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So many stories to tell with these images..

LOUIS OFFIE: 1880-1931 Louis Ludovicum Offie, was born about 1880 at Port Louis, Mauritius. (A little island in the Indian Ocean, near Africa.) Apart from the photo, taken March 1907, I can't found anymore info of a crime. Later the same year Louis Offie married Sarah Taylor at South Shields. 1911 census, 90 Queens Road Jarrow, Jarrow, Durham. Louis Offie Head 31 Ship-Painter, Mauritius Port Lows Resident. Sarah Offie Wife 29 Durham Sunderland. His wife Sarah died on the 1st May 1912 at Jarrow, her burial took place on the 4th May 1912 at Jarrow in Durham. World War One, he served with the Durham Light Infantry and Labour Corps, which he received the British War and Victory Medals. 12th June 1915 at Jarrow in Durham, Louis married Elizabeth Potts. A son Louis was born on the 14th April 1917 a merchant seaman, who died in 1976. in 1937 he saved a boy from drowning report below. 13th July 1937 Tuesday Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette JARROW RESCUE Young Boy Saved From Death in the Tyne A gallant rescue of an unkonwn young boy from the River Tyne last night was made by a 20-year-old Jarrow man, Mr. Louis Offie of 132 Queen's Road, who jumped into the river at Jarrow Quay Corner fully clothed and brought the boy, who was struggling in 15ft., of water to safety. Mr. W. Smith, an eye-witness of the rescue, spoke enthusiastically of Mr. Offie's action and said the boy appeared to have been gathering timber and had fallen in. after he had been rescued, the boy thanked his rescuer and walked away. Mr. Offie remarked that he did not think it necessary to ask the boy his name and address.

Stunned. He turned his life around - I think marrying helped him straighten himself out. With two weddings there will certainly be family members about - lets hope they see your research and see what a wonderful man he turned out to be!

Thanks very much for adding that story. Really interesting! We've added these details to the livesofthefirstworldwar.org website

That's great. We need to get as much info to the older photos because it'll soon be too late or difficult to find. Saving for future generations is what it's all about. :)

wouldn't like to have met her in a dark ally

She looks like she'd had a very hard life

too much opium!

But what an amazing photo!

I wonder how her children were cared for when she went to prison. When a mother is incarcerated, her children are often 'sentenced' either to lives on the streets or Industrial Schools.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sitting portraits, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Ciao, sono amministratore di un gruppo chiamato 500x500. Ci farebbe piacere aggiungere l’elemento al gruppo.

This reminds me of the comments on the portrait of a local dignitary by the narrator in Jean Paul Satre's "Nausea": "This man is very short".

Hi! I am admin of a group called Books / libros / livros and we'd love to have this added to the group!

A dapper dude!