The Cressy monument

 Artist impression of the monument that will be revealed on 25 September 2014 in Noordwijk.
Three ships sank during the Great War .
Cressy, Hogarth, Aboukir .
1459 persons lost their life that day.
More about the Cressy and the monument can be found at a very interesting and well documented colleague blog Noordwijkse stranddingen . 
More about one of the victims, who lost his life because of the attack on the Cressy  Frank Vlieland Parker can be found here.

100th anniversary of the lost of the Cressy

Cressy

Documentaire over neerhalen van Britse kruisers
Door Danja Koeleman - 20-9-2014, 6:00 (Update 20-9-2014, 6:00)


Gek genoeg weet bijna niemand meer van het trieste lot van de Aboukir, de Cressy en de Hogue die maandag precies honderd jaar geleden in Nederlands water naar de kelder werden geschoten door de Duitse onderzeeër U9. Van de gezamenlijke bemanning van 2296 koppen, lieten er 1459 het leven.

Eén van de slachtoffers, de vijftienjarige kadet Duncan Stubbs die aan boord zat van de HMS Aboukir, krijgt een gezicht in Live Bait Squadron, de documentaire van de Nederlandse filmster Klaudie Bartelink die morgen in Engeland en woensdag in Den Haag in première gaat. Bartelink volgt in de film de 26-jarige Duncan Barrigan. Zijn naamgenoot van honderd jaar geleden was de broer van Barrigans overgrootvader. De jongen studeerde op het Royal Naval College in Dartmouth en werd bij het uitbreken van 'the Great War' onder de wapenen geroepen.


,,Het was het ideale jongensavontuur en hij had er ontzettend veel plezier in. Tot het allemaal eindigde in het koude water van de Noordzee'', zegt Duncan Barrigan over de belevenissen van de andere Duncan. Bij zijn ouders thuis ligt een grote stapel brieven uit die tijd, het dagboek van de vader van Duncan Stubbs en veel foto's, medailles en sportprijzen van de kadet. Wie de portretten van de twee Duncan's naast elkaar legt, weet: die twee lijken op elkaar.


Gevaarlijk De huidige Duncan is net zo sportief en avontuurlijk als de jongen naar wie hij vernoemd is. Barrigan springt, met amper twintig duiken in zijn logboek, in de zomer van 2013 zonder te twijfelen van een schip de Noordzee in, water dat onder ervaren duikers bekend staat als moeilijk, zwaar en soms ook gevaarlijk. Hij moet en zal zien hoe honderd jaar na de ramp het wrak van de Aboukir er bij ligt.


,,Het is heel raar om hier te zijn'', zegt Duncan Barrigan, vlak voor hij te water gaat. ,,Het is moeilijk onder woorden te brengen. Ik kijk er naar uit om de Aboukir te zien, om wat meer te begrijpen hoe het was voor die andere Duncan. Ik denk graag dat deze duik iets is wat hij leuk zou vinden. Het past in elk geval goed bij zijn gevoel van avontuur. En ik denk dat hij het gebaar ook zou waarderen dat ik de plaats bezoek waar het allemaal gebeurde.''
Sloop Live Bait Squadron was de wrange bijnaam van de zogeheten Bacchantes, de verouderde groep kruisers waartoe de Aboukir, de Cressy en de Hogue hoorden. Vlak voordat de Eerste Wereldoorlog uitbrak, lagen ze voor de sloop langs de wal. In de zomer van 2014 kregen ze een nieuw verfje en werd er in allerijl een bemanning van reservisten en jonge adelborsten opgetrommeld. Historicus Henk van der Linden, Live Bait Squadron-specialist bij uitstek: ,,Overjarige en onhandelbare schepen waren het, slecht bewapend en onvoldoende bepantserd. Ze werden volkomen ongeschikt geacht voor de moderne oorlogvoering ter zee. Het is niet zo vreemd dat de dramatische gebeurtenissen van 22 september 2014 in vergetelheid zijn geraakt. De Britse regering en marine zwegen er liever over.''


Breeveertien De voornaamste taak van de drie kruisers tijdens die eerste oorlogsweken was over de Noordzee te patrouilleren tussen de Engelse en de Nederlandse kust, in het gebied dat bekend staat als de Breeveertien. In de derde week van september stormde het zo hard, dat de torpedobootjagers die tot taak hadden de oude kruisers te begeleiden en te beschermen, een veilige haven moesten opzoeken. Intussen zetten HMS Cressy, Hogue en Aboukir hun patrouilletaak voort, zonder bescherming. Ze waren een makkelijke prooi voor de U9 van de Duitse kapitein Otto Weddigen, die de kruisers in de vroege ochtend van 22 september 2014 door zijn periscoop spotte, zo'n 22 zeemijl ten westen van Scheveningen. Hij vuurde de ene na de andere torpedo af en bracht de schepen in krap twee uur tijd tot zinken. Duncan Stubbs sprong van de zinkende Aboukir in het water, klom aan boord van de Hogue waar hij weer schipbreuk leed, waarna hetzelfde verhaal zich herhaalde op de Cressy. Hij probeerde toen hij voor de derde keer in zee lag, een reservist van de verdrinkingsdood te redden. Maar die trok hem mee onder water. Het lichaam van de jonge kadet is nooit meer teruggevonden.


Tot tien jaar geleden had Van der Linden, gespecialiseerd in de Eerste Wereldoorlog, van de drie Britse kruisers op de bodem van de Nederlandse Noordzee nog nooit gehoord. ,,Tot ik op een goede dag voor een afspraak in Den Haag moest zijn en een uur te vroeg arriveerde.''


Herdenkingskruis Het was mooi weer en Van der Linden besloot de vlakbij gelegen gemeentelijke begraafplaats van Den Haag op te lopen. Ineens zag hij in een ooghoek een zogeheten 'Cross of Sacrifice' staan, een herdenkingskruis dat alleen door de Britten wordt gebruikt op militaire begraafplaatsen. De historicus stuitte er op een stuk of twintig graven van Engelse marinemannen die allemaal op 22 september 1914 om het leven waren gekomen. Dat was het begin van een speurtocht naar de geschiedenis van de kruisers en van alle bemanningsleden aan boord van deze drie schepen. Die speurtocht is inmiddels het levenswerk geworden van Henk van der Linden. Hij bracht de afgelopen jaren een grote groep nazaten van de mannen op de kruisers bij elkaar en ontdekte talloze bijzondere verhalen.

Over Walter Stokes bijvoorbeeld, het hoofd van de machinekamer van de Hogue die na de voltreffer met de torpedo van de U9 zwaargewond drijvend op een deur uit zee werd gehaald door de bemanning van het Nederlandse vrachtschip Flora. Hij werd opgenomen in het Elisabeth Gasthuis in Haarlem, waar hij op 20 oktober 1914 overleed. Het was een indrukwekkende begrafenisstoet die door Haarlem trok, begeleid door de Kapel der Koninklijke Nederlandse Marine, troepen van het Depot Bataljon van het tiende bataljon infanterie, een peloton Huzaren te voet en een detachement van de marine, bij elkaar zo'n duizend man.

Maar ook ontdekte Van der Linden de rol van Nederlandse helden, zoals kapitein Joop Berkhout die voor de KNSM op de SS Titan vaarde en tientallen drenkelingen uit zee pikte. Hij is de oudoom van Jan-Daan Berkhout en Joop Berkhout, twee neven uit het Gooi die een grote zilveren bokaal in hun bezit hebben, een geschenk van het Britse koningshuis als dank voor de reddingsoperatie. Jan-Daan Berkhout: ,,Onze oudoom redde onder anderen ook commander W.P. Sells, een van de officieren van de Aboukir. Een paar weken na het drama kreeg oudoom Joop een mooie sigarenkoker van Augusta, de vrouw van Sells, met een ontroerend bedankbriefje.''

,,Tot voor kort was deze geschiedenis alleen in het kleine kringetje van onze families bekend'', zegt Jan-Daan Berkhout. ,,Maar dat begint nu te veranderen.'' Joop Berkhout: ,,Onze oudoom wilde er eigenlijk nooit over praten. Wat ik heb gedaan, dat deed je gewoon, zei hij. Maar mijn vader heeft alles op papier gezet. Zo weten we dat na die reddingsoperatie de Britse marine Ome Joop is blijven volgen. Als hij een haven binnenkwam met zijn schip, en er lag een marineschip, dan werd hij altijd voor een lunch of diner uitgenodigd. Dan kwam er een sloep en kreeg hij te horen: Aye captain Berkhout, you're invited.''

Ontmoeting De nazaten van Joop Berkhout zijn woensdag bij de Nederlandse herdenkingsdienst in Den Haag en wonen zondag en maandag ook de herdenkingsdiensten bij in Chatham in Engeland. Daar schudden ze de hand van Duncan Barrigan, die nog steeds diep onder de indruk is van zijn ontmoeting met de Aboukir. En van filmster Klaudie Bartelink en Henk van der Linden, die verbaasd is hoe zijn onderzoek naar de kruisers de afgelopen jaren maar bleef uitdijen. ,,Ik heb er nooit voor gekozen. Het kwam op mijn pad.''

Mr Eugene Bellairs

MR. EUGENE BELLAIRS, who is at present (1900) attached to the gold mining branch of the Survey Department at Auckland, occupies a unique position, in as much as he is probably the sole survivor of the historic Wairau Massacre. The son of the late Captain J. H. Bellairs, of the Royal Navy, the subject of this notice was born in Brittany, France, in 1824. Educated in his native place and at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, Mr. Bellairs came to New Zealand early in 1843. Landing at Nelson, he joined

Mr. E. Bellairs.

one of the survey parties despatched to survey the Wairau Plains on behalf of the New Zealand Company. Shortly after beginning operations, all the survey parties were turned off the land and their huts burnt to the ground, by order of the Maori Chief, Rauparaha. Mr. Bellairs subsequently joined the ill-fated expedition, sent by the Government to apprehend the chiefs who were responsible for this act. The result is well-known, for about twenty Europeans, including most of the leading men of Nelson, were creuelly and treacherously massacred, after their surrender to Rauparaha under promise of safety. Mr. Bellairs was one of the few who effected their escape. Following is a quotation from a local newspaper:-“Shortly afterwards he joined his cousin, Captain Bull, who, with a detachment of his regiment (H.M. 99th), was stationed on the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), in charge of a stockade where some 300 convicts were engaged in road-making. In 1846 Mr. Bellairs accompanied, as a cadet, the first overland expedition that ever attempted to reach South Australia by the Darling River. This party was organised by a Mr. Ray, with a view of taking to Adelaide a mob of cattle and horses. The trip took ten months to accomplish. At the time, they were considered to have been very fortunate in getting through, as the blacks were known to be the very worst they could have encountered, and more especially as the expedition numbered only sixteen all told. Shortly after his arrival in Adelaide, Mr. Bellairs received an appointment on the survey staff, under Captain Frome, R.E., and at the end of the ‘forties’ surveyed a road through the 120 mile scrub desert between the Murray River, near Lake Alexandra, and the Tatitara country. This subsequently, in 1850, became the highway to the Victorian Goldfields, effecting a saving of some seventy-five miles, as compared with the old Mount Gambier Road. Mr. Bellairs, after the action at the Eureka Stockade, took cypher despatches for the officer in charge of the Ballarat military encampment—a Major Thomas—to General Macarthur, whom he found encamped at Ballan, on his way with reinforcements to support that officer. About 1862 Mr. Bellairs returned to New Zealand, and was engaged by the Government in making surveys under the late Major Heaphy, during active operations in the Waikato.” Mr. Bellairs was married in Tasmania in 1855 to the second daughter of Mr. H. Priaulx, Assistant Commissary General of that colony.

George Packham architect

George Packham was not only the husband of Elizabeth Chapelier Priaulx

he was an architect as well .



He restored the church of St Thomas in Canterbury.

Also the church of St David
Parish Church. Medieval origins, completely rebuilt by Packham and Croote 1872-5. Chancel corner stone dated 1872 and tower buttress foundation stone inscribed Samuel Rosegood, Rector; George Packham, Architect; and James Parish, Builder.

Packham, Croote and Stuart, 93 Paris Street, Exeter [Non Nobis Solum] 3004A/PW 99/24 n.dThe memorial stones of a new Baptist chapel at Ottery St. Mary, Devon, were laid on Wednesday week. The architects for the new building are MessBS. Packham and Croote, Paris-street, Exeter, and the builder Mr. Edward Carnell, Ottery.
A new Baptist chapel was opened at Ottery St. Mary, Devon, on Thursday week. It adjoins a former chapel, which will henceforth be utilised as a schoolroom. It is built of brick, with B^er stone dressings, and measures 50ft. by 30ft. The seats are of pitch pine varnished, and accommodate, in- cluding provision for choir ami children in gallery, 350 persons. The architects are Messrs. Packham and Croote, of Exeter, and the builder is Mr. E. Carnell, of Ottery. The cost is said to have been only .£500.
On Monday the memorial stone was laid, at Exeter, of a block of artisans' dwellings, to be erected by a local benefit building and freehold land society. The block is an attempt to erect substantial and convenient bouses, fitted for the working classes, which could be let at a rent within the meaus of those for whom they were intended, and yet at the same time give a return of 5 per cent, on the capital invested. The property abuta on Rack.street, on the west quarter, and in front on the Broad Stones. It is intended to erect eleven dwellings, each containing five rooms, and though the buildings will necessarily be plain and unorna- mental, they will provide what is required for health and comfort. The dwellings will be formed of three separate blocks — one of five and another of four — rnuning parallel with each other, and two at the higher end of the site. The entrance will be from Rack.street. The architects are Messrs. Packham and Croote, and the cost of each house ia ronghly estimated at about i;i70. Messrs. Braily and Son are the builders.

His associates were
Name: Alexander Stuart
Designation: Architect
Born: 1855 or 1856
Died: 1891
Bio Notes: Alexander Stuart was born in Edinburgh in 1855 or 1856 and articled in Glasgow. He practised in Exeter in partnership with George Packham and William S Croote. He died of typhoid in 1891.


Name: Roderick John Mules
Designation: Architect
Born: 1872 or 1873
Died:
Bio Notes: Roderick John Mules was born in 1872 or 1873 and articled to Packham, Croote & Stuart of Exeter c.1888. On completing his apprenticeship he moved to Mansfield, Nottinghamshire as assistant to Louis Alfred Westwick. He was appointed an assistant in the Admiralty Works Department at Rosyth in 1898 and was still there in 1914. He was admitted LRIBA on 24 June 1912, his proposers being Westwick, Edgar Augustine Hawkins, Director of the Admiralty Works Department and George Arthur Farrar, also of the Admiralty Works Department at Rosyth.


William S.Croote

Sarah Mayne née Otway

A Portrait of Sarah

Sarah Otway and her husband, despite family tragedy, founded a Scottish dynasty that for almost two centuries enlivened the history of the British in India.


Sarah Mayne nee Otway sat for this fine portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds soon after her marriage in 1775. The picture, which until recently has renamed hidden beneath layers of Victorian overpaint, now springs out at us with all the freshness of a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis. Philip Mould, the founder of Historical Portraits, describes it as "one of the most spontaneous and successful of Reynolds' portrayals of society glamour". Yet behind the fine features, the eager thrust of the head and the firm expectant expression of this young girl of nearly twenty, there is a poignancy born of the tragedy that was soon to overwhelm her and her family.

Sarah Otway was the second of eight sisters. Her father had been dead a year and she was just 19 when she married Robert Mayne of Powis and Logic in Clackmannanshire. Robert, a widower nearly thirty years her senior, came from a large family whose land "lay in a favoured position on the southern slopes of the Ochil Hills overlooking the River Forth". An honorary Burgess of Stirling, he had nevertheless left home to join his elder briber William in London where they opened a banking partnership. William, who had spent his early years with the family business in Lisbon, soon found his feet in the City, becoming a director of one of only two insurance companies that were competing successfully with private firms operating out of Lloyd's coffee house.

The business continued to flourish and by 1775, the year of Robert's marriage to Sarah, the brothers were both in parliament and living handsomely on two neighbouring estates at Gatton in Surrey. Gatton was conveniently a "rotten borough" represented by two MPs of which Robert was one. A year later William, for his loyalty to Lord North's precarious administration, was raised to the peerage as Baron Newhaven, and the fortunes of the Scottish family that Sarah had joined looked to be riding high.

Sarah gave birth to four boys in the next five years; but sadly she herself died as a result of the last confinement and poor Robert was left desolated to mourn his young wife and comfort his sons. Further misfortune was to follow two years later when, despite William having obtained lucrative government contracts to victual British troops fighting in America, the family bank run by Robert went bankrupt. Robert, still grieving for Sarah and now faced with the anger of his many influential creditors, among whom was a hostile and revengeful Bishop, committed suicide.

Behind him he left four little orphaned boys aged two, three, four and six, together with the handsome portrait of Sarah for which he had been unable to pay his friend Joshua Reynolds. His sons were taken in and brought up by Sarah's mother and those other seven sisters still at home. As for the picture it remained in the artist's possession until his death ten years later after which it went into his studio sale described as a "sketch" and was bought for £31. Early in the next century the sketch was, so to speak, 'completed' by some heavy overpainting covering two thirds of the picture surface. It has been rescued by the removal of this embellishment during recent conservation revealing this pristinely preserved study which is currently valued at around £250,000.

Despite the inauspicious start, Sarah's four sons had successful careers. The eldest fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo and became a General, and of his brothers, one was a Rector for 34 years and the other two were sailors, the youngest becoming a Captain in the Maritime Service of the East India Company. Between them they fathered twenty-eight children, most of whom forsook the comforts of home to flock to India to be soldiers, sailors or administrators of the Raj. There for nearly two centuries Mayne son followed father, and nephew followed uncle, and the stories of their courage, achievements and sacrifice have greatly enlivened the history of the British in India(*).

The young Sarah Mayne looking down from her portrait would be proud of the Scottish dynasty that she and Robert founded. She can be seen among other highlights of British portrait painting, from Tudor times to the present day, in a new gallery opened by Historical Portraits at 31 Dover Street, London WIX 3RA (tel 0171-499-6818).

(*) Many of the elicits of this family in India are recorded in my article

"Death on the Pale Horse" at:- http:/www.edunltd.com/empire/article/palehorse.htm

References:

"The Maynes of Powis & Logie", a pamphlet by Alexander Morrison (A Learmouth & Son of Stirling 1927)

"The House of Maine" by Rev. Robert H Main (Published privately 1939)

"Gentlemen of Merstham and Gatton 1519-1979" by AB de M Hunter (1993)

Philip Mould of Historical Portraits, 31 Dover Street, London Wl

Family reminiscences of Rupert Mayne of Aldbourne, Wiltshire (3xgreat grandson of Sarah Otway/Mayne)

Illustrations (not enclosed):

1. Sarah Mayne nee Otway (1756-80). Portrait painted c. 1775 by Sir Joshua Reynolds and now on exhibition at Historical Portraits, 31 Dover Street, London Wl.

2. Robert Mayne MP (1728-82), of Powis and Logie, Honorary Burgess of Stirling (1744). He married Sarah Mayne in 1775 and went bankrupt seven years later. Engraving from a portrait by his friend Sir Joshua Reynolds.

3. William Mayne PC MP, Baron Newhaven (1725-94), the elder brother of Robert of Powis. He was in parliament during the momentous years when the American colonies were lost. The portrait is believed to be by Allan Ramsay.

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We found this tree on the internet .

The connection to the blog is 

Kenneth Otway Mayne he is the gggggrandson of Sarah Mayne 

Born 3 January 1882 Guildford Surrey.
In the 1901 census he lives Parkstone Dorsetshire.
He was the son of William Otway Mayne and Caroline Maria Deedes.
he married March 1924 in Peterborough Doris Adele Anderson.
Children from this mariage according to free BMD
Michael D.O.Mayne born Dec 1924 Bromley
Christine M Mayne born June 1928 Epsom
Joanna M Mayne born Sept 1931 Oakham
Stella M Mayne born Dec 1932 Loddon
Nicholas B.O.Mayne Sept 1939 Norwich Outer.

We find more In the book
Soldiers, Saints and Scallywags: Stirring Tales from Family History

Door David Gore

Frederick Charles Petter

Frederick Charles Petter (b. 17 Oct 1857, d. 04 Apr 1893)

Frederick Charles Petter (son of Gervase Petter and Eliza Sarah Forster) was born 17 Oct 1857 in Tottenham Middlesex, and died 04 Apr 1893 in Deptford London. He married Marie Elizabeth Simpson on 17 Jun 1876 in Kennington London.
He is the father of Archibald Graham Petter 

Marriage 
Name: Frederick Charles Petter
Birth Date: 1855
Birthplace:
Age: 21
Spouse's Name: Marie Elizabeth Simson
Spouse's Birth Date: 1858
Spouse's Birthplace:
Spouse's Age: 18
Event Date: 17 Jun 1876
Event Place:
Father's Name: Gervais Petter
Mother's Name:
Spouse's Father's Name: William Simson

We found the family tree on wikitree. There are more family trees on the internet .they just have two children .

Children of Frederick Charles Petter and Marie Elizabeth Simpson are:

1. Lizzie Petter, b. Abt. 1877.
2. Fredrick Charles Gervase Petter, b. 11 Sep 1878, Stoke Newington London.
3. Charles Archibald Petter
4. Mary Ann
5. Cecil Henry
6. Thomas 
7. Edith Mary

There are more children we know from his granddaughter .
We let her introduce them
It makes it clear just what an action-packed life Frederick must have had as a 'traveller' = a commercial representative selling goods for a company, a bit like his son Cecil but not so grand. I knew he died young, but not so young: married at 18, dead at 35 and supposedly 12 or 13 children in between!
Frederick Charles Gervase must be the one who I heard called 'Jarvis' (= Gervase) who was killed on stage when the Zeppelin fell on the London Music hall in the First World War.
Marie Elizabeth was I think born in 1853, so five years or so older than Frederick:
I wonder if she was a widow with children, as to have so large a family in 16 years seems amazing.
She died at 90 in late January 1943, a week before Archie's second wedding on 3 February 1943, as I know there was a chance the ceremony might have to have been be put off.
Apart from Frederick Charles Gervase I have found Lizzie (b. 1877), Mary Ann (b. 1880 and d. 1881); Cecil Henry (b. 1881) who I met but don't remember in about 1950, who was a trader in furs, silks and jewels for the Hudson's Bay Company; Thomas and Edith Mary (b. 1883 = twins?); Archie (b. 1885); but that is only seven of them! There must somewhere be a Constance (?Mary) who I met at the same time as Cecil and who was the spinster daughter who looked after Marie Elizabeth. If we guess that the last child was born in 1892 there is space for several .

census 1891

Census 1881 

Name: Fredk C Petter

Age (Original): 23

Gender: Male

Birth Year: 1858

Birthplace: Tottenham, Middlesex, England

Relationship to Head of Household: Head

Marital Status: Married

Occupation: Commercl Traveller

Address: 220 Brockley Rd

Event Place: St Paul Deptford, Kent, England

Disability:

Record Type: Household

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

Fredk C Petter Head M 23 Tottenham, Middlesex, England

Marie E Petter Wife F 22 Leamington, Warwickshire, England

Lizzie C Petter Daughter F 4 Stoke Newington, Surrey, England

Fredk C Petter Son M 2 Stoke Newington, Surrey, England

George H Jackson M 15 Islington, Middlesex, England

Georgina M Jackson F 7 Islington, Middlesex, England

A London commercial traveller in the 1880s and 1890s

Commercial travellers, like Frederick Charles Petter, had an ambiguous social standing. They were below-average earners in a peripatetic and insecure profession, but often aspired to be lower middle class in their lifestyle and the education of their children. By 1881, Charles Frederick was living with his wife and eldest two children in the recently built suburb of Brockley in Kent, just outside the London metropolitan boundary and several rungs up from the more urban Tottenham where he had been born, and was able to employ two domestic servants. By 1891, with at least nine family mouths to feed, he seems to have moved closer to the inner city, to Denmark Hill in Camberwell, another newbuild area but probably cheaper than Brockley and involving less expense in train travel if he needed to go into central London: there were cheap workmen’s tickets for regular working travellers. However, by this time he was able to afford only one person to help in the house.

A commercial traveller ‘on the road’ took samples, catalogues or pattern books of the products (tobacco, confectionary, linens, ladies’ corsetry) of a firm (such as Coats’ draperies, Wills’ tobacco, Wolsey’s underwear or McVitie’s biscuits) to shopkeepers who might place an order for the branded goods in which he travelled, perhaps making up to 45 calls a week; he (it was a very male profession) often also spent ‘wasted’ non-earning days canvassing for new business in areas off his usual territory. If he travelled in linens and drapery for firms such as Liberty’s, there would be a very busy period in the spring and autumn ahead of the new summer and winter fashions, but then very little work for the rest of the year. Travellers were white-collar workers, either self-employed and dependent on commission or employed directly by a company (a traveller employed by Wills’ could earn up to £400 a year).  They defined themselves as professionals within a closed fraternity and needed to be self-confidant in selling both themselves and their goods and resilient, since much of their territory had to be covered on foot, omnibus or train in all weathers. They had a professional body, the United Kingdom Commercial Travellers Association (UKCTA), founded in 1883, which gave insurance cover against damage to goods or incapacity to work and help in legal matters, and a School in Wanstead in east London, to ‘feed clothe and educate the necessitous children of brethren “on the road”’. Travellers might have a local territory so that they came home every night, but could be away from home for a week (sometimes even a month), when they stayed in one of a dedicated network of cheap hotels catering for itinerant guests, some being ‘temperance’ establishments where no alcohol was served. This made domestic life very strained, with the burden of keeping home and raising the children on a fluctuating income falling on Marie Elizabeth and a family that grew by a new child more or less every two years from 1877 to 1890.

Thanks are due to Michael French for some of this information, drawn from his articles ‘Commercials, careers, and cultures: travelling salesmen in Britain 1890s–1920s’, History Review 58 (2), 2005, 352–77 and ‘On the road: travelling salesmen and experiences of mobility in Britain before 1939’, Journal of Transport History 31 (2), 2010, 133–50.

Patents

Archibald Graham Petter was not only an artist he has 2 patents on improving a game on his name.

 and

Improvements in or relating to race game apparatus  

Page bookmark	GB187691 (A)  -  Improvements in or relating to race game apparatus
Inventor(s):
Applicant(s):	ARCHIBALD GRAHAM PETTER + (ARCHIBALD GRAHAM PETTER)
Classification:	- international: A63F9/14 - cooperative: A63F9/14
Application number:	GB19210019633 19210721
Priority number(s):	GB19210019633 19210721

Jan Hollander en Ariaantje van der Vree

Still searching for Jan Hollander, other genealogists  tell me, that the wedding certificate of Jan Hollander and Catharina Fres in 1785 in Amsterdam states  he is from this place and 29 years old ,but it also can be explained in an other way.
 He is from this place, can also mean, that he lived there for a number of years, but has been born somewhere else.
Leaving Amsterdam after his marriage and having their first child in Rotterdam could mean he himself was born in Rotterdam.
And they suggest a Jan Hollander who has a son Jan in 1754 and one  in 1756 both born in Rotterdam.
So that is the reason to research this family again .I did before and did not find a connection.
In the Rotterdam  burialbooks is only mentioned  -death of a child of Jan Hollander and a date -so we leave that for now.

This Jan Hollander is master shipbuilder and could be the grandfather of Jerome Nicholas .
He is born 21-03-1723 in Hillegersberg, zoon van Claas Simonsz Hollander (1) en Aagje Jacobs de Knegt. Jan is overleden op 18-12-1780 in Hillegersberg, 57 jaar oud. 
Notitie bij Jan: Nederduits geref ged: 21 maart; get: Marija de Knegt
Jan Hollander trouwt met Ariaantje van der Vree 19-01-1749 in Zevenhuizen.

Names are important in the family of Jerome ,so it is strange that there is no Pieter (Peter)
or an Adrian or Arie or a Simon named in the family.
Hillegersberg is a part of Rotterdam.

Dopeling	Pietertie Hollander
Vader	Jan Hollander
Moeder	Ariaantie van der Vree
Getuige	Janna van der Vree
Plaats	Hillegersberg
Datum doop	24-12-1752
Bron	DTB Hillegersberg Doop gereformeerd

Dopeling	Jannetie Hollander
Vader	Jan Hollander
Moeder	Ariaantie van der Vree
Getuige	Aagie Hogerwaart
Plaats	Hillegersberg
Datum doop	22-12-1754
Bron	DTB Hillegersberg Doop gereformeerd

Dopeling	Jan Hollander
Vader	Jan Hollander
Moeder	Ariaantie van der Vree
Getuige	Ariaantie Hogerwaart
Plaats	Hillegersberg
Datum doop	31-01-1756
Bron	DTB Hillegersberg Doop gereformeerd

Dopeling	Jan Hollander
Vader	Jan Hollander
Moeder	Ariaantie van der Vree
Getuige	Ariaantie Hogerwaart
Plaats	Hillegersberg
Datum doop	03-09-1758
Bron	DTB Hillegersberg Doop gereformeerd

Dopeling	Johanna Hollander
Vader	Jan Hollander
Moeder	Ariaantie van der Vree
Getuige	Grietie Blok
Plaats	Hillegersberg
Datum doop	30-08-1761
Bron	DTB Hillegersberg Doop gereformeerd

Overledene	Ariaantje van der Vree
Huisvrouw van	Jan Hollander
Plaats	Hillegersberg
Datum begraven	16-02-1763
Opmerkingen	in de kerk; kleed van 3 gld.; overledene werd begraven met haar doodgeboren kind
Bron	DTB Hillegersberg Begraven kerk

Bruidegom	Jan Hollander wed. Ariaantie van der Vree , vanHillegersberg
Bruid	Johanna Goor , jongedochter , van Niewerkerk , wonend:Hillegersberg
Plaats	Hillegersberg
Datum trouwen	15-01-1764
Datum ondertrouw	23-12-1763
Opmerkingen	f 3,-
Bron	DTB Hillegersberg Trouw gereformeerd

Dopeling	Simon Hollander
Vader	Jan Hollander
Moeder	Janna Goor
Getuige	Aagie Hogerwaart
Plaats	Hillegersberg
Datum doop	11-08-1765
Bron	DTB Hillegersberg Doop gereformeerd

Dopeling	Simon Hollander
Vader	Jan Hollander
Moeder	Johanna Goor
Getuige	Aagie Hogerwaart
Plaats	Hillegersberg
Datum doop	03-05-1767
Bron	DTB Hillegersberg Doop gereformeerd

Dopeling	Neeltje Hollander
Vader	Jan Hollander
Moeder	Johanna Goor
Getuige	Ariaantie Goor
Plaats	Hillegersberg
Datum doop	23-04-1769
Bron	DTB Hillegersberg Doop gereformeerd

Dopeling	Maria Hollander
Vader	Jan Hollander
Moeder	Janna Goor
Getuige	Maria de Jong
Plaats	Hillegersberg
Datum doop	06-10-1771
Bron	DTB Hillegersberg Doop gereformeerd

Dopeling	Johannes Hollander
Vader	Jan Hollander
Moeder	Janna Goor
Getuige	Maria de Jong
Plaats	Hillegersberg
Datum doop	09-01-1774
Bron	DTB Hillegersberg Doop gereformeerd

Ariaantje Pieters van der Vree is geboren op 04-08-1726 in Zevenhuizen, dochter van Pieter van der Vree en Adriana Bon. Ariaantje Pieters is overleden op 16-02-1763 in Hillegersberg, 36 jaar oud.
Notitie bij Ariaantje Pieters: Bij overlijden werd Ariaantje begraven met haar doodgeboren kind

In a genealogie we find the as well .
VII-c Jan Hollander is geboren op 21-03-1723 in Hillegersberg, zoon van Claas Simonsz Hollander (1) en Aagje Jacobs de Knegt. Jan is overleden op 18-12-1780 in Hillegersberg, 57 jaar oud. 
Notitie bij Jan: Nederduits geref ged: 21 maart; get: Marija de Knegt
Beroep:

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Jan:
(1) trouwde, 25 jaar oud, op 19-01-1749 in Zevenhuizen met Ariaantje Pieters van der Vree (1), 22 jaar oud. Ariaantje Pieters is geboren op 04-08-1726 in Zevenhuizen, dochter van Pieter van der Vree en Adriana Bon. Ariaantje Pieters is overleden op 16-02-1763 in Hillegersberg, 36 jaar oud.
Notitie bij Ariaantje Pieters: Bij overlijden werd Ariaantje begraven met haar doodgeboren kind

(2) trouwde, 40 jaar oud, op 15-01-1764 in Hillegersberg met Johanna (Janna) Goor (2), 26 jaar oud. Johanna (Janna) is geboren op 10-02-1737 in Nieuwerkerk a/d IJssel. Johanna (Janna) is overleden op 11-08-1802 in Hillegersberg, 65 jaar oud. 

Kinderen van Jan en Ariaantje Pieters:

1 Adriana Hollander, geboren op 23-11-1749 in Hillegersberg Volgt VIII-b.
2 Claas Hollander, geboren op 14-03-1751 in Hillegersberg.
Notitie bij Claas: Gedoopt 23 nov 1751
3 Pietertie Hollander, geboren op 24-12-1752 in Hillegersberg Volgt VIII-c.
4 Jannetie Hollander, geboren op 22-12-1754 in Hillegersberg.
Notitie bij Jannetie: Doopget: Aagie Hogerwaart
5 Jan Hollander, geboren op 31-01-1756 in Hillegersberg.
Notitie bij Jan: Doopget: Ariaantje Hogerwaart
6 Jan Hollander, geboren op 03-09-1758 in Hillegersberg Volgt VIII-d.
7 Johanna Hollander, geboren op 30-08-1761 in Hillegersberg.
Notitie bij Johanna: Doopget: Grietie Blok
8 N.N. Hollander, geboren op 16-02-1763 in Hillegersberg. N.N. is overleden op 16-02-1763 in Hillegersberg, 0 dagen oud.
Notitie bij N.N.: Het kind werd samen met de moeder begraven

Kinderen van Jan en Johanna (Janna):

1 Simon Hollander, geboren op 11-08-1765 in Hillegersberg. Simon is overleden op 04-07-1766 in Hillegersberg, 10 maanden oud.
Notitie bij Simon: Doopget: Aagje Hogerwaart
2 Simon Hollander, geboren op 03-05-1767 in Hillegersberg Volgt VIII-e.
3 Neeltje Hollander, geboren op 23-04-1769 in Hillegersberg Volgt VIII-f.
4 Maria Hollander, geboren op 06-10-1771 in Hillegersberg.
Notitie bij Maria: Doopget: Maria De Jong
5 Johannes Hollander, geboren op 09-01-1774 in Hillegersberg Volgt VIII-g.
6 Aagje Hollander, geboren op 07-04-1776 in Hillegersberg.
Notitie bij Aagje: Doopget: Neeltje Hollander
7 Gerrit Hollander, geboren op 02-05-1778 in Hillegersberg (Terbregge) Volgt VIII-h.