Photographs Related To Florence Mary Woolmer
Watt, Helen, fl 1981, of Wilmslow, Cheshire
1908-1930s
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Items 1428/1 to 48 are from the first Album: Inscribed by Florence Woolmer: F. M. Woolmer, Photograph Album, Sept. 1914. Most of the photographs have been labelled by Florence Woolmer.
Items 1428/49 to 98 are from second Album, inscribed: F. M. Woolmer August 1917.
Title:
Photographs Related To Florence Mary Woolmer
Date of work:
1908-1930s
Reference number:
GB124.DPA/1428
Level of description:
Sub-fonds from Fonds: Documentary Photographic Archive (GB124.DPA)
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Custodial history:
This deposit consists of three Albums belonging to depositor's great-aunt on her mother's side Florence Mary Woolmer. They came into the possession of the depositor's family when Florence died, c. 1978. She was born in 1888, the daughter of Rev Wesley Woolmer, a Methodist Minister and his wife, Amelia Ann, nee Beaumont. She was sent to school near Bristol with her elder sister, Margaret, and later took a degree in English at Bedford College, London University. She became a teacher and is known to have taught at schools in Luton and Margate. After she retired, she lived in Hastings and latterly in New Romney in Kent. The depositor's family used to visit her in these two places. See attached sheet.
Reverend Wesley Woolmer was born at Kingswood School, the Methodist Boys' School at Charlcombe near Bath on 25 March 1858 to Rev Theophilus Woolmer and his wife Myra Field née Oliver. He was the first child to be born to a resident Governor at the School, which was his father's occupation at the time.
As yet, little is known about his education, although it seems likely that he attended Kingswood School himself, as did his father and his own sons. He became a Methodist Minister in the early 1880's and the following is a list of his Circuits :
Sevenoaks,
Plumstead,
Lambeth,
St Helens,
Sandown, I. O. W., c. 1895 - 1898 ?
Oxenhope,
Keighley,
St Leonards,
Walthamstow,
Luton,
St Albans,
Woolwich,
Margate,
Northampton,
Ealing.
On 13 October 1885, he married Amelia Ann Beaumont at the Cliftonville Chapel, Margate, the ceremony being performed by his father. For details of his wife and her family, see deposit 1381. Their six children were:
Margaret Amelia, born 1886 ?at Sevenoaks, who was sent away to school with her sister Florence to Weston-super-Mare. She later became a Froebel-trained Infants Mistress and married Rev Harold Jolly on 4 January 1917, a distant relative. They had three children, two of whom are married with families, the third died in infancy. Margaret died in 1979, outliving her husband by 11 years.
Florence Mary, born 1888. She took a degree in English at Bedford College, London University before the First World War, and taught as an English Mistress at various schools until she retired. She never married and died in 1975.
Shirley Beaumont. All that is known about him so far is that he was the Manager of a Hat Factory in Luton; his mother had set him up in the business when she came into money. He died in 1955, leaving one son who is married with no children.
Frederick Charles, he became a Bank Manager, was married with three children and died in 1968.
Geoffrey Challenor, born January 1895. He went to Kingswood School, which he hated. He had a farm bought for him by his mother, but after being injured in the First World War, had to give it up and became a Sales Representative for Cheeseborough-Ponds. He was married and has three children and lives in Stoke d'Abernon in Surrey.
Ellen Beatrice, born 4 February 1897 at Sandown on the Isle of Wight. She was sent to Queenswood School, the Girls counterpart of Kingswood; at the time she attended, it was situated at Clapham. She absolutely loathed the place and despite all entreaties to take her away, her mother kept her there; she was very friendly with the Head Mistress, Miss Trew. After leaving school, she trained as a Teacher of Physical Education at Chelsea College and afterwards taught at several schools. After her older sister Margaret's wedding on 4 January 1917, she met 2nd Lieutenant John Newton Hudson who had come to lodge with the family while training with the Royal Horse Artillery, and they fell in love. Her mother strongly disapproved of the match, but they eventually married on 21 March 1921 at the Wesleyan Chapel at Warwick Gardens, Kensington. They had one daughter, the Field Officer's mother. For details of John Hudson's family, see deposit 1319. Ellen died on 11 May 1944, after having suffered a stroke the previous year.
Wesley Woolmer and his wife lived at 4
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Record types:
Greater Manchester County Record Office
Language:
English
Record number:
7200771
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