The Hatten Family Album

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.

Robert Charles Hatten (1834-71) was the eldest brother of George Nelson Hatten here. Like them he was a farmer and lived at Thelnetham, Suffolk. Thelnetham was the home village of Edmund Gonville who in 1348 founded Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, the same college where Charles William Hatten here was a scholar over the period 1857-65. Robert Charles married Mary Nunn Bishop in Wattisham in 1860. Although he died at the young age of 36, they had seven children between 1861 and 1870! They were: Mary Bishop Hatten (1861-1927, never married); Anna Sibley Hatten (1863-1943, married Charles Febery, the photographer of all the 1904 photos included here, no children); Robert Samuel Hatten (1864-1954, married Mary Theresa C Tustain, three children); Helen Elizabeth Hatten (1866-1938, never married); William Joseph Hatten (1867-1944, married Sarah Emma Sophia Guy, two sons); Charles Henry Hatten (1868-92, never married); Lucy Harriet Hatten (1870-1942, never married). These photo albums come from Christopher John Hatten, son of John David Hatten and Emily Jean Motyer.

Charles Febery (1866-1938) was an early amateur photographer who was an officer in the Metropolitan Police. He was an Inspector in 1911, but a Sergeant when he took these photos in 1904.

Comments by John David Hatten (1916-1999), son of Robert Samuel Hatten and Mary Theresa Tustain, written in 1992.

The photos on the bottom row are not part of Charles Febery's 1904 album, although the photo of his wife Anna may have been taken by him. One copy of the interesting photo from Wattisfield Congregational Chapel has two names on the back: "Jane Griffin" and "Ethyl", which are a mystery. (Wattisfield is north of Stowmarket, near Walsham-le-Willows and Hepworth, Wattisham is south west of Stowmarket, near Great Finborough and Ringshall.) Harriet Griffin Blomfield's mother was Jane Griffin, but she died in 1907, so this must be another Jane Griffin. Ethyl must have been another relative. Ethyl was a surprisingly common version of "Ethel" at the time, but I can't yet find a suitable matching Ethyl online, although I have another photo of her. Another copy of the Wattisfield Congregational Chapel photo has handwritten names on the back by Bill Hatten - Charles William Guy Hatten (1909-93), son of William Joseph Hatten and Sarah Emma Sophia Guy, see more about him below - along with a later typed transcription. The very old lady in the front is Mary Nunn Bishop Hatten (who died in 1928), and also in the photo is Mary Bishop Hatten, who died in 1927. The photo must date from around 1926, as both were then still alive. Others pictured are Helen Hatten, Lucy Hatten and Sarah Hatten née Guy (Bill Hatten's mother).

The lad in the too-big hat rejoiced in the name of Westall William Mortlock (1916-89), and was one of a line of Westall Mortlocks, preceded by Westall John in 1848 and Westall Ray in 1880. Believe it or not, there was also a Westall Mary Mortlock, born in 1879! The parents of Westall John Mortlock born in 1848 were Philip Mortlock and Hester Horman Ray, so I don't know where "Westall" came from. Westall William Mortlock (known as "Sonny") married Dorothy Hazel Langley in Bury St. Edmunds in 1940 and died in Essex in 1989. He carried on the family tradition by having a son Westall John Mortlock in 1941, who married Mary Claire Slack in 1969 but sadly Westall John broke the chain by naming his first son Johnathan Westall Mortlock! Also in the photo is Westall William's mother Elizabeth Mortlock, née Brothers, who married Westall Ray Mortlock in 1914. She's described as "Aunt" but I don't know her exact relationship to the Hattens.

Marion Lucy Hatten (1913-81), pictured in 1934	Marion Lucy Hatten (1913-1981) was the daughter of Robert Samuel Hatten and Mary Theresa Tustain, photo dated 1934 The photos in the album cover the period 1913-43. Notes by Christopher J. Hatten written in May 2007.		This photo of a World War 1 nurse has been identified as Marion Lucy Hatten (1913-81) who was indeed a nurse, but it definitely isn't her (see photo on left) as she was too young. It may be her aunt Lucy Harriet Hatten (1870-1942)
Marion Lucy Hatten (1934), Robert Hepworth Hatten (1936)	L: Mary Hatten outside Barningham home; TM: John David Hatten, probably mid-1920s; MM: Mary & son Robert, probably mid-1920s; ML: Robert, probably mid-1920s; R: Marion L. & ??	Page missing from scans: L: Robert, Mary & John, probably mid/late-1920s; TR: Robert, in back garden, Barningham, probably mid-1920s; BR: Mary with friends	L: Robert; MT: ??; MM: John; ML: Robert; (all mid-late 1920s); R: ??
TL: John, Mary, Robert, and TR: Marion, Robert, Mary, both photos outside Barningham home, probably late 1920s; BL: John on bicycle (?mid-1930s?); MM: Robert with pet rabbits; LM: ??; BR: ?John in scout uniform.	TM: Mary & Robert; TR: Marion; other photos:??.	John at Chepstow (Royal Engineers cadet training), early 1930s. T: extreme left, standing, bottom row.	L: Group from Chepstow, dated 1932: ‘Individuals, left to right: Rear: Miller-Burns-Avis-Male. Front-Lamrock-Taylor-myself-Duffield-Parsons.’ (Note: Bill Male - our family kept in contact with and visited, especially over the period 1960-63.) TR: Mary; BR: ? nursing friend of Marion’s?
4 photos of John, undated, July 1936, August 1936, Bermuda Christmas 1936. Robert at seaside, ?late 1920s?	Two pictures of Marion on a bicycle, undated	L: Mary; R: John.	Ipswich Hospital? Mid-1930s: Marion second from left, with mayor and other VIPs
Ipswich Hospital? Mid-1930s: Marion 5th from left, with Christmas decorations/children’s ward?	TL: ??, Mary, Robert, Emily Jean Motyer, Marion. TR: Emily Jean Motyer. BL: John, in army uniform. BR: ??, Robert, Emily Jean, John, Marion. Photos taken sometime over period summer 1938-summer 1940 outside home in Barningham.	TL: Robert, Marion, John (as Staff Sergeant). TM: Robert, on bicycle; BL: John, Mary, Robert, Marion. BM: Mary, Robert, Emily Jean, Marion, John. BL: Robert, Mary, John, Marion. Photos taken sometime over period summer 1938-summer 1940 outside home in Barningham. TR: ??	Page 27: L: Robert, in army clothes, in Cairo, Egypt, October 1941 . Photo printed as post card and stamped ‘The Reader’s Corner, Book shop, Photo-Supplies: 33 Malika Farida Street’; R: Robert (far left) in Quassasin, North Africa, dated October 1941
North Common, Hepworth, probably early 1940s. TL: House seen from the front, from the meadow in the SW corner of the property. BL: House from the flower garden in the rear. BR: House seen from the SE, from the adjacent cultivated field. Note the well close to the opened back door. TR: Trees around small pond (this may be the pond in the southern part of the property or may be elsewhere - the pond in the 1950s and 60s had fewer trees around it.)	Uncle Robert’s photos of Fort William area, Scotland, late 1943, shortly before he became very ill. (Robert Hepworth Hatten died in 1944 of tuberculosis after serving in North Africa with the 8th Army.)	John, mid-1930s	TL: John and Emily Jean Motyer, in Bermuda, 1938; TM: ‘John’s Dad, Sept, 1946’. TR: John, ?? in Bermuda, late 1930s; BL: ‘John-June 1941 with Abbott who was born in Bermuda’. (This must have been taken in Cyprus); BR: Robert, John, and Marion, all on bicycles, Barningham ? early 1930s
L: John as Lance Corporal, in army uniform and with rifle, June 1936; R: Mary, at Barningham	L: ‘Marion Lucy Hatten, 11 weeks & 4 days old, taken Nov 22, 1913’; TR: ‘Sept 1934’. Mantelpiece with clock, inherited by Marion. (Who are the people in the photos over mantelpiece?) BR: at Hepworth crossroads, looking towards Market Weston (Barningham left, Hepworth right, North Common behind). Hepworth Hall in background, to right	BL: John, mid-late1930s; BM: tractor and binder, late 1930s?; BR: View of front of thatched cottage, North Common, from meadow in NW part of property. Other photos: ?? The Hatten girl must have been born in the 1920s.	L: ‘Hattens: Uncle Bill, Aunt Marion, Great Grandma, Uncle Robert’ . (Photo probably taken mid-late 1914.); R: ‘Walsham-le-Willows, Hatten cousins. Taken 1930 by S.Mills’

The thatched house in North Common, Hepworth, was inherited by Marion, owned at the time by Aunt Lucy(?), together with about 10 acres of land including meadow with pond in front and cultivated land at rear. At the time the house had a contiguous barn, seen at left of TL photo (second right on bottom row), behind the haystack. The barn was demolished (?) in the late 1940s. The house at this time had 2 separate entrances (one later boarded up) and comprised 2 small cottages. The house was named ‘Birchside’ by Marion but was sold around 1977, prior to her move to Bury St Edmunds. The estate agent selling the house apparently considered it to be some 400 years old. However, not long after Marion sold the house, it was destroyed by fire caused by lightning. New owners have subsequently built on land just to the south of the old house.

Charles William Guy Hatten (1909-93), known as Bill, was the elder son of William Joseph Hatten (1867-1944), who married Sarah Emma Sophia Guy (1867-1942). He lived at Market Weston in Suffolk, and was the Chairman of the Parish Council. He married Winifred Mary Morley (1908-99) in 1935 and they had children Ruth Mary Hatten (1936-2002), Guy William Hatten (born 1936) and Winifred Frances Hatten (born 1944). The two colour photos were taken by Sheila Waterfield at Market Weston in 1982. The black-and-white photo was taken outside the Parish Church in Hopton, near Market Weston, around 1980 (© Bury Free Press), and shows from left to right the minister of the United Reform Church, Bill Hatten, Winifred Hatten, and the Church of England minister. The centre photo shows Winifred Frances Hatten, Guy William Hatten and Ruth Mary Hatten (standing) and Bill Hatten and Winifred Mary Hatten née Morley (seated).

If you have any more information or pictures to share please contact me: alanfraser87@gmail.com. You will be credited for every picture included.

Ivy Nook, Hepworth, Suffolk, farmhouse home of John’s Grandmother Hatten now occupied by Stephen Hatten, great, great grandson	Aunt Mary, Uncle William, Aunt Lucy, Aunt Helen; seated-Aunt Anna, Grandmother Hatten, Father Robert. (Before William & Robert were married - Grandfather Hatten had died some years previously)	Relationships to John: Standing-Aunt Helen, ? , ? , Grandmother Hatten, Aunt Lucy, Aunt Mary, Aunt Anna (seated)	Standing - Aunt Mary, Aunt Helen; in trap Aunt Lucy, Grandmother Hatten
Father, Robert Samuel Hatten, approaching Ivy Nook	One of father’s horses	Close-up of Ivy Nook. The glass-fronted entrance is at the rear of the left-wing of the house. The bricked far right-wing has now (1992) been a rented-out house for some 40 years. Two of my Aunts at the corner	The road (Beck Street) from Ivy Nook to Martin’s nest (approximately ¾ mile) where Aunt Mary lived in the other farmhouse
Uncle Charles Febery (the photographer of all the pictures but this) and Aunt Anna (Hatten) Febery	The horseman outside his cottage - the house on the left in Photo 8 above (he was the man employed by Robert Samuel Hatten to look after his horses)	Martin’s Nest, Thelnetham (next village to Hepworth). Aunt Mary with lawnmower	Aunt Mary at back door of Martin’s Nest
This charming lady is the mysterious Ethyl, named on the back of one copy of the Wattisfield Congregational Chapel photo	Anna Sibley Febery née Hatten and her bicycle at Worthing Pier (location found by James Gregg)	Group outside Wattisfield Congregational Chapel, Suffolk, ca. 1926	Note with one copy of the Wattisfield Congregational Chapel photo (transcription of Bill Hatten's handwriting)