Alfred Munnings in Norfolk

[ang1985]

Recently I was very excited to stumble across an article about Alfred Munnings: http://www.50connect.co.uk/articles/art-by-alfred-munnings.
I believe it mentions my Great Grand Uncle (My Great Grandads brother) and I was just wondering whether anybody knew anything about Alfred Munnings travels through Norfolk in the early 1900's. When Alfred was travelling through Norfolk, he had a gypsy companion called Fountain George Page (my Great Grand Uncle) who featured in many of Munnings' paintings under his nickname Shrimp. I have ordered a marriage certificate to confirm that he is my relation and dates and names match.
I would love to know more about Fountain so if anybody has any information about his travels with Munnings, I would love to hear about it. I know Alfred Munnings wrote an autobiography and Fountain is mentioned in it, I will have to give that a read!

Many thanks

[bendywendy]

Is this him..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Munnings

Alfred James Munnings
Born   November 8, 1878
Mendham, Suffolk, England
Died   July 17, 1959 (aged 80)
Dedham, Essex, England
Nationality   British
Field   Painting
Movement   Newlyn School


Bibliographic information:

Title   AJ: the life of Alfred Munnings, 1878-1959
Author   Jean Goodman
Edition   2, illustrated
Publisher   Erskine, 2000
Original from   the University of Virginia
Digitized   2 May 2008
ISBN   1852970618, 9781852970611
Length   274 pages


Romany & Traveller Family History Society
http://website.lineone.net/~rtfhs/contents.html
There are a lot of Gypsy & Romany sites that do family history tracing.


Fountain George Page... was he born c1890 Jarrow, Tyne n Wear Reg South Shields Jun 1890

He could have married Nora Cunningham @ Leicester Dec 1939  he is listed as Fountain G Page

bendywendy

[ang1985]

Hi, Thanks for all your help, I am so sorry I have not answered sooner as I have not been on here lately.   They are the details I have for Fountain although I stumbled across another website for Munnings which claimed that Fountain was illegitimate. The Fountain on my family tree is not illegimate as I have both his marriage and birth certificates which mention his dads name as well as his mum and dads wedding certificate (they were married before Fountain was born). Thanks for the links about the Romany and Gypsy family history tracing, that may help me to solve the mystery .

[t mo]

if you haven,t already it may be worthwhile getting in touch with the munnings museum at dedham go to
www.siralfredmunnings.co.uk/ there is contact means on there .
as an aside my brother in laws grandfather was painted with one of his plough horses by munnings many moons ago , just thought i,d throw that in  .
regards
trevor

[Shannaide]

My name is shannaide page my dad is the grand son of george fountain page and nora page, this is my email ^(*) would love if you could contact me for more infomation my dad would like to no more history as he doesn't no much about his grandad! Thanks xxx
P.s we are Romany gypsies xo




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[Shannaide]

Thanks for your reply I think we have the same person, george page did marry Nora Cunningham although my dad witch is George's grandson doesn't know much about that side of the family he dose know that the shrimp in all of his paintings is his grandad george page had 5 children 3 boys 2 girls we don't know in what order but there names where, peggie, Millie, Charlie, george, and my dads dad witch was Joseph Millie is the only one still alive I believe george page died around about 1968 according to his son joe my grandad would it be possible to get a copy emaild of your certificates please as we live in Australia thanks from Joseph's page grandson