"Black Head, My mother's birthplace"

• Main Author: Rorke Family
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: Blackhead (Conception Bay; N.L.); Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/m_rorke/id/548

Blackhead, Conception Bay, showing the entrance into the town, the main dirt road, trees and houses in the distance. Blackhead is the birthplace of Tryphena (Butt) Forward. Tryphena (Butt) Forward (1858-1930) was born on 23 October 1858. She married Ernest Edward Forward on 24 June 1885. They had three daughters: Ernestine (Forward) Pike, Hilda Samways (Forward) Pike and Kathleen (Forward) Rorke. She was also the maternal grandmother of Patricia (Rorke) Yorke, Yvonne (Rorke) Pratt and James Ernest Rorke. Tryphena died on 5 October 1930. 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.