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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Topic started by: Tittensor ONS on Sunday 10 February 19 10:51 GMT (UK)
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Hello, I would like to find more information about an artist called B.M.Tittensor. I know of two paintings by him/her:
Winter Sunset, Aberlady. A signed watercolour sold in the USA in 2009. Full details. Including an image can be found on the Arcadja web site.
Gosford Bay. In a private collection. Signed and dated 1988.
Given the Scottish subjects I wonder if he/she might be Scottish?
I have looked for a birth of a B Tittensor before 1970 in both the Scottish and English registers but didn't find a good match. It could be a married surname, of course.
Does anyone have any more information or suggestions about where to look please?
Thanks,
Paul
Tittensor One-Name study homepage: www.tittensor.com
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There was a Harry Tittensor:
https://www.artuk.org/discover/artists/tittensor-harry-18871942
Could he/she be a relative?
Gadget
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I’m not sure if any of this will haelp but it might lead somewhere.
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Church Records No Births or Deaths
Marriages
TITTENSOR JEAN ROBERT MILLOWEN 05/11/1812 Barony
TITTINSOR LOWISA DANIEL CAMERON 29/07/1811 Baron
Statutory Records from 1855.
30 Births, 43 Marriages (No B or BM)
28 Deaths including below.
TITTENSOR BERYL MARY 85 MMN - SCOTT 2003 North Berwick
Two Beryl Mary’s born Scotland around 1918
FORREST BERYL MARY 1920 Bothwell Lanarkshire
No Forrest/Scott marriages Bothwell but 4 in Lanarks. 1900 - 1920
GORDON BERYL MARY 1916 Rubislaw Aberdeen
Two Gordon /Scott marriages Aberdeen many others elsewhere.
GORDON THOMAS SCOTT SUSAN HUNTER 1914 Rubislaw
GORDON JAMES ANDERSON SCOTT HELEN ROSE 1914 Rubislaw
However Beryl Mary Gordon married Thomas Lyall
GORDON BERYL MARY LYALL THOMAS 1938 College, Lanrks
On A…y
Beryl M Tittensor Electoral Roll 1955/56 18 Beclands Road Putney and Streatham
MS Beryl M Tittensor2003-2004 Sunset View, Sea Wynd, Aberlady, EH32 0SD Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland
Colin
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Beryl M Tittensor Electoral Roll 1955/56 18 Beclands Road Putney and Streatham
MS Beryl M Tittensor2003-2004 Sunset View, Sea Wynd, Aberlady, EH32 0SD Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland
Looks like the artist, Colin. Well found.
Gadget
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Colin and Gadget, thanks very much for your replies.
Beryl Mary looks like the one. I'll look for her marriage to a Tittensor.
Harry Tittensor the artist worked for Royal Doulton in Staffordshire. There is more information about him on my web site (link below - follow the link "Some Notable Tittensors").
Thanks for your help,
Paul
Tittensor One-Name study homepage: www.tittensor.com
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Marriage in Cambridge Q3, 1954 - couple might be still alive*. Surname was Pickering.
Gadget
* see next post.
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I think both are dead
Beryl - as Colin's ref and
Frederick David Tittensor, North Berwick, 2000, age 84.
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This birth registration corresponds with his death record:
Frederick D S Tittensor, Q4 1915, Wandsworth. MMN Sinclair
and marriage of parents
Frederick Tittensor m. Jean Sinclair, Q3, 1909,Wandsworth
Gadget
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Well done to you to Gadget.
Pickering Beryl M Tittensor Cambridge 1954 marriage 4a 553
Beryl M Pickering born 2 Dec 1918 Cambridge. In 1939 she was an Art Student
Colin
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Looks like they both moved to Scotland in later life.
Gadget
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I was looking for images of paintings by Beryl Tittensor and in the results of a Google search came across this thread. The daughter and granddaughter of Beryl Tittensor nee Pickering run a wee shop and cafe in Aberlady called The Old Bakehouse Cafe in Sew in Stitches. The fact that Beryl was an artist came up in conversation with Beryl's daughter. Apparently she has paintings in a number of public collections in the UK. She lived and worked in Cambridge for quite some time before moving to Aberlady in East Lothian Scotland. I haven't managed to see any of her paintings on line or otherwise.
JoeA
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Hello Joe and welcome to Rootschat :)
I remember having a good search for artwork online at the time but had no luck. I didn't try Beryl Pickering.
Gadget
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This is by a Beryl Pickering
http://www.artnet.com/artists/beryl-pickering/village-in-a-highland-landscape-mVdOqvn1vqdsP9cX30xsqg2
Village in a highland landscape
Gadget
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Hi, my first post/reply on this site. Not sure if this thread is still active but I knew Beryl Tittensor, as I grew up in Aberlady from age 4 to 18 and both attended watercolour classes as a mid/teenager in Beryl’s gallery/ art shop (now the cafe/ sewing shop referred to in another reply) and bought art supplies / paper, brushes and watercolours- from the shop. I still have some of the paints over 40 years later (I’m not very prolific!). Beryl was a lovely, quiet and friendly woman and a great teacher, and finding this thread has brought back very happy memories of my youthful years in Aberlady. I’m now inspired to visit the cafe post-lockdown!
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Nice picture, wonder where it is? looks like one of Telford's Parliamentary Kirks.
Skoosh.
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It looks Perthshire-ish to me. Definitely not Aberlady :)
PS - I've seen so many of those kirks in the Highlands. And welcome to Rootschat, scottishnatureboy :)
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Never heard of Telford Parliamentary Kirks before but just looked them up and I do now. It is a lovely painting, wherever it was painted.
Beryl Pickering/Tittensor's daughter and granddaughter run the cafe/sewing shop in Aberlady. The daughter is a textile artist herself.
The cafe is still shut according to the last post on their website.
When I am next there I will share some of the things I have read on the thread, which I am sure they will be interested in hearing
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I knew Beryl Tittensor when she lived in Buchlyvie. She was very friendly with my mother.
Her husband and daughter were called Fred and Ann, I think.
In 1964/5 I sat for her and I have the portrait which she painted.
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Beryl Pickering married Fred Tittensor, whom had a daughter Sheila from his widow. Fred and Beryl had another daughter whom now owns the Cafe in aberlady east Lothian, which was once the quill gallery, when run by Beryl.
The first daughter Sheila was my mother, and my Auntie runs the Cafe.
If there are any questions about Beryl, feel free to ask me. She was an amazing artwork, and painted many things people don't know!
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Welcome to Rootschat!
Skoosh.
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I was brought up in Buchlyvie and I also sat for Beryl Tittensor in the 1960’s. My recollection is that the drawings were for a children’s school reading book. The painting referred to above, Village in a Highland Landscape, is in fact of the North Church in Buchlyvie from the top of Station Road.
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One of my lecturers in English Language at Edinburgh University in the 60s was a David Tittensor who came from Staffordshire and told us there was a village of that name there.
Harry