Multigenerational Family Album: Holloway, Bolton, Roberts Legacy

1. FAMILY ALBUM I BOLTON HOLLOWAYANCESTORS

2. The Family of Halbert HaroldHollowayII Irena Alice and Wirt Holloway See http://www.umilta.net/holloway.html

3. Grandson Elmer, Irena Alice and Wirt Holloway in Kern County, California

5. Baby Hal, with his Tilly grandfather, a carpenter Hal, second left in front in Millie Munsie’s class. She taught three generations of Holloways in Bakersfield, Kern County.

6. Aunt Leece, Elizabeth Tilly Holloway Munding, Ed’s Wife, Benjamin Wollcott Holloway, Ed, Halbert Harold, Luella, Aunt Martha, Aunt Luella Aunt Leece, Elizabeth Tilly Holloway Munding, Ed’s Wife, Benjamin Wollcott Holloway, Ed, Halbert Harold, Luella, Aunt Martha, Aunt Luella, Bakersfield, California

7. From Boulder Exhibition, ‘Wild Geese’: A Family of Anglo-Irish Artists, FAMILYALBUMIV

8. Henry Edward Bolton, Dublin, friend of the Astronomer Royal, took this photograph of himself. His first wife, the Quaker Eleanor Glorney, his second wife, Pauline Beckett, aunt of Samuel Beckett, the Nobel Prize winner

9. The Family of John Robert Glorney Bolton My grandmother, Florence Bolton, is acting in the Warwick Pageant, that she is a Brtish Princess forced to sacrifice her son, my father, to the Druids, when a Christian Knight comes by and rescues Robin from the flames and he runs to her. My grandfather designed the costumes and painted the scenes and props for the Countess of Warwick.

10. Portrait, now in Rome, of Granny with Eileen and Robin by John Nunn Bolton

11. Joyce, Robin and Eileen in Quaker Garden/Graveyard playing with daisy chain crowns, painted by their Father, John Nunn Bolton

12. The Quaker Meeting House is the brick building, the graveyard cum garden where the children played being through the arch, opposite the Earl of Leicester’s Hospital. After my grandfather died, my grandmother and her children moved next door to be with her mother, Bessie Francis, from the Coventry Quaker Cash family.

13. Earl of Leicester’s Hospital, Warwick

14. Warwick: Frederick Rothwell, Granny, now widowed, Dorothy Joyce, John Robert Glorney, Eileen Mary Bolton

15. My father with a young friend. My grandmother sent this photo with the preceding one to the Bodleian Library asking for work for her orphan minor son during WWI so he could attend Oxford University. He became a member of the then St Catherine’s Society. He left University to be a journalist with the Yorkshire Post, then the Times of India, where he became friend and biographer of Gandhi.

16. The Family of Sybil Margaret Rutherford Bolton Sir James Roberts, Bart., of Saltaire, Yorkshire

17. Sir James and Lady Roberts at Fairlight Hall The photograph of Sir James Roberts, in the hall of the Bronte Parsonage, Haworth, Yorkshire

18. Alice Maude Mary Roberts, daughter of Sir James and Lady Roberts, was taken by her father to Paris following finishing school in Switzerland, to listen to a proposal of marriage by a Polish aristocrat. Instead she chose to elope with my grandfather, Norman Cecil Rutherford, M.D. to South Africa, 1903-1908, where my mother was born in a tent. Their children were Sybil Margaret, Kathleen (Q), Leo, Neil, Brian, and Enid. .

19. New-born Sybil Margaret Rutherford, in Natal, South Africa where Granny and Grandfather had eloped Sybil Margaret on their return to Saltaire

20. Granny, Alice Maude Mary Rutherford, as a baronet’s daughter, is presented to the King in Dublin. She is pregnant with Uncle Brian. Her headdress has the three Prince of Wales feathers. Another copy of this photograph in black and white used to hang in my bedroom in England.

21. Uncle Leo, Sybil Margaret, Auntie Q in dresses my grandmother sewed and embroidered

22. Granny and Mummy looking medieval at Blackgrove House, designed by Burne Jones. This was when my mother wrote a story that began ‘The Ladye Evelyn sat in her bower and wept, for no man loved her’. See http://www.umilta.net/SirJamesRoberts.html

23. Family Gathering at Strathallan Castle, Scotland, Lady and Sir James Roberts, right front, on the occasion of James Denby Roberts’ Coming of Age.

24. My mother married twice, her first husband, Cecil West in Canada.

25. Then she went to stay with my Grandfather in Vienna where he was teaching anatomy. He persuaded her to have a stable marriage with children. Where they stayed in Austria by a lake. Gaspé Peninsula

26. Two Lives Converge • Julia • Richard Rothwell Children Julia Richard Rothwell My parents were both writers and journalists, my father an editor of the Times of India and friend and biographer of Gandhi. See http://www.umilta.net/gandhi.html

27. At Darbyes, a medieval house in Westfield, Sussex, in the rose and lavender garden my mother built, 1937, Julia Sybil Bolton with Richard Rothwell At Strand-on-the-Green, a house that was later bombed, on the River Thames in London, 1939

28. Strand-on-the-Green

29. These are polyphotos, 100 different shots taken at a time, in this case down in the bowels of Victoria Station during a WWII bombing raid. One then could choose the best one to be enlarged. We simply kept the booklets. 1943 1943

30. Alexander Beattie, Richard, Julia, at Rosemount, Westfield Lane • Richard Russian-German Nanny Berzlin World War II Richard, Gina, Julia, Hastings Richard, ?, Mrs Mary Rose Beattie, Julia

31. Rosemary, Mrs Marjorie Winch, Gina, Jennifer Sybil Bolton and Myrtle, Lady Newton posed with the lawn roller by Richard John Robert Glorney Bolton Mrs Hod, mother of eight children, who gave us Barbara and Byzanty, our rabbits

32. Our dogs, Prince and Gina, Gina now elderly Auntie Joyce visits England in 1946, WWII over, from California. She has this photo taken of me in an American dress she gave for me. She had seen me when I was born eight years earlier. She would have me go to her in San Jose eight years later. I was always homesick for Europe. Broomham, my room the window back top left Right, Michael Fincham

33. Sisters and Juniper in the Lady Kennedy Rose Garden Holmhurst St Mary, 1943-1953 Sr Jean CHF, teaching VI Form Chemistry in the Coachhouse

34. Passport photograph for France, 1952 Fifth Form, St Mary’s, on Augustus Hare’s Terrace Steps, 1953

35. Susan Joan Oenone Christine Mary Julia Lydia Ann

36. Joyce Bolton in California, Artist and Professor of Child Development at San Jose State College, with her dog, Skipper

37. First, I am sent to America against my will at 16 in 1953 to live with my aunt, Joyce Bolton Julia on board the Nieuw Amsterdam, December 1953 Richard Rothwell Bolton Then my brother sails to Canada to be with my Mother, 1958

38. Julia in America I came with a Francoise Sagan/ Brigitte Bardot scissor cut. They immediately said, No, it had to be a perm and lipstick, which I always hated. Before and after photos, at Christmas in Connecticut, on the way to California. I didn’t see my parents or brother again until seven years later.

39. Joyce and Julia The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, 1954 Julia in the Santa Clara Valley

40. Saltillo, Mexico

41. The second Christmas, Julia with Professors Margaret Prall and Margaret Lyon, Berkeley Musicologists, Auntie Joyce taking the photo. My bedroom was in Harvard Professor David Prall’s library and I spent all night reading his books

42. Julia in San Jose, California, 1953-57 Julia with Hal whom she met in Creative Writing, 1954. He was eight years older than she.

43. Halbert Harold Holloway II, B.A. graduate in Speech, San Jose State College, 1956. He is wearing my aunt’s graduation gown, which I then altered to be the Berkeley Ph.D’s, and next gave to our grandchildren.

44. Julia teaching nursery school, Edith May Alcock, Hal’s first fiancée, and myself at Graduation, May 1957

45. Aunt Leece, Union Street, San Francisco. The cushion I embroidered. The Carrara marble (ship ballast) fireplace with the marble Venus and bronze satyr on it, that came to us, Luella getting the clock and the Lincoln desk. The Belgian painting Colin has.

46. Go to http://www.umilta.net/FAMILYALBUMII.ppt The Holloway-Bolton Family