{"id":8222,"date":"2012-05-31T06:24:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T11:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=8222"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:02:51","slug":"whillie-batt-mark-anthony-capewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/05\/31\/whillie-batt-mark-anthony-capewell\/","title":{"rendered":"Whillie Batt & Mark Anthony Capewell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Whillie<\/a>Pictured above is Whillie Batt<\/strong> and Mark Anthony Capewell<\/strong>, parents of John Batt Capewell<\/strong> of Westville, New Jersey. It looks like John set Mom and Dad up in a lodgepole love seat for a semi-formal portrait outdoors more than a century ago.<\/p>\n

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Mr and Mrs Capewell appeared in another portrait along with John’s brothers and sisters. I posted about this negative here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Both Whillie and Mark were born in New Jersey and lived in Philadephia.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>According to the 1880 census:<\/p>\n

1880 Census<\/em>
\nPhiladelphia, District 681, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Mark Capewell, head, age 29, glass blower, born in New Jersey, father born in England, mother born in Ireland<\/em><\/p>\n

Whillie Capewell, wife, age 23, keeping house, born in New Jersey, father born in Pennsylvania, mother born in New Jersey<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s interesting that Mark was a glass blower. Originally I assumed that these Capewells were related to the Henry Capewell that ran a glass factory in Westville, NJ. That factory had closed well before Mark Capewell had begun his career. Perhaps it was a coincidence that they were all named Capewell.<\/p>\n

Mark<\/strong> was born in 1850 and died in 1912 (100 years ago!)<\/em> Whille<\/strong> was born in 1857 and died in California in 1936. Apparently Whille had relocated to the West Coast with some of her children following her husband’s death.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As with all of the photographs in the Capewell Collection,<\/a> I placed the 5\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 x 7\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 glass negative on a lightbox and shot them with a digital camera locked down on a tripod. The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153processing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> was done digitally on a Mac using Adobe Photoshop.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Capewell Glass Negative Collection<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Pictured above is Whillie Batt and Mark Anthony Capewell, parents of John Batt Capewell of Westville, New Jersey. 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