{"id":199,"date":"2017-05-27T17:25:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=199"},"modified":"2021-03-30T10:32:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T09:32:21","slug":"identifying-the-fells-at-huddersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Identifying the Fells at Huddersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Family of Robert & Martha Fell at Somerville, Huddersfield<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u00a0came across a photograph believed to be of the Fell Family. A count of the people was consistent with Robert Fell and his wife Martha (n\u00e9e Keighley) and their children and the spouses of those children.\u00b9<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert and Martha had eleven children – all of whom are believed to have outlived their parents. Eight of them married.<\/p>\n

Three faces have been pasted (old fashioned scissors and paste!) into the picture* – the two characters directly behind Robert Fell and another standing at the back on the left. * Or more accurately the negative – my print is a single sheet without pastings.<\/p>\n

In August 2010 I established that the Census records for 1881\/91\/1901 indicate that the family lived at Somerville, 4 Hungerford Road, Lindley\/Lockwood – a northern suburb of Huddersfield – just off the Halifax Road.\u00a0 The description of the house (particularly the front entrance) in the Kirklees Council proposal for the Huddersfield Conservation Area matched the photograph.\u00a0 A visit to the area then confirmed that this photograph is of Somerville.<\/p>\n

I was then contacted by Don Hughes in Canada. He is the Great Grandson of Frederick Keighley Fell and thus a third cousin.\u00a0 Frederick Fell is one of Robert Fell’s children and is believed to have emigrated in 1899 to Quebec.\u00a0 After Don and I had established that we were related he then sent me a photograph asking me if I could identify it.\u00a0 It was from the same negative (plus pastings) as the photograph at the top of this item.<\/p>\n

However we struggled to positively identify everyone in the photograph.\u00a0 The 20th of\u00a0 September\u00a01904 would have been Robert and Martha’s Golden Wedding anniversary.\u00a0 We were reasonably confident that the central characters are Robert and Martha Fell.\u00a0 From another photograph from Don, Frederick and his wife Catherine Graham are probably the pasted in figures behind Robert Fell – they are unlikely to have returned from Canada for the anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n

We might assume that the other characters seated at the front are the two eldest children:<\/p>\n