The Fraser Family Album

My paternal grandmother, Mary Fraser (daughter of James Sargeant and Jane Halewood) on her 70th birthday (17 Mar 1934), Waterloo, Liverpool

This page shows pictures of the Sargeant and Halewood Families.

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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.

Revised: 24 September, 2024

Mary Sargeant's mother Jane Halewood (1835-1922) was born in Bidston near Birkenhead on the Wirral in 1835. She was the daughter of Thomas Halewood (1811-70) and Mary Davies (1814-75), and came from a huge family. Mary's father, James Sargeant, was born in Sefton, Liverpool, in 1838. When he married Jane in 1859 he gave his father's name as George Sargeant, occupation blacksmith. However, his 1838 baptism record lists him as the son of "Martha Serjeant, single woman", so George was just a made-up name. Martha "Serjeant" was unmarried when James Sargeant was born in 1838, but a Martha "Sergent" married John Melling in St. Nicholas Church, Liverpool on 6 Nov 1842, with her father listed as James "Sergent" on the marriage certificate. The only birth record for the right time frame is Martha Serjeant, baptised Sefton, 17 Apr 1796, parents James Serjeant and Ann, so that would seem to have been her. This would have made her 42 at the time of James' birth, confirmed by her age 45-49 on the 1841 Census below.

Frances Elizabeth Sargeant (1882-1974) "Auntie Daisy", sister of Mary Sargeant, she was my great-aunt

Martha Lunt née Sargeant (1861-1935) - another of my great-aunts, see US Lunt photos below

Martha's husband John William Lunt (1861-1937), see US Lunt photos below

Martha Sargeant Lunt and John William Lunt in Chicago, IL, USA

Lindsey Fraser Baldwin, daughter of my first cousin Kenneth Fraser (1922-99), has had her DNA tested and has finally discovered the true identity of the father of James Sargeant! Lindsey has matched with twelve members of the Meadows family, all descendants of a man called John Meadows through his children Margaret, William, Thomas, Joseph and Elizabeth.

John Meadows was christened in Sefton, 13 Sep 1801, parents George and Margaret Meadows. As well as his liaison with Martha Sargeant, John Meadows married three times:

(1) Elizabeth Moss (1823) – Lindsey has found DNA matches with descendants of their daughter Margaret Meadows;

(2) Jane Bond (1835) – Lindsey has found DNA matches with descendants of their son William Meadows. John was married to this Jane at the time James Sargeant was born;

(3) Jane Rimmer formerly Forshaw (1849) – Lindsey has found DNA matches with descendants of their sons Thomas and Joseph Meadows as well as their daughter Elizabeth Meadows.

This means John Meadows was almost certainly James' father. Judith Dolanski has also tested her DNA with Ancestry, and come up with the same Meadows matches as Lindsey, which she can now explain. In addition Martha and Mary’s brother William Sargeant married Alice Meadows in 1896. Alice was the daughter of William Meadows and Bridget Ashcroft, and therefore the granddaughter of John Meadows. As we now know that William Sargeant was the grandson of John Meadows, this means that he and Alice were half-first cousins!

This opens up a completely new area of research!

Thanks to Sandra Baguley, Denise Beart, Valerie Blanchard, Joan Coulson, Judith Dolanski, Linda Doyle, Nancy Gamble, Nigel Hailwood, Gillian Jones, Sandra Lewis,  Lesley Marten, Barbara Samples and Lindsey Fraser Baldwin for information and photographs.

Sargeant and Halewood Photos

Frances Elizabeth Sargeant (1882-1974) "Auntie Daisy", sister of Mary Sargeant (the spitting image of our daughter Nicola!)	My grandmother Mary's brother James Sargeant (born 1866) married Mary Ellen Baguley (born 1869) in 1892, and in 1901 they were living with my Fraser family in Kirkdale, Liverpool, with their daughter Ada (1896-1970). Sandra Baguley says Mary Ellen was known as "Cissie" and they later owned a fish and chip shop in Crosby. Sadly, I have no pictures of James Sargeant or Jane Halewood. Ada Sargeant married Thomas Meredith Dinwoodie (1896-1940). Thomas Dinwoodie was a Sergeant in the Royal Engineers, killed in action at Ostend, Belgium, 29 May 1940. Other Birkenhead families shown here are Mountfield (John James Mountfield married Mary Jane Halewood) and Tunna (Charles Tunna married Emily Weston, second daughter of William Mantell Weston and Elizabeth Halewood). Mary Jane Halewood (1860-1920) was the daughter of Richard Halewood and Mary Ann Perry. Thomas Halewood (1869-1915) was her younger brother. Their father Richard Halewood was a first cousin of my great-great grandfather Thomas Halewood. Elizabeth Halewood (1848-1909) was a second cousin of my great-grandmother Jane Halewood. Photo dating expert Jayne Shrimpton thinks the Baguley family group below left actually dates from the early 1900s and indeed the clothes are similar to those in the 1904 Fraser family group, see here. This means that the family would not be Samuel Baguley and Sarah, but possibly that of one of Mary Ellen's brothers or sisters (the woman does not look like Harriet). Jayne is the author of several books including "Family Photographs and How to Date Them" published by Countryside Books, 2008, and her web-site is here: http://www.jayneshrimpton.co.uk/.
Samuel Baguley (1842-92) and Sarah Usherwood (1843-99) with their family supposedly about 1872 - if so, Mary Ellen (born 1869) who married James Sargeant could be at bottom left	Harriet Baguley (1876-1928) - great-grandmother of Lesley Marten	Ada Dinwoodie née Sargeant (1896-1970) and Florence Baguley (born 1881) in 1956	Thomas Halewood (1869-1915)	Birkenhead CID, 28 Mar 1911 including Det Sgt John James Mountfield at bottom left On the back of the photo it says: Photo taken by J. Long, Bridewell Keeper 28/03/1911 Top Row: D.O. Bowden, D.O.W. Hughes, D.O. Lees, D.O. Pearson Bottom Row: Det Sergt Mountfield, Det Inspr Eakins, D.O. Iball.
Hannah Dawson (1874-1962), wife of Thomas Halewood	Mary Elizabeth Mountfield (sister of John James Sr.), early 1900s	John James Mountfield (1861-1939) and Mary Jane Halewood (1860-1920) with family	Mary Jane Halewood (1860-1920) wife of John James Mountfield	John James Mountfield with daughter Hilda May, 1896	Henry Mountfield (1882-1913)
Henry Mountfield's wife Alice Barnes with son Charles Henry Mountfield (1909-84)	Charles Henry Mountfield (1909-84)	John James Mountfield Jr. (1884-1908)	James Mountfield (1889-1958) in 1910	James Mountfield (1889-1958) with fiancée Mary Ann Daniels (1893-1983), 1914	Eric and Eileen Mountfield, children of James Mountfield, 29 Oct 1917 (Eileen was the mother of Linda Doyle)
James Mountfield (1889-1958)	Harold Mountfield (1891-1919)	Possibly Hilda May Mountfield (1895-1916) in WW1	Sylvia Mountfield (1904-94) in 1913	Sylvia Mountfield's wedding to Patrick David Matthews, Birkenhead, 17 Sep 1929	Samuel Tunna and Family, early 1890s
Elizabeth Halewood (1848-1909)	Peter Ledsom (1879-1927) and his second wife Jesse Ireland (1882-1910) in 1906	John Woodcock Ledsham (1886-1969)	Gertrude Argyle, Reading, Berkshire, 1912, she married John Woodcock Ledsham in 1913	Hough family, Royal Engineers Army Camp, Cheshire, 1915	Hough family, Brown Cow Vaults, Bromborough Road, Lower Bebington, Wirral, Cheshire, about 1890 (Aaron died in 1891)
William Mantell Weston (1852-1932), seated right, second husband of Elisabeth Halewood, with grandson William John McCann (1893-1944) and great granddaughter Kathleen Edna McCann (1916-2006), taken around 1926	Elizabeth Halewood of Birkenhead married James Redmond Hansen (1847-1870) in 1868 and William Mantell Weston (1852-1932) in 1872. Her eldest daughter Catherine Weston (1875-1912) married Northern Irishman Thomas Patrick Augustus McCann (1871-1941) in 1893, and was the mother of William John McCann (1893-1944), shown here around 1926 with his daughter Kathleen Edna McCann (1916-2006), mother of contributor Barbara Samples. Elizabeth's second daughter Emily Weston married Charles Tunna in 1900, and Samuel Tunna shown above was a relative of his. Alice Halewood (1839-1900), a younger sister of Jane Halewood, married Aaron Hough (1836-91) and together they ran the Brown Cow Vaults pub in Lower Bebington, Wirral. Their son William Aaron Hough (1862-1946) married his first cousin Ellen Halewood (1863-1922), daughter of Jane Halewood's brother William and Martha Sherlock. William, Ellen, their son Frederick Hough (1890-1945) and his son Ernest Frederick (born 1913) are shown at a Royal Engineers Army Camp in Cheshire in 1915.

John Halewood Woodcock (1832-83) was the son of William Halewood and Ann Woodcock, born before his parents married. John married his second cousin Mary Halewood (1833-72), daughter of Thomas Halewood and Mary Davies and the elder sister of my great-grandmother Jane Halewood. One of their children was Sarah Woodcock (1860-96) who married Edward Ledsham or Ledsom. Shown above are pictures of two of their children - Peter Ledsom (1879-1927) and John Woodcock Ledsham (1886-1969). Peter Ledsom first married Alice Wright, who died in childbirth in 1905, and then he married Jesse Ireland (born 1992), who died in 1910 giving birth to twins. Peter himself died in 1927, from complications after an operation. John Woodcock Ledsham married Gertrude Argyle (1893-1992) in Reading, Berkshire, in 1913, and emigrated to Canada with his wife's family the same year.

For "Just Where You Stand", the story of John Woodcock "Jack" Ledsham by his granddaughter Sandra Lewis, see http://sandramariestories.wordpress.com/.

Emily Halewood, daughter of Samuel Halewood and Mary Edwards (1888-1965) Married Edward Doyle and John Botwright	Thanks to Nigel Hailwood for information about his great-grandmother Emily Halewood (1888-1965), daughter of Samuel Halewood and Mary Edwards. She married Edward Doyle in 1909 in Birkenhead and had six children, all shown here. Edward died in 1928, and she eventually moved to Suffolk and married John Botwright. Emily died in Hadleigh in 1965 and John Botwright died in 1966. Annie Doyle (1917-2003) was Nigel's grandmother.		Emily and John Botwright, Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1964	Daughters of Emily Halewood and Edward Doyle: Emily Doyle and Annie Doyle	Emily Doyle, Sheila Doyle (daughter of Henry Doyle and Edith Carrington) and Emily Botright
Four sons of Emily Halewood and Edward Doyle: John Matthew Doyle, Henry Doyle, William Edward Doyle and James Doyle, taken on the day of their mother's funeral, Hadleigh, Suffolk, 2 Apr 1965	Liverpool newspaper clippings about the murder of Eileen Halewood in Ethiopia, 1961	Midlands newspaper clipping about the murder of Eileen Halewood in Ethiopia, 1961	Eileen Halewood's headstone in the Ferenji Gulele Cemetery, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - her body was not brought home	Princess Tsehai Memorial Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

In 1961 the stories above appeared in British newspapers. On 12 Sep 1961 three men entered the quarters of Eileen Halewood, the British matron of Princess Tsehai Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (since the 1974 revolution called the Armed Forces General Hospital). Eileen was strangled and the three men were subsequently caught and hanged. There are several inaccuracies in the left hand clipping. Eileen is described as a "Scots Nurse". She was most definitely English, but the mistake was probably made because her sister Edna was living in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the time. Eileen's age is given as 51, when she was in fact almost 54.

This photo is believed to be Emily Doyle on the left with her cousin Eileen Halewood, possibly at Leicester Isolation Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester, 1940s

Eileen Halewood just before leaving for Ethiopia, "Illustrated Leicester Chronicle", 6 Sep 1947

Eileen Halewood holding a clinic at Maji, Ethiopia, early 1950s, from "Ethiopia: Its Land and People"

US newspaper clipping from the "Evening Review", East Liverpool, Ohio, 18 Oct 1952, about a talk to be given by Eileen Halewood in Wellsville, Ohio, about her missionary work

In 1939 Eileen, who never married, was matron of Roecliffe Manor Children's Convalescent Home at Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire. She was still matron there on 21 Mar 1944 when her younger sister Edna Mary married Thomas Edmond in Bombay Cathedral, India. Edna was a nurse in QAIMNC (Queen Alexandra's Indian Military Nursing Corps) and Thomas was a Lieutenant in the RINVR (Royal Indian Navy Volunteer Reserve). Eileen was listed as Edna's older sister, while Thomas' father was the late John Edmond of Leith, Midlothian, Scotland. Nigel Hailwood has also found a clipping from the US newspaper "The Evening Review" from East Liverpool, Ohio, for 18 Oct, 1952, about a talk to be given by Eileen that Sunday at Wellsville United Presbyterian Church, Ohio. As well as a nursing matron she was a Christian missionary and her talk was about her missionary work, part of a tour she undertook.

Thanks also to Nigel for finding references to Eileen working at a clinic in Maji, Ethiopia, in two 1950s books published by the Board of Foreign Missions, United Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

"Ethiopia: Its Land and People" (1952): "A daily clinic is held at Gorei by Miss Ruth Beatty, a registered nurse. Mrs. Nessie Pollock and Miss Eileen Halewood, also nurses, conduct a similar clinic at Maji (photo above right). Amazing things have been done by these devoted women who are all appointees of our Women’s Board."

"May We Introduce Ethiopia?" (1958): "Miss Eileen Halewood (Nurse and Midwife) is an English woman who was born in India. She was educated in England and took her nurse’s training in Preston at the County of Lancaster Queen Victoria Royal Infirmary. She served the Ethiopia Mission as a short-term worker from 1947 till 1949 when she was appointed by the Women’s Board to regular service. In her short-term capacity she worked in Sayo. Since January, 1949 she has been located in Maji in the clinic."

Greg Dorey, a British Diplomat in Ethiopia, wrote on 29 Dec 2014:

"A few weeks ago, I was asked to try to locate the grave of Eileen Halewood. She was Matron at the Princess Tsehai Hospital in Addis and had been in Ethiopia for 14 years when she was found murdered in her quarters on 12 September 1961, aged 51 (a mistake repeated from the report above). According to the "Glasgow Herald" of 17 October 1961, two men were condemned to death for her murder. A third man was condemned to 10 years’ imprisonment (this was subsequently increased to the death penalty).

Not much is known of Eileen, though she clearly served Ethiopia selflessly – it is understood that she first worked with lepers in the bush before moving to the hospital. She and her sister became orphans when they lost their Father, John Halewood, a career soldier, in World War One. A nephew (John Denis Edmond, see below) recalls her as “a radiant Christian…she had an aura about her. She never spoke much of herself, only of the blessings in life. She loved her life, she loved The Lord. She had the tranquillity about her that I associated with strength. I will always think of her as a Saint, just a wonderful, kind, strong individual with a focus on goodness… she never wavered in her faith.”

With the help of several people, we at last tracked Eileen’s grave down to the Gulele Christian Cemetery, where the epitaph reads “For Ever With Her Lord”. She is one of a few civilians buried in the beautifully maintained Commonwealth War Graves section of the cemetery, where services of remembrance are held twice annually. Her family are happy to know that she is not forgotten."

More about Eileen's sad demise is to be found in "The Hospital by the River: A Story of Hope" by Dr. Catherine Hamlin (Monarch Books, UK, 2019, originally published in 2001). Australian gynaecologist Dr. Hamlin, like Eileen a committed Christian, worked at the Princess Tsehai Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa with her husband Reginald from 1959.

"The Hospital by the River: A Story of Hope" by Dr. Catherine Hamlin (Monarch Books, UK, 2019)

In Chapter Eleven she says: "One of those who found expatriate life difficult was the wife of our medical director, Professor Burrow... The matron, Miss Hailwood*, warned me that the Professor would be sleeping in the flat above our house for a couple of nights as Mrs Burrow had threatened to kill him... Mrs Burrow was calling out in the most fearful language and accusing Professor Burrow of terrible deeds with various women, including Miss Hailwood. This was a little hard to believe as Miss Hailwood was a former missionary and a more upright woman you could not hope to meet... Our matron, Miss Hailwood, became unpopular as a result of her critical approach when dealing with the local staff. She herself had high standards but was intolerant to an unreasonable level towards anyone who failed to meet them. Often she would publicly criticise staff in front of others, something that Ethiopians, who are usually tolerant, do not bear easily. The cleaners, particularly, were singled out by her, and soon animosity built up between them. One day Reg went into the sluice room beside the labour ward and found some of the cleaners trying to push Miss Hailwood out through the window. He was able to rescue her by grabbing her legs and pulling her in. If she had fallen to the concrete below, she would have been seriously injured or even killed. A year or so later, while we were on holiday in Kenya, we were shocked to read in a newspaper that Miss Hailwood had been murdered. Her two gardener boys organised a gang, broke into her house, raped and killed her. They were all caught and publicly hanged for the crime... After Miss Hailwood's death Reg bought a revolver, which we never had to use."

*Dr. Hamlin misspells Eileen's surname as "Hailwood" throughout the chapter. After her husband's death in 1993 she remained in Ethiopia to continue their work, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. She was still living in Ethiopia in 2019 at the age of 95.

Eileen also had a middle sister, Josephine May, born in India in 1909, as well as Edna Mary, born in Birkenhead in 1912. How am I related to Eileen and her sisters? They were my second cousins, once removed, and the daughters of John Thomas Halewood born in Birkenhead, Wirral (then Cheshire now Merseyside) in 1881, and his wife Bridget Dunne, born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1882. This made them grandnieces of my great-grandmother Jane Halewood, also of Birkenhead. John was the son of Samuel Halewood, Jane's brother, and Samuel's wife Mary Edwards. He married Bridget in Lichfield, Staffordshire, in 1906. John served in the British Army in the 22nd Foot, and Eileen was born in Secunderabad, India, on 8 Nov 1907. Her younger sister Josephine May was born in Bellary, Madras, India on 28 Mar 1909. In 1911 the family were living in Birkenhead and John was a general labourer. Their third daughter Edna was born in Birkenhead in 1912. However, Bridget sadly died from heart failure in Birkenhead on 1 Jan 1914, aged only 31. John was recalled to the Army later in 1914, this time as a sergeant in the Cheshire Regiment, and was killed in action in France on 7 May 1915. There is a memorial to him on the Menin Gate in Ypres (Panel 19-22). So, the three unfortunate girls lost both their parents within just over a year and ended up in council care at Christ Church Girl's Home. Also see My Family in World War I.

Further misery was inflicted on the family because Josephine suffered from mental health issues, and spent her adult life in a institution. She is not mentioned in the Midlands newspaper clipping above about Eileen's death which does mention Edna Edmond living in Edinburgh. Josephine died in Vale Royal, Cheshire, in 1994, aged 85, the last surviving sister because Edna Mary Edmond had died in Wigton, Cumbria, in 1985 aged 73. Edna and Thomas Edmond had two children, Patricia Christine, born in Bengal, India, in 1946, and John Denis, born in Assam, India, where Thomas had become a tea planter, in 1947. The family travelled to the UK and back several times before settling in Edinburgh. I don't know when her husband Thomas Edmond died.

Fanny Kitchen née Halewood (1869-1941), Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire, 1937

Thanks to Wally Howerton of West Virginia, USA, for these photos of his great-great grandmother Fanny Halewood (1869-1941), daughter of John Halewood (my great-grandmother's brother) and Jane Lightfoot. She was the niece of my great-grandmother Jane Halewood and the first cousin of my grandmother Mary Sargeant. John Halewood died in 1871 aged 34 when Fanny was just two and Jane died a year later, so in 1881 Fanny was an orphan at the home of her uncle James Lightfoot in Heswall, Wirral, Cheshire. By then her elder siblings were all living in different locations on the Wirral, either married or at work locations. Fanny was actually born in Wigan. Lancashire, but by 1871 the family were living at Oxton near Birkenhead. Only the 1871 Census shows her correct birthplace of Wigan, the later Censuses all have Birkenhead. Fanny married Thomas Minshull in Liverpool in 1886, whose name is given as "Minchell" on the marriage record, father John Minchell and witness Elizabeth Minchell. According to the 1901 Census Thomas was born at Barnston near Heswall, Wirral, Cheshire, but I have not found his birth record or any record of him on the 1871 and 1881 Censuses. Living with the family on the 1891 Census was Thomas' cousin Mary Ann Minchell aged 29, born in Lancashire. Research to identify Thomas positively is ongoing!

Fanny Kitchen née Halewood (1859-1941), Birkenhead, Wirral, Cheshire, 1937, with her two elder daughters: Elizabeth Harriet Parry (1888-1985) on left and Louisa (1886-) on right

Of their eleven children, the first three were listed at birth as "Minchell", four as "Minshall" and four as "Minshull". These name variants are reflected in the Censuses - in 1891 the family is listed as "Minchell", in 1901 as "Minshall" and in 1911 as "Minshull". Just to complicate matters, several of their children listed as "Minshull" on their birth record used the name "Minshall" in later records. Also shown in the right-hand photo are Wally's great-grandmother Elizabeth Harriet Parry (1888-1985) and her sister Louisa born 1886, for whom I have no marriage details (a Louisa Minshull married either Harry Brough or Thomas Potter in Warrington, Lancs, in June 1911). Thomas had died before their son John "Minshall" was killed at Gallipoli, Turkey, on 13 Jul 1915 because his mother Fanny is described as a widow. Thomas could be the Thomas "Minshall" aged 50 whose death was registered in Chester in Dec 1913 (this birth date squares with his ages of 28-48 on the 1891-1911 Censuses). Sadly three of their younger children also died young: Lily (1903-13), Eva (1905-18) and Harry (1907-19).

This means that after being orphaned in 1872 at the age of three Fanny lost her husband and her daughter Lily in 1913, her son John in 1915, her daughter Eva in 1918 and her son Harry in 1919. Heartbreaking! She went on to marry Edward Kitchen in 1921.

Elizabeth Harriet Minshull married John Parry born in Holyhead, Anglesey, North Wales, son of Thomas Parry and Jane Davies, in 1906 (she is listed as "Minchell" on her birth record but "Minshull" on her marriage record). John was the son of Thomas Parry and Jane Davies. John and Elizabeth Harriet Parry moved to the USA in 1911 and their daughter Sheila Evelyn Parry (1907-77) was Wally Howerton's grandmother. Fanny's elder sister Harriet Lightfoot, born in 1856 before her parents married, retained the Lightfoot name and in 1861 was living in Heswall with her grandparents Robert and Mary Lightfoot. In 1871 she was again living in Heswall and in 1881 she was a domestic servant in Alexander Road. Birkenhead at the home of Elizabeth Watt. In the 1891 and 1901 Censuses Harriet was a boarding house keeper in Alfred Road, Birkenhead. However, in 1903 she married widower Thomas Parry (the Parry family had moved from Holyhead to Birkenhead by 1881 but his wife Jane had died in 1894 aged only 39). It's possible that John Parry met his wife Elizabeth Harriet because his father had married her aunt! Sadly Thomas died in 1910 and on the 1911 census Harriet Parry was a widow with three stepsons, presumably John's younger brothers.

Lunt Photos from Judith Dolanski (with her comments)

Judith Dolanski is the daughter of Harry Clayton Lunt (1912-92 - "Clayton" in the pictures below), who was the son of James Stanley Lunt (1887-1977) and Frances Annabelle Dyslin (1898-1978). James Stanley Lunt was born in Liverpool, the son of John William Lunt (1861-1937) and Martha Sargeant (1861-1935), who emigrated to the USA in 1888. Martha Sargeant was the elder sister of my grandmother Mary Sargeant. Clayton was stationed in Reykjavik, Iceland, and visited his relatives in Liverpool in May 1945, and was there for VE Day, 8 May 1945. He had changed his name to “Paul Percival DuBois” before 1936!

Martha Lunt née Sargeant (1861-1935)

Judith sent me this article about her grandparents from “The Southtown Economist”, Chicago, IL, 16 Mar 1927 (Lunt pictures on left from that article). "TELLS HOW TO STAY HAPPY THOUGH WED In the whirlpool of present social conditions some of the young folks are said to think of marriage as a mere adventure to be ended by divorce as soon as the thrill has waned... Never argue, wife's advice Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lunt, 6432 Paulina, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary, December 8, 1926, receiving the congratulations of four sons and four daughters. Their courtship was a romance of old England, where they were married in 1886, and where their oldest son was born. In May, two years later, they came to Chicago. Unselfishness, coupled with the art of co-operation, to Mrs. Lunt, is the basic principal for a happy marriage. "Never argue with an angry man" is a bit of wholesome advice she gives to prospective brides who want to make their marriage more than a great adventure. "It is foolish to say that a couple can go through married life with never an argument or a quarrel," says Mrs. Lunt. "But the big thing to keep in mind is that two persons must never get angry at the same time. Our married life has been a happy one and we hope to celebrate many more wedding anniversaries. One of the factors in promoting happiness in wedded life is an agreement about money, an understanding of the family finances and how the money should be spent. I have always had my own bank account, and half of Mr. Lunt's salary, out of which I have paid the household expenses. He pays the taxes and big items, such as coal and so on. Mrs. Lunt believes that social diversion and the cultivation of one's mind makes for harmony in domestic affairs. She is the Regent of the Grasalgar chapter of the Daughters of the British Empire, a member of the Presbyterian Hospital board and chairman of the ways and means committee of the West Englewood Mother's Club."

John William Lunt (1861-1937)

Clayton (1912-92), Philip Ellsworth (1916-2009) and Gordon Richard (1913-99) Lunt on front porch, Chicago, IL, about 1919		Clayton and Gordon Lunt (the two smallest boys) at summer camp, Lake Winona, IN, about 1923	Dorothy and Paul DuBois after purchasing a car in Chicago, IL, 1945
Lunts and McGeachies, Chicago, IL, ca 1941		Back row: Russell Ferguson, Andrew Stahl, ?, James Lunt, Dolly Lunt (you can hardly see her), John McGeachie, Mrs.? McGeachie (my aunt wasn't sure of her name [now known to be Alice]), Lillian Stearns (first wife of Gordon Lunt), Bertha's daughter (with glasses), Gordon Lunt, Mary Elizabeth Lunt (my Aunt Betty) Sitting: Lester Lunt, Mary Elizabeth (Zoleman) Lunt, Myrtle (Lunt) Stahl, Kenny Stahl (3 yr. old, born 1938), Bertha McGeachie, Ruth (Paine) Lenz, Florence (Ferguson) Burns (on the front of the couch). The baby on the floor is Wayne Burns, and Judith believes the blonde curly haired girl is Dorothy Stahl. The McGeachies in Buffalo, NY, and the Lunts in Chicago, IL, maintained regular contact. (Bertha McGeachie née Fraser, was my aunt and Martha Lunt née Sargeant was her aunt and my great-aunt.) Nancy Gamble says that her mother Ruth (Paine) Lenz is behind the blonde curly haired girl and she doesn't know the woman to her right is behind Florence (Ferguson) Burns, later Lively.
Chicago park during WW2		Chicago park during WW2: On the back of this picture is written: "Fern Stahl - your mother - Betty and boy friend. In front your cousins Marjorie Lunt and Myrtle May Ferguson. I don't remember who the other girl is." Judith says: “Whoever wrote on the back, putting "your mother", must have sent this to my Aunt Betty, because it is Aunt Betty's mother - Mary (Zoleman) Lunt. I think the girl with the blonde curly hair is Marjorie Lunt, and the girl on the far right is Dorothy Stahl."
Harry Clayton Lunt with Fraser Family, Liverpool, May 1945		For the story of how the US serviceman pictured on the right with Mary Fraser née Sargeant was wrongly identified for years as her grandson John McGeachie, see Fraser Family UK. Thanks to Judith Dolanski for identifying the airman with Mary as actually being her father, Harry Clayton Lunt (also known as Paul Percival DuBois!) who was stationed in Iceland at the time, which was actually VE Day, 8 May 1945, not earlier when John was still alive (he was killed over France on 2 Jun 1944). On the back of the left hand photo is written: Taken outside Central School on V E Day (8 May 1945). Weather bad, mist and rain. Bella (Green née Fraser), Winnie (Grimshaw née Fraser), Clayton, Philip (Green), Fred (Green), Leslie (Gelder), George (Grimshaw), Will (Winstanley)	Mary Fraser with great-nephew Harry Clayton Lunt, Liverpool, May 1945 (photo wrongly identified for many years as being of her grandson John McGeachie)
Harry Clayton Lunt (Paul Percival DuBois), Liverpool, May 1945	Harry Clayton Lunt with Ada Jarrett and Winnie Grimshaw (both née Fraser), Liverpool, May 1945	Another photo of Harry Clayton Lunt (also known as Paul Percival DuBois), taken in Liverpool in May 1945. The picture immediately left shows Harry Clayton Lunt with my aunts Ada and Winnie.	Harry Clayton Lunt (Paul Percival DuBois) during World War II
Christening of Wayne Burns, Illinois, 26 Jun 1942		Left to right, names from Wayne: Florence Ethel Ferguson Burns (Wayne's mother); Unidentified - Wayne wrote "Don't know, think she's a Lunt family member", Judith adds "This older woman is also in the group photo on page 18 in Frank's album, see Frank Fraser's Photo Album, I wonder if it could be Robert Ferguson's mother"; Grandma (Ethel Lunt Ferguson), holding me; Uncle Warren (George Warren Ferguson); Grandpa (Robert Ferguson); Uncle Bob (Robert Eugene Ferguson); Aunt Myrtle (Myrtle Mae Ferguson); Aunt Millie (wife of Robert Eugene Ferguson); My dad (I believe that would be Thomas Burns); Kids in front, on left is Jean (Jean Millie Ferguson - daughter of Robert Eugene), others, don't know.
Harry Clayton Lunt with Fraser Family, Liverpool, May 1945		On back of photo: Standing: Joan (Grimshaw), Winnie (Grimshaw née Fraser), Fred (Green), Ronnie (Patterson), Dennis (Gelder - 4 yr. old), Will (Winstanley), George (Grimshaw) and Leslie (Gelder). Sitting: Alice (Winstanley née Fraser), Bella (Green née Fraser), Clayton, Irene (Patterson née Birch), Gerald (Patterson - 1 yr. old), Lizzie (Birch née Fraser) and Philip (Green). Taken at Marine Gardens, Waterloo, Liverpool
Wedding of Gordon Lunt, Chicago, Illinois, 1946		Judith Dolanski says: "I think this is 1946. I don't know a lot of the people in this photo, I think they were Aunt Greta's (her real name was Christine Lundgren) family. Gordon Lunt and Christine Lundgren are seated at the head of the table, I believe this is a wedding reception for them. On the left side, #3 and 4 from Gordon, is Aunt Betty (Mary Elizabeth Lunt) and her husband, Norman Clark. On the right side, Frank Fraser is standing. Below him is James Lunt, below him is my father (Paul DuBois- a.k.a. Harry Clayton Lunt). The woman with the little boy is my mother (Dorothy) and the little boy is my brother, David. Mary (Zoleman) Lunt is just behind my mother and brother."
Frasers and Dolanskis, Chicago, IL, 23 May 2015		Alan and Joan Fraser with Judith Dolanski and her family, Chicago, IL, 23 May 2015.

An eminent relative of the Lunt family, Geoffrey Charles Lester Lunt (1886-1948), became Bishop of Ripon 1935-46, and then Bishop of Salisbury until his death. His birth was registered for March quarter 1886 in West Ham, London. There are 17 portraits of him in the National Portrait Gallery, London: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp89413/geoffrey-charles-lester-lunt! (I don't have permission to reproduce any here.)

Mystery US Airman

This photo is on Page 20 of Frank Fraser's Photo Album with the airman identified below the photo as John McGeachie, but it's not the same man identified as John McGeachie in other photos in the album. Also, Judith Dolanski did not think that the couple are John McGeachie and Alice Marie Bosack, based on the high school photos she found on Ancestry, see Fraser Photos USA. Her parents had a copy of this same photo, which she now has, but the couple are not named. Judith has now identified the bride as her father's first cousin Dorothy Jean Stahl (1927-88) and the groom as Frank E. Stout Jr. (1924-2012).

Detail of left-hand picture with emblem on sleeve (USAAF 8th Air Force)

Frank E. Stout Jr. - high school photo

Frank E. Stout Jr. - obituary 2012

My first cousin John McGeachie (1919-44) was a Staff Sergeant with the US Army Air Force 8th Air Force, 846th Bomb Squadron, 489th Bomb Group (Heavy), based during World War II at RAF Halesworth, Suffolk (the county where my Hughes and Hatten families lived). Frank E. Stout, Jr. was also a Staff Sergeant with the US Army Air Force 8th Air Force, this time with 734th Bomber Squadron, 453rd Bomb Group (Heavy), based during World War II at RAF Old Buckenham, Norfolk. John McGeachie was a radio operator on a B-24 Liberator bomber, and Frank Stout was a right waist gunner on an aircraft of the same type, the B-24 Liberator "Never Mrs." (#42-95167).

B-24 Liberator "Never Mrs." (#42-95167), 734th Bomber Squadron, 453rd Bomb Group (Heavy), based during World War II at RAF Old Buckenham, Norfolk
Picture from http://www.americanairmuseum.com/, from the Roger Freeman Collection, supplied by Frank Thomas (bombadier on "Never Mrs.")

Frank Stout's plane crashed near Bottrop in the Ruhr in Germany on 11 Nov 1944. Frank became a Prisoner of War at Stalag Luft 4, Gross-Tychow, Pomerania, Prussia (now Poland), and later moved to Wöbbelin bei Ludwigslust, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. He was liberated in May 1945. Frank and Dorothy married in late 1945 or 1946 (I'd guess Summer 1946 from the photo), and had two children. Dorothy Jean Stout died on 11 Feb 1988 and Frank remarried to Marcie Milner.

For more Lunt family photos, see Frank Fraser's Photo Album and Ada Jarrett's 1952 USA Photo Album here.

Lunt Photos from Nancy Gamble

These photos come from the albums of Nancy's mother Ruth Lenz, born Ruth Beverly Paine in 1923, and still in good health. Ruth is the daughter of William Robert Paine and Mary Jane "Mae" Lunt (my father Harold Fraser's first cousin). The second photo shows Ruth and her husband William Henry Lenz (1920-67) on their wedding day during World War II. The third photo shows Bill Lenz as a young man in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Nancy (born Nancy Diane Lenz) is the "Nancy D" in Ada Jarrett's 1952 USA Photo Album, see here, and in the right hand photo is shown with her parents in the 1950s.

Red Rose Lodge #144. Sons of St. George, photographed around the 1910s. As well as John William Lunt (born 1861), also shown is Thomas Steven Paine (also born 1861), father of William Robert Paine (born 1887) who married John’s daughter Mary Jane “Mae” Lunt, born in Chicago in 1890.
The Red Rose is the symbol of the English county of Lancashire where John was born, the White Rose being the symbol of Yorkshire (hence the War of the Roses). This photo shows both of Ruth's grandfathers,

Possibly William Paine and Martha Stevens, parents of Thomas S Paine above	The photo on the left was originally thought to depict the Lunts. However, I think the photo was taken around 1880, when Martha and John were both 19 and before they married. Judith Dolanski thinks this photo is from the Paine side, and therefore they could be the parents of Thomas S Paine, who was born in 1861, parents William Paine and Martha Stevens. Thomas died on 25 Nov 1923, aged 62.			Marie Allen, wife of Thomas S Paine
Marjorie Lunt, daughter of George William Lunt and Sarah Elizabeth Bowes, 1939 (for other pictures believed to be of Marjorie, see Frank Fraser's Photo Album, page 18)	Dorothy and Kenny Stahl with Marjorie Lunt, around 1940	Three Paine generations plus Grandpa		Thomas S Paine and Marie Allen Paine
Millie Jean Ferguson, granddaughter of Robert Ferguson and Ethel Lunt, 1939	Martha Sargeant Lunt with daughter Myrtle Stahl and granddaughters Ruth Paine, Dorothy Stahl and Fern Stahl, Chicago, around 1930	Ferguson, Lenz and Paine families with my aunt Bertha McGeachie, 1952		Fern and Dorothy Stahl with Ruth Paine, 1930s
Grace Nelson, best friend of Ruth Paine	Martha Sargeant Lunt with daughter Myrtle Stahl and granddaughters Ruth Paine, Dorothy Stahl and Fern Stahl, Chicago, around 1930 (reverse with names)	Ferguson, Lenz and Paine families with my aunt Bertha McGeachie, 1952 (reverse with names)		Bill Lenz in World War II
Three young ladies, Shreveport, Louisiana, Jun 1954	Louisiana Lake, 1950s	Bill Lenz, Shreveport, Louisiana, Oct 1955	Ruth Paine Lenz, Shreveport, Louisiana, Oct 1955	David and Nancy Lenz and friend, Shreveport, Louisiana, Oct 1955
Diane Marjorie Jack (Marjorie Diane Lunt), High School, Hammond, IN, 1949	These are two photos found by Judith Dolanski of Marjorie Lunt, later known as Diane Jack, born in 1933. Her father, George William Lunt, died in 1934, and her mother Sarah Lunt née Bowes moved to Emporia, Kansas, and married Howard Hortenstein in 1941. Sarah died in 1947 and Marjorie lived then with her aunt Christine Jack née Bowes in Hammond, Indiana changing her name. "Diane M Jack" is pictured in the Hammond, Indiana, High School Yearbooks for 1949 and 1950. Diane M. Jack married Robert Ellis in Hammond, Indiana on 23 Oct 1952. She had a daughter, Jacqueline Diane Ellis, born in Texas in 1961.			Diane Marjorie Jack (Marjorie Diane Lunt), High School, Hammond, IN, 1950

Koontz Lake, Indiana

Ada Jarrett's 1952 USA Photo Album (see here) has photos taken on a trip to Koontz Lake, Indiana, over the weekend of 26-27 Apr 1952. Ruth Lenz's parents Bill Paine and Mae (Mary Jane) Paine née Lunt owned a house called Lake Cottage there. These photos from Ruth's album were all probably taken at Koontz Lake.

Pamela Harrison, Koontz Lake, Indiana, USA, 1957-58	Gordon and Margaret Harrison, Koontz Lake, Indiana, USA, 1957-58	All these excellent photos from Koontz Lake in the late 1950s are from colour slides taken by Ruth's husband Bill Lenz. They are of my first cousins Pamela and Gordon Harrison, children of my Dad's sister Nellie Fraser and Harold Victor Harrison. Gordon was born in Liverpool in 1929. He emigrated to Canada in 1954 and was married to Margaret with a son. Sadly Gordon was killed in a motor sports accident in Canada in 1966, see below. Pamela was born in Liverpool in 1932 and married Harold Malcolm Hesketh (1930-96) in Prescot, Lancs, in March quarter, 1959. She had two sons in 1961 and 1964 and died in 2011. There are no photos of Pamela and Gordon together so these may be from two separate visits, with Gordon and Margaret visiting from Ontario, and Pamela visiting from England. Bill Paine (Ruth Lenz's father) appears in two of the photos.
Pamela Harrison with Nancy and David Lenz, Koontz Lake, Indiana, USA, 1957-58		Pamela Harrison with Nancy and David Lenz, Koontz Lake, Indiana, USA, 1957-58	Pamela Harrison with Bill Paine (Ruth Lenz's father), Koontz Lake, Indiana, USA, 1957-58
Gordon and Margaret Harrison with Bill Paine, Koontz Lake, Indiana, USA, 1957-58		Gordon and Margaret Harrison, Koontz Lake, Indiana, USA, 1957-58	Gordon and Margaret Harrison, Koontz Lake, Indiana, USA, 1957-58

Gordon was a keen amateur racing driver but was killed while acting as a marshal during a race at Mosport Speedway, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, on 4 June 1966, see. https://www.wheels.ca/news/jerry-grant-joins-gordon-harrison-in-death/ (The article includes a long-distance photo of Gordon and another marshal standing at the side of the track during the pace lap.)

William Robert Paine's Military Service

For more Lunt family photos, see Frank Fraser's Photo Album and Ada Jarrett's 1952 USA Photo Album here.

 For my complete family tree, see here.

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