Ware family photographs: June 2011

Renee Popski and Nan

This is a picture of Irene Ware, William Ware(our Great Grandfather) and Alice Ware(our Great Grandmother) circa 1945
our nickname for our Great Grandfather is Popski

William Severn and his wife Sarah Palmer

Bill Severn

This is a picture of our Grandmother's youngest brother William Severn

Ware family circa 1931

Back row,left to right: Winifred Winter, the next person unknown,William Ware (our Great Grandfather) Alice Ware (our Great Grandmother) William Digby Ware,

front row: Irene Louisa Ware,William Edgar Ware.

Ware family circa 1930

From left to right: Irene Louisa Ware, William Edgar Ware, our Grandfather William Digby Ware, our Grandmother Alice Harriet Ware,Winifred Winter(our Grandmothers closest friend)

William Digby Ware and Harriet Severn 1917

This is our Grandfather and Grandmother shortly after they married the child on my Grandfathers knee is probably one of my Grandmothers nieces,which one I am not sure.

This is a picture of Rosa Ware, she was the sister of our Great Grandfather,she emigrated to Queensland Australia at the age of 18, she married John Penny in 1881,they had one son,Charles Digby Penny; she died in South Brisbane Hospital at the age of 96

James Ware the 2nd

This is a picture of our Great Grandfather's brother James born Lewisham Kent ,1858 he started out life as a seaman,then he decided to become an evangilist in China,he was ordained as a minister in Shanghai and lived there working as a missionary with his wife Elizabeth and their children for the rest of his life,he died in 1913.

James Ware our Great Great Grandfather

This is a picture of our Great, Great, Grandfather,James Ware,he was married twice, his first wife Elizabeth was an invalid and had no children by the time she died in 1856,they had a grocers shop in Loampit Vale,Lewisham,James re-married, his new wife Harriet Digby a childrens nursemaid was 22 years younger than James,they had ten children Benjamin,James,Rosa,Walter,Harriet,Harriet,William(our Great Grandfather) Mary,Bessie,Grace the last child died shortly after birth;

James decided to change the grocers shop into a pub which he called "The Earl Gray" he ran into debt and sold the pub to his nephew William Broadribb in 1870 and was bankrupted in 1872, reading between the lines having so many children must have put a huge strain on a man of his age, his youngest child was born when he was 62 years of age ,he died soon after in 1874 leaving his wife Harriet with nine children under the age of 15.