John Boone

• Main Author: Rorke Family
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 1953
• Subjects: Boone; John.; Airplanes > Models; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/m_rorke/id/360

John Boone in his workshop in California with the full Rigged Clipper Flying Cloud model. The caption reads, "In a corner of the workshop 2046 Lincon Ave., Calaneda, Calif--The model is the full Rigged Clipper Flying Cloud Built by W. McKay in Boston Mass. Launched June, 1853. Made the quickest & fastest. Wife was ? from New York. JBB." John Boone may be the son of Anne Charlotte (Forward) Boone and William Boone. Anne Charlotte (Forward) Boone (1849-?), daughter of Captain Mark William Forward and Mary (Bemister) Forward, was born on 7 December 1849. Her siblings included Ernest Edward Forward, George William Bemister Forward, John Bemister ''Jack'' Forward and Georgina Eliza ''George'' (Forward) Samways. She married William Boone of Port de Grave on 27 December 1870, and had three children: Evelyn (Boone) Wright, John Boone and Herbert Boone. The Rorke Family Photograph Collection contains 301 black and white and 28 colour photographs of the Rorke Family of Carbonear, Newfoundland, as well as the Forward and Bemister families from that area who are linked to it by marriage. Although spanning from the 1840s-1970s, most photos are from 1900-45, showing family events, homes and Newfoundland and Labrador locations. There is also an album of photos taken while James Rorke attended the Leys School in Cambridge, England.