| Summary: | William Samways, Georgina (Forward) Samways, Muriel (Samways) Chown, Doris Samways, Jean Pippy, Bernie Pippy and Kathleen Pippy, outside in the garden during the summer, sitting and standing around a table having tea/coffee. Georgina Eliza (Forward) Samways, daughter of Capt. Mark William Forward and Mary (Bemister) Forward, was born on 28 February 1856. She was the sister of Anne Charlotte (Forward) Boone and Ernest Edward Forward. She married William Samways of Twillingate on 1 September 1880 and had three daughters: Muriel (Samways) Chown, Doris Samways and Clarissa (Samways) Pippy. Georgina died on 30 December 1932. Jean, Bernie and Kathleen Pippy were Clarissa's children. 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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