, Nov 1978 |
 Berlin Opera House, Germany, Nov 1978, with Annemarie Kleinert on left |
 Berlin Opera House, Germany, Nov 1978, with David Coleman (conductor) on left and Rudolf Nureyev on right |
 Berlin Opera House, Germany, Nov 1978, with Rudolf Nureyev |
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 Berlin Opera House, Germany, Nov 1978, with Rudolf Nureyev |
 Berlin Opera House, Germany, Nov 1978, with Rudolf Nureyev |
 Grunewaldsee, Berlin, Germany, Winter 1978 |
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 Grunewaldsee, Berlin, Germany, Winter 1978, with Annemarie and Hagen Kleinert |
 Berlin, Germany, Winter 1978, with Annemarie and Hagen Kleinert |
 Berlin, Germany, Winter 1978, with Annemarie and Hagen Kleinert |
 Eva with Michael Gregori in 1982 |
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The story of Eva and her family was the subject of an article by me in "Family Tree Magazine", Jan 2011. Thanks also to Eva's nieces Nicole Santini and Denise Santini Meinardus for information and photos.
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