WHITTLE family fairground connection

[wayne whittle]

Just Tthinking this was maybe why he was known as Alf to save confusion

It does not state anywhere that George and Lavinia did not travel with Georges Brothers?

Running a steam Fair would have taken many hands, My dad has told me how all the chaps who worked for them would turn up at the beginning of the season with their bags of possesions to live in the kip truck for the summer.

I am sure the boiler thing is firm comformation of association, we probaly did fraction off over the Years just as my family did after George Alfred died.

Everything was sold due to arguments.

But the ladies who started this thread were right we did once have a traveling Empire and other future showland Empires were grown from the remnants of ours.
One of the things that always strikes me about our family is did the Fairground artwork come from the artwork on Canal Boats?

[CV-S]

This is what I know:

The Whittle's were canal boatmen originally from Worcestershire. George Whittle (born George Alloway) married Lavinia Smith, the daughter of a steam circus proprieter. This created the 'Smith and Whittle' show, which included roundabouts, swings and chariot racing. George and Lavinia had several children including George Alfred - known as Alf.

They had a daughter named Chelmsford Daisy in 1904 in Walton-on-Thames.
George Thomas Whittle was born in 1902 in Walton-on-Thames. His sister's middle name was Daisy.

Surely the boilermakers of Weybridge fit in.

[wayne whittle]

But did George who married Lavina have a Brother who got married and called his son George?

The female names you mention are not from my grandad Alf's immediate family but they could be from his first cousins

I think we need to look back a bit further

[CV-S]

Of course George (died 1941) could have had a nephew named George Whittle, born about 1880 in Putney.

However, earlier on this thread there's a post about the Hickey family. It includes a George Whittle, born 1877 and the son of Elijah Whittle.
But that would mean there's no connection.

[wayne whittle]

G A Whittle snr

[wayne whittle]

Hello all
anther George Alfred Whittle snr picture

[wayne whittle]

My grandad G A Whittle jnr
On hi way to the USA

[wayne whittle]

my Great grandmother Lavinia

[wayne whittle]

My grandad and grandmother Sybil with my Mcowen