Photograph of members of the Bateman family. Edwin Wettenhall Bateman is identified seated on the far left of the front row. Other people in the photograph could be his parents, James and Caroline Wettenhall Bateman and his siblings.
Photograph of members of the Bateman family. Edwin Wettenhall Bateman is identified seated on the far left of the front row. Other people in the photograph could be his parents, James and Caroline Wettenhall Bateman and his siblings.
Recording is of an interview with Marianne May "May" Bateman conducted by Colin Stevens, February 22, 1978. Major themes discussed are: Elworth.
Biographical Notes
May Bateman was born in 1894 in Portage LaPrairie, Manitoba to Edwin Wettenhall Bateman and Cassie (Dale) Bateman.
May's father, Edwin Bateman was born in 1859 in Sandbach, Cheshire, to James and Caroline Mary Wettenhall Bateman (their home in Sandbach was called Elworth Cottage). When he was twenty-one, E.W. Bateman immigrated to Manitoba, Canada where he met Catherine “Cassie” Dale, daughter of George and Sarah Gillon Dale. They were married in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba on November 9, 1886.
Edwin and Cassie had seven children, the eldest Edna Caroline Annie (Corner) born in 1889, George, Mamie (McWilliams) born in 1892, Marianne May “May” Bateman born in 1894, Jessie (Fox Kemp), Carey, and the youngest Warren Stafford born in 1901.Cassie (Dale) Bateman died in Portage La Prairie in 1909.
Edwin was transferred to Vancouver by the Canadian Pacific Railway where he married Cassie’s younger sister Mary Dale, born 1865, and moved his six children to Vancouver.
The Bateman family first lived at 7th and Balsam in a large new house. It wasn’t until 1920 that they decided to move to the quieter atmosphere of the Burnaby Lake- Deer Lake area. By this time Edwin Wettenhall Bateman was a retired CPR executive. He moved his wife and daughter May to Deer Lake and commissioned 'Elworth' house, designed by English-born and trained architect Enoch Evans. The house was completed by contractor William Dodson in 1922 and located at the site of what would become Burnaby Village Museum, 6501 Deer Lake Avenue. The Batemans lived here for seventeen years before moving back to Vancouver in May of 1935. Mary Bateman died July 5, 1935.
Edwin Wettenhall Bateman died on November 25, 1957 at the age of ninety-seven.
Marianne May Bateman died in 1990.
Interview was digitized in 2010 allowing it to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council and the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia. It was recognized by the Heritage Society of BC with an award in 2012.
1 photograph : sepia ; 8.9 x 6.1 cm mounted on card 10.4 x 6.3 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Edwin Wettenhall Bateman, about age twenty-two, taken in 1881 according to the inscription on the back. Edwin Bateman is wearing his hair short and parted down the middle, with sideburns and a moustache. His dark coat is buttoned high with one button and his tie is a band that fits on…
1 photograph : sepia ; 8.9 x 6.1 cm mounted on card 10.4 x 6.3 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of Edwin Wettenhall Bateman, about age twenty-two, taken in 1881 according to the inscription on the back. Edwin Bateman is wearing his hair short and parted down the middle, with sideburns and a moustache. His dark coat is buttoned high with one button and his tie is a band that fits only under the collar and does not hang down below it. This photograph was probably taken shortly before E.W. Bateman left England for Manitoba. E.W. Bateman built the house "Elworth" at the Burnaby Village Museum.
Photograph of Edwin Wettenhall Bateman and Catherine (Cassie) Dale Bateman taken in a photographic studio. Edwin Bateman is seated on a studio prop fence wearing a three-piece suit. Cassie Bateman is leaning over a wooden fence post with an open book under her hand, wearing a darkly coloured dress …
Photograph of Edwin Wettenhall Bateman and Catherine (Cassie) Dale Bateman taken in a photographic studio. Edwin Bateman is seated on a studio prop fence wearing a three-piece suit. Cassie Bateman is leaning over a wooden fence post with an open book under her hand, wearing a darkly coloured dress and a long wedding veil. The couple were married in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba on November 9th, 1886. They had four daughters and three sons. After Cassie died in Portage La Prairie in 1909 Edwin married her sister Mary Dale. E. W. Bateman was the builder and the first owner of the Elworth house.