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1.
First, some old British ID and travel documents - note that
picture ID was not always part of the format and that a first
name was referred to, presumptuously, as a "Christian" name.
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WWII National Registration card - cover
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WWII National Registration card - contents
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Another Nat Reg card
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The inside of the previous NR card.
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Les.Godfrey's travel ID card
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The same travel ID card cover
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Irene Godfrey's(Miller) passport for her journeys to Belgium
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1b.
The following images are of
Louisa Mary Reid's passport
- which is of interest because it was issued by the British
Foreign Office in 1921 - shortly before partition of Ireland and
formation of the Republic of Ireland. Today, Louisa's home,
Donegal, is in the Republic.
The other interesting note is
that the passport is almost double the size of a typical passport
today and constructed 'map style' - that is it has no pages in
the conventional sense but is one large sheet folded into ten
sections.
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Louisa Mary Reid's passport
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The front cover
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More information here about the Sec.of State (Lord Curzon) than there is about Louisa!
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2.
Some show
programmes from Daphne Miles' (Dorothy Miller) career.
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Leaflet announcing the HRH show.
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The logo of the Harlequins revue group
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3.
Miscellaneous
items of interest.
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1a. Fredk Jos Carwardines home street - Tomlins Grove, London. photo ca.1907
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1b. Same street, same view today. Not much change - except fot the cars!
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2. A 1946 letter from Arthur Carwardine to Daphne (Dorothy Miller)
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3a. Page 1 of a letter from Arthur's Father
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3b. Page 2 of the same letter. Not clear to whom he wrote but probably to his first cousins - Adeline & sisters.
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Inside the cover of a Carwardine family bible - 19th century.
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4.Armorial identities and
family crests. First some
general comments - although various images below relate to some
of our family names, don't get too excited, you're probably not
directly related to some old aristocratic family. For example a
person's second name might be Windsor (have a look in the phone
book, there are a lot of Windsors around) but it is hardly
likely that they are cousin to the British Monarch. So I
regard these images as just a bit of fun not to be taken too
seriously by us. If you
want a good summary of the history of armorial crests, have a
look at this web site:
http://www.heraldryclipart.com/history-heraldry.html
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1. A version of the Carwardine arms by the Swyrich Corporation.
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2. It has been noted that Carwardine was another spelling variant of a name that appears variously as Cardin (or-en,-on), Carwarden & Carwardyne.
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3. Do the crests have a wolf or a dog & is it holding an arrow or shot through the neck?
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4. An Evans crest also from Swyrich
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5.This Evans Blazon of Arms is by Bob Minor. It has a Welsh Motto.
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6. See comments below about this Piffe family crest
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7. A Swyrich version of the Godfrey arms
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8. This version of the Godfrey arms is by Macaulay Mann - note the Latin inscription. The birds are pelicans by the way.
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Some additional Comments on the picture
6 above, relating to the Piff(e) crest, were added by Robin
Godfrey, as follows:
I had contacted
Anthony Davis in 1994 who, like myself at the time, was a
member of the Gloucestershire Family History Society. In
one of the journals, I noted he was interested in the names
Davis, Carwardine and Piffe. I contacted him and discovered
that we were in fact related. His great grandfather Richard
Holbeach Davis, married Ellen Judith Carwardine.(see
Carwardine family trees on this web site)
Part of Tony's investigations led him
into communications with a man named Reginald Piff who wrote
an interesting letter about the Piffe/Piff family with
family trees, one showing the marriage of Mary Ann Piffe and
James Carwardine (also see Carwardine family trees on this
web site) Also in his letter he quotes:
"......among her aunt's possessions
a painting of the Piff(e) family heraldic device of which I
enclose a photocopy of a sketch I made from details she
supplied me with. It would appear that the 'E' had been
painted on subsequently. The symbols on the coat of arms
indicate it being applicable to a second son with naval
connections. I approached the college of Heraldry with a
view to having it authenticated but as they required a fee
of £200 I did not proceed."
Another interesting snippet from his
letter: "A Ronald Piff rang me way back in 1978 to say
that a retired Colonel, an historian, who had a retreat in
the Cotswolds, had told him that the name of Piff(e) is
connected with Kenilworth Castle in the 12th century and
came over to England with the Normans (dePiffe?)...."
5.
Trains and boats and planes
From time to time these feature in the
family past and this section has a selection of related photos
and documents.
Members of the Carwardine family had
emigrated to the USA in the late 19th century - some
to stay some to return. The precise reasons for these
major family decisions are not precisely known (readers may have
some further data on this and are encouraged to email 
so that this site can be updated) but some information exists
and the images below are of interest.
First, the journey to the USA by
Reginald Miller,
his wife Adeline and eldest son Leslie. I believe that
their intention was to settle in the USA but clearly something
did not work for them and they returned (when and on what ship?)
(Click on the image to enlarge it)
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Registry record of the SS Belgian Land (?)
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Photo of the SS Belgenland - is this the same ship (?)
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It is an assumption that these are the
same ship although the first is listed as "SS Belgian Land".
Researches cannot uncover a ship with this name at that time.
The image on the document by the way is a standard image not one
of the ship listed.
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