Hello Erica et al
Apologies for delay in response, have been away for all of last week.
Many thanks for the infill information re Mark Napier and Wm Esdile Cattley,
as my father would have said, this is what genealogy is all about, i.e.
managing to put some flesh upon the bones of a bare tree and getting to
grips with individuals histories
.
Calotype albumen print or painting, the fact remains that the artist was
W.E.Cattley and presumably we can, given the whole evidence, make the
assumption that this MUST have been our William Esdaile?
There is archive evidence to prove that quite a few Cattleys of our Tree
were quite accomplished amateur artists but not of the line to which WEC
belonged. Many of the "Russian Cattleys" artistic work remains in archive
and the WEC style of painting reminds me of the work by Gilbert Atcheson
Cattley. There must be a family gene working here (pity it passed me by!) I
think.
I have the original full works (all 7 Volumes!) of Frank Moberlys, "Cattley
Family Tree" all done in pen and ink, freehand in hardback book form which
tracks out into many distaff quarters and these include GARRATT, DUGMORE and
SANDYS-LUMSDAINE which concur with your Legacy information in the most part.
As such I think I know which person you refer to but I do not have an
address by e-mail as I am going totally from record info. Will e-mail you
direct with name(s) rather than broadcast through this rather public medium.
Regards to all ........... Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: Erica Hills <erica(a)hillsperth.com>
To: <CATLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 11:20 AM
Subject: [CAT...] W E CATTLEY
Hi Everyone,
What a wonderful hobby this is. We discover so much in the process !!
Firstly, the image in the National Portrait Gallery is a Calotype albumen
print photograph not a painting. The subject of the photo, Mark NAPIER,
(1798-1879) was an Attorney in Edinburgh, held the rank of Major-General
so presumably had been in the army in his youth, and was Sheriff of
Dumfries, Scotland for 35 years.
William Esdaile CATTLEY (1819-1888 - son of William CATTLEY of Cattleya
Orchid fame), a somewhat younger contemporary of Mark NAPIER, was a
barrister at Lincoln's Inn. He had a beloved property in Tain, Ross and
Cromarty, Scotland. He was a wealthy and generous man who probably wore
glasses or had a monocle as he owed the Optician 5s 8d. when he died.
He
obviously had his father's love of gardening because he owed one
seed
merchants around 3 pounds, and another £6.13.3 - but that one also sold
wine <grin>.
I have no proof, but I believe W.E.C. would in every likelihood have met
and become friendly with Mark Napier because of their occupations, the
social life in Scotland, and his need for an advocate in Scotland where
English law did not apply.
Because English patents did not apply in Scotland these clever lawyers
(along with others in the Edinburgh Calotype Club played with advancing
the
Calotype process to vastly improve it). The portrait is a very
advanced
version of early Calotype photography that uses an egg-white finish to
enable multiple and much improved copies of a photograph. Thus the
"Albumen print" For more details see :
http://www.nls.uk/pencilsoflight/history.htm
http://albumen.stanford.edu/library/monographs/masters/the_albumen_print.htm
l
I know that W E CATTLEY died in Tain in Scotland in 1888 from his will,
of which I have a copy. He had no children and nor did his siblings, so
he left his estate to the children of his cousins - and therein lies a
very
hard knot to unravel as all his aunts and uncles married into his
maternal
GARRATT or DUGMORE lines; sorting them out is beyond me at this time.
You
don't happen to know the name of the SANDYS-LUMSDAINE cousin who
lives in
Ireland do you Tim ? I have been in touch with him but seem to have lost
his email address.
Opinions and proofs welcome.
Cheers......... Erica
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