DEREK, PETER & JADE HENDERSON's
FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE
The Dawes/Chattington Line 1900-1922

For Family Tree
see James/Dawes Line 1864-1909

Excerpt from Birth Certificate
1 Arthur Dawes was described on Mary's Birth Certificate on 26 February 1886 as Coachman

By the time she married he had become a Beerhouse Keeper (see below)

Royal Oak in Wandsworth  Royal Oak pub with Dawes family members  Royal Oak closed 2010
Royal Oak  135 East Hill  Wandsworth SW London run by Arthur Dawes
3 L-R Arthur Dawes Jnr, Arthur Dawes, probably Elsie, with Edie & Dolly outside the pub c1910
4 The Royal Oak in 2010 when it was closed (photograph
©www.closedpubs.co.uk)

Dawes family - Arthur Jns/Elsie/Stanley
5 Arthur Jnr, Elsie & Stanley Dawes c1909

Mary's prayer book  Mary's prayer book
6 & 7 Mary's Dawes' pocket book of Common Prayer

Mary's Hymnal  Mary's Hymnal
8 & 9 Pocket hymnal given to Mary by her father on 18 January 1905 - her 19th birthday

Mary Dawes   Mary Dawes
10 Mary Dawes photographed by Proctor & Co of W Croydon on 7 March 1905
hand-captioned by her To Grandfather with Mary's love  Mary age 19 years Jan 18th 05
11 Mary Dawes photographed by A Watson of Redhill c1910

Chattington wedding photograph
12 L-R Katie Dawes, Lily Dawes, John Chattington, Emma James
& Mary Chattington (née Dawes) probably on their wedding day 12 August 1911
Kate A Dawes & her sister Emma James were the witnesses on the marriage certificate

Excerpt from marrriage certificate
13 John, a widower aged 52, was described as Tanner's Beamsman (the same as his deceased father Henry)
John had two children
John (Jack) & Mary Ann by his first wife Minnie (née Penny) who died in 1908
In the 1911 census, Mary Dawes, aged 25, was listed as Parlourmaid at the house Woodlands

Unknown couple
14 Unknown couple & location
The lady bears a resemblance to Lily in the above photograph
& is possibly her a few years later

Mary Chattington with Kath & Eileen   Kath & Eileen Chattington
15 & 16 Mary, Kathleen (Kath) & Eileen Chattington 1914

Daisy Dawes
17 Margaret "Daisy" Dawes in nurse's uniform Christmas 1914

Mary & Eileen   Arthur & Katie Dawes
18 Mary with Eileen c1915
19 Arthur & Katie Dawes

Arthur Dawes & granddaughters   Mary with Kath & Eileen
20 & 21 Arthur, Mary, Kath & Eileen c1916

Arthur Dawes Jnr   Walter Dawes
22 & 23 Both Arthur Jnr (left) & Walter Dawes (right) served in the army during WW1

John, Mary Chattington & daughters  
John & Stan
24 John, Mary, Kath & Eileen c1917

25 Stanley (Stan) & John Chattington in the backyard with rabbit hutches c1922

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Photographs & materials in the collection of Derek Henderson, except 5 & 17 used by kind permission of Andy Meekings, descendant of Elsie Dawes

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