Colgate family

Telling family stories

Family Stories by LoisJune 12, 2018September 10, 2018

Family Stories by LoisOctober 16, 2014September 10, 2018

A hundred years ago today, Dorothy Alice Colgate was born to her mother Augusta, and father Ernest Colgate, in Bletchingley, Surrey. Augusta was the youngest of a large family of Browns, she was born in 1891, the youngest of eleven children. Ernest, in contrast came from a family of four, three sisters and he was […]

Family Stories by LoisOctober 19, 2013September 10, 2018

What a handsome father and son

This is Ernest Colgate and his father John; I think the picture must have been taken in the early 1900’s as Ernest was born in 1881 and looks about twenty-ish here. They certainly look very smart, and there is definitely a Colgate look which my husband and son have inherited. They were both born in […]