Miss Ivy Beale of "Pen Tavi" Tavistock Devon

[rosie99]

Thank you for the update 

Rosie

[percy porter]

We have had some more positive information on the photographs, this has come as a result of some steady research done in Tavistock By Alex Mettler who has been quietly beavering away over the past few months.
The wedding is that of Florence Minnie Westlake and Gerald Bousfield Booth and took place at the Congregational church Tavistock in 1919
The groom was a Lieutenant of the Middlesex Regiment and R.A.F and was based at the Armament School in Uxbridge.  The bride was a nurse (perhaps explains the nursing pictures), oldest daughter of Samson Treliving Westlake and niece of Elizabeth Jane Baker of Rydal Mount (which would explain why the wedding pictures were taken there).
The family photographs are of Samson Treliving Westlake senior of Falmouth, second wife Louisa and surviving children, taken between 1903 and 1909 when he died.
His youngest daughter Rhoda Mary Westlake emigrated to Australia in 1927, married John Holt Lyon farmer in Pitt Street Methodist Church, Auckland in 1932. They farmed at Inglewood Taranaki where Rhoda died in 1975.
There are two postcards in the collection addressed to miss R Westlake at Rydal Mount.

The search continues

Alan

[rosie99]

Good to have another update Alan.  Hopefully one day someone related will find this post on an online search 

Rosie

[percy porter]

Good to have another update Alan.  Hopefully one day someone related will find this post on an online search 

Rosie

A change of tack now I am afraid.
It would appear as if our NZ connection will not bear fruit.

Rhoda Mary Lyon (Nee Westlake) "died without issue" as they say, so the possibility of passing these pictures on to a family member seem to be more profitable to a UK (Tavistock) connection.

A probate is available on her through Wellington archives and will get that checked out to see if there is a direct descendant of her

I will open another post seeking descendants of the Westlake family.

Alan.

[percy porter]

At last, we have come to a successful conclusion to this search.

We have made contact with the NZ family, the Loyds and as mentioned earlier the trail stops with the death of Rhoda Mary Loyd (Westlake).
The Westlake connection has finally been made and we have located a grandson of Samson Treliving Westlake, a few T's to be dotted and Is to be crossed and we can put this thread to bed.

Thanks to all the contributors big and small I had minimum input merely coordinating the data in put.

Another victory for the team at Rootschat.

ALan

[rosie99]

That is really good news.   

Rosie

[percy porter]

Mission Accomplished.

I passed on today the large shopping bag full of photographs to Tony Westlake, Great Grandson of Sampson Treliving Westlake.
Tony has been holidaying in NZ with his wife, Daughter and her fiance. He was flying out to the UK today and we had a very constructive and (for me) a very emotional couple of hours. It has taken over a year to locate and pass on these pictures and it could not have been done without the help of members of this forum and Penelope and Alex in the UK.

Thank you all.

Alan (on behalf of the Warkworth & District Museum)

[rosie99]

I am really pleased that you have found the 'home' for these photo's and that they have returned to the UK.  Well done     I love it when things come together like this.