| Summary: | Patricia (Rorke) Yorke and Howard Yorke on their wedding day, posing outside of the United Methodist Church in Brigus. Cataloguer's title. Patricia (Rorke) Yorke (1918- ), oldest child of Kathleen (Forward) Rorke and James Rorke, was born on 17 March 1918. She is the granddaughter of James Addy Rorke and Ernest Edward Forward. Patricia married Howard K. Yorke (1912-ca. 1993) 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.
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