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Ricou Family Collection

Title

Ricou Family Collection

Description

Images and ephemera collected concerning the Ricou family.

Source

Scans gift of the Stuart Heritage Museum.

Contributor

Stuart Heritage Museum

Language

English

Identifier

SHM-2024-029-R

Collection Items

Ladye Agnes Kitching Ricou, c. 1935

Young woman, Ladye Agnes Kitching Ricou (1897-1981). Daughter of Sylvanus and Martha Kitching, wife of Ivy LeRoy Ricou (1894-1954). Worked as a seamstress in 1940 and 1950.
Roy and Agnes Ricou, c. 1935

Man and woman on pier. Ivy LeRoy Ricou (1894-1954) and wife Ladye Agnes Kitching Ricou (1897-1981).

Tags Piers & wharves
Stuart High School Girls' Basketball Team, 1940

Seven young women in basketball uniforms. Handwritten on back: June Chester, Kathleen Ricou, Dorothy Baker, Gertrude Young, Lydia Sallas, Margaret Anderson, Juanita Slawson. Poor quality copy.

Tags Basketball teams, School sports, Sports for girls, Uniforms
Ransom Ren and Gertrude Ricou's children, c. 1903

The children of Gertrude and Ransom Ren Ricou (left to right): Anita Gertrude Ricou Tilton (1899-1986), Louis Ransom (1895-1904), Inez Louse Ricou Browning (1901-1990), Ernest Lorenzo (1893-1960), and Douglas Lenoir (1898-1966). Poor quality copy.

Tags Children
Ransom Ren and Gertrude Ricou, c. 1905

Ransom Ren Ricou (1867-1925) and Gertrude Ricou (1870-1933). The couple married in 1890 and settled in Eden in 1894, established a commercial fishing company, R.R. Ricou and Sons, in 1896, which became a large and profitable business. Poor quality copy.
Ricou women and friend, c. 1940

Dorothy Ricou Dowdy (1922-1991) and mother Margaret Sullivan Ricou (1898-1972), and friend Velma Davis Walrath (1925-2005), who later settled in Billings, Montana.
Dorothy Mae Ricou and brother Elmer Leo Ricou, 1943

Dorothy Ricou Dowdy (1922-1991) and brother Elmer Leo Ricou (1916-1943). Elmer enlisted in 1941 and was killed in a plane crash at Camp Rucker, Alabama in March 1943. Probably taken at Dorothy's wedding to Austin Dowdy in Feb 1943.

Tags Military uniforms
Home of Ernest L. and Margaret Ricou, c. 1945

Two story white house on Hillcrest Street, Eden. Poor quality copy.

Tags Dwellings
Home of Ernest L. and Margaret Ricou, c. 1945

Two story white house on Hillcrest Street, Eden. Poor quality copy.

Tags Dwellings
Home of Ernest L. and Margaret Ricou, c. 1945

Two story white house on Hillcrest Street, Eden. Poor quality copy.

Tags Dwellings

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