"Sellars & Rorkes"

• Main Author: Rorke Family
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 1949
• Subjects: Rorke; James Ernest; 1919-2005; Sellars; Bill; Augusta; Kathleen (Forward); 1894-1979; Harbour Main (N.L.); Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/m_rorke/id/500

James Ernest Rorke, Bill Sellars and his wife Augusta, and Kathleen (Forward) Rorke, standing next to the ocean in Harbour Main, Conception Bay. Kathleen (Forward) Rorke (1894-1979), daughter of Ernest Edward Forward and Tryphena (Butt) Forward, was born at Carbonear on 1 June 1894. She married James Rorke on 23 May 1917 and had three children: Patricia (Rorke) Yorke, James Ernest Rorke and Yvonne (Rorke) Pratt. Kathleen died in 1979. Her son James Ernest Rorke (1919-2005) was born at Carbonear on 6 June 1919. He married Joy Elizabeth Newton of Maidenhead, Berks, England, and had two daughters: Joy Patricia, born on 24 March 1963 and Jill Yvonne, born on 18 January 1968. James died on 7 December 2005 at St. John's, Newfoundland. 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.