Thomas Heaviside, Photographer

[Jebbo]

Does anyone have access to his obituary which appeared in the 1887 Durham Directory?  His sister was my gggm . . .

I've seen a number of photographs from him scattered around the web but does anyone know if there are any large collections of his works anywhere?

--- Tony Jebson

[barryd]

I am "in-lawed" to the Heaviside family.

From my notes on the Heaviside line:

I have seen one small painting of Whitby Abbey painted by Thomas Heaviside, one photograph of the Heaviside party sitting in front of the ruins at Finchale Abbey. No names of the party are mentioned on the photograph but it assumed that the photographer was Thomas Heaviside and he got himself into the photograph. Some of the servants/coachmen
and their familes could be in the photograph also. Probably Thomas Heaviside went to Whitby on the train and by coach from his house in Durham City to Finchale. I have seen one pencil sketch of an unknown Heaviside of about twenty years old, possibly drawn by Thomas or possibly by one of the children.

Some years ago one of the Durham photographers had a large glass negative collection of the Heaviside photographs,
What became of them I do not know.

[mim]

Hi,

A biography of Thomas Heaviside can be found in 'Durham Biographies Volume One' which was produced by Durham County Local History Society. (ISBN 0-902958-20-8).

The biography states that "Photographs by Heaviside can be seen, and copies obtained , from the photographic archive at Beamish Museum and there are examples of his work at Durham University Library".

mim

[Jebbo]

Thanks folks!

--- Tony

[hippie]

Hi,
Are you related to Michael Heaviside ? His parents were Elizabeth andMicheal Wilson Heaviside married Lanchester1905.
Elizabeths sister was my Great Gran
Hippieyankie@yahoo.co.uk

[barryd]

Michael Heaviside married Elizabeth Draper. After the marriage they were  known to have lived in Holmside and Burhope Colliery before moving to "Bloemfontein" parish of Craghead.

My late Aunt Olive Powney was the daughter of Annie Heaviside the sister of Michael.

[Jebbo]

Hippie asked:
> Are you related to Michael Heaviside?  His parents were Elizabeth
> and Michael Wilson Heaviside married Lanchester 1905

Yes, very distantly.  Michael Wilson Heaviside's grandfather Thomas (the photographer) had a sister Dorothy, who was my gggrandmother.

--- Tony

[barryd]

Dorothy Heaviside was a full sister to Thomas Heaviside the photographer. The other full sister was Maria Lavinia who married Owen Rannaghan in 1848.

Who/when/where where did Dorothy marry? 

[Jebbo]

barryd asked:
> Who/when/where where did Dorothy marry?

Well, there's a good question! And I still haven't worked out *why* the following happened . . .

My ggrandfather James Adolphus Cowper's birth certificate lists his parents as James Cowper and Dorothy Heaviside.  So I spent ages pounding my head against this brick wall, searching for their marriage, etc.

Eventually, I found a Peter & Dorothy Cauper in the 1861 census, which was the breakthrough I needed.

Anyway, it turns out that James Adolphus Cowper's father "James" was born "Peter".  There was clearly something dodgy going on as their marriage certificate lists Peter Couper and *Mary* Heaviside, then the birth certificate of the first child John W Couper names his parents as Peter & Dorothy, but on the subsequent children's birth certificates the parents are named as James & Dorothy.

As various addresses match, I'm pretty certain of James = Peter and Mary = Dorothy . . . there are also some very dubious ages in the census so it may have been disapproval because Dorothy was cradle snatching.  However, I have a feeling that it may be more to do with religion: I suspect Dorothy's father was catholic and Peter/James was almost certainly not as he's from Kirkcaldy

I'll post dates and more detail later when I get home.

--- Tony
Edit: they were married on 5 Aug 1860 in Stella