Camera Workers, 1858-1950

The British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon Photographic Directory, 1858-1950

Gidley, Jesse Cleveland[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Male 1885 - 1918  (33 years)


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  • Name Gidley, Jesse Cleveland 
    Birth 28 Sep 1885  Bobcaygeon, ON Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8
    Gender Male 
    Business Address/Year 1910s  Duncan, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 30 Oct 1912  Coombs, BC Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Bride: Ethel Ray Ford 
    Business Address/Year 1918  Duncan, BC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Station St.
    Duncan, BC
    Canada 
    Death 17 Dec 1918  Duncan, BC Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Association Gidley's Studio (Relationship: Owner) 
    Person ID I1078  Camera Workers | G, vol. 2, 1901-1950
    Last Modified 23 Jul 2017 

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Commercial.
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: A pharmacist and photographer by the time he married Ethel Ray Ford of Coombs on 30 Oct 1912, he operated under the name Gidley Studio. According to D.M. Stewart, he also used C.W. Sillence's photographs. Gidley died during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.
    • FORMATS: postcards.

  • Sources 
    1. [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA.
      Print HP020308 (A-07240)

    2. [S732] HEN10, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1910), 745.
      Duncan: "Gidley Jesse C druggist"

    3. [S740] WRI18, (Vancouver, BC: Wrigley Directories, c1918), 163.
      Duncan: "Gidley, Jesse C Druggist, Stationer, Kodaks and Supplies. Station Street"

    4. [S738] WRI19, (Vancouver, BC: Wrigley Directories, c1919).
      Duncan: not listed

    5. [S692] Correspondence, David Mattison.
      D.M. Stewart to Mattison, 15 Dec 1996

    6. [S303] Peter Grant, Grant (2002), (Victoria, B.C.: TouchWood Editions, 2002).

    7. [S924] Ancestry.ca (Web site).
      Father: William Gidley
      Mother: Mary Jane Chalmers
      Ontario, Canada Births, 1858-1913

    8. [S670] BVIPA marriage registration.
      Registration no. 1912-09-098581 (microfilm B11381); digital facsimile URL (accessed 23 Jul 2017): http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/518fe18f-7a85-4967-8551-9c9f151998d0

    9. [S652] BVIPA death registration index.
      Registration no. 1918-09-038129 (microfilm B13084)