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Montiville Evans

of St Albans

circa 1900-1917

  

Alfred James [Montiville] Evans appear to have come to St Albans at about the time of his marriage in 1900, working as a miniature artist and photographer from his house in Alma Road, and taking on the name Montiville. He later moved his studio to St Peter's Street, until about 1917, and I have not been able to trace him after this date.

Timeline
date   source   data
1891   Census   Alfred James Evans (24, photographic artist, born Sandgate, Kent) with parents Henry & Sarah and siblings in New Road, New Shoreham, West Sussex. His father was a retired Chief Officer, Coast Guards.
1900   FreeBMD   Alfred James Evans married Edith Jane B Deacon in Lewisham Reg Area Apr-Jun
??       [QUERY: Did he take over Harry Andree's Alma Road Studio?]
1901   Census   Alfred Monteville Evans (34, miniature artist & photographer, working from home, born Sandgate, Kent)), his wife Edith Blackaller Evans (27, born Lee, Kent) and Albert Edward Cadreman (25, photographic assistant, born Lewisham, Kent) at 25 Alma Road, St Albans
1901   Google   Mr A. Montiville Evans elected member of the St Albans & Herts Arch. & Arch. Society  (1st November)
1902   Directory   Alfred Montiville Evans, photographer & miniature painter, Alma Road, St Albans
190??  

Old Cotton Mill, St Albans, by Montiville Evans

  

"The Old Cotton Mills, St Albans."Signed Mont. Evans. A. Monteville Evans was a local photographer, whose studio was in Alma Road St Albans. This appears to be a photographic reproduction of a drawing.

St Albans Museum Image
1904  

Nurses at Hill End Hospita, St Albans, 1904

  

Monochrome photographic print mounted on board, 268 x 213 mm.
Group of nurses in uniform, Hill End Hospital, St Albans, 1904.

By A. Montiville-Evans

St Albans Museum Image
1907?  
A. E. Gibbs of St Albans, and family  

Monochrome photographic print mounted on board, 210 x 150 mm (print size). Photograph by A. Monteville-Evans of St Albans.
Posed studio portrait of Arthur Ernest Gibbs with his wife Louisa (nee Dickinson) and their three daughters (left to right): Phyllis Mercy (born 1895), Stella Hermione (born 1897), Marjory Eileen (born 1900)

St Albans Museum Image

The museum has a number of other Montiville Evans photographs of the Gibbs family.
1908   Directory   Alfred Montiville Evans, photographer, 25 Alma Road & 56 St Peters Street, St Albans
1909  
New Birklands School, St Albans, pc by Monteville Evans, St Albans  

New Birklands, St Albans

by Monteville Evans, St Albans

Posted 15 May, 1909
1911   Census   Alfred James Evans (46, artist, born Sandgate, Kent), Edythe Jane Blackaller Evans (37, born Lee, Kent) with her parents William Lewis & Jane Elizabeth Deacon of "Enslin", Abbots Langley.
1911   Census   Albert Edward Cadreman (35, photographer, born Lewisham, Kent) in Lewisham with widowed mother and siblings.
1912   Directory   10 Upper Marlborough Road, St Albans (private address) and photographer, 9 St Peters Street, St Albans
1914  

St Albans Street Directory

  

1914/5   Ebay   A photograph of a soldier in the London Rifle Brigade - so probably late 1914 or early 1915. Embossed "Montiville Evans of St Albans, opposite the Town Hall"
1915   Google   A reference to a photograph of a trainee soldier, embossed "Montiville Evans of St Albans, opposite the Town Hall" listed but original page not accessible.
1917   Directory   10 Upper Marlborough Road, St Albans (private address) and photographer, 9 St Peters Street, St Albans [Not 1922]
1922   Directory   Not listed in St Albans
March 2014   Page created
May 2014   Biography and extra pictures (via links) added
June 2015   Ebay observation listed