1869 July 25th born Joji Tada in Tokyo, Japan.
1894 Belfast Industrial exhibtion, George Tadda, Bristol, Japanese goods of every description- hand painting on Japanese and other fancy articles
1898 Mr. G. Tadda, Japanese gold wire worker – trades and cookery exhibition, Gloucester
1898 April – George Tadda “oriental goods merchant” married Catherine Stewart Raywood (b 1875), daughter of Sheffield born commercial traveller William Raywood and Louisa nee Toshach in Sheffield.
1899 Queenie Okicku Tadda, daughter of George and Kate Tadda, born in Sheffield.
1899 – local patents, George Tadda for Japanese go-merrily Sheffield
1899 September – Mr and Mrs Tadda visited Great Yarmouth
1901 census – George Tadda oriental merchant, Kate, Queenie, Emily Long, servant, Sheffield.
1901 Oriental merchant – 131 Pinstone Street, Sheffield
1904 April – Mr. Tadda, a Japanese, has a box outside his residence in the London-road, for contributions for the fund for the widows and orphans of Japanese soldiers and sailors. Lowestoft
1904 May – Haruge Theodore Tadda born to George and Catherine Tadda in Mutford, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
1904 October – Japanese Widows and Orphans.—M. Tadda, Japanese who all the summer has been carrying on business on the Britannia Pier, has made a final clearance for the season of his box in which the contributions of the public were invited for the aid of the widows and orphans of Japanese soldiers and sailors. Between September 10th and October 4th there was dropped into the box £1 16s. 8 1/2d. which we believe is the best month’s total we have recorded for this excellent effort. The money subscribed has been forwarded to the Japanese Embassy in London, whence it will be remitted to Tokio.
1905 September – Mr. Tadda informs us that he has just cleared the box placed on the Britannia Pier to collect contributions for the Japanese soldiers and sailors orphans fund, and with a donation of 7s 6d given him by a Yarmouth gentleman, he found £1 16s 11d which he has now forwarded to Viscount Hayashi, the Japanese ambassador in London, to be forwarded to Tokio.
1908 – George Tadda – Japanese stone and china bead manufacturer, 32 & 33 The Arcade, Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth
1910 April – Queenie Tadda appears in the children’s entertainment at the Gorleston Cottage Hospital
1911 April – census – George Tadda (oriental fancy goods dealer), Kate, Queenie, Maruge aged 6 – Great Yarmouth 59 Crown Road.
1912 – Japanese stone and china bead manufacturer, 32 & 33 The Arcade, Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth
1914 Queenie Tadda is a pupil of music teacher Kate Yallop – Yarmouth
1914 A Doctor Fetched. Florence Chambers, 32, Teveril road, said that Mrs. Raywood and her daughter, Mrs. Tadda, stayed at her house Friday night. A doctor had to be fetched the Saturday morning, and he advised her to have Mrs Raywood removed to the Workhouse. She did not know why Mrs. Tadda herself had not arranged for her mother’s removal. She (witness) had not the authority of the son. The medical evidence showed that the woman died acute pneumonia of four or five days’ duration. She was very weak when admitted to the Workhouse, and it was said to very injudicious to bring Sheffield in her condition. She had been living in Lowestoft and was meant to stay with her son in Sheffield, but he had not received the telegram warning of her arrival, so had been absent.
1916 George Tadda – Japanese stone and china bead manufacturer, 32 & 33 The Arcade, Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth
1918 Catherine dies aged 42, of a brain tumour and post operative asthenia, at 59 Crown Road, Great Yarmouth, buried at Caister.
1918 George Tadda jeweller, Duke Street, Brighton
1921 census – George Tadda in Great Yarmouth, oriental goods dealer, widow. Resident Japanese. His daughter Queenie, 22, single, born in Sheffield, home duties. (crossed out) Haruge, son, 17, born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, farming student.
1922 Haruge Theodore Tadda emigrates to Canada, claims father is British born and mother born in Scotland, drops “Haruge” name.
1925 Miss Queenie Tadda is bridesmaid at a wedding in Yarmouth. She was in grey crepe de chine, trimmed with Chinchilla fur and shoes and stockings to match. Her hat was grey Georgette, and her bouquet pink carnations. Her gift from the bridegroom was travelling case.
1925 Special display at Bobby & Co in Exeter of kimonos. “The writer was received by a charming young Japanese lady, O’kiku Tadda-san from Tokio.” Also O’Kikusan showing kimonos in Jenners, Edinburgh.
1931 Theodore Tadda in Saskatchewan, Canada, working as a lineman on the railways.
1932 Theodore marries Myra Wager in Canada
1932 September – Theodore visits UK with Myra – 25 Central Arcade, Great Yarmouth.
1933 Theodore and Myra return to Canada
1933 George Tadda has a Japanese store, The Arcade, Marine Parade, Queenie Tadda, fancy goods dealer, 25 Central Arcade, Great Yarmouth.
1935 sale by auction of furniture of George Tadda – Yarmouth
1939 Queenie Tadda is living in London, 16 Cheniston Gardens, Kensington, as a beauty culture and hairdressing student
1940 George Tadda dies, aged 79 – at “Green Roofs” West Caister, buried at Caister.
1979 Queenie Tadda dies, aged 80, 136 High St, Lowestoft, Suffolk, leaving £7257 (£36,000 in present day value)
1998 Haruge Theodore Tadda dies, aged 93, in Manitoba, Canada
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