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Joseph Dumville (1862-1959)


name: Joseph Dumville spouse: (1) Emma Kidd
father: John Dumville father: James Crossley Kidd
mother: Jane Parker mother: Emma Holmes
born: 29 April 1862 born: 17 September 1862
place: Headingley, Leeds, Yorkshire place: Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland
died: 20 May 1959 died: 27 June 1935
buried: Bradford, Yorkshire buried: Bradford, Yorkshire

married: (1) 1888 at Bradford, Yorkshire, Emma Kidd
(2) Annie Elizabeth Lee (no children)
occupation: Lecturer, Bradford Technical College, Author with S. Kershaw of 'Worsted Cone Drawing', 'The Carbonising Process' (1921), 'Modern Systems of Yarn Production', 'The Worsted Industry' (fourth edition published 1947), 'The Bradford Textile Society 1893-1943' (1943), and others, Textile Consultant

Children

Lilian born 13 June 1889, Buglawton, Cheshire
died 13 September 1983, Truro, Cornwall
Teacher
married (1) Bateman, (2) George Thomas
(see reminiscences and photographs)
Alice born 11 April 1891, Buglawton, Cheshire
died 26 September 1966, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
married John George Cassells (born 13 May 1886, died 6 April 1962)
Jean Dumville
(surname:
Cassells)
born 17 May 1924, Bradford, Yorkshire
married 11 June 1953, Lester Puzey (born 9 November 1921, died 1998)
children:
Ann Elizabeth, born 25 June 1955, married 17 April 1982, Andrew John Preston (born 1958), 3 children
Richard Lester, born 17 July 1959, married 20 June 1981, Karen Elizabeth Fitch (born 1960), 2 children
Herbert born 14 August 1896, Congleton, Cheshire
died 21 December 1948, Bradford, Yorkshire
Head Teacher
married 31 July 1923 at Sowerby, Yorkshire, Mabel Hellewell (born 25 June 1900, died 13 November 1976, Teacher) (see photograph)
Gwynneth
Brenda
born 5 August 1924
died 25 January 2023
married 22 December 1947, John Kenneth (Ken) Holroyd LVO (born 10 October 1926, died 16 May 2012, author of 'Equator Story' and 'The Buns of Mumbling')
children:
Kathryn Gillian (Jill), born 8 October 1948, died 19 August 2009 (see photographs and essays)
Miles Steven Dumville, married 13 February 1993, Elizabeth Helen Laing (changed name to Helen Elizabeth), 2 children
Elizabeth Roma born 25 April 1930 (see photographs)
died 27 December 2019
married 19 May 1956, John Norris Leonard Cresswell (born 1 May 1928, died 23 November 1992)
Mary Paula born 19 May 1936
died 27 December 2021
married 7 April 1964, Joaquin Garcia-Abrines (born 6 January 1929, died 26 August 2014)
children:
Joaquin Pablo, born 10 January 1965, married (1) Ana Isabel Marco Foy (divorced), 1 child, (2) Susana, 2 children
Juan Francisco, born 1966, 1 child
Alejandro Paulo, born 1975, partner Ana, 1 child

note

Kelly Selcher has a large amount of information on the Kidd family.

See also:

Joseph Dumville: A Familiar Figure in Textiles

Joseph Dumville: Obituary

Lilian Dumville: Reminiscences

Joseph Dumville and Family: Photographs

Herbert and Mabel Dumville: Photograph

Joseph Dumville: Books

Family Tree

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