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Emil Vieler - Photographic Gallery

[ABOVE] A vignettr portrait of a middle-aged woman by Emil Vieler of Bexhill-on-Sea (c1898)	[ABOVE] A cabinet group portrait by Emil Vieler of Bexhill-on-Sea (c1900)		[ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of a young woman by Emil Vieler of Bexhill-on-Sea (c1895)
[ABOVE] A 'midget carte' portrait of a woman by Emil Vieler of Bexhill-on-Sea (c1898)	[ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of an elderly man by Emil Vieler of Bexhill-on-Sea (c1900)	[ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of an elderly woman by Emil Vieler of Bexhill-on-Sea (c1900)	[ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of a young girl by Emil Vieler of Bexhill-on-Sea (c1898)

Emil Vieler's Photographs of the Offen Family of Bexhill

All photographs courtesy of Mark Offen of Cape Town, South Africa

[ABOVE] A cabinet photograph of Frederick J. Offen's butcher's shop at 19-21 Station Road, Bexhill, photographed by Emil Vieler of the Imperial Studio, Bexhill-on-Sea around 1905. (Negative No. 10450A). Frederick James Offen, who was born in St Leonards, Sussex, in 1870,  is standing in the centre of the picture, wearing a long, white butcher's coat. Frederick J. Offenson was the son of Jesse Offen, a pork butcher and grocer of St Leonards, Sussex. The photographer Emil Vieler was based at 11 Upper Station Road, Bexhill, a short distance away from Frederick Offen's butcher's shop..

[ABOVE] A close-up view of F. J. Offen's butcher's shop at 19-21 Station Road, Bexhill, photographed by Emil Vieler around 1905. Frederick James Offen is standing on the far left of the picture, wearing a long, white butcher's coat. Frederick J. Offen set up as a butcher in Bexhill around 1897. Frederick J. Offen was listed as a Poulterer in Station Road, Bexhill in a Sussex trade directory published in 1899.F J Offen is still listed as a Poulterer at 19 & 21 Station Road, Bexhill, in a 1905 trade directory. By 1911, F J Offen's business address has changed (probably as a result of changes in house numbering) to 71 & 73 Station Road, Bexhill. The 1911 directory lists Frederick J. Offen  as a  pork butcher at No. 71 , and plain butcher at No 73 Station Road.

Offen Family Photographs courtesy of Mark Offen of Cape Town, South Africa

[ABOVE] A carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs Alice Offen (born 1872, Hastings) and her son Bishop Frederick Offen (born 1897, Bexhill), photographed by Emil Vieler of Bexhill (c1897). Mrs Alice Offen, the wife of Bexhill butcher Frederick James Offen, was born Alice Maud Kennett in Hastings in 1872, the daughter of  Mr Bishop Kennett, the Station Master at the Warrior Square Railway Station, St Leonards, Hastings. Alice married Frederick James Offen, a butcher from St Leonards-on-Sea, in the Sussex seaside resort of Hastings in 1892. Mrs Alice Offen gave birth to three children - Bishop Frederick Offen (born 1897), Ada Marian Offen (born 1902, Bexhill), and Dorothy Maud Offen (born 1905, Bexhill). Mrs Alice Offen died from breast cancer in 1916 at the age of forty-five.	[ABOVE] A cabinet portrait of Bishop Frederick Offen (born 1897, Bexhill) and his sister Ada Marian Offen (born 1902, Bexhill), photographed by Emil Vieler of the Imperial Studio, Station Road, Bexhill (c1905).	[ABOVE] A postcard portrait of Bishop Frederick Offen (born 1897, Bexhill), photographed by Emil Vieler at the Imperial Studio, Station Road, Bexhill in August 1908, when Bishop was ten years of age. During the First World War, Bishop Offen served in the Royal Navy. At the end of the war, in 1918, Bishop Frederick Offen married Dorothy G. Isaac in Southampton. After their marriage, Bishop and Dorothy went to live in the Channel Islands. In 1929, Bishop and Dorothy Offen emigrated to South Africa. Bishop Frederick Offen worked as an instrument technician at the Royal Observatory in Cape Town South Africa for many years and was awarded the British Empire Medal for his services to the Crown. Bishop Frederick Offen died in South Africa in 1976.
		Bishop Frederick Offen photographed by Alice Armstrong
[ABOVE] Bexhill butcher Frederick James Offen (standing on the left, wearing the white coat) photographed outside his butcher's shop in Station Road, Bexhill. Frederick James Offen was born in 1870 at St Leonards-on Sea, Sussex. In 1892, Frederick Offen married Alice Maud Kennett (born 1872, Hastings). Frederick James Offen died in 1955 in his mid-eighties.	[ABOVE] A detail of  Emil Vieler's cabinet portrait of Bishop Frederick Offen and his sister Ada Marian Offen. This portrait was taken by Emil Vieler around 1905 when Ada was around three years of age. Ada Marian Offen was born in Bexhill during the First Quarter of 1902. After leaving school, Ada Offen became a photographer's assistant. Sadly, Ada Offen died in 1921 at the age of 18.	[ABOVE] A portrait of Bishop Frederick Offen (1897-1976), photographed by Bexhill photographer Miss Alice Armstrong in 1918. Bishop Offen joined the Royal Navy in 1915 and served on board HMS Zinnia, a support vessel which saw action in the Irish Sea off the coast of West Cork during the First World War. A keen amateur photographer, Bishop Offen recorded some dramatic scenes with his camera while serving on HMS Zinnia.

Offen Family Photographs courtesy of Mark Offen of Cape Town, South Africa

[ABOVE] A cabinet portrait of Bishop Frederick Offen (born 1897, Bexhill), the son of Frederick  by Emil Vieler of Bexhill-on-Sea (c1900)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Mark Offen of Cape Town, South Africa, for providing the Offen family photographs. Mark Offen is the grandson of Bishop Frederick Offen, the eldest son of Frederick and Alice Offen of Bexhill-on-Sea.

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