'James II' has a rather clouded start. Although he is clearly named after his illustrious sire 'Ch. Jimmy' the first published records of his existence show him as sire and dam unknown. This appears in both the National Cat Club listings published in Our Cats for 12th April, 1902 in which his date of birth is given as 'April 1901'. Likewise, in The Cat Club Register, his transfer of ownership is recorded with sire and dam as unknown. However, this has been amended by hand, (presumably by Mrs. Clinton Locke), to show that his dam was Mrs. Newland's 'Rose'.
In Volume 1 of The Cat Fanciers' Association Stud-Book, under the registration of his son, 'Pretty Correct', we find that 'James II' has by this time been given a National Cat Club registration number (NCC: 4742). We have no official record of his breeder, but if his dam was indeed Mrs. Newlands 'Rose' we can find another male named 'Jim Shelley' (NCC:3321) born in 1895, whose breeder of record is Mr. E. Newland. It seems a little more than coincidence that this male also shares the name 'Jim' and that 'James II' may in fact have been from a repeat breeding. So while our 'James' only may have been bred by Mr. Newland, there is no doubt that his first owner of record was Mrs. Leuty Collins. She appears as his owner in The Cat Club Register, where the transfer of ownership of 'James II' is recorded between Mrs. Leuty Collins and Mrs. Collingwood.
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