The GRAVE family at Mountain View had been reduced a little by this time; Tamar's sisters Sarah, Henrietta, Grace, and Eleanor had all married and moved out. Sarah had married John RICHARDSON of Caldbeck, and had emigrated with him to Ontario, Canada, where they established a large farm near the township of Sarnia, of which more later. Tamar's eldest brother Thomas, now aged 74, was head of household at Mountain View, assisted by his 72-year-old sister Mary Jane, but it was probably 'young' brother John, aged 57, who did most of the work in running the farm. Also present on census night, but shown as only visiting rather than being resident, was another sister Martha, now 65 and a widow, her Argentinean husband Irvin BELL having died some years earlier. It wasn't long however before Martha moved in with her brothers and sister and she lived there until the end of her days. Mountain View must have been a social crossroads and gathering place for all the GRAVE and BROUGH family, and there must also have been plenty of room there because various members of the family ended up living there for periods of time. For example, my grandfather's sister, Auntie Mattie (Martha Bell BROUGH) gave Mountain View, Blindcrake, as her address at the time of her marriage to George TEASDALE in 1910. And she probably lived there ever since her father retired and moved away from Cockermouth in 1898, as did Mattie's youngest sister Tamar (#1156) who died there in 1912. There must also have been a close bond between the two Martha's - Martha GRAVE, who had become Martha BELL through marriage, and her niece Mattie, who had been baptised Martha Bell BROUGH. It was probably to avoid confusion between the two Martha Bells living under the same roof, that young Martha became known as Mattie and the elder Martha became known as Aunt Bell.

 

By 1915 five of John and Tamar's children had married: 

 

This left only two of the BROUGH children single in 1915 -Thomas' twin sister Ellie, and their elder sister Jane. Both were probably also living at Mountain View, Blindcrake when the photograph was taken in 1915. Three years later, however, Ellie (#1155) married local farmer John James GRAHAM (#1211) from Isel, and they emigrated to Ontario to farm near the township of Sarnia, where Ellie's Aunt Sarah had arrived a generation earlier. Sarah and her husband were not the first generation of the GRAVE/BROUGH families to emigrate to Ontario, however; Stephen GRAVE Senior (#1182), the father of all those in the photograph, had a sister Elizabeth (#1201) who, together with her husband Matthias MUMBERSON (#1221) had responded to the first Canadian appeal to British farmers to emigrate back in the first half of the 19^th century, and they, like Sarah and her husband John RICHARDSON had produced families who grew up and married in Canada, so by the time Ellie and John arrived in Ontario there were several generations of ancestors living there, to be joined shortly by Ellie's only remaining single sister, Jane (#1144) - Auntie Jinnie as we knew her - who travelled out to visit them and ended up staying there, living with Ellie and John for over 25 years, and finally ending her days there in 1949. [Note that Matthias MUMBERSON was the great great grandfather of fellow researcher Marian Noble of Canada.]