Alfred George Nosworthy. This is the only photo that I have ever seen of the "Old Man", as my grandfather referred to him. This was taken by Yvonne sometime in the 1960s. She was the only one of his children to maintain contact with him. He was self employed as an architect in Montreal.
When I visited Yvonne in the early 1990s she showed me this photo and trusted me to take it home to Kansas City, create a copy negative, and mail it back to her.
There is not much to tell about Alfred. My grandfather always said the old man was from St Johns NF and that he was adopted. That is not to say that he was not a Nosworthy. He would likely be adopted by an aunt or uncle but who knows. He was probably from the St Johns area but not necessarily from St Johns. I have a copy of the marriage certificate and it lists his parents as Samuel and Harriet Noseworthy, no maiden name given for his mother. I haven't been able to track anything else on him. There are lots of stories regarding his origins, that his mother was a native, that he may have been from the West Indies.
He made his way to Nova Scotia where he married Mary Bolivar in 1907, listing his occupation as carpenter at that time. I was told once that they met when he was working with a carnival. They had their first childen in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Myrtle in 1907 and Roy in 1909. They then moved to Quebec City where most of the children were born, Roy through Teddy, and finally to Montreal where they had Billy, Dorothy, Patsy and Bruce. This would put the move from Quebec City to Montreal taking place between 1919 and 1922.
Surely their must be other photos of him somewhere.
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