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Cartwright was born in 1867 at Fegg Hayes, near Chell and
Norton-in-the-Moors in Staffordshire, the son of a coal miner William
Cartwright and his wife Hannah née Knight. The family moved to
Eckington, Derbyshire in late 1880 or early 1881, and by census night
that April, at the age of only 13, Levi was already working as a coal
miner. His brother William David was born two years later, by which
time they had moved again, to Hasland near Chesterfield. After a brief
spell in Langwith, they then settled in Hillstown, near Scarcliffe by
April 1891; Levi and his father were still employed as coal miners. Levi Cartwright married Sarah Ann Hall at Mansfield in 1892. They settled in Hillstown too and by 1901, when they were living in Victoria Street with two children, Levi had become a postman and shopkeeper. It seems likely that he was working for, or took over from, Matthew Cowley and Cowley & Sons, respectively shown as sub-postmaster and shopkeepers in the 1899 edition of Kelly's trade directory. By this time, his brother William David, still living with his father (his mother had died in 1895) and work as a pony driver in the coal mines. Levi may have worked as photographer in the mid-1900s, although the fact that he has used an inked stamp on the reverse of a plain card mount suggests to me that his foray into this occupation was probably brief. Levi and his family emigrated to Canada in 1911, arriving at Portland, Maine on 3 April on board the ship Southwark. They settled first in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and then on a farm near Swift Current, where both Levi and his son Cressy Fortesque Cartwright were granted land. Sarah Ann Cartwright died in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 18 June 1944, aged 75, while Levi Cartwright died in the same location on 27 December 1947 aged 80. |
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William David Cartwright and Annie Cartwright
née Hobson by L. Cartwright of Victoria Cross, Hillstown, Bolsover Undated, but probably taken c.1906 Format: Cabinet Card Size: Image © & courtesy of Valerie Bailey Notes: see Photo-Sleuth
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Images kindly provided by Valerie Bailey 1841-1901 UK Census - online from Ancestry.com FreeBMD International Genealogical Index - online from the LDS church Anon (1891) Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland & Nottinghamshire, Kelly & Co., London. University of Leicester's Digital Library of Historical Directories 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. 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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