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William
Edmund Barter Milton was born in 1864 at Plymouth, Devon, son of
a shoe factory worker William John Barter Milton and his wife Sarah
Jane Prettejohns. In 1887 he married Florence Rebecca Robinson, daughter
of Derby police sergeant Edward Robinson, at Derby. The 1891
Census shows them living at 170 & 172 Normanton Rd, Litchurch,
Derby with their three year-old daughter Florence Margaret, and William
was a publican. Adamson (1997) shows William Milton to have
operated as a photographer from the Victoria Studio, at 26½ St.
Peter's Street, Derby, from 1898 to 1900. Kelly's trade directory
for 1899 does indeed show him at this address, but it seems likely that
Thomas Frost had already taken over the
studio by February 1900. Certainly, by April 1901 Milton appears to
have abandoned the photographic profession and was working as a railway
clerk in Peterborough. |
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Tentatively
identified as Fred Payne (1879-1946) by William Milton of Victoria Studio, St Peter's Street, Derby Undated, but probably taken c. late 1899 or early 1900 Format: Carte-de-visite Size: Image © & courtesy of Barbara Ellison Notes: see Photo-Sleuth
article. The photographer's wife Florence M. Robinson was a
first cousin to Amy Robinson (1867-1932), wife of Fred Payne's oldest
brother Charles Vincent Payne (1868-1941). |
References
Images kindly provided by Barbara Ellison 1841-1901 UK Census - online from Ancestry.com FreeBMD International Genealogical Index - online from the LDS church Anon (1895) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Kelly & Co. Limited, London. Anon (1895) History, Topography, and Directory of Derbyshire, T. Bulmer & Co. - by kind courtesy of Sonia Addis-Smith Anon (1899) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland & Nottinghamshire, Kelly & Co., London. University of Leicester's Digital Library of Historical Directories Anon (1912) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1912, Kelly's Directories Ltd., London. Derby Electoral Registers 1868-1900 Adamson, Keith I.P. (1997) Professional Photographers in Derbyshire 1843 - 1914, The PhotoHistorian, No. 118 Supplement, September 1997, ISSN 0957-0209. Courtesy of John Bradley. Craven, Maxwell (ed.) (1993) Keene's Derby, Breedon Books, Derby, pp. 200-202. - by kind courtesy of Sonia Addis-Smith |
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