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Travelling People / Re: WHITTLE family fairground connection
« on: Sunday 21 September 08 21:38 BST (UK) »
Hello Deb and Trev
Deb Sheldon is my uncle i was with him today
i talked with my grandad Dennis last night and he told me and my dad about his dad George Alfred whittle, he did stay with cousens in islington he and his brother Len both went to school there while the rest of the family were on the road, and aparently he was a good scholler and a good swimmer he used to swim across the canal and pinch monkey nuts from the barges going by in Islington cannel.
And Trevor my grandad told me that his dads cousens from Fulham used to come and visit him at Putney fair every year when he was young and they some times used to help them mind the rides and stalls.
So we are related, its how we are related that we must work out, grandad said its very similar how you also had a girl in the family that died before her time, his sister Joyce died when she was 24, the picture you have is of George Alfred Whittle senior is from the Worlds Fair news paper, if he is your great grandad then that would mean he had a son before he married Lavinia.
My grandad wondered if your great grandad was George Alfred senior's brother we still dont know how many siblings he had ?
Maybe he had an older brother ?
We know that our great grandad was the oldest member of his family or we think we do ?
But like you said your nan and grandad both remember helping out at the fair, only your grandad would of grown up as a Whittle, so maybe it was on a visit to Putney Fair.
Deb your part in this with the old history is interesting, a few years ago my grandad was selling a trayler and a showman from up north came down to buy it , his name was alf Whittle and there were more of them up there, we wondered if maybe some of the Whittles from the other end of the Cannel joined the buisness ?
Its interesting how barges on the cannels are pained and lined out just like fairground equipment,
The missing link maybe
Oh and grandad said George Alfred Whittle senior was a great carpenter as well as blacksmith and engeneer.
He was the great seed that started us all in the Fairground , he would work for farmers doing there blacksmith work etc as long as his fair could open on their land while he was doing it, thats how the Whittles got so many places to open at.
lets all keep digging
this is fun
lloyd
Deb Sheldon is my uncle i was with him today
i talked with my grandad Dennis last night and he told me and my dad about his dad George Alfred whittle, he did stay with cousens in islington he and his brother Len both went to school there while the rest of the family were on the road, and aparently he was a good scholler and a good swimmer he used to swim across the canal and pinch monkey nuts from the barges going by in Islington cannel.
And Trevor my grandad told me that his dads cousens from Fulham used to come and visit him at Putney fair every year when he was young and they some times used to help them mind the rides and stalls.
So we are related, its how we are related that we must work out, grandad said its very similar how you also had a girl in the family that died before her time, his sister Joyce died when she was 24, the picture you have is of George Alfred Whittle senior is from the Worlds Fair news paper, if he is your great grandad then that would mean he had a son before he married Lavinia.
My grandad wondered if your great grandad was George Alfred senior's brother we still dont know how many siblings he had ?
Maybe he had an older brother ?
We know that our great grandad was the oldest member of his family or we think we do ?
But like you said your nan and grandad both remember helping out at the fair, only your grandad would of grown up as a Whittle, so maybe it was on a visit to Putney Fair.
Deb your part in this with the old history is interesting, a few years ago my grandad was selling a trayler and a showman from up north came down to buy it , his name was alf Whittle and there were more of them up there, we wondered if maybe some of the Whittles from the other end of the Cannel joined the buisness ?
Its interesting how barges on the cannels are pained and lined out just like fairground equipment,
The missing link maybe
Oh and grandad said George Alfred Whittle senior was a great carpenter as well as blacksmith and engeneer.
He was the great seed that started us all in the Fairground , he would work for farmers doing there blacksmith work etc as long as his fair could open on their land while he was doing it, thats how the Whittles got so many places to open at.
lets all keep digging
this is fun
lloyd
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