This is just a brief teaser to let you know what’s coming later today for Throwback Thursday.

Among my sister’s boxes of papers was an old photo album with pictures of Saint Andrew’s Priory here in Honolulu. My grandmother was raised at the Priory from 1891 through her graduation, and then until her marriage in about 1910.

Here’s just a sample of the photos. The caption: The Sisters’ Cottage.

Stored with the album is a handwritten note written by my mother, Helen Yonge Lind, describing “one old, somewhat-tattered photo album.”

Original owner was Abby Stuart Marsh, at one time Priory principal. Before she died, she sent this to my mother, Heleualani Ewa (Cathcart) Yonge. Miss Marsh and another Priory teacher, Miss or Mrs. Blue were my godmothers, my godfather was Bishop Restarick. I was born in 1914.

Miss Marsh retired to a place in New York that I beleive was connected to the sisterhood to which she belonged. She corresponded with me for a number of years before her death.She sent me several books authored by a relative of my father’s family, Charlotte M. Yonge of England.

I remember being in touch with Ms Blue maybe once or twice, but lost track of her. It seems to me she lived in Southern Oregon, perhaps Medford.

I have distinct memories of my childhood. We lived in the country and my mother brought us to Honolulu several times a year to pay our respects to the Restaricks, then we went to the “sister’s cottage” at the Priory to visit sisters Beatrice and Albertina.

My mother was raised at the Priory. Her father, Robert William Cathcart, somehow arranged for two of his daughters to be cared for by a nursemaid at the Priory under the supervision of the Sisters when Cathcart and his wife were away to California in 1891. Even after the parents returned, Cathcart left the girls at the Priory where they lived until they graduated.

I have an early appointment today and don’t have time to post the photos. But I’ll get them done and posted later today. Stay tuned.