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Photographic Archive » Fifield

Anne and Maria Matthews (R) on a cycling tour in Brittany. ; Date: 1900

Grace Kathleen Matthews (nee Calvertt) on her horse. ; Date: Not known, early 1900s

FWP Matthews with his second wife (Elsie Merritt) and family. ; Date: Not known, possibly early 1900s.

At "The Gables", Fifield. Maria (Daughter of Frederick) at the rear. (L to R) Doris (Daughter of Frederick), Frederick, Kathleen (Daughter of Frederick), Emily and Nellie Coupar (Relations). ; Date: 1909

Matthews family; (L to R) Kate Sotham (sister-in-law to Marmaduke Matthews) with the baby Donald, eldest son of FWP Matthews; Grace Matthews (nee Calvertt); Emma, Mrs Frederick Matthews. ; Date: Not known, possibly early 1900s,

The Manor at Fifield. A family photograph; (Top row) Maria and Frederick WP Matthews. (Middle L to R) Kathleen, Emma, Doris; (Front L to R) Grace, Mary Hudson (school friend), William, Joan Hudson (school friend). ; Date: 1915

A Family Group plus friends in Fifield. (L to R top) Mrs Colcutt (wife of the architect who designed "The Gables"); Emma Matthews, wife of Frederick Matthews; Polly Matthews (nee Marg Stephens) wife of William Matthews of Lower Slaughter; (Front) Susan Hall. Date: Not known, possibly early 1900s.

A Fishing Party at Lower Slaughter with Walter and Gertrude Matthews with Charles Singleton. Date: Not known, possibly early 1900s.

Fifield. Walter Matthews with his wife Mabel (standing), Walter's mother, Polly with their baby Joyce. ; Date: Not known

A photograph of Mabel Matthews who was murdered in 1920 by an absentee soldier on the A40 road near Burford.

Portrait photograph of Walter Matthews. Fifield. ; Date: c.1920s

Photograph of Marmaduke Matthews of Fifield (1812-1883). ; Date: late 1870s

A photograph of a portrait of Marmaduke Matthews, born in 1782 at Berkswell in Warwickshire (now in Metropolitan district of Solihull) he later moved to Fifield Oxfordshire.

A photograph of the portrait of Frederick Matthews (1841-1911)

A Photograph of F.W.P. Matthews, of Fifield, in military uniform of the First World War. ; Date: Not known, early 1900s

Old photograph of John Calvertt of Withern, Lincolnshire. He was a Surgeon and Apothecary. (1797-1846). He died of tetanus in 1846. : Date of photo not given.

Photograph of John Simpson Calvertt, a Surgeon and Apothecary. ; Date: 1899

The Calvertt family at their home Fairspear House, Leafield. (Back row L to R) Elizabeth Anne, John Simpson Calvertt, Jane, Robert William, Alice, Grace. (Front row L to R) Isabel,Frederick George, John Charles. ; Date: 1884.

Photograph of Frank Matthews, the 4th son of Marmaduke Matthews of Fifield. ; Date: Not known.

Photograph of Mrs Frank Matthews, daughter of Stephen and Harriett Potter of Birmingham. ; Date: Not known

Photograph of John Simpson Calvertt, born 13th November 1829 at Withern, Llincolnshire. He farmed at Tothill Manor Farm, Lincolnshire. He moved to High Lodge Farm, Leafield, Oxfordshire, between October 1895 and April 1896. He died on the 2nd May 1900. ; Date of photo not given.

Photograph of Frederick (Eric) Matthews (1897-1973) : Date of photograph not known.

F.W.P.Matthews family. Photograph thought to be taken in their garden of Tothill, Shipton under Wychwood. (L to R) Donald Marmaduke (b.1895), Frederick (Eric) - b.1897, Kathleen, F.W.P., Grace, Doris (b.1896). Date of photograph c. 1900-1910

The children of F.W.P.Mathtews at a family gathering at Bury Barn, Burford. A total of nine children, Donald not present, (Back row L to R): Paul (living in the Isle of Man), Lucy, Grace, Sybil, Bill (living in Durban South Africa). (Front row, L to R): Kathleen, Eric (Frederick) and Doris. Date of photograph not given.

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About the collection. Members of the Society who carried out scans of John Rawlins’ extensive photographic archive included Alan Murphy, Alan Vickers, Peter Crofts, Chris Bailey, Chris Trotman, Edwin Wilson, Ian Drainer and Janet Wiltshire.

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