Patricia (Rorke) Yorke and Yvonne (Rorke) Pratt

The Rorke sisters outside on a sidewalk. Cataloguer's title. Yvonne (Rorke) Pratt (1922-1998), youngest child of Kathleen (Forward) Rorke and James Rorke, was born on 4 June 1922. She was the granddaughter of James Addy Rorke and Ernest Edward Forward. Yvonne married Ewart A. Pratt (1919-2000),...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rorke Family
Format: Still Image
Language:English
Published: 1939
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Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/m_rorke/id/405
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Summary:The Rorke sisters outside on a sidewalk. Cataloguer's title. Yvonne (Rorke) Pratt (1922-1998), youngest child of Kathleen (Forward) Rorke and James Rorke, was born on 4 June 1922. She was the granddaughter of James Addy Rorke and Ernest Edward Forward. Yvonne married Ewart A. Pratt (1919-2000), son of Calvert Coates Pratt and Agnes (Horwood) Pratt, on 30 October 1943 and had two children: Kathleen Agnes (Pratt) LeGrow and James Rorke Pratt (1949-2000). Yvonne died on 10 March 1998. Her sister Patricia (Rorke) Yorke was born on 17 March 1918. She married Howard K. Yorke on 18 August 1945 and had a daughter, Lois Kathleen Yvonne. 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.