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Roots and Branches

A Family history

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Roots and Branches

Family history · Full Account

The Whitaker family tree, from a Yorkshire mill village to present-day grandchildren scattered across three countries, told as a living archive.

~74 pages · 2 min read

The photograph album began with a wedding we almost misdated by twenty years.

Chapter 1 of 4

The Mill Village

Harold Whitaker was born in 1898 in a village whose name appeared on no map larger than the county. His father worked the looms. His mother took in washing. The house had three rooms and a photograph of a queen on the wall.

Harold left school at twelve to work alongside his father. He lost a finger at nineteen and kept the job anyway. He married Edith in 1924 in a church that still stands, though the mill does not.