This page will eventually provide information regarding the descendants and ancestors of Leo Raymond Karl and Catherine Louella McCullough as well as those of John Patrick Karl and Cynthia Lee Sprong.

• Grandpa Jack's PCC transcript (336 KB)
  Jack appears to have been an exceptional student, getting 38 As and only one B in his coursework.
• Grandpa Karl (John Ignatius Karl, Leo's father) (187 KB)
  Grandpa Karl (Leo's father) in full Knights of Columbus regalia. Good for poker playing! Jack is the one on the right.
• Leo's (Daddy's) PCC scholarship application (160 KB)
  By the time Leo attended Palmer College of Chiropractic, the price for the 18-month degree program had risen from $400 to $550. Leo borrowed $210 from the college to meet his tuition.
• Nanny Bone and Lee, about 1962 (259 KB)
  This was probably taken at Nanny Bone's house at Christmas 1962. Joy's mum is handing out the tree presents while Lee poses for the camera .
• Leo's (Daddy's) PCC transcript, 1947 (238 KB)
  Leo too was an exceptional student, although he did pull one C+ in his last symptomatology course and a C in one of his technic (technique) courses. Definitely a very respectable transcript!
• Leo Karl as a toddler (178 KB)
  Back of picture reads: "Kathryn: Will you please send the smaller pictures back again? These are the only ones we have. The larger one you can keep. Thanks! John"
• Aunt Doll and her parents (Joy's grandparents) (278 KB)
  This picture was taken in Barking, Essex, about 1913. Aunt Doll's given name is Doris Mary Clementson; she married Fred Buckman. The man on the left is her father, Frederick Clementson, otherwise known as "Pops" by Joy. The woman on the right is Alice Mary Tite, whom Joy called Nanny Ali. Aunt Doll & Joy's mum were sisters.
• Sadie, John Kenefick, Aunt Sister, Mary Alice (180 KB)
  Here is a proud grandmother, Sadie (aged 50), and a proud great-grandfather, John Kenefick (Sadie's father, aged 83), with Sadie's oldest daughter, Mary Alice (known to all as Sister or Aunt Sister), and her infant daughter, also named Mary Alice. This picture was taken in 1922, four years before John Kenefick died of prolonged heart trouble.
• Glen's Christening--The Whole Gang (279 KB)
  Glen's christening again, spring 1963. The people standing, left to right, are Reg & Lil (Joy's sister) Dyer, Doris (another sister) holding Glen, Nanny Bone (Joy's mum), Joy with prominent bow in hair , Colin (Brian's brother). The little girl is Jill, one of Doris' daughters, and the little boy is Lee. Nanny Ali (Joy's mum's mum) is in the wheelchair. This was taken in the garden of Greatfields Hall in Barking, Essex.
• Pat Karl as Huckleberry Finn (258 KB)
  Back of picture reads "Patrick, 9/48". Pat was about 7 years old when this was taken.
• Edith Bone and two daughters (Doris & Joy) (207 KB)
  Judging by apparent ages, this picture was probably taken about 1940. Joy is the little one on the left, her mum Edith (wearing a real fox fur), and then Doris, who is six years older than Joy.
• George Charles Churchett, circa 1841-1879 (745 KB)
  This picture was taken at a photographer's studio in Surbiton, Surrey, probably in the 1860s judging by the apparent age of the subject. This is Dale's great-great-grandfather.
• Pat Karl, resigned to wearing a silly hat (131 KB)
  Back of picture reads: "8/44 Mac Maffic, Patrick, Karl Ress". Pat was nearly two years old; Karl Ress is his first cousin once removed. Anyone know who Mac Maffic was?
• Joy (Bone) Churchett, about 7 years old (103 KB)
  Joy, looking irrepressible and full of humor as always. Still with bow in hair! Always the girlie . This was taken probably about 1942 or 1943.
• Gravestone of George and Hannah (Baines) Churchett (190 KB)
  This is at Plaistow Cemetery, Bromley, Kent. Hannah died 19 Jul 1904 and was buried 4 days later. George is not actually buried here; his remains lie in a cemetery in Kingston, Surrey (he died at age 38 and was buried 20 Dec 1879). Also in the grave pictured above is Sarah Baines, buried 8 Jul 1905, aged 66.
• Pat Karl's AMI school picture (112 KB)
  The photo is dated '51-'52. Doesn't he look angelic, folks? How appearances can deceive . . .
• Fred Clementson & wife Alice Mary--and who else? (175 KB)
  On the left are Fred Clementson and Alice Mary, parents of Edith Jane (mum of Jimmy, Lil, Ted, Doris, and Joy). But who is the couple on the right with the baby?
• George Churchett's father and "Aunt Loo" (152 KB)
  The man is the father is George Churchett, Dale's great-great-grandfather. We are not certain of his name. He is holding a little girl known to us as "Aunt Loo", apparently the sister of George Churchett.
• Bobby McCullough & father John Jeffrey McCullough (137 KB)
  Back of picture reads: "Pop and Bobby". "Pop" is Kitty Lou's father John McCullough and "Bobby" is her youngest brother, Robert Francis McCullough, born 11 Nov 1917.
• Frederick, Harry, and Cis (Christine) Churchett (179 KB)
  Photo dated 12 Oct 1917. Frederick is Brian's father, thus Dale's grandfather; he was born 1906. Harry is apparently George Henry Churchett, born 1902, and Cis (Christine Emily Churchett) was born 1903. There was a fourth sibling, Frank, who is not in this picture as he was not born until 1921.
• Churchett photo (106 KB)
  The back of the photo says, "Dad Mum & Aunt Kate".
• Frederick Charles Churchett, about mid-1910s (168 KB)
  Although this picture is undated, Fred looks to be in his mid-teens or so; he was born 1906. We don't know what rooftop this was taken on. (This is Brian's father, Dale's grandfather.)
• Churchett photo--Uncle Harry et al. (104 KB)
  There are two lines of writing on the back: "Aunt Dorrie Uncle Harry", then "Frank, Ken & Derrick"
• Who are they? (111 KB)
  I am guessing that it's you in this pic--and if not you, then Colin--and am hoping you might know who the other 3 kids are. The back of the pic simply says "August 1952".
• Two girls looking dangerous (151 KB)
  Back of photo reads: "Oct. 13, 1934, Rita, Kitty Lou". This is Kitty Lou's sister-in-law, Rita Ruth Kenny and wife of Thomas Joseph. Kitty Lou was about 19 years old when this was taken.
• Two irrepressible children and one worried adult (158 KB)
  Back of picture reads: "Sally, Leah, & Pat. Summer 1946". Pat was nearly 4 and Leah had probably just turned 2 years old. Sally was the unfortunate cousin given the job of looking after these two imps.
• Frederick and Dorothy Churchett's wedding (171 KB)
  Taken at Fred and Dorothy (Kilburn) Churchett's wedding on 1 Jun 1929. The man standing behind them may possibly be Fred's brother Harry; Brian remembers staying in his Uncle Harry's flat for a while after their own house was bombed out during WWII. We don't know who the little girls are.
• Leo at work in the machine shop (79 KB)
  This picture shows Leo Karl standing in front of a very large machine, probably a lathe. This is where he worked before he left at the end of 1945 to enter Palmer Chiropractic College.
• George Charles Churchett and "Aunt Loo", 1876 (262 KB)
  This picture is dated 1876 and appears to show a brother and sister. The brother is George Charles Churchett (born 1874), Brian's grandfather and Dale's great-grandfather, and the little girl called "Aunt Loo" must be his sister.
• Bridget Dohoney Kenefick (24 KB)
  This is Kitty Lou's grandmother. She was born in County Cork, Ireland on 24 May 1842; she came to America with her mother and two sisters around 1852 and died in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1918. She had nine children, which included two sets of fraternal twins.
• Grandfather Dunford, on the way to Epsom Derby (258 KB)
  Grandfather Dunford (Brian's great-grandfather) is the man to the far left of the driver. This group of men were on their way to the Epsom Derby, which takes place each June in Surrey, England.
• John Kenefick (24 KB)
  This man is Kitty Lou's grandfather and Bridget Dohoney's husband. He was born in County Cork, Ireland, on 24 June 1839; he emigrated to America in September 1855 and became a US citizen eleven years later. He must have liked to dance as he used to pay his granddaughter Kitty Lou a penny to dance the Charleston for him. He died at the home of one of his sons in Steubenville, Ohio, on 31 July 1928.
• Unidentified Child (Churchett or Dunford?) (156 KB)
  This picture was taken at the same photographer's studio as some other pictures of Annie Mary Dunford, wife of George Charles Churchett, and her parents. There is no name or date on the picture.
• John P. Karl, "Grandpa Jack", as a young man (489 KB)
  This picture was probably taken around 1910 or so, when Jack would have been approximately 20 years old. The photographer's name can barely be seen in the lower right of the image.
• Great-great-grandmother Churchett, name unknown (159 KB)
  This is the mother of Brian's great-grandfather George Churchett, thus his great-great-grandmother. We do not know her name as we have been unable to prove a link to George Churchett's father. (The note on the picture was written by Frank Churchett, Brian's uncle.)
• Wedding Bells for Jack & Gertrude (15 KB)
  This was taken on the steps of St. John's Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio, on Jack & Gertrude Karl's wedding day.
• Annie Mary Dunford & her parents, circa 1900 (121 KB)
  Annie Mary Dunford (Brian's grandmother, whom he called Nanny Anny) married George Charles Churchett on 31 Oct 1900. These 3 pictures show Annie Mary, her mother, and her father (their names unknown). If anyone can identify the military uniform he's wearing, please let me know!
• St. Fidelis Seminary in Herman, Pennsylvania (184 KB)
  Grandpa Jack attended St. Fidelis Seminary for at least two years of college (although I don't know when, I surmise that it was before he married Gertrude around 1913), and in his will he bequeathed them a sum of $2,000. This postcard is undated but was probably from no later than 1925; I have another postcard dated 1930 that shows another wing on the building. So this should be pretty close to how it looked when Grandpa Jack was there.
• Glen's Christening, spring 1963 (299 KB)
  This was taken at Glen's christening, which occurred at Greatfields Hall in Barking, Essex; it doesn't exist any more but was on King Edward's Road. Nanny Ali (Alice Mary Tite, Joy's grandmother, b. 1877, d. 1965) is in the wheelchair with a lovely chubby Glen on her knee, and Nanny Bone (Edith Jane Clementson, Joy's mum, b. 1899, d. 1976) is standing.
• Grandpa Jack's PCC scholarship application, 1922 (375 KB)
  Grandpa Jack attended Palmer College of Chiropractic from Jan 1922 until Jul 1923. He paid a total of $400 tuition, $50 of which he borrowed from the college.
• Brian & Joy's Wedding, 5 Jul 1958 (349 KB)
  From left to right: Nanny Annie Churchett (Brian's dad's mum, b. circa 1880), the proud groom, the radiant bride, Nanny Ali (Joy's mum's mum, b. circa 1877), Nanny Bone (Joy's mum, b. 1899).
• Joy, about age 13, and her mum (259 KB)
  Edith Bone and her youngest daughter, Joyce Audrey, about 1948. On the right of the picture you can see their air raid shelter, which they had dug up and turned into a shed after the war. This picture was taken at Digby Road.

• Biographical Sketch of Gertrude Ford Karl (6 KB)
  Sources for this sketch include the 1900 Census, Gertrude's death certificate, and her husband Jack's will (thanks again Auntie Rita!).

Elizabeth Churchett
echurchett@austin.rr.com

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