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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: aspin on Monday 06 November 06 19:28 GMT (UK)
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This is my granda Stark
|Not a very good photo my brother had it pinned on his shed wall and I look this photo from that I should send it to the photo repair thread
Elizabeth
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And my Granda Mckenzie
Elizabeth
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Hello Aspin - you are very lucky to have the lovely photos of your two Granda's.
Glad you were clever enough to take a photo of the one in the shed. I'm sure the photo thread people would like to work on it.......
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I'm with you on that one, Emmeline.
Give it a go Aspin.
Remember that tatty offering my dear little father always carried round in his wallet, of himself and his chums when he was learning his trade at the Dock and General. It was so battered, but they built it up and made something magnificent of it.
I'm sure they will work their magic for you.
Paula
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Here is my husbands grt granda and two great uncles at their work .The one standing on the left is grt granda Gair
Elizabeth
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Come out a bit small Sorry its a good one really as the men are all dirty and it gives you an idea how the worked in those days
Elizabeth
ps sent off Granda Stark and he has come back a smasher
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yea, thanks again pentio you have been a wonderful help starting this thread.
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Ohhhhhhhhhh, I wish it was bigger, aspin, it looks so good. I had my nose right up to the screen, I'll bet it is smashing.
Paula
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aspin - please try and make bigger. It looks a wonderful photo but like Paula nearly had to have my nose through the screen ::) ::)
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Here goes bet its too big this time Elizabeth
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Sorry all must try later
Elizabeth
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Don't give up, you'll get there in the end. We can be patient.
Paula
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Had to put this on.
'Emma' the best little bone shaker ever.
My Father, myself and my friend, with Emma, our little Austin 7
We thought we were so special with that little car, and she was a beauty.
Dad got her, held together with string and bits missing, for ten bob. He took care of the mechanicals, Mother did the 'soft furnishings.' She never let us down, not Emma. She was the best.
Oh, and who took the photo, Mother of course, and she hadn't been on her famous parsnip wine, the tilt is natural we were on a hillside. :)
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Hi Paula - I just adore the photo and the story and have brought my husband in to have a look as an Austin 7 was the first car he ever owned. This has stirred up some memories......... thank you.
When we were first married we had a Model A ( this was in the 60's ) - we called her Hinemoa !
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Hi Emmeline, I think our Emma was probably old enough to be the granny of your Hinemoa. She was a grand old car, though.
I remember one year when we had torrents of rain and there were puddles laying everywhere. Oh the flooded car engines!
Emma with her big wheels, sailed on regardless going through the puddles as if she was on stilts and leaving the modern cars stranded.
Of course us kids thought it was great fun.
Bet some of those drivers with their nice posh vehicles ground their teeth a bit to see us. :D
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This is my McKenzie family
I was born after my grandmother McKenzie was born her she is just before her death with my granda ,uncle Pearson ,Uncle Gordon And niece Bella Shand
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This one too big
Elizabeth
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Don't worry about it, Elizabeth. There are some big ones on here as well.
Have you thought of putting that picture on the Photo Restore thread, they could take that scratch out of it for you.
And they like um big over there :D
Paula
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This is the grt grt granda Gair on the little photo yesterday
How about having someone come home from work every day in that mess .we are lucky
Elizabeth
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This man does not want to be shown
Elizabeth
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Oh my, oh my oh my.
Now that is DIRTY.
you're right, Elizabeth, we are lucky.
Paula
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Hi Elizabeth :)
such wonderful photos.....i hope you don't mind i have taken the scratch out of the McKenzie photo and resized it for you...... its really lovely.
I have also resized the one with your husband's great grandad and two great uncles
hope this meets with you approval
best wishes
pentio. :)
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Hi Paula :)
What a really lovely photo of you and your friend with dad and Emma......just imagine buying a car for ten bob and then lovingly restoring it to its former glory.....she looks a smashing old car.......they just don't make them like that any more....... the old cars had so much character.
I'll bet you were heartbroken when she went......... :( :(
pentio. :)
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Hello Everyone - Elizabeth, your photos are great.
How like his mother the younger boy is and how pretty Bella is in her lovely dress.
Great Grandad may look dirty but he is still a good-looking man and I like his hat !........
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Hi pentio, brilliant job with those photos.
Yes, Emma had character all right. She just got past it in the end, bless her, and dad got a more modern car. Funny thing was, we never even gave it a name......
Paula
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Talking about car names..........
Back in the early 80's I bought an old 1961 Singer Vogue and named it "Pearl".
At that time the solg "Pearl's a singer" was in the charts, and it tickled me to call it that. The name really stuck - wonder where she is now - a great car...
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Our Emma got her name because of a song, Tony.
One of those old Musical Films they used to make, it was a song, 'Whoa Emma, you're past your prime,' or some thing, he was singing to his horse.
Well, when Dad's mate helped him shove her through the hastily made hole in the hedge into our garden, she certainly looked past it :D
Who would have guessed that in the right hands she had so many loyal years left.
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Loved your Emma photo so much Paula that I had to try my first posting on here. This is "The Jalopy"- a vehicle my father put together from lots of odds and ends just after WW2. We were off on a crabbing picnic here in South Australia with lots of family. I'm the little girl smiling right at the back ....deeiluka
Hope it works!
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Looks like a bumpy ride, dee, but fun.
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It was a rather bumpy ride, Paula, and very cold at times too. My father put together the jalopy to help him cart sand and building materials to build our house, which he did with the help of friends. I can remember him mixing up the sand and cinders to make bricks in the back garden every night when he came home from work. While he built the house, we lived in the shed he had built first - my parents, me and my baby brother. ....deeiluka
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Hello deeiluka - what a wonderful photo to post on your first thread - a warm welcome to Rootschat.
I tried to pick who might be related to whom - was the small boy in beret your brother ?
Your story of living in the shed reminded me that when we arrived in NZ we lived in a bach (batch) for quite a while - a small shed-like construction - outside toilet etc. until ma & pa could afford a house to be built on the site.
My mother always said she enjoyed her time - making do - in the bach.
Look forward to more photos.......
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A wonderful picture deeiluka - must bring back treasured memories - nice to have you with us on Rootschat.
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Thankyou Emmeline and Tony. Our old photos do bring back treasured memories, don't they? I remember that picnic quite clearly -wading through shallow water looking for blue swimmer crabs - a little afraid of getting bitten by one. We had an old baby's bath with us that floated on top of the water . That was to put the crabs in. At the end of the day, before we returned home, a fire was lit on the beach, a drum filled with water, and the crabs cooked over the fire.
Yes, the little boy in the beret is my brother, Emmeline. The men you can see are three of my uncles, and between them at the back and wearing a headscarf is my mother.....deeiluka
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Happy days deeiluka and great memories. The small boy and you were so alike I thought he must be your brother !
Looking forward to more of your photos and stories.......
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Here's another photo. (I hope). It is not of an ancestor, but I have been asked to post it. It is of my cot cover when I was a baby - a long time ago - and I think I can blame the person who came up with idea for my present day family history addiction. :D
The cot cover is embroidered with pictures of nursery rhyme characters - each one done by a member of my family - and each with the name of the person who did it embroidered underneath. (It is hard to imagine my many uncles doing their bit, but I have been assured they did.) So in a way, it is a kind of a family tree - with my parents, their siblings and partners , grandparents and some great grandparents and grand uncles and aunts' names on it. ....deeiluka
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Deeiluka, welcome to Rootschat :)
You're so lucky to have such an unusual family tree - what a brilliant idea!
I don't find it too hard to imagine your uncles contributing ... my dad and uncle were great with all kinds of sewing and needlework ... their mum was a dressmaker, and they used to help out. Dad was also the one who did all the fiddly ironing, especially my clothes when I was off for a job interview!
Sula
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Thanks for the welcome, Sula. I've been watching and reading for a while - and am now starting to have a go at posting.
My cot cover is certainly one of my treasures. And I really appreciate these days the thought and effort that went into it. I am so glad my mother kept it for me. ....deeiluka
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That a little gem, dee. Well worth waiting to see.
Thanks for putting it on this thread.
Paula
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Seeing those plus fours reminded me of this one. We used to go to these woods every spring, often in a family group. This is me with Mum and Dad and our dog in 1947. The dog lived to the age of 16.
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Lovely photo Dee.
What fun life sounds down under.
Carrie Ann
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Reminds me of many walks in the woods with my parents, rancegal, and what a dinky little dog, Was he only a puppy there or did he stay that size.
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Our dear little dog was only a puppy then, Paula, I think we must have only just got her. Here she is again at the age of about 10. She was the sort of dog you only get once in a lifetime. I used to dress her in doll's bonnets and wheel her about in my doll's pram.
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Oh memories, memories, rancegal.
I had a doll with a red velvet cape and hood.
I used to put it on our old Manx cat and wheel him up and down the street in the dolls pram. He was a one off, too.
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After reading through the thread,I thought I would post the only photo I have of my Mum and Dad's Wedding at Bagillt Flintshire in 1933
Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
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Oy! Who did that to me? I was just answering this post and my answer came out half way back to.....scrubbed it, and if no one moves the thread again, I'll have another go ;D
Smashing picture, wrjones.
Your Mum looks so shyly excited and your Dad, well, he's the cat that got the cream. They must have been very happy.
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Well they were married for sixty five years and I am the youngest of nine children.
Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
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Well, that just about proves it, wrjones.
Sixty five years. That's a good score.
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This photo has had me tearing my hair out this last week. It's the only photo I have of my paternal grandparents, I have known it all my life. My aunt and uncle are the boy and small girl but I have never known who the older girl was. I was told she was my Grandmother's niece. I knew virtually nothing about my Grandmother's family and I thought a quick run through BMDs and census returns and I will be able to work out who the girl was. I have now discovered my Grandmother had at least 10 siblings and they had large families, 9, 9, 10, 11, 12 and still counting. So I have come to the conclusion I will never know who she was.
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That's a super picture, jaywit.
Yes, at first it must have seemed so easy to find out who the girl was. I can imagine the hair tearing afterwards. Never mind. Looks like this is the one that got away.
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Archibald Christie married Susan Perdew the 4th August 1889, between then and 1915 they had 17 children all of the boys finished over 6 feet. My father in law sat on mum's lap in this photo circa 1913 went on to join the Blues and Royals. He said that some times on guard duty 2 littles girls used to tease to try and make him move.
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How I wish I had some family photos like these. The only ones I have are when the family got together at weddings. How many of the people in the picture can you name, Will?
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What lovely photos Jaywit and William. 17 children that must one of the biggest families that I've known
Ed
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Smashing photos.
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To have a photo of that very large family must be so satisfying, William. And as Paula wrote - do you know each one's name?
Grumpy, I know just how frustrating it is to have photos of people you can't identify - I have a wonderful old album of many of my German ancestors who came to South Oz back in the 1800s - and can only identifiy a couple. I have tried and tried to find someone who could help - but no luck! ....deeiluka
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As it's my wifes family she knows most of them but I know what you are saying I have a wonderful photo of someone with 'guess who this is' written on the back !!!
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Here is a picture of my Mum, Aunt and Uncle, taken about 1930 (my Mum was born 1918 and the eldest of the 3). I think it was taken at a wedding in the village of Barby near Rugby (Warwickshire but maybe still Northants back then). Don't you just love the outfits!
Sadly my Mum passed away 9 years ago, 4 days before coming over to visit us in the USA. My aunt who was only a year younger never recovered from the shock and died 9 months later, then my uncle died 18 months after that.
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Oh, Tony, dear little uncle, how sweet he looks. :)
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My uncle was a great person. Fortunately his wife (my aunt) is still alive and going strong, and his children and grandchildren and ggrandchildren.
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The outfits all look delightful, Tony! The girls probably loved theirs - and your uncle probably hated having to be dressed up in good clothes.....dee
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I'm sure you are right Dee - I used to hate having to dress up in a shirt and tie with a cap to go to school, and still do hate having to dress up. It's nice that I can now go to work casual - collared shirt but no tie, but as soon as I get home it's t-shirt, shorts and barefoot.
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I seem to have missed these since we moved to #4. What lovely pictures.
Some of you may remember my quest to see my uncle's pictures - I've spoken to him this evening and going to see him on Thursday evening. I sent him some of the reports from my family tree programme and he says that he has looked at them several times and may be able to tell me something that I haven't found out or my mother doesn't remember as he is older than her!
More news after the visit and hopefully some new pics
Ellen
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Fingers crossed for you Ellen! ....deeiluka
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We all have some great photos heres my great grandmother and her family
Top row from left to right Pearson Black his parents Minnie ( McKenzie )and Joseph Black Alex Shand ?????? James Black
Middle row my grandmother Mary Jane Black my granda James Watson McKenzie
My uncle Gordon Isabella ,Isabella Shand , Isabellas second husband James Lane ,My Dad Joseph McKenzie Jessie Shand ( McKenzie ) and my aunty Ann the baby is my aunty Ella ( Isabella McKenzie )
I have this photo framed and on my wall
Elizabeth
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Wonderful photo, Aspin. I have a number of framed photos of ancestors on shelves in my computer room - have bought some large frames for hanging on the walls but need my son to visit to hang them for me. Don't trust myself to do it properly. lol
It's good to be able to look at them daily....dee
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Its nice to have all these lovely photos up of our great rellies here is Johns grt granda at work with his work mates
Elizabeth
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I tried to send it big and it was too big now it is too small I give up on this old boy
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth
Wonderful photo of your great grandmother and her family its really lovely
Ellen
Good to hear that you are visiting your Uncle on Thursday night hope you discover lots of hidden treasures...
pentio.
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I went to see my uncle last night. It all went quite well and we were both glad I went and we want to stay in touch. No hidden treasures I'm afraid, a lot of his photos were duplicates of my mother's, however there were some I had never seen before. (Even some of me I hadn't seen!) I have his album to copy those I want. I shall post some when I have done it. It gives me another reason to visit when I take it back.
Thanks for all the encouragement from fellow Rootschatters
Ellen
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So pleased for you Ellen
The photos i have belonged to my late cousin and her husband loan them to me
Like you some I had seen before at home
When I cleared my mums house most family photos were gone she must have got rid of them
I was so mad she had done this but there again she would think she was doing me a good turn for when it came to clear the house
Elizabeth
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Just as a start this is not of an ancestor but me taken in about 1955. I had never seen this before!
Ellen
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THis one is of my uncle back right, my mother middle front and a cousin of theirs also in the back - my uncle didn't know who the other children were so I am waiting to ask my mother.
Ellen
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Say Ellen, if I gave you half a crown would you like to come over and mow our front lawn... ;D
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Now THAT'S a lawn mower, Ellen, and what a marvelous job they did too,
Oh but it was hard work.
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Our next door neighbour used to have one of those, but we have a huge solid monster with a big roller on it. It did the job, but it was heavy as heck and took a lot of hard work to cut our grass. Was so much nicer when we got a petrol one years later.
And now we have about an acre to mow - although we have a petrol driven one that is also self propelled so you don't have to push it, it takes 3 hours almost to walk up and down the lawn. Looking forward to getting a ride on mower soon - should do it in half the time... My MP3 Player gets a lot of use when I work out in the garden...
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Havn't been on this thread for a while but thanks to all for the wonderful photos - love them.
Ellen - I was happy to hear that everything worked out just fine for you and uncle.
In the photo of your uncle - cousins - did someone let out rooms ? Spotted the sign in the window.........
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Emmeline, I've not heard that they did but I'll ask when I next speak to him or my mother!
Tony I would need more than half a crown now to mow anybody's lawn!!
Ellen
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I was just kidding ;D
PS: I forgot to add that those were great photos...
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My 91 year old father still pushes one of those lawnmowers to cut the lawn, folks! Pity I haven't got a photo of him doing so.
And how wonderful to get a photo of yourself that you had never seen, Ellen......dee
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I've really enjoyed looking at these - mind if i add some? (Fingers crossed - I'm only guessing at resizing)
This should be my mum and her two brothers...
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and their dad - my grandad....
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and, in this one, my great grandad is the young man, standing in the middle, at the back. His mum is the older lady, sitting down - the rest of the family are his step father and half brothers and sisters. I'm in touch with the great grand-daughter of the youngest little boy (sitting on his daddy's lap) through GR - my bestest contact yet!
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Lovely pictures keen, you have a little family tree there. I can only go back to grandparents, but I know how nice it is to know what they all looked like. Thank you for sharing them with us.
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They are great pics keen.
This one is of my uncle's late wife and their sidecar. I used to ride in it with her while my uncle was on the motorbike. The dog, Max, was the son of our boxer. He was absolutely solid and greeted me very enthusiastically, knocking me down aged 4!
Ellen
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Boxers - my favourites! I was virtually brought up by ours! Lovely pic - I had a ride in a sidecar like that a few times. Quite an experience!
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Did our courting on a moto bike AJS
but no side car
We had it up to 1960 when it had to go as I became pregnant and was not allowed to go on it again
Pity cause we did enjoy it got a photo some where
The money went to buy a coble (boat ) and that was the start of the fishing on our marriage
Elizabeth
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Hi Everyone :) :)
I haven't been on this thread for a while but would just like to say there are still some wonderful photos being posted......enjoyed them all
Ellen I'm so pleased things have worked out with your uncle :) and love the photos.
Emmeline
have you any more old photos or are you like myself running out ........
pentio :)
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Gee Pentio, this is proof that you even had to queue to use the outside loo in the 1940's :D
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Hi everyone,
This is a picture of my Jago family. My grandad is the boy standing at the back on the left. Gt. grandparents sitting left and right, the rest my great aunts and uncles.
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Hi,
This is a picture of my grandad sitting in school with his class round about 1910.
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Two lovely photos, Magrat.
That schoolroom looks so much like mine...the desks, the stepped floor, the big windows, and look at them all sitting with their hands behind them to pull their shoulders back.
Things didn't change much for a long long time.
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I loved seeing everyone's photos. Dee your cot cover was smashing. Wish I knew how to post a picture. I have some old ones of aunts in their nurses uniforms.
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Not difficult, Kesannah, it's just a matter of scanning the picture and saving to desktop, then adding it to the bottom of the message.
We've talked others through, I'm sure you'll be able to do it.
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Just love the schoolroom picture Margrat. But weren't those desks uncomfortable. We didn't have stepped classrooms though. I always hated the way that the boys sitting behind would put their feet up on your clothes! ::) ....deeiluka
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OK my first attempt to post so sorry if it goes horribly wrong.
My great Uncle George Hancock ( photo courtesy of Rolls Royce archives and just received today) is the gentleman on the left with the ciggy. This was taken on their way to the Trieste Alpine Trials in 1913. The gentleman in the middle is Ernest Hurer( ?) who became chairman of Rolls Royce. The one on the right is a chap called Parsons I believe. (Unfortunately the writing on the back of the photo is not terribly clear). George was apparently a driver/ tester for RR.
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Well done, jmp :) - such excitement to receive a new photograph for your collection like you did.....deeiluka
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Thanks Dee ;)
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Thought I'd post the following photo of my parents from many years ago. Don't you just love the striped jackets. My very elderly mother still has my father's hanging in a cupboard - and my daughter says it is going to be hers one day! ......dee
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Great pickie Dee, your Mum especially looks like great fun ;D
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great photos everyone!! :D ;D :) ::)
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Following a conversation re sticking out ears - here's my father's.......dee ::)
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Thought I'd post the following photo of my parents from many years ago. Don't you just love the striped jackets. My very elderly mother still has my father's hanging in a cupboard - and my daughter says it is going to be hers one day! ......dee
Yes they will come back into fashion and your daughter maybe the first to have one great photos again
Elizabeth
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And my Dads ;D
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Hubbies grandparents from Brechin
Elizabeth
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jmp, your father had a very mischievious look in his eye - and I agree - his ears do stick out! :D ....deeiluka
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You want ears, try the famous Bartlett ears.
Left to right,
My dear Mother, she was terribly ill at the time, but smiling through...a wonderful person. My friend and I, and My Father... Think it was taken on one of our days out with the little Austin 7, our Emma, and we were at Wookey Hole.
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Hello Everyone - I have very much enjoyed all the recent photos.
Hello Pentio - seems you and I might have done our dash with our collections ::) - still, it has been a wonderful thread.
Will add just this one more - I think it is rather lovely and hope you like it. The family must have been on holiday.
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Paula, Your father's ears certainly did stick out! At least these days if a child is born with ears that stick out badly, something can be done about it. Our fathers must have gone through heaps of teasing as youngsters. :D ......dee
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Speaking of sticky out ears, here is one of my cousin Ken which I got from my uncle's collection!
Ellen
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I bet the motorbike was a pride and joy, Emmeline. I remember riding on the back of my father's motorbike when I was just seven years old - and being abosultely terrified! ....dee
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P.S. Still loving all the photos. I'm sure we can keep them coming.
Ellen
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This is my partner's great-great-grandfather, James Beattie.
He was one of those arrested at the Eureks Stockade and tried for high treason. All were found not guilty.
If you are interested, more info about Eureka is found here
http://eureka.imagineering.com.au
He is the reason I got started in genealogy, because Lachlan did not know anything about him. About 15 years later I still don't know much :(
I reckon his great-great-grandson looks as if he could have walked off the goldfields himself .... ;D
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A couple more ...
The first I am pretty sure is James' wife, Mary Harrington. They were married in 1877, when Mary was 20 and James in his early 50's. They had 7 sons, 6 of whom survived to adulthood.
The second is believed to be a photo of oldest son Tim and third son Bill. This fantastic restoration was very kindly done for me by Lady Di on the photo restoration board.
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And the next generation:
Tim's sons Bert (on right) and Pat. Pat is Lachlan's grandfather.
This was put together from individual photos of the boys by Keith Bateman on the photo restoration board.
Sula
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Hi Ellen,
Poor little Ken, no wonder he looks so unhappy. I'll bet he knew everyone would look at the picture and notice those ears.
Sula, Those are some super pictures. As you say, they do some stunning work over on Restoration. I've had many a cause to be thankful.
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Emmeline :)
Another lovely photo thank you so much for sharing your wonderful collection i really have enjoyed them all.
Aunt Ellen has given me a few more oldies will post them when i sort them out.......who would have thought we would have come this far.....i see we have some new contributors to the thread which is great.
Sula
some very nice photos hope you are enjoying the thread........
Ellen
I'm sure there are still plenty of photos out there keep them coming everyone
pentio. :)
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Hello Pentio - thanks for kind words.
Yes, some new contributors and what wonderful photos they are showing - this could go on for e v e r and e v e r .
Look forward to seeing more of Aunt Ellen's photos - you must tell her how we all enjoy them.
For now :) :) a Happy Christmas to you and yours and all those on this thread.
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Hi Everyone :)
Have all the old photos dried up are we on our last legs with this wonderful thread come on folks lets get posting again.
pentio
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Here's my Great Grandparents Harriet & Alfred Winter with their son little Georgie. This was taken the day before Alfred left to fight in the Boer war in South Africa circa 1900-1901.
Debbie
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Oh, Debbie, dearl little George. His great big sailor hat looks bigger than he is, bless him.
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A not so old photo taken in 1923, the baby is my mum, the others are my grandmother and great aunts.
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Not an ancestor, but a self portrait of my granddaughter aged 5. She drew it on my computer.
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Enough to bring a smile to anyone on a grey day, Magrat.
Lovely.
Ahhhhhhhhhh!
Paula
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Great Magrat
Reminds me of when I was a nursery teacher
Elizabeth
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This is not a photo of anyone , but my grt grandparents sailed on this ship to New Zealand 0n 28. 9 . 1877 they left Glasgow on the Canterbury and arrived at Port Chalmers 28 12 1877
I wander if they knew they had spent Christmas on the ship
Elizabeth
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lost my picture sorry Elizabeth
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Cool - nice picture. My grandfather sailed in similar ships around Cape Horn. Must have been quite a different experience compared to taking a cruise these days. No fake rock wall to climb on, but you did have a nice long rope ladder if you were
brave stupid enough
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for all the people who followed the bashful rogers story on the bbc this is her dad and his brother and their gran
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and her dad at the home he was in as a child
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and the last one is of fudge
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Perth and Bash- these are so lovely, and so nice for us to put faces to the names. Thank you.
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Thank you so much for sharing these Bash, and thanks for putting them on perth.
It's a joy to see them.
Dear old Fudge. :'(
Now where's Tyke ;D
Paula
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Lovely photos, & it's nice to 'meet' bashful's dad after following his story.
Betty
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How lovely BashR!!!!!!! Well worth the wait,
Happy Christmas to you, your Dad and new Canadian rellies - this will be a Christmas to remember :D
Well done Perth!
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Lovely to see the photos Bash, still brings a tear to the eye. To Dad, Bash and the family have a great Christmas and New Year. Not to much of the falling over stuff please :o:D
Mo
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Happy Christmas to bashfulr, dad & his new-found family.
:) :) :) :)
Betty
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I hadn't heard about bashful and her dad, so I just had to go have a look - what an incredible story!
Here's the link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbhistory/F2233810?thread=3255389&skip=0&show=20
SUla
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Bash, your Dad and you must be just so thrilled to have photos after all this time. What gorgeous children the twin boys were as toddlers. :) :) :)
And Fudge looks like a cuddle was just a very favourite thing!
Have the most wonderful Christmas! .....dee :D
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Just got some more pics from my uncle and my parents
First one is my g-grandmother Eliza Barker with her eldest daughter, my grandmother Maggie
Next my g-grandparents Faulkner with their children. My g'mother is rear left, also called Ellen.
Ellen
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First pic here now!
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What a fine looking family! I always wonder about the difficulty of keeping those hats on their heads, Ellie. Must have used a lot of hatpins I think.......dee
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Hi Ellibob - Just popped in today for a look. What a fine looking Faulkner father and the dear little girls so sweet.
It's a lovely treasure to have........ and to know the name Ellen has been passed down the line.
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Nice to see the little doggie in the group. Isn't he sweet. Having him there adds something to the photo, I think.
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Elliebob
How lovely to see the photos they are wonderful and how well everyone dressed.......good to see this thread is still going strong........look forward to seeing some more.
pentio.
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I think that Grannie had a flying saucer on her head! My elder daughter looked at it yesterday and even she could see the resemblance between Ellen and herself.
Yes Emmeline, it's nice to keep family names going - our younger daughter has Ellen as her middle name and my father is named Clem for his uncle who is standing on the right of the back row. My father will be 90 on Saturday!
This pic is of my g-grandmother Bennett, sitting on the left. We have no idea who the other people are.
I'm not sure if I have any more photos but hopefully this thread will keep going with some more. I love seeing them all.
Ellen
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You may be able to see the family likeness from this
Ellen
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That's amazing Ellen - very alike !
In the earlier photo would the elderly lady on the right be your g/grandma's sister? Seems to be a likeness there. I see she is holding a new babe?
It would be great if you were able to work out who was who !
Kind regards.....
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It's a possibility Emmeline, she did have a sister who was 4 years younger. I don't know what happened to her yet. That's a line to persue.
Best wishes
Ellen
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I've put up plenty of pictures of the Bartlett boys, so I thought I would put up the other side of the family,
The Mathias family.
William Stevens Mathias married Harriet Moore...eventually,
In the mean time they had their family.
Harriet Emily, who I think even my mother thought was just Emily...which gave me such a lot of trouble trying to find her...
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William Stevens Mathias jnr, and the youngest of the family, my Mother Jessie May, taken just before he left for Canada.
I think you have seen this before, but I'm getting the whole family together
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Eliza Ann, named after her grandmother, but known as Nan or Nancy Mathias.
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Walter and Charles Richard, with their wives, Katie and Lilian
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Lastly the old rascals themselves, Harriet and William Mathias
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Hello Paula - Thank you for showing your Mathias side of the family.
Had previously seen the one of your mother as a little girl - I admired it then and was happy to look at it again.
Re the brothers Walter and Charles I thought how much each of the wives was like her husband in their looks. My eldest daughter (Katie) and husband look like brother and sister so I know this can be true !
You are lucky to have such an assortment of photos.......
Kind regards.
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Glad you liked the Mathias Family, Emmeline.
There is another likeness too...but you have to look hard to see it.
The older of the children, boys and girls, were all tall like their father, but my Mother, Jessie and Charlie were short, like their mother. Charlie had a non pc nickname, so I can't put it on here, but today he would have been called Titch. I only knew him as Uncle 'Titch' Surprise for me when I found out what his name was.
If you look into that picture you will see that Walter, (a darned fine cabinet maker, I am sitting by a cupboard he made,) is sitting down but Charles is standing up. The wives were the same, Katie was tall, Lilian short and always dumpy.
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This is a photo of my Mother and her four sisters taken about 1930.
Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
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Thank you Paula - I feel I know them quite well now !
Thank you wrjones for the photo of your mother and sisters. Were they sun-bonnets two of them were wearing and were they the complete family or any sons?
Have I told you before that I visited Wrexham when my daughter was living there for 2 years?
Happy New Year to All...........
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Yes Emmeline there were only the five sisters,no boys.The two wearing bonnets were twins.
Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
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A lovely picture of the dearly beloved's Uncle George (standing) with one of his 'Old Matey's' and his transport.
Oh dear, it does help if I try to put the picture on.............
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This is the wedding party at the marriage of my great-aunt Louie Bridge to Herbert Gell. December 1902.
Back row L-R: J T Bridge (my grandfather) Mrs Gell snr, Lizzie Bridge, W H Bridge, Daisy Bridge, C A Bridge, Jane(?) Gell
Seated L-R: Laura Bridge (my lovely grandmother) Herbert Gell, Louisa Gell (nee Bridge), Thomas Bridge snr Mrs Georgiana Bridge (gt grandparents)
Children L-R: ? Gell, Arthur Bridge (on his mother's lap) C R Bridge, David Bridge, Valentine Bridge (killed on the Somme 14 years later)
Don't you just love those hats! My grandma's looks as if it has just alighted on her head by chance. And what about the baby's outfit?
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I should have said this photo is especially precious to me because it shows my great-grandparents and all but one of their 10 children. The Gells look a bit outnumbered though!
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Hi Rancegal,
How absolutely smashing......Yes...the hats are fabulous.....and...it is amazing that all these lovely folks traipsed out onto a dirt track in all their finery...to have a picture taken!
You are so lucky to have such a wonderful pic
Indi
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Paula, that caravan certainly would have been a bright spot on a gloomy day!
What a treasure to have, Rancegal! The poor little baby - how did they ever learn to crawl and walk, dressed like that?
And as for the hats - one wonders how they ever kept them on in the wind, hatpins or not.
........dee
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The picture was taken outside my gt-grandparents' house (no made-up roads then) and the baby was my mother's eldest brother. Fortunately he wore normal clothes the rest of the time, but that was obviously the last word in special-occasion baby clothes for winter!
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I thought this thread was being moved to the Lighter Side so that it was permanent?
...dee ??? ??? ???
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Here's a photo of my gg-grandfather Frederick George Button at the opening of the Port Augusta Railway line on which he worked on his arrival in South Australia back in 1878. The only problem is I don't know which one is him. He is supposed to be standing on the dais, that's all I know. ??? ??? ???
Still, it is a great photo to have.
.....dee
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This is my mother when she was a Sunbeam on the stage at the Alhambra theatre in Bradford. It was taken at the approximate age of 13
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lovely photo Mags ;D
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Smashing picture, mags. I like it very much, and well done for getting it on here.
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She looks lovely Mags
The 13 year olds these days look 18 now all made up don'y they
Elizabeth
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Lovely picture mags. I followed your link from the beeb message board.
Jen :)
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Lovely photo Mags, love the curls.
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Well done Mags - posting the photo must give you a great deal of satisfaction after your struggles with it.
What a delightful photo to have among your treasures. Photos like that make our rellies seem so much more like "real" people........dee
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Well done Mags. Smashing photo. Love the pose.
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Love the really cute picture Mags
Just remembered that I had this one of my grandfather Edward Court 1884 - 1926. He died when my father was only 9. This must have been taken when he was quite a young footballer! My father was his younger son and recently celebrated his 90th birthday.
After serving with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WW1 he was a brewer's drayman and drove one of the first steam powered drays of Flowers Brewery in Stratford on Avon.
Ellen
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Mum & Dad on thier wedding day 1922.
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Some fetching beachwear being worn by gt.grandma Baker, especially the hat.
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Oh Magrat, she looks grim, bless her, but I'll bet she had seen hard times.
I had a gt.grandma Baker too. I posted a picture of her on Restoration months ago. Stunned by the results. She has one of those 'flying saucer' hats with piles of flowers on it.
I am surprised too, dee, to see this is still in the Totally off Topic Bit.
These pictures carry a wealth of information for us, especially for someone like me with an interest in costume.
It would be nice to think that they were being archived.
In time Our Ancestors#5 may be born and this thread lost...for ever.
I find that rather sad.
Please take all of the Our Ancestor threads to a safe place for further reference, they are so handy....
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Hello Paula - I just popped in for a look. Some of the latest photos are just delightful.
I remember that very early on Pentio and I were concerned at Our Ancestors being in the Even Lighter Side.
Like you and dee I think this has been a wonderful source of information for all and brought many of us great delight.
It continues to do so..........
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It will be sad when we have to wave them goodbye, won't it, Emmeline :'(
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Thought I would have another go at posting a picture so here goes.
This is my great great grandmother on my mothers side. I have dated the photo to 1870/1880. She is Sarah Cawood born in Yeadon, West Yorks c1818. It makes her approx 50/60ish.
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Mags You really are getting good. Hope you have a few more to post.
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Not really an Ancestor, but a photo of my husband
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Well it would have been if I had remember to add the photo. He was just 14 months old.
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Lovely little boy, but when he finds out what you are doing ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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And a home knitted dress he looks lovely
Elizabeth
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My half great grandaunt Mary Ann
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Its OK Jay, he is busy watching the DVDs I bought him. Keeps him from having a peek over my shoulder. I change to email when he brings me a cuppa,cos I hear him coming up the stairs. I am not quite daft yet. :D
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Oh, better and better, kesannah, I love it!
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Well done Mags, for finally getting your pics on the thread - they're great!!
Kesannah, I love the picture of your OH as a little lad!!!! May I ask what year it was taken?
Pixie
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Pixie, the one wearing his sailor suit was taken about 1925/6, The other one in June 1923.
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He was such a lovely baby, kes, but I'll bet he will have something to say if he finds out what you have done!
Betty
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Betty, I have no doubt at all that he will have something to say if he finds out. He would want me to remove them. However, he does know that is not likely to happen if I don't want to do it. ::) He couldn't do it himself because he doesn't know how to even turn the computer on. Probably a good thing. :D
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I know a smashing one of the dearly beloved, but I don't know how to get hold of it...one day...
In the meantime, here is a rather nice picture of his father William who enlisted in the Royal Artillery-51st Highland Division, and was lost while being transported as a prisoner of war on the SS Scillin in Nov 1942.
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Sad story Paula, Handsome beggar isn't he? Hope you manage to get hold of OHs picture. Try harder. :D
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My maternal great grandparents, the elusive John and Mary Williams. (Elusive because with names like those, I cannot find when/where they died ! Both still alive in 1912 ...)
Mary and John had 13 children, at least 10 survived to adult-hood. They met and married in Dorset; he started life as an ag.lab. at the age of 10 or 11, and she too worked in the fields.
I still have as a very precious treasure, the lace collar she is wearing, in this pic taken about 1905 - 1910.
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Oh, Lydart, I bet it is precious. Isn't it nice to have something of their and to have a photo of them actually with it.
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I'm glad we can keep this thread going
This is my Uncle Pearson
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He is very serious about his stick!
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Seeing as there are some lovely photos of children wearing their best clothes of the time, I thought I'd post one of my father (in the middle) with his brother and one of his sisters. I thought it very interesting that only the oldest child has shoes on. Wish my grandmother was still alive so I could ask her if it was because they couldn't afford shoes for the little ones - or if it was just that they wouldn't keep shoes on their feet!
And how about my father's hair!
.....dee
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Oh Dee.......that is one fabulous picture!
The little girl is gorgeous and her dress likewise!
The boys are wonderful...and your Dad's haircut is splendid!....looks like Sir Lancelot!
How lucky you are to have such a great pic.
Cheers,
India
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Hello Everyone - What wonderful photos and stories continue. I feel very privileged to see them all. Thank you.......
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Brilliant, just bloomin' brilliant.
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Great to see this thread is still going strong. Thanks to everyone for all the wonderful photos and stories.
I never though it would generate such interest.
pentio :)
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Dee, that's a smashing picture.
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Lovely picture Dee thanks for sharing it
Rabbit B
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My Great Grandparents John & Mary Harrison with there children.
The girl standing on the left was my grandmother. Not a smile among them :(
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I have been admiring all the pictures so thought I would put one of my Dad with his 2 Sisters on here. They don't look too happy about having their photo taken. I'm not sure exactly when it was but the oldest was born in 1907 and Dad was born in 1913.
wendy
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My mum - god bless her
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Some lovely pictures, but...
:o I had some leggins like that jeanhemm!
lor' they were uncomfortable.
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Paula I've still got the button hook to mine somewhere, probably underneath all this paper and books ;D
Mo
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:o I'd forgotten the button hooks, missmolly. Little tiny buttons, even on shoes, and they pinged off when you were too energetic... :o
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Frederick Bartlett. 1852 - 1937 IOW. Mariner. Left of pic. with moustache.
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Isn't that frustrating, Diddyee - knowing that they are family but not being able to put names to them?
What a great photo to have.
.......dee
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another of my mum....................
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Mum's cousin
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Gran's brother killed during WW1.
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Gran's other brother killed during WW1
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Such fine looking young men, jeanhemm, so very sad.
The other day, I put in a photo of the lovely man who would have been my Father in Law, had he come home from the war.
Here is a picture of his mother and father, Mrs and Mrs G. of Nethy Bridge, Inverness-shire.
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Mr and Mrs G's grandson, my dearly beloved...
On the run in the early 30s with his mother close behind...
(and I don't reckon my chances if news of this posting gets out ;D )
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Paula, and he's got less hair than Kesannah's husband ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Just tell him he's got the natural legs of a footballer and he should have played fro Chelsea ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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We promise we won't tell him Paula :-X
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It seems that I am not the only one to have sneaked a photo of OH. I wont tell if you dont Paula
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Might be a disaster. first Time I've put a photo up here. Do you think these two are the same lady about 15-20 years apart. i know who the elder is _that picture I think is taken just before she dies at nearly 90 or are there two members of of the family with a dodgy taste in headgear?
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Well done Saxon - but as to the answer to your question I am afraid I wouldn't like to say - it could well be the same person - but then again....
I must agree about the headwear though. Glad we don't have to wear things like that! .....dee
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Saxon I don't think they are the same lady. The eyelids are so different. Mags
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??? ??? :Do you think they are of the same generation? .I can't think who the one on the left is: She can't be the other mother in law- They're the wide boys of Essex Yorkshire and Nottingham!
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I reckon they are one and the same,the only difference i can see is the sticky out ear. :-\ :) :)
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Yes diddy, I'm with you on that. it's the Bartlett experience, isn't it.
You go for the ears. Those ears do not look the same.
By the way, is the old gentleman in your picture a Bartlett?
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He is i've put his details on the pic.
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You know...I hate to be the fly in the ointment...BUT.....I think it is the same lady...because of the wry smile.
Re: the eyelids......hmmmm.......those of us who are older than sixty know about falling eyelids.....enuff said!
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I quite agree.........................Enuff said. ;D ;D 8)
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I have had another good look, Saxon - and I agree with Indiapele - the mouths look the same, so does the hairline and shape of the forehead. It could well be the older version of the first.
......dee
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As to the ears I wonder if the picture of her as a matriarch was doctored slightly in the studio?
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Thought i would add a photo:
This is my Nan,Doris Lewis in 1914/15, looking like a doll!!
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and this is my dad, the smallest, with his brothers!
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Ah Bless
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You're right, sheron, your nan does look like a doll, she's sweet.
Diddy, I KNEW it. He just had to be!
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Yes Sheron your Nan was sweet, wonder why it didn't come down the family ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Saxon, I think they are the same person,just a bit older.
Sheron, the photo of your Nan is smashing,what a little dear she looks. Dad looks good too.
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cheeky lot!! ;D The photo of my dad, i was rather pleased with, only saw it last year for the first time!! They dont look particurly Italian in that photo, but my dad and uncle do in real life!! Not my Dad, hes been gone a year now.
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This is a pic of my great great grandads sister Ruth Evans and her husband Thomas Jennings.
Jen
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thats a great photo Jen!!
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right another one!
This is my great gran,Nellie Beatrice Lewis, nee Cecil, at her retirement from Chad Valley Toys!!
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Love it Sheron
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This is George Edward Lewis,Nellies hubby!!
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and another!
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Very Al Capone Sheron 8)
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lol, no this is the al Capone!! ;D Mr Tuzi himself!!
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Love the motor bike shot Sheron - real class.
Stanley
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He was a classy man Stan, he got shot down over germany in ww1, and escaped from a prison camp, and made hiw way home!! He died though in 1936, so my mom never knew him.
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This is him, with my nan and grandad!
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They are great, stan!! The first one, is that from the 1940s??
I know a distant cousin of ine has some great photos, must ask her to copy them for me!!
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Could all posters to this thread please ensure that their images are a maximum 500 - 600 pixels wide
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I,ll try,Falk, but sometimes me and resizing, dont seem to get on!!
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Go on, sheron, I just dun one, so it can't be too hard. :D
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Just thought you would all like to see this picture of my Gran and her mum and sisters. I've had this photo for a while and because of the damage to it I have had it in a box until I could afford to have it restored. When I scanned it recently we looked at the picture itself and noticed for the first time the face peering from between the girls skirts!! ;D
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Any idea who it was Anitamo?
.....dee
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No idea at all Dee, we just presume that it is one of the husbands. The thing is although I know for certain that the lady second from left is my gran I can only make an educated guess at the identity of the others. ::)
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Oh Anitamo...that is sooooo funny!
I would bet it is one of the husbands also....
What a smashing pic!
India
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Here we go trying again.
This is my uncle, my dads older brother. Private Colin W Whitham, killed in WW1 by gas. May 5th 1915
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Anita, that is a photo with a difference...I wonder who he was....
Have you thought of putting in on Photo Restore, here?
They are a smashing lot and very clever...I KNOW.
They would be queuing up to have a go at that one.
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Sorry, he's the one sitting down.
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Wish I could find out who this is!!
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My Grand Father Edward Patton c1848-1918.
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My parents and oldest brother 1940ish
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Niksmum...Ahhhhhh..they look so happy...what a lovely pic.
My latest pic is my new avatar....tis a young chap in Canada.....we know not who!
Must be a rellie of Mr Indi.....his Ma's lot all came from London, Ontario and that is where this was taken (at a studio) but we can't find a slot for him......but we love him anyway!
Indi
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Thanks India, I think this was taken just after my Dad came home from the war in Germany.
Who ever that little boy is he is a cutie....
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Lovely pic Sheron, he's a real cutie, gonna be a heartbreaker one day!
Jen
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He's just gorgeous. Bet he still looks cute!
And well done, Sheron to get the size smaller.
.....dee
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yes, he is!! When he was in playgroup, a little girl, bless her, said "hes cute" ;D this was in london, she was the daughter of a actor over here, a comedy one!!
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This is Edward Evans, brother to my ggg grandfather James Evans.
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Thats great Jen, he looks like a man of distiction!
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A bit late in answering this, Stan do you know your man was a captain in the Merchant Navy?
http://www.marine-society.org/Marine%20Society/Content/Careers/MN%20Ranks
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I've just had a photo restored and tried printing off. I changed the format to 10x15 photo size to fit the paper but it has come out very small on the photo paper. What did I do wrong.
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Margaret you've got to forget about 10x15 etc its the pixels you have to adjust
If you haven't got any photo soft ware you should download IrfanView - its free.
Stanley
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ok, try again!! My nan, Ann Tuzzio and her sister Christine, in hertford St,Balsall Heath,Birmingham, they lived accross the rd from each other for years!!
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The photos of our ancestors are really good, the costumes superb.
This is a picture of my Mother aged about 17/18 and her little smooth haired fox terrier Trixie
Rabbit B
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Great Rabbit. Very very 20s
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This is a picture of my Dad, and if I have done it properly Mum's Brother
Rabbit B
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Didn't those guys in uniform look smart and clean ... and just look at the average 18 - 20 year old today ...not necessarily dirty, but definitely scruffy !
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A long long time ago I put up a picture of the five Bartlett children for restoration. Well you did a smashing job on it, and I'm grateful.
So I thought I would put this one up to let you see how the Bartlett boys developed.
Seated on the left we have my dear little Dad, Joe Bartlett, next to him the baby of the family, Ernest, and seated onthe ground the big brother William Denchfield Bartlett.
No one can remember which footie team it was, but Castle Street or St Mary's, Reading, are two names I have been given.
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This is a photo of my ancestor Charles Webb (actually my grandfather) and his sister Louisa. Charles has given me sooooo much of a problem while I have been researching the family history.He died in 1946, a few years before I was born and no one in the family talked about him. I have only just recieved this photo and it seems so strange that I have had to wait until I am a few years away from retirement myself to know what my grandfather looked like.
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thats a grerat photo,anita!!
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Nice picture, anita. At least you know what your Webb looked like.
My great grandfather was a Webb from Winchester, and he gave us all the dickens of a time trying to track him down. Of course, the fact that he didn't marry my great grandmother, her being married to someone else at the time, didn't help much.
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See idf I can do this this time. My grandad Harry Steel ( the second left ) and his 3 surviving brothers, all of them over 80 years of age.
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thats great Grumpy!
heres great granddad Thomas Larden and wife Ellen, him of desertion from the navy fame ;D
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Sheron he looks from the way he is standing that he didn't take much **** so I can see him deserting if things didn't suit him.
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this is my nan,Doris Lewis an granddad, Albert Larden on their wedding day in 1935.
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whoops!!
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Ellen looks a bit downtrodden too >:(
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This is Ellen Larden, no ideal of year, but it looks old!!
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Paula my grandfather was married to Blanche in Stroud and had 3 children. He then left them and came to Sheffield (possibly via Kidderminster) with Ellen Louisa (my grandmother) a divorcee. They had three children, we only found out about the baby daughter a fortnight ago, she died in infancy. The children were all illegitimate, and then they married in 1936 and Charles died in 1946 aged 75yrs Believe me he is still throwing up suprises.
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Our Ancestors now continues in thread No 5
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,210397.0.html