Reginald Whittall, 7th child of Sir William WhittallAlbert Hill, b. 1856, husband of Linda Francis Whittall, third child ofSir (James) William Whittall Kenrick Whittall, the youngest (11th) child of Sir W.W. Gwen Whittall with Myrth Sir (James) William Whittall, b. 1838 Lella Whittall (Barker) Mary Gertrude (Molly) Pears (Pringle-Paterson), b. 1902 Lillian Whittall (wife of William James Harter Whittall) with Edna The Rev F.C. Whitehouse Harry Whittall, 8th child of Sir W.W. and founded J & H Whittall & Co in England Elmina Wells (Whittall) Arthur Hill Eileen Whittall later La Fontaine Edith Hill, Albert Hill's second child, later to marry MacmanawayJames Frederick Whittall, b. 1890 Harry Pears, husband of 5 th child Gertrude Whittall, son of Sir Edwin Pears Norman Whittall Hugh Thompson Leslie Edwin Whitehouse Lorna Pears (Whittall) b. 1894, grand-daughter of Sir Edwin Pears, solicitor in Istanbul, married George Whittall MC Evelyn Barker, daughter of Ethel Whittall, eldest child of Sir William Whittall William James Harter Whittall, b. 1878 Kenneth Whittall, b. 1895, son of Edwin Whittall CBE, Edith Barker (Guiton, Chapman), b. 1898, second dauther of Edith Whittall Hugh McKinley Whittall, b. 1896, father of Yolande Whittall and eldest child of William James Whittall, Hubert Victor Whittall, b. 1898 Enid Hill (Ravenshill), b. 1895 Ruth Hill (Pain), b. 1898 Nesta Whittall (Yorke), b. 1899, 8th child of Edwin Whittall Monica Whittall (Jackson), b. 1899 Vernon Whittall, b. 1898 Frederick Edwin Whittall, b. 1864 Audrey Whittall (Gardner), b. 1888 Lady Whittall (nee Edith Anna Barker), b. 1840 Roland Whittall, b. 1892 Millicent Whitehouse (Perkins), b. 1900 Myrth Whittall, b. 1902 Gwendoline Barfield (Whittall), b. 1882 Florence Whittall (Whitehouse) b. 1876 Linda Whittall, b. 1866 Gwneth Whittall (Horwood), b. 1902 Gwyneth Gilchrist (Whittall), m. 1901 Gertrude Whittall (Pears) Edward Whittall, b. 1902 Edith Mary Whittall (Thompson) Adelaide La Fontaine (Whittall), b. 1902 Hugh Elliot Charles Whittall, born 1870, son of Sir (James) William Whittall, married Gwyneth Leila Knox Gilchrist Herbert Barker Hugh Whittall, father of Yolande Susan Whittall, wife of Douglas Mercy Whittall, mother of Yolande Roland James Whittall, father of Betty Jennifer Whittall, now Storm, sister of Betty Lily Whittall, wife of Roland James Feyhan Zorlu nee Sporel, daughter of Hazel Sally Thompson, daughter of Edythe Whittall and Hugh Thompson Hazel Sporel, nee Whittall, daughter of Kenrick Edward Whittall of Moda and Pendik, J.W.Whittall & Ltd. Istanbul and of Alexandra nee Boscovich Percy Kenneth Whittall, brother of Roland Grace La Fontaine, elder sister of Peter La Fontaine, daughter of Edward Leonard La Fontaine and Eileen Helen Whittall - click to view family connections James Frederick Whittall, grandfather of Betty Betty Whittall, now McKernan Irene Whittall, younger sister of Hazel
The Yolande Whittall photo album
Whittall coat-of-arms.
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The first Whittall in Turkey, Charlton Whittall and his wife Magdaleine nee Giraud, oil paintings by unknown artist.
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Sir James Whittall as a boy depicted in oriental fashion, a portrait executed by Sir David Wilkie shortly before he died on board ship on his return to England. The roll-over shows the copy the artist kept for himself, that surfaced in an auction in London in the 1970s.
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A family group photo taken outdoors in Moda, in the garden of Sir William and Lady Whittall, taken on December 1902. Hover with mouse for names.
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William James Harter Whittall (Yolande's grandfather), and his wife Lillian Adeline Whittall and with his sister Florence Philippa nee Whittall, sometime in the 1890s.
Period 1900-1910
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The Cliftons of Candilli, clearly keen huntsmen - info on their ancestral home & family.
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On board the Sir William Whittall yacht ‘Abafna’.
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Period 1908-09, Alemdağ outside Constantinople. All names without surnames are Whittalls. The Chisnells were British neighbours in Moda .
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Period 1908-09, Alemdağ outside Constantinople. H.M.W. is Hugh McKinley Whittall, V.W. is Vernon Whittall, his brother, Monica, sister to these, similar to Edna and Osmond.
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Period 1908-09, Alemdağ outside Constantinople.
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L.A.W. is Lilian Adeline Whittall, mother to Hugh and 6 other siblings. Harry Pears (son of Sir Edwin Pears, solicitor, Constantinople) lived in Moda, married Gertrude Anna Whittall and had 2 children, Lorna and Mary Gertrude (Molly).
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R.W. Reginald Whittall, Vernon Whittall, Hugh McKinley Whittall, William James Harter Whittall at Polonezköy.
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Young Whittall boys and friends at Alemdağ, 1908-9.
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Family picnic infront of the Red House, while the building was still in construction.
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Yolande’s father Hugh McKinley Whittall, then aged around 8 (born 1896) - top right - surrounded by younger siblings, Vernon, Monica (top left) and (Norah) Edna, photographed around 1903. 3 more children were to be born. Edna Whittall, b. 1901, d. 1992, m. 1923 air marshall Charles Strafford, inspector general RAF (1952-54), with whom she had 2 children.
1910-1920 Period
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The father of Yolande Whittall, Hugh Whittall D.S.O. in army uniform in 1915.
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Hugh Whittall’s congratulatory letter from the secretary of war, Winston Churchill, received in 1916 for his gallantry in the war in Gallipoli.
1920-30 Period
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Edna’s wedding in granny’s (Lady Whittall) garden 4th June 1923, sitting on ground her brother Vernon, seated Edna nee Whittall and sitting next to her, Edward Whittall. Back row from left, Captain C.T.C. Taylor, Hugh McKinley Whittall, Arthur Whittall, ?, Grace Whittall.
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Cousins Arthur and Esme at Edna’s wedding.
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In the drive leading up to the houses - Wedding day 23 June 1926, Moda, Hugh and Mercy Esme (nee Lawson) Whittall (her father went out to Turkey from England to teach).
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Hamamlı.
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W.J.H.W. in Alemdağ.
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1922
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Alemdağ hunting party 1927.
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Picnic at Hamamlı 1927, on the way to Alemdağ where the Whittalls also had a shooting box. Second from the left is Arthur Whittall.
1930-40 period
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Polonezköy May 1933 outing (and 2 below), from left: unknown, unknown child, possibly Joan La Fontaine, Ruth Whittall the mother of Michael, other pair La Fontaine cousins? and Kenny Whittall.
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Kenny Whittall standing - on the left of knee is Joan La Fontaine and on the right Frank Collas.
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The primitive mode of transport, around 1935, probably Alemdağ (staying in the ‘Red house’), with Yolande’s mother in the middle, her younger baby daughter Elizabeth Anne, and Yolande siting next.
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Yolande with her mother, Mercy Ethné Whittall, nee Lawson, early 1930s.
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On the extreme right is Grace La Fontaine and sitting with a pipe in hand is Kenny Whittall.
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Grace on the right and the second from the left is Pat La Fontaine (Joan, Grace and Pat were sisters).
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Yolande’s Mother, Mercy (Lawson) Whittall. Ipar parties - the boat was owned by the Moda Yacht Club.
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Kenny Whittall captaining probably the Ipar. Uncle Kenny died on 18 July 1972.
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EAW is Elizabeth Ann (née Whittall) Moulson, Yolande’s sister (YRW).
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Yolande and her father on holiday in the Sea of Marmara.
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Vernon Whittall (1898-1955) brother of Hugh, Yolande’s father, out duck shooting with what appears to be an improvised means of rail transport.
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Local fishermen, in the bay of Çalapati, behind Fanaraki [Fenerbahçe], on the Asiatic coast of Constantinople, pulling in the catch.
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The ‘red house’ at Alemdag that served as a hunting lodge throughout the first half of the 20th century, and a tally for the hunt for the season, impossible to imagine today.
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The country properties in Alemdağ. The ‘Red House’ on the left belonged to grandfather of Yolande, William ‘Willie’ James Harter Whittall, while the ‘White House’ on the right belonged to grandfather’s elder brother, Frederick Edwin Whittall.
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Yolande on board a liner in the Mediterrenean, aged nearly 4 as the family sailed to England to ensure the new baby (mother was heavily pregnant at the time, but also accompanied by her own mother Helen Blanche ‘Nellie’ Lawson nee Whittall) gets British citizenship. Yolande was similarly born in England, but at the time mother Mercy Ethné went alone and by train.
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King Edward VIII at Moda pier months (September) before his abdication in December 1936, the little girl looking back is Yolande Whittall.
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The royal yacht anchored in Moda bay, surrounded by a flotilla of small craft.
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The King being greeted by officials at the Moda Yacht Club.
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Views of ‘lost’ Moda, early in the 20th century, when it could truely be described as a Levantine quarter This smaller pier was on the Fenerbahce side of Moda, part of the bathing place for women.
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In Pendik, the boat ‘Gisela’, belonging to perhaps (?) Dick La Fontaine.

In Pendik, the ‘Bambino’ perhaps belonging to Sidney Nowill senior.

On the left the ‘Bati’, in Kaynarca near Pendik, belonging to Kenny Whittall, son of Edwin Whittall (who owned the big wooden house in Moda). On this boat weekend guests were entertained with parties who either in his simple cottage in Kaynarca or occasionally stayed out at sea. In those days c. 1950, the sea was clean to swim in and beaches were empty. Kenny Whittall married Ruth Lawson and had one boy, Michael, who later served in the Foreign Office in London.
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The various yachts photographed c. 1937 and Moda Yacht Club below at that date.
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Bulwer’s castle [A pair of extensive victorian follies erected by a former British ambassador on one of the smaller Prince’s Islands, Sea of Marmara], 1937 - Non-Whittall views of this structure from this period.
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The ‘Tower house’ in Moda where Sir James William Whittall died in 1910 and his widow, Lady Whittall (nee Edith Anna Barker) lived till she died in 1938 - view newspaper announcement. They were the great-grandparents of Yolande Whittall. This house was built of stone and may have belonged to a Greek before.
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An early 20th Century post-card view of ‘Impasse Whittall’ in Moda. The ‘Tower’ is visible in the distance, the William James Harter Whittall house (258 Moda Caddesi, Moda, Kadıköy) is hidden on the right side of the photo and the nearby 2 houses were also lived for a time by family members, Reggie Whittall’s on the left and on the right Dick & Daisy (nee Whittall) La Fontaine.
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The ‘Tower house’ in Moda showing the tree-lined drive.
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The back of the ‘Tower’, Lady Whittall (wife of Sir James Whittall, Edith Anna) house in Moda.
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Children, contemporaries of Yolande, playing in the garden of the Tower house.
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The cul-de-sac road leading to where the Tower house stood, and since the building is no longer standing this photo taken after WWII, post-sale.
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Moda seen from the sea, and anotated on reverse (possibly around 1930s, probably by Hugh Whittall, father of Yolande),
L.to R., 1. ?,
2. Mahmud Muhtar’s Pasha (now a school),
3. The French school (now Cimcoz),
4. Grandfather’s [Sir James Whittall 1838-1910],
5. F.E.W. [Frederick Edwin Whittall, Sir James William Whittall’s eldest son, 1864-1953],
6. The Field towards Moda point.
Between 4 & 5 at back, Arif Pasha’s stone house.
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The Lillian Adeline Whittall (1872-1959), wife of William James Harter Whittall, house in Moda, paternal grandparents of Yolande Whittall. This house was of wooden construction.
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William James Harter Whittall house in Moda, second son of Sir James Whittall, and father to Hugh Whittall.
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Yolande sitting on the steps of the front door of this house, late 1930s.
1940s
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Uncle Edwin Whittall’s house in Moda 1940s.
Moda in snow with one of the Whittall dogs. The building on the right maybe the former English Club?
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Along the seafront of Moda, in the pram Nicholas Colchester with the aupair girl from England. Father Halsey Colchester worked for the British Embassy, yet based in Istanbul and married to Rosanne (nee Medhurst) and with her had around 5 children, (Charlie only one born in Turkey, Nicholas, Marcus, Jonathan, Chloe).
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Mercy Ethné Whittall in the garden of her house in Moda, surrounded by the puppies of their sports dog.
Yolande in grandmother’s (Lillian Adeline Whittall’s) garden in Moda with the mother of the puppies Flora, 1950s.
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Nicholas Colchester on the left, younger brother Charlie on the right, with the Whittall dog, Flora, infront of the garden of Lillian Adeline Whittall’s house.
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Joan Halliley and Mary Whittall (b. 1900, nee Malins, wife of Hubert Victor La Fontaine Whittall MC, married 1922) on a visit at Paradou (name of the house), Pendik on the shores of the Sea of Marmara. Joan’s husband Peter was a British naval officer (on a contract to teach the Turks). The estate and vineyard belonged to Kenrick Whittall (1878-1963), son of Sir James William Whittall and husband to Alexandra nee Boscovich.
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Standing on the left is Kenny Whittall.
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Kenrick Whittall’s house facing the sea. Kenrick Whittall was the son of Sir James Whittall and worked for the J.W. Whittall & Co. Kenrick appears to be standing with his grand-daughter Feyhan Sporel.
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1949 dated photo captioned ‘Bati, outer deserter’s island off the Çakil Palas’: Kenny Whittall’s yacht, the Bati which he owned for more than 20 years on the sea of Marmara, along the coast from Pendik.
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The Refuge was the name of the house in Kaynarca, Pendik, continuing the name that was previously assigned to the boat owned by the father of Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Whittall. HMW is Hugh, father of Yolande. Late 1940s. Frank Collas came to Turkey to work in a Whittall firm and married a Whittall.
1950s
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Yolande in the 1950s in Granny’s house garden.
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1950s again, arches at the side of Granny’s house, with the Colchester children (Nico and Charlie) parents lived in Moda, father with the Foreign Office.
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The William James Harter Whittall house in Moda, photographed around 1960s, after the death of granny (1959), and before its demolition (it had already been sold).
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Garden of Sir James and Lady Whittall, overlooking the opening of the Bosphorus and Istanbul on the opposite shore.
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Whittall family members having tea in the garden of William James Harter Whittall, in Moda, in the 1950s. He would have been dead by then, but the widow lived on. In the middle facing is Aunt Edna, in the middle husband air marshall Charles Strafford.
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Yolande on the right with her mountaineering friends on Uludağ in the 1950s. From left, Jim and Phillipa Treadwell and Maureen Jackson, a Canadian cousin of Yolande (Maureen’s mother was sister to Yolande’s father).
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Yolande on the right, in a hut, during the mountaineering days from around 1951. The friend is the American Lisa, wife of Ian ‘Boy’ Whittall.
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From left to right: Philipa Treadwell, Jim Treadwell, her husband and Yolande, Uludağ 1950s.
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Sidney Nowill cutting steps in the ice.
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Yolande is hired as an extras in filming in Zermatt in Switzerland, near the Matterhorn 1950s, a peak she did climb at another occasion.
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Hired as extras in the same film, on the left Sidney Nowill, on the right the actor Desmond Knight.
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Yolande on the left.
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Alanya, 1953.
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Old walled quarter of Antalya [older postcard images] photographed in 1953, by father of Yolande, Hugh Whittall. Arch now long gone.
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1960s
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Hugh McKinley Whittall photographed Kars [older postcard images] in 1966 when it was still little more than a village, with its citadel and former Armenian Church.
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Yolande is second on the right.
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Smiling younger lady in far right is Elizabeth (Whittall) Moulson.
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John Patrick Moulson (b.1963, son of Elizabeth Ann Whittall -sister to Yolande) on the lap of ‘Uncle’ Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Edwin Whittall (b. 1895, son of Frederick Edwin Whittall), barrister-at-law at J W Whittall & Co.
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John Patrick Moulson with his elder brother Richard, Moda 1964.
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John Patrick (JP) Moulson on his grandmother’s lap, Mercy Whittall, Pendik 1964.
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Richard Moulson, 1969.
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Anthony Moulson, Elizabeth’s husband and father of the two boys, Michael Liman, Pendik 1969.
1970s
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The gathering for 1973 centennial celebration in Istanbul Hilton hotel of the establishment of the J.W.Whittall company in Istanbul. From left to right: Hugh Whittall, father of Yolande; Susan Whittall, wife of Douglas; Mercy Whittall, mother of Yolande; Roland James Whittall, father of Betty; Jennifer Whittall, now Storm, sister of Betty; Lily Whittall, wife of Roland James; Feyhan Zorlu nee Sporel, daughter of Hazel; Sally Thompson, daughter of Edythe Whittall and Hugh Thompson; Hazel Sporel, nee Whittall, daughter of Kenrick Edward Whittall of Moda and Pendik, J.W.Whittall & Ltd. Istanbul and of Alexandra nee Boscovich; Percy Kenneth Whittall, brother of Roland; Grace La Fontaine, elder sister of Peter La Fontaine, daughter of Edward Leonard La Fontaine and Eileen Helen Whittall; James Frederick Whittall, grandfather of Betty; crouching from left: Betty Whittall, now McKernan; Irene Whittall, younger sister of Hazel.
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information courtesy of Yolande Whittall, 2006/10 - more Whittall family photos courtesy of Betty McKernan and Philipa Threadwell.
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