This photo discovery is another great great
grandmother- my paternal grandfather's maternal grandmother, Catherine
Dunn. The previous post was about photographs of his paternal grandmother, Clara Uhl.
Catherine Dunn was born around 1865 in Matawan, Monmouth
County, New Jersey to Ezra A. Dunn (1820-1898) and Hermoine Dunlop
(1827-1900). In 1886 in Matawan,
Catherine Dunn married William Walling Winterton, a son of John R Winterton and
Sophia Walling. I descend from William
and Catherine's daughter, Laura Winterton, born in 1891 in Matawan.
The Winterton family was living in Holmdel, Monmouth
County, New Jersey in the 1900 federal census.
William Winterton first appeared in the Newark, Essex County, New Jersey
city directory in 1906. In the 1910
federal census, the family lived in Newark.
Also in 1910, Laura Winterton married Howard Lutter of Newark.
The timeline of the family's residence from Monmouth
County to Essex County is important for dating this picture because it was
taken in Newark by H. J. Thein of 476 Broad Street.
On the back is written "Grandma Winterton."
An online check of Henry J Thein, photographer, provides
us with the years he was operating in Newark at this address: 1881-1899, 1911. Based on the availability of Catherine Dunn
in Newark, I don't think this picture was taken before 1900. If the picture was created in 1911 or even a
few years earlier, Catherine would be about 40 to 45 years old. I think the woman in the picture looks
younger. It is entirely possible that Catherine traveled to Newark to create this picture in the 1880s or 1890s. The glitch is that I have a "Winterton Family Album" with photographs mostly by photographers in Matawan and Keyport.
A picture of Catherine later in her life was already discovered because it was labeled as such:
"Grandma Winterton (Catherine Dunn)" and with a stamped
date: May 16, 1937. What luck.
I think that I have some more photographs of Catherine
Dunn as an older woman. They are not
marked, but the resemblance is obvious to the labeled picture of the older
Catherine.
Unlabeled picture. |
Is this the final picture of Catherine Dunn, wife of William Winterton? She died in 1944. |
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