Hi Liz,
Your revelation about Owen.C.Catley clears up a minor mystery for me that I
once had, but had since forgotten about, and that was that I now recall that
my father Colin Cattley who was a Telegraph Engineer with The Eastern
Telegraph Company (which later became part of Cable&Wireless) often claimed
that there was another Cat*ley Operator/Engineer working cable traffic in
the Eastern Region (ie, East of Greenwich) in the 1920's/30's/40's but he
could not work out which Tree he belonged to.
Can not remember if dad said the other guy was Indian Telegraphs or not but
with the rareness of the name, I think he must be one and the same person.
In those days the submarine telegraph cables to India and Australia went ex
UK, via Ascension and St Helena Islands in the Atlantic, via Cape Town and
Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
Maybe my dad and Owen Catley had come across oneanother as "duty officers"
at their respective cable stations?
Cheers
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "lizcordingley" <lizcordingley(a)blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <catley(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:55 PM
Subject: [CATLEY] owen catley
Hi Nigel,
I have found your mysterious Owen. He was born abt 1892 Owen C Catley
married to Eleanor b abt 1905. They had a child Augustina S b 1926. Owen
came to England 30/5/1924 from Karachi Pakistan and stayed at Mansfield
House Maidavale London Job Des. Ind Telegraphs. No other family with him.
Then he came again 11/2/1947 from Bombay to 27 High Street Cardiff job
des. Telegraph Engineer. Augustina was a nurse. He came with family.
Sorry I lost your email ad. when computer crashed and also your mobile
when I lost all my contacts on phone!!!!!!!
For all others Ancestry has information on loads of Cat(to)ley's that came
into this country. You might find interesting.
Liz
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