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Wheeler
collection of photos and letters
the more recent letters have private addresses removed
This Page -
Photos,
Cards and
Misc.
Page 2 - Letters
1956 to 2003
Letters on this page 1938 & 1951
Photographs
  
the photo of the gentleman holding the baby was inside the frame and not
shown
  
at the bottom of the frame is embossed the words - AMBRO YPE BY R HN
- Patent July 4th & 11th 1854
Directions - It will be perceived that the black varnish constituting the
back ground of these Ambrotypes, is not in contact with the Picture, but,
upon a second glass cemented to that on which the picture is made. If,
therefore, the varnish should crack, or become rubbed from the glass, the
picture will not by this be the least impaired, as the whole of a new back
ground supplied by the addition of a new coating of black varnish. This is
not the case with pictures made on single glass, and which are not cemented,
as the least injury to these destroys the picture for ever. Ambrotypes. Are
not reversed, without glare, fine in tone, and brilliant in effect, besides
being proof against acids, water, air or climate. Patented in the United
States, Great Britain, and France, and made in Philadelphia by I. Rehn,
only, American Gallery of Photography, No. 126 Arch St.
  
again another photo in behind the one showing in the Ambrotype (see more
details above)
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1) written on the back - Probably taken at different times, but could
both be about 1860 (this photo was on its own)
2) Belfast photographer
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Mary Margretta Wheeler nee Wright
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1) Off To Oberammergau to see the famous Passion Play. Members of a joint
party from St. Paul's Church pf England and local Methodist churches waiting
for the coach to start the journey on Monday morning.
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1) Ulster Tatler - Fashion show by Nora Bradley at
Helen's Bay, to Aid British Legion: Photos top left
Mrs. H. V. Kirk (left), wife of the Minister of Finance with Mrs. H. T.
Armstrong. top right Some of the
organising committee; from left: Mrs. W. S. Grieve, Area Chairman; Mrs. M.
N. Wheeler, Treasurer; Mrs. J. Pegg, Mrs. B. J. Porter, Mrs. F. J. Cromie
and Miss F. P. Sloane, Area Secretary. bottom left
Mrs. Betty Powell (left), of Portadown and Mrs. Dorothy Derby, Belfast, with
some of the clothes displayed. bottom middle
Visitors interested in a coat and frock. bottom right
Suzanne Powell, as the bride and Dorothy Williamson, as bridesmaid, in the
bridal display. Article; £250 for Christian Aid. Not many women would
cheerfully contemplate holding two coffee parties in their home on the same
day, but Mrs. Peacocke, wife of the Dean of Belfast, thought nothing of it -
and what is more the Dean himself stood by to help on both occasions. That
morning party was somewhat historic. It was the first effort by the women's
inter-Christian group and it was to raise funds for World Christian Aid.
Known as the Women's Committee of the Belfast Council of Churches, it
has Mrs. Terence O'Neill, wife of the Prime Minister, as chairman, and Mrs.
Frederick Jeffrey as honorary secretary. Mrs. O'Neill herself was at the
party and something like 150 women of all denominations turned up to
patronise it. By the end of the morning a tired but happy band of workers
chalked up £250 for Christian Aid and looked around at stalls that were
almost completely emptied. Only a few cakes remained unsold and these were
offered Mrs. Peacocke to start her second party of the day.
2) Ulster Tatler - British Legion
Women's Second Pre-Conference reception. Photos top left
Mrs. Basil Kelly, President, British Legion Women's Section, N.I. Area; Mrs.
E. T. C. Bell, Mrs. A. Crothers, Ballynahinch; Mrs. M. Dixon, Area
Vice-Chairman, Southern Ireland Area; Mrs. E. M. Croft Foulds, M.B.E.,
National Vice-Chairman, British Legion Women's Section. top right
Mrs. Vera Stevenson and Mrs. F. Arbuckle, Strabane Branch, Mrs. M. Johnston,
Chairman, Downpatrick Branch, Miss H. Johnston, Downpatrick, Mrs. Joanna
Lloyd. 2nd row left From left: Mrs. M.
M. Wheeler, Area Hon. Treasurer, British Legion Women's Section, N.I. Area,
Mrs. M. Bradshaw, Mrs. I. or J. Hodgins, Mrs. W. S. Grieve, Area Chairman,
B.L.W.S., N.I. Area. 2nd row right Back
row, from left: Mrs. N. Walsh, Mrs. M. A. Maguire, Chairman, Belfast Branch,
Miss H. Taggart, Secretary, Cavehill Branch, Miss F. P. Sloane, Area
Secretary, N.I. Area. Front row, from left: Miss M. Cooke, Mrs. F. Mayne,
Mrs. E. Field. 3rd row left Standing,
from left: Mrs. E. Manuel, Mrs. E. Mahood. Sitting, from left: Mrs. D.
Harper, Malone Branch, Mrs. H. Boyd, Portrush, Mrs. L. A. Duff, Malone
Branch. 3rd row right From left: Mrs.
Julia Ellison, Mrs. Ada Smyth, Mrs. F. J. Cromie, Area and Central
Committee, Mrs. M. Kerr, Garvagh, Mrs. Agnes Gordon. Bottom
Ulster Chemists Association (Associates section) Annual Dinner Dance. From
left: Mr. J. Knox, president of the Ulster Chemists Association, Mrs. Knox,
Mrs. Flatley and Mr. B. Flatley, president, Pharmaceutical Society of
Northern Ireland. Miss Anne E. Thompson, chairman of the Associates
section, with Mr. Roy Young, Kilkeel.
3) Ulster Tatler - Legion With the
Caravan Club - Names in Article; Tom Burns, Lisburn Road, Marcus Ward, Geo.
Wright, Jimmy Dowling, Billy Hill, Bob Wylie. Mrs. Powell, Mrs. M. M.
Wheeler, Suzanne Powell, Patricia Sloane, Mrs. Basil Kelly, Mrs. W. S.
Grieve, Mrs. Croft-Foulds, Mrs. F. J. Cromie, Mrs. Hurst, Mrs. M. F. Dixon,
Mrs. M. A. Maguire, Mrs. H. Boyd, Portrush. Photos; Windsor Foods Limited
introduce new apple filling. top left
Mrs. R. Heaney, treasurer, N.I. Housewives League, gives Mr. ? a sample of
the apple filling. top right Mr. Ken
McCluskey, managing director of Windsor Foods, speaking at the reception in
the Grand Central Hotel, Belfast, Special guest was the Minister of
Agriculture, Major J. D. Chichester-Clark (left). bottom left
Included in the guests was a party of students from Orangefield Girls'
Secondary School (from left): Lynda Stewart, Janette Greig, Tully Gowdy,
Joan Gibson and Deborah Young. bottom right
Mrs. Elsie Fulton, right, National President, Irish Co-operative Women's
Guild and Mrs. L. Robinson, Nat. Vice-President.
4) Ulster Tatler - Man With A Punch:
Jack Shanik, Portadown, Dr. Gregor Shanik. Another Honour for Sir
James: Sir James Martin. Shoe Firm Expands: William Beattie, Mr.
Michael White, Anthony and Robert White. The Bartenders: Mr. A.
McGonigle, Mr. John Johnston, Sir Robin Kinahan, Billy Hamilton.
5) Ulster Tatler - Opening of shop at
Messrs. Bernard Hughes for Springfield Road branch of War on Want. Photos
top left Mrs. Sally McAreavey, hon.
sec., Springfield shop and Mrs. P. McDonnell, chairman of the branch.
top right From left: Mr. Denis Barritt, Mr. G.
Howes, Sales Director, Messrs. Hughes; Mr. R. D. Hatton, managing director
and Mr. B. McK. McGuigan, director. 2nd row left
From left: Mrs. Mary McRandal, Mrs. Philomena Tohill, Mrs. Rosaleen
McAlister, Miss Maureen McDevitt, Mrs. Hugh Kennedy and Mrs. Malcolm Kellard.
2nd row right From left: Mrs. B. Dobbin,
Mrs. J. K. Murphy, Mrs. F. Heaney, Mrs. Olive Scott and Mrs. Peggy MacHugh.
3rd/4th row left Fashion show in
Overseas House, organised by 20th Century Group, to aid Multiple Sclerosis
Society. Miss Constance Higgins (right), chairman of the Group, presenting a
bouquet to Mrs. Brian McConnell, who opened the show. In centre is Vivienne
McMaster, who provided the clothes. Hazel is seen displaying a striped
frock. Pauline in a "long summer" dress. 3rd/4th row right
The Rose Society of Northern Ireland Sale and Meeting. From left: Mr. J. H.
Jess, Mrs. K. Grubb and Mr. Craig Wallace. From left: Mr. Allen H. Pearson,
deputy chairman, Rev. John Mulree, chairman and Mr. W. Jenkins.
6) British Legion Sale 22/4/66
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1) Mr. David Paul Gibson, Drumkilbo, Strathtay,
Perthshire, and Miss Margaret Diane Wright, Knock Road, Belfast, after their
wedding in Knock Presbyterian Church
2) Belfast Telegraph, Saturday, March 6,
1982 - The house with a story to tell - St. Nicolas' Rectory, North Road,
Carrick
3) The expert knows y'know. John
Pepper's Column
4) Jailed man is jailed again. Bangor,
James Hill, Finbank Gardens, John Bickerstaff, Malfin Drive, Andrew James
Johnston, Finch Grove, Sgt. James Sayers/ Youths are cleared on burglary
charges. Ronald Bickerstaff, James Hill, Andrew James Johnston, Mrs. Mary
Wheeler. W.I. chiefs, Miss Mabel Ellioaa (Elliott), Mrs. J. Gaw, Mrs. C.
Crooke, Mrs. J. V. Tapley
5) Keeping Peace for U.N. in Cyprus.
Eire unit and Ulster regiment link-up. Royal Irish Rangers, Eire Army. (part
article re Jack Lynch)
6) Mr. John Gordon Wheeler, New
Registrar of Ulster High Court. 222 Ormeau Road, Belfast. Mr, W. L. Wheeler,
Messrs. Wheeler & McCutcheon
7) New Registrar appointed for Supreme
Court. Mr. William McC. Sharpe, D.S.O. Retiring: Mr. J. G. Wheeler
8) Shorts plan jet flying boat. Mr. P.
Ward Brown
 
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1) The British Red Cross Society - Mrs. Mary M.
Wheeler 24/10/39
2) St. John Ambulance Association - Mary M. Wheeler December 1940
3) The Lord Chamberlain is commanded by
Her Majesty to invite Mrs. John Wheeler to an Afternoon Party in the garden
of Buckingham Palace on Thursday, the 21st July 1977, from 4 to 6 p.m.
4) Map
5) Car Permit
6 & 7) Garden Party Invite and
Instructions
8) Kilpatrick's Pedigree Form, Name:
Bapsie Pavri Breed: Cairn Terrier Sex: Female Colour: Wheaten Breeder:
Samuel Duff Date of Birth: 4th May 1952 Put to Sleep: 4 p.m. 17th June 1965
History of Sire/Dam/Grandparents/Great Grandparents/ Great Great
Grandparents
 
Mrs. Mary Margretta Wheeler nee Wright 16-9-1909
leather purse
 
 
 
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1) Texas Instruments Calculator TI-1200
2) Commodore Calculator Model 796M
3) Folding Glasses and Case
 
 
 
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1) 1973 notebook with a photo
2) Air Raid Precautions Casualty
Services - This is to certify that Mrs. M. Wheeler, 51 Marlborough Park N.
is a member of the personnel of the A.R.P. Casualty Services, and is
attached to Samaritan Hospital Signed C. S. Thomson 29-4-40 Medical Officer
J. McDa???
3) Margery O. Jameson, "Mayview?" 809?
Links Road, Newcastle
4) Wheeler - Dorothy (née Meathrel),
died peacefully at home on January 25th in her 98th year. Widow of Ivan
Livingston Gordon Wheeler, of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, and much
loved aunt, great0aunt and caring friend. Funeral Service at St. John's
Church, Newcastle, County Down on Wednesday, 29th January at 11.30 a.m.,
followed by private cremation at Roselawn Crematorium. Family flowers only
please. Donations if desired, to Chest, Heart and Stroke Association c/o
McClures Funeral Services, 17 Dundrum Road, Newcastle, County Down
5) 5th May 1959 Post War Credits Certificates
   
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1) Cat Vaccination Record for Gigha Owner Mr.
Wheeler, (number removed) Lisburn Road 1982, Gigha lived until 1999 Mr.
Wheeler then lived in Downpatrick (address removed)
2) The Royal British Legion Women's Section, Annual Report 1987
       
St. Paul's, The Town Church of Worthing - A Special Service of Thanksgiving
and Dedication to mark the retirement of The Rev. Walter Wright 1930 - 1973
  
   
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Newspaper Article - Town Church says Goodbye to Vicar
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St. Paul's Church, Worthing, The Rev. David Walter Wright (1908 - 1978) -
other stories on Newspaper clipping:- Hold Him There, Cowboy. Any
Protests? Business trainees pass out: most have jobs (continued on
next clipping) .. continued from Front page (which we don't have)
3) Thanksgiving Rev. David Walter Wright
4) Row over
£215,000. Public Notices: Arthur Charles Stanley Beckwith
Deceased/Miss Violet Ivy Eleanor Whitney Deceased
5) Mourne Grange Term and Examination Marks and Order Summer Term 1945:-
Names Wheeler, Cochburn, Pearson, Browne i, Cunningham i, Montgomery,
Mackie, McIntyre, Ward, Tuke, Browne ii, Patterson, Bell i, Harcourt,
Titterington i, Payne, Hannon, McBride, McCleery, Richards, Blakeney,
McCormick, Bell ii, Cunningham ii, Wilson, Alexander, Armstrong,
Titterington ii, Beattie, Ward ii, Donnan ii, Holland
Autumn Knitting October 1955 with 'Woman' Magazine
   
St. Dorothea's Parish Church, Gilnahirk - Marriage of Gillian Louise
Wright and Frank Richard Cloke
Monday, March 27th 1978
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1) With fond memories of Mrs. Wheeler Love
Jacky - Staff nurse at Ardfield
2) from
Roger Thompson (son of Mrs. Alice Thompson, Ardfield Nursing Home)
3) With
warmest thoughts of our dear resident From Mrs. McGivern and all the staff
and patients of Ardfield Nursing Home
4) From
Dorothy (McKeever)
5) Colm
O'Hagan, Repose of Mrs. Pearl Wheeler. Rev. P. J. Gibbons
6) To
Gordon, with deepest sympathy in Jesus Christ our Lord, Walter October 15,
1990
7) 25.10.90
Dear Gordon, I write to offer you my deepest sympathy on the death of your
mother. Yours very sincerely Denise (Moffatt)
 
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1) Happy Birthday To my very dear Mother
with much love from Gordon September 16th 1978
2) Gordon,
thinking about you, Diane
3) On
behalf of Frank & myself, I wish to extend our deepest sympathy on the death
of your mother. Frank & Mary Dolan
4) To
Gordon, I will keep your Mother and yourself in my prayers. Nuala
5) Loud &
Long Congratulations from M.? Wheeler = Aunt Olive to Timothy
6) Remember
the tide also turns at low water! 13/11/54 All my love, Marge
Letters 1938 to 1955
1938
I, The Right Honourable James Andrews, Lord Chief Justice of Northern
Ireland, pursuant to the powers conferred on me by The Government of Ireland
Act, 1920, and the adaptation of The Judicature (Ireland) Acts, 1877 to
1897, made by Order in Council dated the 21st day of November, 1921, and all
other powers thereunto me enabling, hereby appoint John Gordon Wheeler,
Esquire, to be an Assistant Registrar of The Supreme Court of Judicature in
Northern Ireland. Dated this 10th day of October, 1938. James Andrews,
Lord Chief Justice
1945
Llano, Calif August 4th 1945 - Dear Sir, Your letter has just caught up
with me here. It is of course very difficult to give any specific advice at
long distance - all the more so as I am not a trained teacher of the Bates
method, merely a grateful pupil. I think the best I can do is to give you
the address of an organisation of which I have heard very good reports,
The Ferris School of Eyesight Training, 10 Harcourt House, 19a Cavendish
Square, London, W. L. I believe you will be able to obtain there, at
first hand and at close range, better advice than I could give by letter.
With all good wishes for better seeing, I remain Yours very truly. Alvors(?)
Huxley
1948
   
Registrar's Office, Law Courts, Belfast 22.3.48 - Dear Marge, I was
awfully sorry to hear about your little Anna. What an unfortunate thing to
happen so near home! of course she was a very reckless creature, the way she
darted about the roads; & I often marvelled how so many motorists failed to
run over her. I think you should get another dog straight away, perhaps a
little larger this time. You would probably get just as fond of it in a
little while; there are so many dogs & so many are loveable, that is a great
consolation, (though actually you are terribly grieved at the time) the fact
that when one sweet, simple, easily satisfied little soul is taken away,
there will always be others as wise & as simple to ask just as little of us
& often to put to shame our miserable, greedy, querulous human souls by the
sheer sweet, simple beauty of their animal ones. Much love to you, Tim(?) -
Postmark Belfast 3rd May 1948 to Mrs. Jameson, 5 Golf Links Road, Newcastle,
Co. Down
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Registrar's Office, Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast 29th April 1949 -
Dear Marge, I received your letter yesterday (quite rightly registered as it
contained a negotiable instrument) and would have acknowledged it at once had I not
been busy all day here till 5.30. In truth I am busy to-day also but am
snatching a moment at lunch time. I must say it is really a great relief to
get this money just now, in view of the very heavy outlays I have to make -
as I explained to you, I am indeed very grateful for your generosity, as I
promised I shall repay you as soon as is reasonable, after the death of our
dear step-mother which may not be perhaps very far off! Gordon went back
yesterday - a day early for the dance - for his last term at school - thank
God! I got from Mr. Burns Solicitor a list of the assets you acquired on
Billy's death & I enclose it. You should mark on it any changes that have
taken place since & keep it for reference. For example, your Admiralty
pension does not appear, nor your house at Newcastle and shares have been
sold etc. etc. (also Mayview) Don't forget all the values shown are Probate
valuations & don't represent present day values. You want now to (a) Get all
the things Douglas did for you into your own hands & either do them yourself
or appoint somebody - or Bank - to do them for you. This does not include
the collection of your rents which S. D. Jameson & Co. can still do - or if
they are discontinued, some other firm of rent agents. (b) Have a full
account furnished to your Solicitor (to be appointed) of the Howard Street &
James Street dealings since 1942 including a full examination into each &
every Bank account which may have had dealings with any of the Howard Street
moneys. (c) If possible get Gertie to ? to you both paying Bank of Ireland
interest only in future. If she wishes to go on paying off the capital as
well, then you must insist upon your liability to pay your share of interest
only in future, and Adams the manager will undoubtedly agree to your doing
this, and don't forget if Gertie does want to go on paying off capital it
must be out of her half share of the profits & quite independent of your
half share. In other words you are to get 50% of the Howard Street net
profits less your share of the Bank interest (i.e. 50% of the interest) at
present the interest payable yearly to Bank of Ireland is about £140 p.a. -
your share is £70, of which you are entitled to Income Tax rebate at 9/- in
the £1. That means you should get half of Howard Street yearly less about
£39. I don't want to force any particular Solicitor on you, and if you think
Mr. Burns would look after your interests, well & good, but I think you
would be better to get somebody who never heard of Douglas Jamison. I must
close now. Love from Tim.
1950
 
23rd February 1950 Postmark Shankill, Dublin to Mr. & Mrs. J. G. Wheeler,
53 Cranmore Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland - Little Gordon has to borrow,
to make provision for tomorrow,
If he received his cash in time, He would not have to pen this rhyme!
1951
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Cleveland Hotel, Pulteney Street, Bath 8th Jan. 1951 - My Dear Tim, It
was with the greatest delight that I read of your success, Mary Hobart sent
us the cutting out of paper with your likeness. Please send me a copy of
paper to send home as Mary wants the cutting back and I am posting it to
night. I hope you send it as it will give pleasure at home. Nearly all that
you met in Killaloe(?) are dead and the few not so have disappeared, the
last one Harry Franklin, the Engineer was drowned New Years Eve - fell into
the lake. Having given you this cheery bit of news I shall close. Why don't
you write me a line? You look well in the press photo, pity W. L. couldn't
see it, I once told him you had "brains to burn," he gave me one of his
looks saying "How do you know that" for he knew it was true too, a Happy New
Year to you all. Yours Dick?
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Permanent Secretary's Office, Royal Courts of Justice (Ulster), Belfast
22nd November 1951 - Dear Wheeler, Referring to your recent conversation
with the Lord Chief Justice, when his Lordship was pleased to offer you the
appointment of Registrar of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Northern
Ireland in succession to Mr. Breakey, I have been directed by His Lordship
to write and give you further particulars relating to the appointment. As
you are probably aware the salary scale payable in respect of the office of
£1,500 per annum rising by increments of £75 to £1,800 and thence b
increments of £100 to £1,950. etc. etc. etc. Yours sincerely J. Ritchie.
J. G. Wheeler
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1) 22 Mount Eden Park, Belfast 5th January 1952 - Dear Mr. Wheeler, I was so
pleased to hear of your appointment and I am quite sure that my feelings are
shared by all who have had the benefit of your ? and efficiency as King's
Bench Registrar. Here's wishing you many happy years of office and all the
best for 1952. Yours sincerely Robert Lowry
2) County Court House, Crumlin Road, Belfast 6-1-1952 - My Dear Tim, Just a
short note from another of your friends to say how delighted I was to see,
this morning, the notice for which we have all been waiting. Congratulations
and all good wishes. May you act long with dignity, health and happiness as
Registrar of the Supreme Court. Sincerely yours G. ? Holland? - John G.
Wheeler Esq.
3) 90 Somerton Road, Belfast 7/1/1952 - My dear Wheeler, May I offer my very
hearty congratulations on your well deserved promotion. I hope you will
enjoy many happy and fruitful years in your new office. Yours sincerely, ?
Moody
4) Cecil V. Smylie, F.C.A., 13 Donegall Square North, Belfast 7th January
1952 - My Dear Tim, Very hearty congratulations to you on your promotion
which I have read with great interest. May you get out of your increased
responsibilities all that satisfaction and contentment that each and
everyone of us looks for and hopes to find in our daily tasks. Please accept
both Maud and my own very hearty congratulations to you and Pearl, and with
all good wishes for 1952 and the years that lie ahead. Yours very sincerely
Cecil - J. G. Wheeler, Esq., 222 Ormeau Road, Belfast
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Pear Tree Cottage, Nr. Burwash, Sussex 9th January 1952 - My dear Tim,
Your letter re the Belfast ? letter have just arrived & I am writing by
return to congratulate you on your new appointment, its a jolly good job,
you must be very pleased - what with the job and your £387.14.0 from ? for
ground rents you must be feeling a millionaire! I'm grateful for my
£193.17.0 (which is half what the rest of you get), I think it was a mean
act on Daddy's part to put it in his will but in ? he thought he had spent
enough on me by sending me to India when I was 21 in the hope I would find a
rich husband!! You seem to have had a good New Year, it must have been fun
at the Hotel, in spite of all the drunks, or because of them. I had Mrs.
Duffin & her 2 unmarried daughters here on New Years Eve to lunch, one young
man, as one table can only seat 6 at a squash, I cooked a goose & all the
etceteras, & plum pudding, judging by the amount they ate a good time was
had by all! I retired to bed at 4 p.m. (after they had gone) & have been
there since with a rotten cold & cough, am up to-day but feeling mouldy.
Well our very best wishes to you both for 1952, you seem to have been pretty
lucky - the first ? & may the luck carry on all through - with lots of love
from Helen
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Ministry of Finance, Law Courts Building, Chichester Street, Belfast 9th
January 1952 - Dear Wheeler, I write to offer you my sincere congratulations
upon your recent promotion, and I trust that you will enjoy your new post. I
take the opportunity of appreciating the courtesy and friendly relations
which have always existed between the various Registrars and my Office, and
have no doubt that these will continue in the future. Yours sincerely, F. C. MacNeice - J. G. Wheeler, Esq., Registrar, Royal Courts of Justice (Ulster),
Belfast
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Moore Lodge, Kilrea - My dear old Tim, Opening my B.N.L. (Belfast News
Letter) this morning I find the good news ? Well done. I'm glad you've got
there. It's been a long wait but now it's come & I'm sure you will sustain
the prestige of the Royal Courts of Justice during your time as Supreme
Court Registrar. God bless you & yours from us both. c/h? Billy?
8) 61 Ailesbury Road, Dublin Mon. 26th - Dear Mr. Wheeler, This is just a
line to send you my best congratulations & tell you & your wife how pleased
we were to hear of your success. It is very gratifying for a man to feel he
has got to the top of his profession & a great compliment to his character,
& it shows hard work & determination! All well here - we miss Michael very
much, but time goes so quickly, (especially in advancing years) that I feel
he will be back in no time. Gordon flourishes, he had a bit of a snivelling
cold, but it seems to have gone without doing much damage - he is working
very hard now, so as to be more sociable in the holidays. Dickie Hyde is
giving a big Sherry party on Friday to celebrate his 21st birthday, so we
are all going, Canon Powell has arranged for Gordon to meet organist on Wed
- he says he wont go, but he WILL if I have anything to do with it! Kind
regards from us both to you & Mrs. Wheeler, yrs. sincerely Geraldine
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1) 1 Fitzwilliam Street, Belfast 8/1/52 - Heartiest congratulations Tim, and
best wishes to you and Pearl on 1952 onwards. from Norman and Alice
2) Eusemere, Comber Jan. 5th 1952 - My dear Mrs. Wheeler, I am very glad to
read of your husband's new appointment, may I wish you both much happiness
in 1952, & may you both have very many happy years together in the future.
Yours very sincerely, Jean L. Andrews I hope you are all very well, & that
Gordon is having the same success at Trinity as he had at school!
1953
  
Registrar's Office, The Royal Courts of Justice (Ulster), Belfast 9.10.53
- Dear Marge, Thanks for your letter, you should not have written at all,
let alone such a long one, I am sure it is not good for you to do anything
you can avoid doing until you are really better again. I thought you looked
as if you were picking up a bit last time & you don't want any more
set-backs, so don't let anybody hustle you out of that bed until you are
really fit to go. It was very pleasant the other afternoon & I was glad to
be there when Armstrong Jones came. He is a nice man & I would say a sincere
man, and genuine, reserved & not gushing. I am certain that if prayers do
good, those simple ones for you that affirm ? must have achieved some good
object, for they were offered in a quiet room, in all humility, on behalf of
a most wonderfully gallant little sufferer. I must say, in all sincerity,
your courage & cheerfulness, in the face of what has indeed been too much
sickness & pain throughout your life, is an object lesson in fortitude for
all of us. Hoping to see you soon again & to find you much better. With love
Tim P.S. I will get long ones!
1955
  
Registrar's Office, Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast 8th November 1955 -
My dear Marge, Just a line to let you know how much we both appreciated
those lovely silver candlesticks & how much we both enjoyed seeing you &
having such a cosy tea together - we must go there again soon. It is just
unbelievable how the years pass away, but wonderful how we adjust ourselves
to their passing no matter what befalls, God seems to lead & help us through
the worst, so that situation - nothing - that life does to us is hopeless or
altogether beyond bearing! I myself am as happy now as I ever was though I
am not youthful any longer, but just a middle aged man restored by God's
great mercy & by my good & dear wife's absolutely devoted nursing, cooking &
watching over me. Though we have had some hard ? during the past 25 years
Pearl & I have come through, & one soon forgets the awful things & seems to
remember always the joyful happy things. You too have had your full ? of
sorrow & pain, perhaps more than any of us, but you are none the worse, you
still can laugh & smile with real joy & pleasure. Really there is not much
more that anyone can want from life: good companions, fair health &
laughter, certainly laughter. I have been blessed in addition with a fond &
devoted wife, who has always put my welfare first, whose good strong
character has helped much to strengthen my character, who has been unselfish
beyond words & whose deftness & manual skills alone would have justified her
existence in any household! And now, thanking you again for all your
kindness, we send our love & very best wishes to you Tim & Pearl - 9th
November 1955 Postmark Belfast to Mrs. M. O. Jameson, 12 Golf Links Road,
Newcastle, Co. Down
no specific dates
 
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Mourne Grange, Kilkeel, Co. Down - Dear Mater & Pater, I am famous! I am
in the paper, like this:- and I have been congratulated on all sides and am
surrounded with letters and telegrams, O! I am happy. Goodness, I never
thought that I could do it. I am in the "Irish Times". Parents are writing
about me in their letters, and people all round this district are asking
about me. O, I must not praise myself any more. How did those photographs
come out, you will be able to buy them now that the war is over. I am
looking forward to seeing you on Saturday, please bring Marley, and a white
sport's shirt for the match, your loving son. Gordon - St. Columba's
College. Entrance Scholarship and Exhibitions. A scholarship has been
awarded to W. S. L. Roberts (Mr. D. S. Pringle, Castle Park, Dalkey, Co.
Dublin), and the following exhibitions have been awarded:- 1st, B. S. L.
Kidd (Mr. F. J. H. Wadman, Braeckenber House School, Belfast, and St.
Columba's College); 2nd, C. B. Kidd (Mr. F. J. H. Wadman, Brackenber House
School, Belfast); 3rd, W. G. Wheeler (Mr. A. S. Carey, Mourne Grange, Co.
Down); 4th, A. J. Cook (Capt. W. Hutton, Garth House, Bangor).
2) no date, might be if 'Tim' was in hospital or after he was off sick
and went back to work before he finally retired, really not sure
3) My dear Hilda,
It was good of you to think of Narens? Nareus? just now & to send a note to
me. It seems that Walter will see Tim after all. I never thought he could go
on so long & in so much pain & suffering. I seem to have learnt to pray more
easily in the last year. It helps. Love to you both. As ever. Hilda. -
Received this from Hilda this a.m. Beautiful day here, have been thinking of
you. I do hope Wally arrived safely & not the kind of journey we had when
you returned. It was Marcus's 21st birthday which Hilda re???? to. She had
just posted this before I rang last night.
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