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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Object ID
2735
Title
Crompton Children portrait.
Date
1905.
Description
Studio portrait of three members of the Crompton family. Elizabeth (Fox) Crompton is with her youngest daughter Amy (age 5) and youngest son Charles (age 8).
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Crompton, Amy
Amy was born in 1900. She is the youngest daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth (Fox) Crompton and sister to Frank and Charles Samuel Sr. In 1918, Amy went to South Vancouver High (John Oliver) where she graduated in 1918. The first school she taught in was the Demask Logging camp from 1919-1920. She went back to normal school in 1920-1921. Amy taught at the Dollarton School room in West Vancouver from 1920 to June, 1922. She married Sid Bishop, and they had one son Bob Bishop.
Crompton, Charles Samuel Sr.
Charles Samuel Sr. was born in 1897, the second son of Arthur and Elizabeth (Fox) Crompton and brother to Frank, Dora and Amy Crompton. Charles Samuel Sr. married Ivy Pearce on June 3, 1929.
Crompton, Elizabeth (Fox)
Elizabeth Fox was born on July 26, 1864 in England to parents Sarah (nee Taylor) and William Fox. She married Arthur Crompton. Arthur and Elizabeth emigrated to Canada in 1909 from Warrington, Lancashire, England. They settled in Victoria for a year and then moved the family to Vancouver. They bought acreage in West Langley on Telegraph Trail near the farming McClughan Family. Their children are Frank, Charles Samuel Sr., Dora and Amy. Elizabeth died in 1961 at the age of 97.
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