Willie met Brownie

[shellyesq]

From the 1919 border entry:

Tarling, Violet, age 29 (definitely a 2, but the second number is hard to read), female, single, occupation - clerk (something below clerk is illegible), citizen of England, last permanent residence - London, England, nearest relative - 80 Pretoria Road, something like Layttonsfane, England, final destination - Malone, New York, going to join brother Albert, 6 Washington Ave., Malone, NY, planning to stay permanently, born King Langley, Herts., England

(I was typing at the same time as Anna.)

I can see Violet in the 1901 Census in Watford, Hertfordshire with her parents & 7 siblings, but no Albert.

In 1891, they're in the same town and Albert J.C. Tarling is there.  He's age 8, a scholar, and born Hackney, London.

[avm228]

Ah - good stuff, Shellyesq - I didn't think to go over to the next page!

Anna

[Erato]

Malone is pretty far from NYC; in Franklin County, up by the Canadian border.  I wonder what she was doing up there?

[shellyesq]

There are two private trees on Ancestry that have Violet Tarling listed.  Only a few sources, so the people might not have any more info than we do, but maybe someone wants to make contact to see.

Albert and his wife Ada and son Eric are in Malone in the 1920 Census.  It says he immigrated 1913.  No Violet, though.

[Erato]

1920 census - Abert Tarling, Malone, Franklin County, NY;  age39; with wife Ada and son Eric. advertizer, billboards; all came to US in 1913.  There's no sign of Violet.

[Erato]

Here'a guess.

Around WWI, a member of the menīs club in NY needed a caretaker for his summer place, a quaint New England farm in the historic village of Norridgewock, Maine.  William took the job and, for some reason, decided to call himself a farmer on his draft papers.  Maybe he thought it sounded better than caretaker.

[Erato]

William married Violet on 23 (or is it 20?) September 1921 in Manhattan.  Certificate 4257.

http://www.italiangen.org/NYCmarriageresults.asp?kind=exact&Esurname=dunston&Efirst=william&CertNbr=&StartYear=&EndYear=&B1=Submit

[Erato]

Photos of the graves of William and Violet in Friends Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSfn=&GSmn=&GSln=dunston&GSby=&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=&GSdyrel=in&GScntry=4&GSst=42&GSob=n

[bulsara]

I don't know what is happening today but 2 posts that I have tried to put on would not go.
Right lets try again.
Known fact.
WFD was born j/a/s 1874 Chorlton
WFD married Alice Ann Harris 1893 Bury
I know of no connections to farming or the military.
In uk he was hotel waiter,then a restaurant manager.
I think when he left his wife and worked on the ships he was a steward.It seems that then becoming a butler in usa was a fitting job for him.
bulsara