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Robert Hawker Peniel Preston was born in 1838 at Painswick in Gloucestershire. He started working as a photographic artist as a young man, and by 1861 was lodging at 1 South Terrace, Madron, Penzance. In 1864 he married Harriet Ann Snell Body at Penzance, and they had at least seven children.
Robert Hawker Peniel PRESTON b. c.Feb 1838 Painswick GLS m: c.Aug 1864 Penzance COR Harriet Ann Snell BODY b. c.1843 Callington COR
|- John H. PRESTON b. c.1864 Madron COR
|- Susan Mary Gertrude PRESTON b. c.Feb 1868 Penzance COR
|- Robert Joseph PRESTON b. c.Feb 1871 Penzance COR
|- George Vincent H. PRESTON b. c.Feb 1873 Penzance COR
|- Katherine Lucy PRESTON b. c.Feb 1875 Penzance COR
|- Richard Harold PRESTON b. c.May 1877 Penzance COR
|- Stafford Michael PRESTON b. c.Nov 1880 Madron COR
In the early to mid-1860s Preston formed a partnership with Samuel Poole of Teignmouth & Exeter. They advertised in an 1864 trade directory, using the same South Terrace address, and appear to have operated from the mid-1860s until at least the early 1870s. Cartes de visite are included below by "Preston & Poole of Penzance and Truro," indicating that they also had a studio in Truro. Robert Preston himself continued working as a photographer until at least 1901. The census of that years shows his son Richard walso working in the studio.
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| Type I Used c. early to mid-1860s Sun with motto, "E Lumine Vita" single font Brown ink on white card |
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ID #: prestonpoole01 Source: Shallcross Album, Collection of Brett Payne Artist: Preston and Poole, of Penzance Negative No. - Size: Carte de visite Card Type: Type I (brown on white) - sun with motto, "E Lumine Vita," single font. Date: Undated, probably taken c.1862-1865 Notes: Thin card. Square corners. Subject: Unidentified middle-aged man with beard and moustache, full length standing portrait with pedestal. |
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