WHITTLE family fairground connection

[LittleWhittle]

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
 

[lolitahickey]

Dear All

As a granddaughter of James Hickey, daughter of James Hickey (son) all of the James Hickey & Sons of Richmond I am sorry to say that your Whittle family is not the same as my grandmother's (Rebecca Whittle).

Hickey's used Traction Engines for heavy haulage and there are still some around today.

They may well have known you family given they repaired boilers and that there was a permanent fair on Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey.

My cousin and grandson of Rebecca Whittle through her first child and marriage to Henry Bradley (she never did marry James Hickey) tels of his Uncle William (Hickey son no 3) knowing fairground people and taking him to the fair.

My Whittles came from Suffolk.

Whittle is a northern name and it is a fairly common name in the north.

My unce had steram boats on the river thames - use for pleasure and if it needed steam or moving the Hickey's were there.

My great claim to fame is that my grandfather James Hickey helped to build Tower Bridge, cutting rivet holes by hand and still more to investigate....

Nic talking to you and I hope this has helped you sort out some of your connections.

[EGYPT]

I cannot believe there are so many Whittle relatives out there, George Alfred Whittle seems to be a distant cousin, of mine, his father George Whittle born 30/01/1831 in Lowermore Worcester married to Emma Alloway born 25/12/1867 was my 3 x G Grandfather's (John Whittle born Aug 1811) brother.  I hope this makes sense it is all new to me.  These details have only recently been passed to me by my later father's (George James Whittle) family, the details include maiden names of some of the females who have married into the Whittle family since 1773 (Roe, Smith, Stokes, Alloway, Bosley, Priddey, Knight to Lavinia Smith). Also males who have married Whittle females including Spence and Attwood.  The family seem to originate in Bromsgrove in 1773 but move to Egham in Surrey, Windsor in Berkshire, Woking and Barnet Fair Hertfordshire before the last couple of generations make it to Birmingham where we are now.  If anyone has any further information I would be grateful to hear it.  I am told that our a ancestors were boat people and connected with the fair I would love to know more about this.

[EAP]

Hello, Egypt. This is good! I shall have to get my brain back into gear now, because I have not looked at these WHITTLES for a couple of years now. This thread was fantastic and helped me find out so much about all these people for my husband. I did say I would enter it all up onto a tree, but still have not done so. The George WHITTLE / Emma ALLOWAY connection is definitely my husband's line. They were his great-grandparents.

Best wishes,

Edwina

[EGYPT]

Edwina

If you have any information regarding the Whittle line this would be appreciated.

Best Wishes
Egypt

[EAP]

OK, Egypt. Will now get motivated and organise the material. Will PM you when I've done it. Might take me a week perhaps to slot it in alongside everything else?? Will get back to you.

Edwina

[ETurner]

Hello

I am new to this site but I was searching my family history and came across this written on this site by TJW in July 2008

I have some other newspaper cuttings......The death of my great grandfather George Alfred in 1942 and another cutting about the wedding of Mr. Herbert Turner to Miss Violet Whittle, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Whittle the well known show people of Blackwater in 1933. Gifts included a Musquash coat and a Wolsley Hornet car.

I am the granddaughter of Mr Herbert Turner and Miss Violet Whittle.  They were cousins and had two sons, William Herbert and Edward Arthur.  I am Edward's daughter - whom they called Arthur since birth. 

My father knows loads about the whittles and I think is still in contact with a few of them.  We have lots of photographs of my grandmother at the coconut shy and other stalls.  My grandfather famously claimed that he lent Billy Butlin £200 to start Butlins - he has passed away so we don't know if its true but its a great story!

I will question my father and try to find out more.

[ETurner]

Little Whittle & TJW:  Duchie Whittle was my grandmother, her real name was Violet Whittle.  My father Edward Arthur Turner is still in touch with Gerald Whittle.

[wayne whittle]

Hello E Turner
I am the grandson of George Alfred Whittle and son of Dennis Whittle my son is Little Whittle.
I remember my Dad taking me to your familys brakers in Woking, when I was a little boy.
I hope you are all well.