Children of George Harvey & Mary Jane Searle

George & Mary had 8 children who survived infancy :

They are shown on the tree drawn by Charles William Harvey 1887, who lived in Kitchener, Canada . The tree drawn after 1956, likely shortly afterwards

Those of George and Mary Jane's children who emigrated were: to Canada: Gordon Clive, Charles William, and Olive Millicent. & Una Hope, who later moved to the US

The photo below is of the 1905 wedding of Mary Elsie Harvey to Charles Parker, and shows all 8 Harvey children plus their parents

harvey-1905-wedding

Back row from left: Gordon Clive Harvey,........, Kate Martha Cassell and future husband George Searle Harvey, Charles William Harvey.

Middle row: 6th along is Charles Peter Parker (the groom), Ada Faulkner Harvey, Florence Kate Harvey, etc...................

Front row:........., Una Hope Harvey,..........., ............., Mary Elsie Harvey (the bride), Mary Jane Harvey( nee Searle) and her husband George Harvey

The girl in front is Olive Millicent Harvey.

I wonder if one of the other older ladies is Rosa Harvey/Taylor 1846, an aunt of Mary Elsie and still living on the Isle of Wight?? .

1.George Searle Harvey 1877-1928:

2. Mary Elsie Harvey 1879-1936:

Mary Elsie Harvey married Charles Peter Parker I of W Jun 1905 .They had: Kenneth Charles(1909-?) and Beryl Mary (Hendon 1921-1934) & Janet Clarice F Parker( Hendon 1922 - ).

After she died in 1936 Barnet, her widowed husband, Charles P Parker, married, in 1937, Kate Martha Harvey, the widow of her brother above, George Searle Harvey, and this couple returned to N Z . Janet Clarice Parker 1922 also came out to NZ and married Birnie Wolstenholme in 1941. They had one child: Peter Birnie Wolstenholme (1955). Kenneth C Parker stayed in the UK.

3. Ada Faulkner Harvey 1881-1956:

In 1891C. Living with her parents

In1901C . Living with an uncle by marriage- at 48 Guildford Rd, Greenwich, a photographic retoucher . Her aunt, Mary Ann Harvey 1855 had married Edward P Adams I of W Dec 1879

Edward P Adams Head Married Male 42 1859 Photographer Ryde, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England  
Mary A Adams Wife Married Female 46 1855 - Godshill, Isle of Wight, England  
Theodora C Adams Daughter - Female 12 1889 - Southwark, Surrey, England  
Mary E Harvey Niece Single Female 22 1879 Photographic Retoucher Sandown, Hampshire, England  
Ada F Harvey Niece Single Female 19 1882 Photographic Retoucher Sandown, Hampshire, England

In 1911C she is a boarder at 52 Bostock Road Abingdon, a photographer's assistant

Ada Faulkner Harvey Boarder Single Female 29 1882 Sandown Isle of Wight Photographer's Assistant

Likely she married Bethnel E Fowler I of W 1915- think she was the only Ada F Harvey around at the time! If so, she likely died Oxford Jun 1956, aged 74

4. Gordon Clive Harvey 1885-1951:

With his parents in 1891C and in 1901C, where he is a printer assistant . 1910. Married Blanche Hoskin Portsmouth .1911C Married at 63 High Street Sandown .

Gordon Clive Harvey Head Married Male 25 1886 Hampshire Sandown Letterpress Printer And Stationer  
Blanche Maud Harvey Wife Married Female 35 1876 Devonshire Plymouth -  
Beatrice Maud Cogger Servant Single Female 20 1891 Hampshire Newport General Servant Domestic

By 1913, he 27, is listed as a carpenter, Blanche 35, a domestic, on the Ultonia from Southampton to Montreal - no children

Nothing found about him on Ancestry trees

5. Charles William Harvey 1887-1969 :

1911C. Aged 23, clerk, boarder, in Hendon

Charles William Harvey Boarder Single Male 23 1888 Sandown T of Wight Clerk

He first married in England Lambeth Jun 1911, , 1. an Isabella Meadows, having Norman C S Harvey I of W 1913, then emigrated to Kitchener Canada, had Elaine Mary Harvey- before or after 1923?, , then Isabella died, and he remarried wife number

2. Elizabeth Rahn, on 26/6/1923, she aged 34, he 35, in Waterloo, Ontario Her father Henry Rahn, mother Mary Braun .She died 1944, aged 56, -her photo & her obituary below

3. Anna Unger , still alive in 1969

Elaine Harvey married C Wray Hyde and was living in Niagara Falls 1969

elizabeth Harvet/Rahn

.obit . . . .. . . ..charles-obit

Information found on Conrad Braun Ancestry tree - thanks

Charles worked for Equitable Life Insurance for 32 years, retiring in 1952? Then he constructed the family tree that he must have sent to the widow/family of his brother, George Searle Harvey - who had died in 1928 - out in New Zealand

1969. Charles William Harvey, 82, died in Kitchener 9/11/1969 . Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. At this time his sisters, Olive, by then Mrs Leonard Wey of Kitchener & Una, by then Mrs Richard Watson of California . He was predeceased by 2 brothers & 3 sisters . He drew up a Harvey Family Tree

6. Una Hope Harvey 1889- 1975 :

Una likely had an illegitimate child, Cecily Joan Harvey in 1908, Great Easton, Essex. This child living on the Isle of Wight with her grandparents in 1911C- dies 2005. Una went to Canada, 1910? , married 1st Aubrey Williams by 1912, cannot find this marriage in England! , had 4 children: Neville Williams 1912-1988 Lynn HarveyWilliams 1923-2000 , Aubrey Williams & Ford Williams. By 1952 she was in California and married Edward Snell - he died 1958. . Later must have married Richard Watson and was still alive in 1969- from1969 obituary of her brother above. Died 1975 in Long Beach. Cannot find her and child emigrating

Sent an Ancestry message to sbmc67 Williams tree who is descended from Neville Aubrey Williams 1912 on 21/3/2015- no reply 6 months later.. Maybe this the Sylvia McConnel who contacted me in October 2018!

7. Florence Kate Harvey 1892 -1959 :

She married William A Gentle I of W Sep 1913 . They had children: Madeline J Gentle Jun 1914, Peter A Gentle Jun 1917, Derek W Gentle Mar 1922 & Audrey J Gentle Dec 1924, all I of W

Florence K Gentle, 66, died I of W Jun 1959

8. Olive Millicent Harvey 1894- >1969

Olive also went to Kitchener, Canada , married Leonard Wey, and was still alive in 1969

 

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