Images Dated 20th February 2018

The Rectory, Rectory Road, St Stephen in Brannel, Cornwall. Early 1900s

The family of Canon H.H. Mills playing tennis at the rear of The Rectory on a summer's day. Three younger men and a young woman play while three older women and an older man in a chair watch. All the older women watching the game are holding Croquet Mallets. This is the same family group that are in TRURI: SEBgv.8 and TRURI: SEBgv.9. Canon Henry Holroyd Mills lived at The Rectory between 1906 and 1925. According to the 1911 Census, members of the family and servants were: Henry Holroyd Mills, Clergyman, 50 years; his wife, Edith Annie Mills, 47 years; a first cousin, Mary Virginie Mills, 46 years, single; a visiting nephew, Richard Frith Quinton, 22 years, single; a cook, Ada Jane Blewett, 22 years, single; a parlour maid, Lilian B. Yelland, 23 years, single; a housemaid, Gladys Marshall Reynolds, 17 years, single. Photographer: Canon Henry Holroyd Mills

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