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Record #17009
Name :
: Cecelia JOWETT (1890 - 1893)


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Date of Birth
: 11 Nov 1890

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 2 Jun 1893   Notes : old age
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Muskoka
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 2 Aug 1901
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Parisian

Placement Family
: JANNET
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Agency
: Barnardos
NotesFrom the book "About Face" by John Reeves:

Cecilia Jowet Author, Photgraphed 1965

People are seldom at ease with their own portriat. The physical image you create rarely conforms to the mental image they have of themselves. There are, however, exceptions to this rule and Cecilia Jowett was one. Jowett spent the greater part of her life working as a country nurse, first in a pioneer community near Cochrane, and then in Longford Mills, a villiage nine miles north of Orillia, on Lake Couchiching. While living and working in the Orillia she got to know Stephen Leacock, who encouraged her to write about herself.

Jowett's autobiography, No Thought for Tomorrow, was published by Ryerson Press in 1954. Miss Jowett was an old family friend, and when she learned that I had become a photographer, she asked me to produce a portrait of her, which I did in March, 1965. Her poignant response to the pictures I shipped to Longford Mills was unexpected and touching. I quote her letter in part: "The photographs came safely and I do thank you for the honor you have shown me in granting my wish that they are yours, your work, and mean much more to me therefore. One pose, quite unconsciously on my part, is like "Whistler's Mother," so nothing is really new under the sun.

The strain and stress of the past years shows clearly in my face ("faces") and they are truly real and characteristic. The large photographs I will hang at some distance, to get the best effect and ask myself often "See what life has done to the pretty girl in the locket, at 16 years of age"...The lack of money for good skin cream over the past 35 years didn't help the wrinkles, but then, again, it is myself as I am today and neither Heaven nore....can alter it." 
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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
17009 JOWETT, Cecelia1890ENG,     Aug 1901 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
17010 JOWETT, Ethel1891ENG, DUR Aug 1901 : Parisian CAN Barnardos  
26730 JOWETT, Frederick1899 Oct 1910 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos