Good morning Pat,
The person you have hit upon here is Robert Catley born Q3 1848 in Bristol RD the son of
Henry Catley and Mary Ann nee Axhorn and thus a member of the Thomas Catley (1772) of
Camerton family tree which is near Radstock/Midsomer Norton in Somerset.
I do not know his background in clockmaking/repairs but he appears in my records as
marrying twice in Chester, to 1 Sarah Brittain in 1876 and 2 Mary Beech in 1896. He had
some seven children all who's births were registered in Chester. Of his three sons,
only Henry survived to marry,Reginald Robert being killed in a military training accident
in 1914 in Northampton but buried in Chester.
Henry married Alice Edwards in Chester in 1904 and had a daughter and son the latter being
George Robert Catley birth reg Chester in 1904 but emigrated to Canada in 1929. Somewhere
along the way he married a Phyllis but I lost track of them in 1940 making a Canada to USA
border crossing.
If anybody has any knowledge about living members of this Camerton Catley family tree,
please be advised that the Catley surname DNA project with FamilyTreeDNA could really do
with a sample. OF all the West Country Catley family trees, we have only two tests done
and this is on Glynis' "Emery of Midsomer Norton" line and Bernies
"Thomas of Bath" pedigree and whilst both are R1b1b2 haplogroup (thus not
Norse/Anglo Saxon) they do not share a common ancestor.
Regards TimC On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 18:28:32 +1000
Pat H via <catley(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
This photo appears on a number of websites but R Catley gets a
mention as
one of the shopkeepers. May be of interest to someone.
http://www.discoverchester.co.uk/Postcards.html
Pat
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