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Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Saturday 27 January 07 16:06 GMT (UK)
There's a moral here, anita...
If you have a Webb in the Family Tree and haven't got a sense of humour...hit the ground running...

Here is a photo from the dearly beloved's side of the family.
Harry Paget...Patchett...Padgett...(oh use your imagination I give up) on the left, with one of his chums.
HIS life was hard enough for the sister in law to trace...his father's, and grandfather's.....we don't want to talk about it......groan!
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: sheronb on Saturday 27 January 07 16:08 GMT (UK)
thats a great photo Paula.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: anitamo on Saturday 27 January 07 16:13 GMT (UK)
Paula, how I agree about the Webb family. Charles' father James is giving me even more of a problem, he's the one who has a wife called three different names in consecutive census, Leticia, Cecelia and Selina.

I love the photo, They look like two naughty boys planning some prank and finding it very funny
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: saxonw. on Saturday 27 January 07 16:28 GMT (UK)
The catapain and his family. I perhaps should have sent thses phot off o photo restoration first. Great Aunt Tilley (the little girl in teh middle died aged 100 in 1986
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: saxonw. on Saturday 27 January 07 16:34 GMT (UK)
And the babe in arms is on the Thriepval Memorial  :'(
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: sheronb on Saturday 27 January 07 16:35 GMT (UK)
thats a great photo!! 100 wow!!
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Post by: jaywit on Saturday 27 January 07 16:36 GMT (UK)
Saxon it is a great photo, you want to get it restored on here.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: julianb on Saturday 27 January 07 16:37 GMT (UK)
This is my great grandparents Frank Baker and Annie Langridge, in the garden at their house in Croydon, during the 1920s. 

They have been the most problematic of my great grandparents, with doubts as to which Frank Baker, Carpenter from Nottingham, my great grandfather was, and Annie having been born illegitimate.  Unhelpfully they didn't appear to marry.  But they did produce 6 children who survived into adlthood and who all made good lives for themselves. 

The family still has two substantial dressers made by Frank.  Allegedly, he made the original door in the clock tower in Thornton Heath, Surrey.

JULIAN
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: sheronb on Saturday 27 January 07 16:39 GMT (UK)
lovely photo!!
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Saturday 27 January 07 16:41 GMT (UK)
Probably cloth eared enumerators, anita, putting down what they thought it was.

Go for if saxon. The restore guys would love that one.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: anitamo on Saturday 27 January 07 16:51 GMT (UK)
Julian that is a wonderful photo, they look as if they belong in a production of The Darling Buds of May.  :D
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: saxonw. on Saturday 27 January 07 16:52 GMT (UK)
I've now put onto restoration. I've also got the companion picture which is Mum with the 3 children. On that you can see what fantastic look she had.  I've got loads more :I've just found some others and I haven't a clue who they are. I've also just found a complete album I would reckon dated 1920's and I'm not sure which part of the family it relates to!
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: julianb on Saturday 27 January 07 16:57 GMT (UK)
Julian that is a wonderful photo, they look as if they belong in a production of The Darling Buds of May. :D

Yes, it's very informal.  Both my grandfathers were capable photographers - Frank's son worked as a photographer for a while.  I guess as "domestic" cameras started getting more plentiful, there would have been an increase in the number of informal shots like these - which makes a nice contrast to the set pieces used by the High Street photographer.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: williamsedge on Saturday 27 January 07 17:38 GMT (UK)
My father in law used to say that this was a picture of him when he was a little girl.  Harry Christie c 1914 and we still have the robe
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: julianb on Saturday 27 January 07 17:41 GMT (UK)
My father in law used to say that this was a picture of him when he was a little girl. Harry Christie c 1914 and we still have the robe

My dad was born in 1916 and was photographed in similar attire.  Questions as to why he was wearing a dress were discouraged  ::)
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: nanny jan on Saturday 27 January 07 19:25 GMT (UK)
My dad in a dress; I guess around 1924, with his big sister.


Nanny Jan
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: julianb on Saturday 27 January 07 19:37 GMT (UK)
Here's my dad in similar pose, about 1917/1918 - grandson of reply #7
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Tony Payne on Saturday 27 January 07 20:24 GMT (UK)
Harry & Chum is a great photo, I wonder what they were laughing about?   It would make a good entry for the Guess The Caption competition don't you think, if you could stand the embarrasing comments....

I put one of my grandmother up there and the entries were hilarious...
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Saturday 27 January 07 20:34 GMT (UK)
There was certainly something going on there, Tony, the mind boggles as to what it was. I'll have to get permission of t'other side of the family to play with it, but it would be fun.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: jeanhemm on Saturday 27 January 07 20:38 GMT (UK)
Here's the making of a pop band???  My grandad, dad and his friend Tommy
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: deeiluka on Saturday 27 January 07 20:44 GMT (UK)
My father in law used to say that this was a picture of him when he was a little girl.  Harry Christie c 1914 and we still have the robe

William, glad you have the robe still. I have my grandfather's robe also - he was born 1890 - and just last year one of his great great grandchildren wore it for his baptism.

.......dee
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: julianb on Saturday 27 January 07 20:47 GMT (UK)
Here's the making of a pop band??? My grandad, dad and his friend Tommy
Great photo, Jean.  There's a mine of crackers on this and the previous thread. 
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Nicky on Saturday 27 January 07 20:54 GMT (UK)
This is my favourite photo, baby on knee is my Grandad!!

Nicky
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: sheronb on Saturday 27 January 07 20:58 GMT (UK)
thats a lovely photo!!!! ;D
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: saxonw. on Saturday 27 January 07 21:26 GMT (UK)
I love these photos. They really put flesh on the family stories. I look at them and I worry that I oculd not ive their harsh life style but they  all seem so full of life and happy!
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Nicky on Saturday 27 January 07 21:28 GMT (UK)
I find it sad that i didnt ever get to meet my family.

Nicky
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: deeiluka on Saturday 27 January 07 21:39 GMT (UK)
I find it sad that i didnt ever get to meet my family.

Nicky

It must be hard to look at this thread and see all the photos , Nicky. <hug>

.......dee
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: sheronb on Saturday 27 January 07 21:40 GMT (UK)
Im only teasing Paula!!
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Nicky on Saturday 27 January 07 21:49 GMT (UK)
Oh thanks Dee!

Nicky
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: sheronb on Saturday 27 January 07 21:52 GMT (UK)
Great Aunt Nell, and great grand dad Thomas Larden, lady unknown!! I shall not say a word about Nells looks!! ;) ;D
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Saturday 27 January 07 21:59 GMT (UK)
NIce one!
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: yorkshiremags1 on Saturday 27 January 07 23:25 GMT (UK)
Hi I'm just checking to see if my profile is still on. My mothers photo seems to have disappeared unless I have overlooked it.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Sunday 28 January 07 00:12 GMT (UK)
At a rough guess, I'd say it's too big, mags...
Back to the drawing board.....
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: deeiluka on Sunday 28 January 07 21:14 GMT (UK)
This is one of the photos of my gtrandmother that my elderly aunt gave me last week. My grandmother is the one standing on the left of the doorway to the shoe shop. I have her telling the story on tape of getting the job to go and work in that shop. She tells of her wages and the hours she had to work among other things.

.....dee
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Sunday 28 January 07 21:39 GMT (UK)
I used to get my shoes from the Reading branch of Freeman's, dee. It was a very good shop.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Sunday 28 January 07 22:14 GMT (UK)
Talking of shops, here's one of William Denchfield Bartlett outside his cycle shop.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: deeiluka on Sunday 28 January 07 22:23 GMT (UK)
Oh the old bicycles, Paula - they did jolt and bump beneath you. I think there are still parts of one like those in the photo lying around in my dear old Dad's back shed.   ::)

......dee
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: yorkshiremags1 on Monday 29 January 07 13:29 GMT (UK)
This is my great grandma Sarah Cawood born 1818 in Yeadon, my mothers grandma. There was fortunately printing on the back of the photographers studio and then I went to date the photo on "date a UK photo site" and everything fell into place.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Guy Etchells on Monday 29 January 07 13:51 GMT (UK)
My father in law used to say that this was a picture of him when he was a little girl. Harry Christie c 1914 and we still have the robe

My dad was born in 1916 and was photographed in similar attire.  Questions as to why he was wearing a dress were discouraged  ::)

The answer was very simple it was standard practice to clothe both young boys and young girls in a dress in those days. Certainly nothing odd about it.
Cheers
Guy
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: rancegal on Monday 29 January 07 22:13 GMT (UK)
In the days long before disposable nappies and even before plastic pants, it was probably more hygienic, and certainly easier to change a nappy!  :D
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: thenanny2die4 on Tuesday 30 January 07 15:11 GMT (UK)
Here's my Mum & Dad's wedding
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: thenanny2die4 on Tuesday 30 January 07 15:13 GMT (UK)
And Mum's family: My G Grandparents with their children.  My Grandmother, Rose Mary Dunk, is on the right.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: thenanny2die4 on Tuesday 30 January 07 15:15 GMT (UK)
And Mum with her doll.
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Post by: jaywit on Tuesday 30 January 07 15:47 GMT (UK)
Nanny, good pictures, Mum and Dad look a bit nervous ;D
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Post by: sheronb on Tuesday 30 January 07 15:51 GMT (UK)
great photos nanny!!
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Elliebob on Wednesday 31 January 07 14:22 GMT (UK)
I seem to have missed these photos and the later ones on #4.  Great looking at them all - I will have to see if I have anything else to add when I get home.

Ellen
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Llwyd on Thursday 01 February 07 13:33 GMT (UK)
.....I've managed to obtain a photograph of a Great Uncle of mine in his police uniform.This was taken between 1918 and 1927 when he held the rank of Sergeant during those years in the former Flintshire Constabulary.He went on to attain the rank of Superintendent/Deputy Chief and retired in 1946,after 38 years service.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: CarolBurns on Thursday 01 February 07 14:19 GMT (UK)
Hubby's Great Grandparents at the wedding of his grandparents in 1898

Carol
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: CarolBurns on Thursday 01 February 07 14:23 GMT (UK)
Hubby's Great Great Uncle born 1836
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Post by: CarolBurns on Thursday 01 February 07 14:26 GMT (UK)
Hubby's family and Life in colonial Burma - oh to relax like they did

Carol
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Niksmum on Thursday 01 February 07 17:58 GMT (UK)
This is one of my favourite picures of my mum
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Post by: Niksmum on Thursday 01 February 07 18:03 GMT (UK)
oops
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Post by: sheronb on Thursday 01 February 07 18:13 GMT (UK)
more great photos!! Love the girls at the pool!! and the great uncle, and niks mom!! all of them ;D
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: saxonw. on Thursday 01 February 07 18:20 GMT (UK)
Yes they are great!
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Post by: yorkshiremags1 on Thursday 01 February 07 19:08 GMT (UK)
Nicksmum, she was so beautiful
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: saxonw. on Thursday 01 February 07 19:34 GMT (UK)
I only got this picture of my father recently  from my cousin

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Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Thursday 01 February 07 19:51 GMT (UK)
It's so nice to share our precious photos, isn't it.
Thank you RootsChat, these pages are a tribute to the wonderful people who made us what we are.

Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Emmeline on Thursday 01 February 07 20:05 GMT (UK)
Hi Paula - Isn't it tremendous the way the photos keep coming? They are all wonderful and as you say a great tribute.....
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Post by: PaulaToo on Thursday 01 February 07 20:41 GMT (UK)
Yes indeed, Emmeline, from the studio portraits to the fun ones and the more 'umble ones. Great.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: perth tiger on Thursday 01 February 07 20:50 GMT (UK)
my dads mum as i had never seen her before. this was the front of a postcard she sent to her brother when he was a pow in ww11
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: perth tiger on Thursday 01 February 07 20:52 GMT (UK)
these are the parents of my dads mum
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Post by: perth tiger on Thursday 01 February 07 20:53 GMT (UK)
my mums grandparent,s

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Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Emmeline on Thursday 01 February 07 21:07 GMT (UK)
Thank you for photos perth tiger. Grandma Gladys was beautiful........
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Post by: PaulaToo on Thursday 01 February 07 21:42 GMT (UK)
Gosh Emmeline, you're right there.
Perth, I had to smile at the photo of 'mum's grandparents'
I see he is the perfect gentleman, and sitting down while his wife stands, to prove it  :D
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Post by: fred1951 on Thursday 01 February 07 21:59 GMT (UK)
My Grandmother the young lady looking at the camera having fun in the sea,

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Post by: aspin on Thursday 01 February 07 22:29 GMT (UK)
My Dad

The painter and decorator

Elizabeth
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Post by: aspin on Thursday 01 February 07 22:31 GMT (UK)
An Mam with her pinny on having a laugh


Elizabeth
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: perth tiger on Friday 02 February 07 21:00 GMT (UK)
my dads dad with his sisters and parents. i remember ggrandad well he died in 1971, his death cert was certified by shipman
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: perth tiger on Friday 02 February 07 21:02 GMT (UK)
albert my ggrandad with his wife ethel and some of his brothers and sisters outside the guest house they had in scarborough.  emily is ethel lol i didnt realise the name was wrong
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Post by: Dyingout on Friday 02 February 07 21:03 GMT (UK)
There you are Perth repaired and lightened a bit

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Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: perth tiger on Friday 02 February 07 21:10 GMT (UK)
thanks dying, much appreciated :)
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Post by: deeiluka on Friday 02 February 07 21:58 GMT (UK)
This is my treasured 4 generations photo. On the right is my great great great grandmother Grossmutter Humpsch who arrived from Germany in South Australia in 1848 with her husband Ignatz Deimel, who later disappeared in the Victorian goldfields.
The little girl next to her is my grandmother; then my great grandfather Ehmcke whom I remember quite well, and alongside of him my great great grandmother.

......dee
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Post by: perth tiger on Friday 02 February 07 22:07 GMT (UK)
great pic dee
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Post by: jaywit on Friday 02 February 07 22:09 GMT (UK)
Dee that must be so precious to you.
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Post by: yorkshiremags1 on Saturday 03 February 07 14:09 GMT (UK)
Fabulous Dee
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Post by: BettyofKent on Saturday 03 February 07 14:25 GMT (UK)
A lovely photo Dee.

  I never knew any of my grandparents so the few photos I have are very precious.
The older lady on the right is my gr gr grandmother Frances & the little boy, John, is her son from her second marriage. The lady in the middle is my grandmother Fanny & on the left is her sister Florence.
Gr Uncle John & his wife Aunt Lou were the nearest thing to grandparents I had. Uncle John was a very kind, gentle man.

Betty
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Josephine on Saturday 03 February 07 14:44 GMT (UK)
>> Harry Christie c 1914 <<

williamsedge,

Where were your Christies from?

My husband's Christys were from Bolton, Lancashire and West Kirby, Cheshire.  There's an early one from Market Drayton, Shropshire, but I haven't yet proven that he's connected.

(I'm always on the look-out for rellies!)

Regards,
Josephine
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: omega 1 on Saturday 03 February 07 16:59 GMT (UK)
This is my Welsh Gran Frances and GreatGrandFather Lewes

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Post by: anitamo on Saturday 03 February 07 17:23 GMT (UK)
What an absolutley fantastic picture Dee.
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Post by: Elliebob on Saturday 03 February 07 17:31 GMT (UK)
Dee , what a fabulous photo of your 4 generations.  I would give lots to have such a record.  We do have pics of the latest 4 generations with our parents, children and grandchildren.  I only have one photo of me with the only grandparent I knew.

Ellen
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Gadget on Sunday 04 February 07 14:02 GMT (UK)
Hi  :)

Haven't had anything to put up here for a while but I've just found this one tucked away. I'm going to have to do it up a bit before it goes on my website. Thought that you might like to see it - especially Canadian pals  :)

It's of Alfred Burgess and his wife Janet Laidlaw, must have been taken circa 1890in Arran Township, Bruce County, Ontario. They married 19 Nov 1890. Janet died in 1911 and Alfred in 1923. Alfred was born 11 June 1843, Manchester. His father William (my 3 x great uncle), emigrated circa 1855-6.

Gadget
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Tony Payne on Monday 05 February 07 03:35 GMT (UK)
My Mum is in this picture taken on Empire Day, early 1920's, in Barby, a small village just south of Rugby.  The neatest thing for me is the way the children are dressed...

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Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 05 February 07 11:03 GMT (UK)
Hi Tony,
For someone interested in costume, as I am, you are right, that is a fantastic picture of children's costume of the day.
My Mother used to talk about Empire Day Celebrations when she was at school, but that was at the beginning of the century...
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Post by: aspin on Monday 05 February 07 21:42 GMT (UK)
What a lot of home knit clothes on this lovely photo

Elizabeth
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Post by: t-diddy on Tuesday 06 February 07 00:10 GMT (UK)
I believe this lady is a STALLARD.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Tony Payne on Tuesday 06 February 07 02:37 GMT (UK)
Hi Paula,
Well I suppose on the one hand a lot of village people didn't have the money to spend on clothes in those days, and a lot of things were home made, and on the other you couldn't just head to the local M&S to buy something off the peg.   
It did make for some interesting and unique clothing.
I never thought too much about the photo until I looked for something for the caption competition the other day, and it dawned on me that the clothing was pretty cool.
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Post by: PaulaToo on Tuesday 06 February 07 11:05 GMT (UK)
Now that is one capable looking lady, diddy.
She also looks the kind that a grandchild could cuddle up to.
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Post by: madammagician on Tuesday 06 February 07 14:37 GMT (UK)
these two don`t look very happy! ;)the little girl on the right is my nan phyllis wisker,annie is her big sis on the left.
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Post by: madammagician on Tuesday 06 February 07 14:40 GMT (UK)
greatgrandad claude wisker royal army service corp ww1.
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Post by: madammagician on Tuesday 06 February 07 14:44 GMT (UK)
British seaside holidays don`t change much!we still end up wearing our coats on the beach! :)This is greatnan Annie Wisker nee Feasey her daughter Annie and her mother Caroline Feasey nee Hall.
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Post by: madammagician on Tuesday 06 February 07 14:55 GMT (UK)
I love this one,he is sooo handsome,(i inherited his good looks) :D This is gg uncle Nat (Nathaniel) He served on HMS Aggamemnon in ww1,It was the first ship to shoot down a zeppelin.He was also at Gallipolli.
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Post by: PaulaToo on Tuesday 06 February 07 15:51 GMT (UK)
Nice to meet the family, madamm. Lovely photos.
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Post by: madammagician on Tuesday 06 February 07 20:05 GMT (UK)
thank you paulatoo,there are some excellent family piccies on here.
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Post by: Elliebob on Tuesday 06 February 07 22:24 GMT (UK)
This is my g-grandmother, Eliza Wright (nee Barker) 1867 - 1937.  She was the mother of Maggie on your left.

Ellen
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Post by: Elliebob on Tuesday 06 February 07 22:28 GMT (UK)
And this one is of her husband Alfred Wright (1864 - 1925)  He was a locomotive driver in North Staffordshire.  He kept pigeons and took home any stray animals that he found!

Ellen
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Post by: PaulaToo on Tuesday 06 February 07 23:13 GMT (UK)
What a kind, caring face he has, Ellen.
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Post by: Emmeline on Wednesday 07 February 07 00:07 GMT (UK)
Wonderful, wonderful photos Everyone. Thanks for more than once  helping to ' make my day'............
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Wednesday 07 February 07 16:56 GMT (UK)
Emily Price/Baker my Great Gran.
One of the photos from Aunt Win's sewing machine drawer.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Wednesday 07 February 07 17:05 GMT (UK)
Emily Barker's grandson, Joe, and her great grand daughter.

I apologise if I've put this photo up before, I put it where ever I can, because  this is a picture that is very dear to me.
Title: Re: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: anitamo on Wednesday 07 February 07 21:23 GMT (UK)
Just got these fantastic photos today and couldn't wait to share them. The first one is my great grandmother Sarah with my grandfather age about 4yrs? and the second is my grandfather age about 2yrs?
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Post by: saxonw. on Wednesday 07 February 07 21:36 GMT (UK)
Now we know where you get your eyes from! Just like  g grandma's :)
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Post by: PaulaToo on Wednesday 07 February 07 21:40 GMT (UK)
Fabulous.
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Post by: madammagician on Wednesday 07 February 07 21:50 GMT (UK)
anitamo, what gorgeous blonde curls!
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Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 07 February 07 21:55 GMT (UK)
Those are such fantastic photos. Lucky you! I bet you've got a big grin  :D

Gadget
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Post by: anitamo on Wednesday 07 February 07 21:57 GMT (UK)
Honestly I have had a silly grin on my face all day ;D
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Post by: jc26red on Wednesday 07 February 07 21:58 GMT (UK)
Oh they are georgeous Anitamo, I agree with Saxon, what a family likeness I can just picture how blue their eyes must have been.
I wonder if he was such an angel off camera  :D
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Post by: anitamo on Wednesday 07 February 07 22:12 GMT (UK)
Jc I have to say I didn't recognise the likeness but I do now it has been pointed out. My grandad had the most piercing blue eyes even as an old man. I wish I had inherited the colour. Mine are blue but not as startling as his.
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Post by: Elliebob on Wednesday 07 February 07 23:19 GMT (UK)
What lovely photos Anitamo.  Such wonderful quality too!

Ellen
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Post by: Emmeline on Thursday 08 February 07 01:44 GMT (UK)
Paula - a beautiful photo - I can see why you cherish it.

Anitamo - what can one say - a completely adorable darling boy !

Thank you for sharing.........

P.S. What was he named ?
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Post by: sheronb on Thursday 08 February 07 06:49 GMT (UK)
Great photos anitamo!!
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Post by: kesannah on Thursday 08 February 07 13:34 GMT (UK)
Great photos Paula and Anitamo. Love the curls and the big eyes.
Jc. I too wanted blue eyes like my Grandad-used to say my prayers asking for them every night. Still brown next morning. When I said God doesn't answer prayes I was asked "Isn't NO an answer?
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Post by: anitamo on Thursday 08 February 07 21:01 GMT (UK)
 Thanks Emmeline  myg.g.grandmother was called Sarah Carroll and I was supposedly named after that side of the family, my second name is carol, dad spelled it wron gly when he registered me. My Grandfather was called Frederick Stansfield Wright, Stansfield being another family name which was given to my older brother, Ian Stansfield.
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Post by: Emmeline on Thursday 08 February 07 21:17 GMT (UK)
Thank you anitamo. I like to know all the details !

We used one of my husband's family surnames when our third daughter arrived and gave her the second name of Kirk. There did not seem to be any boys in the offing and we thought it would be nice for it to be used again. Must say she has always been quite happy about it.

Look forward to more of your photos........
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Post by: deeiluka on Friday 09 February 07 09:37 GMT (UK)
This is my grandmother's sister Eliza Gertrude, known as Gertie, with her husband Cecil Clarke outside their shop in Raunds, Northamptonshire.  I'd love to know why it was decorated - could it have been for Queen Elizabeth's Coronation? I know Cecil died in 1958, and he was born in 1893, and in the photo I think he looks as though he was around sixty.

Would love some other opinions.

......dee
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Post by: Elliebob on Friday 09 February 07 12:48 GMT (UK)
I would say it looks like the 1953 coronation of the Queen.

My mother still has some commemorative ribbon!  My parents took me into Manchester to see it decorated.  I was only 2 and when it was the Silver Jubilee in 1977 my mother was surprised I couldn't remember going!!

Ellen
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Post by: Gadget on Friday 09 February 07 14:43 GMT (UK)
Possibly is the 1953 Coronation. I have two Coronation mugs from then. One was  from school and the other one, I can't remember where it came from. There were masses of celebration parties and every house and shop was decorated.

My only query is the length of Gertie's skirt. I'm sure the hemlines were getting higher by then  ???

Lovely photo - memories  :)

Gadget
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Post by: PaulaToo on Friday 09 February 07 14:59 GMT (UK)
Skirt lengths could be still pretty low, Hartnell's New Look, which I wallowed in, Gadget.
BUT
Blow the picture up.
On the right all the ribbons lead to a shield with a head on it...
It looks like George V to me...which would place it between 1910 and 1936...

(Correction, it was Christian Dior's New Look. Ho hum, the woman's loosing it  :) )
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Post by: Gadget on Friday 09 February 07 15:33 GMT (UK)
Could be his Jubilee in ? 1935 or George IV in 1937.

The skirt is not really New Look as I recall it - the skirts had more width.

Gadget
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Post by: PaulaToo on Friday 09 February 07 15:50 GMT (UK)
Those lovely full ones, oh yes, I used to wear those to disguise just how wide I was in the beam, but there were narrow ones as well.
1935 or 1937...
I think if you really squint at that shield it looks as though the person has a beard...perhaps...maybe.
I'd plump for 1935...
But where does that leave dee?
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Post by: Gadget on Friday 09 February 07 16:57 GMT (UK)
Not sure Paula  :(  I don't think she'll be too happy today after them losing and all. It would make him 42 - which is possible. i thought he looked a young 60. People just looked older in those days  ;)

I didn't ewear the new look, I wore ankle socks and then do you remember the starched peticoats  ;D ;D ;D

Gadget
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Post by: PaulaToo on Friday 09 February 07 17:07 GMT (UK)
Do I just! And bright day glow blue/red/green socks.
Wow!
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Post by: bervonian on Friday 09 February 07 17:53 GMT (UK)
My paternal grandfather and his brothers and sisters.  Nothing on the back of the photo to say who's who  :'( :'(
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Post by: Gadget on Friday 09 February 07 17:58 GMT (UK)
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

That's something special, even if you don't know who is who  :)

Gadget
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Post by: aspin on Friday 09 February 07 20:29 GMT (UK)
I think 1935 could be right I left school in 1953

and I'm sure my mams skirts were shorter

then came the taffeta skirts and the puffy out petticoats

along with the Teddyboys

should have some photos somewhere

Elizabeth
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Post by: deeiluka on Friday 09 February 07 21:05 GMT (UK)
1953 or 1935 - or sometime other than that! Hmmmm- well, I must say that if Gertie was at all like her sister, my grandmother Kitty, - fashion would not have been considered in the least. Watching your pennies was far more important than having new clothes.

I can see I shall have to have a go at blowing the image up too to see what I think.

And yes, Gadget - I guess I was judging Cecil's looks on today's people, so that is a consideration.

Thanks everyone for giving me more to think about.

.....dee   :D   :D   :D 
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Post by: PaulaToo on Friday 09 February 07 21:13 GMT (UK)
Then there is the advert for Zobo in the window.....
Google it and see what turns up...
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Post by: rancegal on Friday 09 February 07 21:27 GMT (UK)
Zebo was a polish for 'blackleading' your range or fireplace. As it's a b & w photo which has been tinted, I would go for George V or VI. People always looked older in those days.
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Post by: Gadget on Friday 09 February 07 21:37 GMT (UK)
Now, now  :o :o :o

I still have a tube of Zebo. It's marvellous for my woodburning stove - when it gets marked not a daily job, mind  ;D ;D ;D

Gadget
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Post by: missmolly on Friday 09 February 07 23:34 GMT (UK)
My Grandparents Golden Wedding Photo in 1963
Mo
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Post by: perth tiger on Saturday 10 February 07 12:36 GMT (UK)
my mums mum and dad wilf and ethel and some of their siblings
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Post by: perth tiger on Saturday 10 February 07 12:41 GMT (UK)
elizabeth holliday b 1792 d 1895 the sister of my maternal gggggrandfather
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Post by: PaulaToo on Saturday 10 February 07 13:14 GMT (UK)
What a smashing old lady, perth, looks like she had a sense of humour, too.
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Post by: perth tiger on Saturday 10 February 07 13:44 GMT (UK)
lol paula. she looks like she could kill from 50 yards and her hands, you wouldnt want them hitting you they are massive
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Post by: PaulaToo on Saturday 10 February 07 15:47 GMT (UK)
Oh, come on, perth, she would probably smile while she was doing it ;D
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Post by: anitamo on Saturday 10 February 07 18:20 GMT (UK)
Perth, what a stern Lady. She wouldn't need to touch you, one look would be enough to put you in fear for your life. But it's still a great photo.
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Post by: aspin on Saturday 10 February 07 20:40 GMT (UK)
This must be one of the oldest photos posted I think she looks as if she wants to LOL ;D ;D ;D
Maybe shes afraid of the man taking the photo

Elizabeth
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Post by: saxonw. on Monday 12 February 07 13:46 GMT (UK)
Just been sent this photo of the Blundell girls and some others.

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Post by: saxonw. on Monday 12 February 07 17:25 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that Kris. it's lovely. The one on the far left and the third from left are sisters. What's everyone'd views on if  any of the others are related. (The one between them isn't )
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Post by: madammagician on Monday 12 February 07 18:21 GMT (UK)
saxon, one on the right at the back definitly looks like a sister.
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Post by: saxonw. on Monday 12 February 07 20:51 GMT (UK)
Anyone like to guess from the clothes the date of the photo in 136?
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Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 12 February 07 20:57 GMT (UK)
Early 1900s? 1910?
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Post by: aspin on Thursday 15 February 07 17:35 GMT (UK)
Isabella Birnie Watson  my grt grandmother  and her second husband James Lane

I wonder if this house is still around Westmoorland Road Newcastle upon Tyne

Elizabeth

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Post by: perth tiger on Friday 16 February 07 23:25 GMT (UK)
james henry webb and his wife susan paish
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Post by: perth tiger on Friday 16 February 07 23:46 GMT (UK)
susan with her daughters annie beatrice,edith,elsie and ethel.
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Post by: perth tiger on Friday 16 February 07 23:49 GMT (UK)
and ethel when she was a bit older, she wed john mercer in 1915 but he got killed 1 week before the end of ww1 she then wed david haywood who by all accounts wasnt very nice, but i think he cant have been that bad. they both died within the same month
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Post by: PaulaToo on Saturday 17 February 07 00:02 GMT (UK)
So that's what a Webb looks like, perth.
Ethel is nice, isn't she.
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Post by: perth tiger on Saturday 17 February 07 00:35 GMT (UK)
she is paula, from all accounts she was a very nice woman. i will try and find the pic of one of her sons, he looks like a young clarke gable, unfortunately he died very young.
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Post by: saxonw. on Saturday 17 February 07 07:32 GMT (UK)
Great photos Perth. Didn't realise you were caught up in the Webbs too!
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Post by: perth tiger on Saturday 17 February 07 07:45 GMT (UK)
i have been saxon they are inlaws not on my side of the family. i wont be involved with them too much longer lol then i will leave it up to the rest of you to look through them all
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Post by: sheronb on Saturday 17 February 07 14:48 GMT (UK)
my great aunt:
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Post by: sheronb on Saturday 17 February 07 15:50 GMT (UK)
bit big that, let me try again, Tony, my great uncle who died of TB in 47, after being a P.O.W in Taiwan.
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Post by: Blondie1 on Saturday 17 February 07 15:53 GMT (UK)
Found them Perth what great photo's.  By the way I have a Web married to a Woodcock from Staffordshire.  Is there a club for the Webbs?
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Post by: PaulaToo on Saturday 17 February 07 16:02 GMT (UK)
What a lovely looking man, sheron. So sad that he should end like that.

Not another one, grumpyblondie  :o
Gives a new meaning to the World Wide Webb!  :D
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Post by: sheronb on Saturday 17 February 07 16:11 GMT (UK)
did you see the one of Roma Tuzzio,Paula? they were a good looking lot!
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Post by: PaulaToo on Saturday 17 February 07 16:48 GMT (UK)
I certainly did, sheron. I was saying to son and heir what narrow ankles she had.....keeping mine well under the hem of me skirts.
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Post by: sheronb on Saturday 17 February 07 17:02 GMT (UK)
 ;D ;D actually i used to have good legs, must be from them 8)
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Post by: PaulaToo on Saturday 17 February 07 18:15 GMT (UK)
I should say so, sheron.
Actually, I have just been comparing some of the pictures on here.
One thing struck me, was the picture perth put on, with Susan Parish and the children. The face of the little one standing is so much like me in the photo for my profile.
Am I reading too much into it?
Those looks have been passed down the family, Gran to Mum, Mum to me...Now Gran was very like that mystery sailor I had restored when I first started on here...supposed Uncle Harry who we could never find. I'm wondering if there is a Webb likeness, the same as there is with (don't tell diddy) the Bartlett nose and ears....
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Post by: sheronb on Saturday 17 February 07 18:20 GMT (UK)
 ;D paula!!lol
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Post by: saxonw. on Saturday 17 February 07 21:20 GMT (UK)
I think you're right. looking a t the Blundell Girls my late sister looks just like grandma, my sis looks like one of the others and so do I.  Features such as chins and eyes and noses  pass down the generations. I think it's one of the Richard Dawkins books which indicates that the human race has a very small genetic range in total but almost all of the genetic differences relate to looks and looks alone.
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Post by: Blondie1 on Saturday 17 February 07 22:02 GMT (UK)
Perth Tiger which is you is it the one sat on the ladies knee?
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Post by: perth tiger on Saturday 17 February 07 22:15 GMT (UK)
lol grumpy do you mean in that old pic ? i hope not it was taken in 1896 and they are all girls lol
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Post by: Blondie1 on Saturday 17 February 07 22:32 GMT (UK)
I was just being funny Perth I knew you were not that old.   Have looked at your photo not bad.
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Post by: Blondie1 on Sunday 18 February 07 00:02 GMT (UK)
This is my Mum age 18years taken about 1926
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Post by: PaulaToo on Sunday 18 February 07 00:08 GMT (UK)
Doesn't she look a lovely young lady, GrumpyB.
It's nice to see her on here.
Paula
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Post by: Elliebob on Sunday 18 February 07 17:03 GMT (UK)
Found a few more pics yesterday at m-i-law's.  This is of Bob's father taken in West Africa in the late 20s/early 30s.  He is the left hand standard bearer, holding the Union flag. 

There appears to be a double exposure on the right hand side of the photo but we can't quite make out what it could be.

Ellen
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Post by: Blondie1 on Sunday 18 February 07 21:43 GMT (UK)
This is a photo of My g grandfathers and his partners firm which was a Mineral Water Manufacturers called Gibson and Hepworth at Normanton West Yorkshire. I am not sure of the year.
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Post by: Welsh Jules on Sunday 18 February 07 22:18 GMT (UK)
This is my great grandmother Kezia with my grandmother Gladys Maud taken around 1916. I always think Kezia looks like Eliza Doolittle before she was made a lady in this one  :) Apparently she was a keen member of the Cardiff temperance society and my father has early memories of being very scared of her as a young boy.
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Post by: alftabor on Monday 19 February 07 22:14 GMT (UK)
Father, Grandfather Greatgrandfather, Mother
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Post by: stoney on Tuesday 20 February 07 13:18 GMT (UK)
My 3xG-Grandad, Charles Beattie, a shepherd in Dumfriesshire. How did a venerable-looking old gentleman such as this end up (according to the local parish registers) as having been fined 5 shillings for fornication!  :o

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Post by: aspin on Tuesday 20 February 07 16:51 GMT (UK)
Poor old Gent Stoney
Why don't you send him to  photo restoration I'm sure he needs a job done

Elizabeth
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Post by: stoney on Tuesday 20 February 07 18:13 GMT (UK)
...oops! Clicked on the "before" version!

Is this one better?
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Post by: foggyjano on Thursday 22 February 07 19:02 GMT (UK)
I would love to know why boys were dressed up in dresses in the old days, was it cos they were short of money and had to pass down clothes..lol....
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Post by: bearkat on Thursday 22 February 07 19:08 GMT (UK)
I would love to know why boys were dressed up in dresses in the old days, was it cos they were short of money and had to pass down clothes..lol....

There's some interesting information on this site:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/collections/costume/boys/boys_trousers/index.html
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Post by: rancegal on Thursday 22 February 07 20:12 GMT (UK)
Very interesting site. If you think about it, the move to putting boys in trousers (and romper suits when they were babies) coincided with the invention of rubber waterproof pants.
   I've got some old photos of my uncle wearing 'frocks' as boys' dresses were commonly called. Of course, they didn't think it out of the ordinary, and it certainly had nothing to do with hand-me-downs; after all, what if the older children were boys as well! Somewhere I read a quote from a letter written by a young Victorian woman who was horrified to find her new husband wore nightshirts and set to work to sew him some 'respectable nightgowns'
     It's only because the use of these names has changed that they mean something else to us.
     BTW,  my son-in-law's Hindu family don't cut a little boy's hair until just after his 1st or 2nd birthday and then it involves a big ceremony in which his whole head is shorn. The hair must not fall to the floor and has to be kept (for reasons I never got to the bottom of). It marks a transition from the weakness and dependency of babyhood to the start of boyhood.
   
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Post by: alftabor on Friday 23 February 07 06:22 GMT (UK)
Grandmother Emily Tabor nee Millman
Great grand mother Emily Sarah Tabor nee Bassett
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Post by: Elliebob on Friday 23 February 07 08:58 GMT (UK)
Amazing - what a treasure alf.  I only have the one photo of me with the only grandmother I knew.  I was only 5 months old at the time!

I am taking as many pics as possible of our family get togethers so that the family archive will pass around as far as possible in future!!

Ellen
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Post by: alftabor on Friday 23 February 07 20:29 GMT (UK)
After the great grand parents that I have shown I can go back one more generation to
My great great grandfather William Henry Tabor and My great great grandmother Elizabeth Tabor Nee Matthews.
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Post by: alftabor on Sunday 04 March 07 22:19 GMT (UK)
This group of serious Gents stare down on me in my Computer room
From left:Alfred Ernest,Henry George,Grandfather William Charles, William Junior.
Front from left:Jack,Frederick Arthur,Charles James.
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Post by: PaulaToo on Sunday 04 March 07 22:27 GMT (UK)
They might look serious, alftabor, but they look a 'decent bunch of chaps' all the same.
Nice photo.
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Post by: alftabor on Monday 05 March 07 22:03 GMT (UK)
Here is a picture of the Heroine of my Family
Great Aunt Louie who got a gong while serving in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service at Ypres in the Great War
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Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 05 March 07 22:48 GMT (UK)
A lady you have every reason to be proud of, alftabor.
She is lovely, too, but the look in her eyes seems to say that she has seen things she wished she had not seen.
What a terrible time it must have been for her.
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Post by: stoney on Tuesday 06 March 07 13:38 GMT (UK)
This very sad picture is of my maternal grandmother's youngest sister, Hilda Grace Meyers. She died not long after this was taken - apparently she had a fall in the playground and never recovered. At some point I must get round to purchasing her death certificate to see eactly what happened.

She was the apple of her father's eye and he himself died just a couple of months later.
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Post by: anitamo on Tuesday 06 March 07 19:06 GMT (UK)
Stoney, that is so sad, She looks a poorly little girl in the photo. How old was she do you know?
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Post by: anitamo on Tuesday 06 March 07 19:36 GMT (UK)
I've just been sent some great photos of my grandparents  and I just want to share some of them. The family group that looks so middle class is my gran and grandad with my mum and big brother. It must have been taken around 1928. Grandad was a steel moulder in the Sheffield steel works

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Post by: sheronb on Tuesday 06 March 07 19:45 GMT (UK)
great photo anita!!
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Post by: PaulaToo on Tuesday 06 March 07 19:51 GMT (UK)
Nice to have the family group.
Bet you're pleased with that one.
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Post by: stoney on Tuesday 06 March 07 20:48 GMT (UK)
Anitamo - Hilda Grace Meyers  (the girl pictured in the wheelchair) was 11 years old when she died. I've found the gefistration so I'll try and order the death certificate to see if that sheds any light on what happened to her. Very sad story.
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Post by: stoney on Tuesday 06 March 07 20:50 GMT (UK)
Anitamo - Hilda Grace Meyers (the girl pictured in the wheelchair) was 11 years old when she died. I've found the gefistration so I'll try and order the death certificate to see if that sheds any light on what happened to her. Very sad story.

....ops! I mean "registration"!  ::)
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Post by: anitamo on Wednesday 07 March 07 19:47 GMT (UK)
Thought you might like to see this one, it must have been  taken around the same time as the family portrait and  by the smile on everyones faces  they must have been having fun. The lady on the left is my gran and it's strange to see her laughing like that, I remember her as being quite a bit straight faced most of the time. The young girl is my mum about nine years old and the lady next to my gran is my great aunt ( gran's sister in law) her husband died in WW1, four years after they were married . I don't yet know who the third lady is.
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Post by: kesannah on Thursday 08 March 07 19:04 GMT (UK)
Nice photos Anitia, Bet you are so pleased to have them.
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Post by: saxonw. on Friday 09 March 07 07:58 GMT (UK)
Puzzle time does anyone think either of these ladies is in  the picture  on 136
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Post by: PaulaToo on Friday 09 March 07 10:59 GMT (UK)
Not very good at this saxon, but the lady on the left does have the same tilt of the head as the Blundells.
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Post by: Dinkydidy on Tuesday 20 March 07 06:48 GMT (UK)
Loved the beach girls enjoying themselves, Anita, and the way great aunt has tucked her dress into elastic of long bloomers. I can almost remember doing that.... :-\

Here is my grandmother, Margaret Ann White, around the time of her marriage in 1908. Note the hairdo, same as in wedding photo which follows.

Didy
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Post by: Dinkydidy on Tuesday 20 March 07 06:54 GMT (UK)
This was a treasure found after grandmother (second from right) died, along with a list of full names and birthdates of the eleven siblings. They are standing in age order from oldest on right, and the occasion was probably the last time they were all gathered together, when their father died in 1923.

It obviously helped that one of the sisters had married a photographer!  ;D

Didy
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Post by: stoney on Tuesday 20 March 07 09:28 GMT (UK)
This is my G-Grandmother, Mary Jane (Routledge) Meyers with some of her children. Does the boy standing beside her look as though he "fits" in?

Although the 1901 census proclaims him as David Meyers, the name on his will was David Miller Routledge (and closer inspection of census returns reveals his age to be pre-marriage of his parents!) That aside, he was different in features to the rest of the brood....and I've no idea where the "Miller" name came from! What was G-granny up to!

Never mind, he was a lovely "gentle" man by all accounts, with a wicked sense of humour!
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Post by: PaulaToo on Tuesday 20 March 07 10:30 GMT (UK)
After all the bedpost notching adventures of my Eliza Ann, I'm used to that sort of thing, stoney.

He looks terribly like Mary Jane, doesn't he...Have you ever found a David Miller around at the right time?
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Post by: stoney on Tuesday 20 March 07 11:03 GMT (UK)
After all the bedpost notching adventures of my Eliza Ann, I'm used to that sort of thing, stoney.

He looks terribly like Mary Jane, doesn't he...Have you ever found a David Miller around at the right time?

No, no sign of the father, but I do know young David was living with Mary Jane's Aunt and Uncle at the time of the 1881 census (born 1880) and she had married my G-Granfather by the end of 1881.

I'm tempted to get David's birth certificate to try and solve the mystery!
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Post by: 7igerby7he7ail on Tuesday 20 March 07 11:38 GMT (UK)
Here are the Gaunts!
Top row L2R
Great Great Grandfather, William b 1828, Great Grandfather, William b 1857, Grandfather, William b 1885
Bottom row L2R
Father, Thomas b 1910, Myself, born 1948
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Post by: PaulaToo on Tuesday 20 March 07 14:54 GMT (UK)
It kind of, gets to you, doesn't it, stoney. Go on, you know you'll give in, in the end. :)

There's a family likeness passed down there, Tom. How lovely to have all the pictures like that.
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Post by: anitamo on Tuesday 20 March 07 19:06 GMT (UK)
Dinkydidy those are superb photos and, as you say, that hairstyle is something else, I wonder how long it took her to sculpt that every morning.

Stoney, I agree with Paula that sweet looking little boy does look like Mary Jane.
And believe me my family's bedhopping antics are almost lengendary. I have to say the more I delve the more I find morals  then are not what they are these days. ;D ;D
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Post by: mahees on Tuesday 20 March 07 19:20 GMT (UK)
Here's a link to my G-Grandad Francis Roby, who died in 1923 from 'causes attributable to his service'  :'(

http://21st-battalion-8.tripod.com/o-s.html

He's just over halfway down the page, and I am particularly proud to have him on the site since he was buried in a communal plot without mention on any memorial. None of my family knew much about him either. Also, here's his grave, which we recently tracked down-

http://21st-battalion-8.tripod.com/graves_o-s.html

Thanks to Al Lloyd for running the 21st battalion site  ;D
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Post by: 7igerby7he7ail on Wednesday 21 March 07 15:18 GMT (UK)
On the left of the picture with pipes under his arm.
My Wife's great granduncle John 'Jock' McLellan.b 1875 Dunoon, Argyll,Scotland

John joined the Highland Light Infantry and  served in the South African War He was awarded the DCM when the Regiment saw action at the Battle of Maggersfontein.
In WW1 he joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he attained the rank of Pipe Major.
He wrote several pipe tunes and it is said he composed the Air wich became 'The Road To The Isles'
The date and location of the picture is unknown
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Post by: LizzieW on Wednesday 21 March 07 16:17 GMT (UK)
The first photograph is of my gran and her siblings.  She is the one at the back on the right.  The next one is the same gran age about 40 I think.

Liz
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Post by: LizzieW on Wednesday 21 March 07 16:20 GMT (UK)
This is my dad (on the right) and his twin sister age about 12 months I guess.
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Post by: PaulaToo on Wednesday 21 March 07 16:25 GMT (UK)
Lovely group of Gran and her siblings, Liz.
My goodness, doesn't the little chap on the right look 'master of all he surveys.' Bet he was 'trying to be like dad' in front of the camera.
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Post by: LizzieW on Wednesday 21 March 07 16:46 GMT (UK)
The first of these is my mum and her dad.

The second is me age about 6-9 months.  I don't know if I look like my mum, or my dad (the one in the picture of the twins).   When I got older I looked much more like dad and he changed and got darker like his sister.

Liz

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Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Wednesday 21 March 07 17:00 GMT (UK)
Dad's eyes, Mum's cheekbones, I would say, Liz.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: julianb on Wednesday 21 March 07 20:08 GMT (UK)
Great pictures here - and stories too.  Fascinated by Tom's family's bagpipe-playing ancestor  :)

Here's a side by side job.  This is my great grandmother, Elizabeth Danns Luetchford nee Rose, and her children - on the left taken around 1905 a few years after her husband had died, and again in 1940 on the occasion of her 90th birthday.  Some of her children had aged well, and others not so!  My own grandmother is sitting in the centre on the left-hand picture, and sitting on the right on the right -hand one.

JULIAN
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: LizzieW on Wednesday 21 March 07 21:32 GMT (UK)
Paulatoo

Yes definitely my dad's eyes, dark and deep set now, although when I was younger a boyfriend, who was a farmer, said I had cow's eyes.  It was a compliment.

Liz
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: stoney on Wednesday 21 March 07 22:56 GMT (UK)
....you don't see many of these around today!

These are hubby's maternal grandparents - they were in ENSA in WW2, and also ran a music school in N.London.

(and their G-Grandson is carrying on the tradition, as a Rock musician ....!)
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: aspin on Thursday 22 March 07 09:54 GMT (UK)
I have my late brothers accordion it is all mother of pearl am I right in saying it is a Horner make ,I used to have a little play on it but it is so heavy for me to hold now
Oh happy days

Elizabeth
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Dyingout on Friday 23 March 07 15:41 GMT (UK)
This is a caricature of my 2nd cousin who's funeral was yesterday.
The church was totally jammed with people standing .
He was well thought of

Rest in Peace Fred
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: LizzieW on Friday 23 March 07 15:45 GMT (UK)
He looks quite a character!

Liz
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Dyingout on Friday 23 March 07 16:55 GMT (UK)
Yes he was a farmer of repute and very handy with a gun too
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Saturday 24 March 07 13:01 GMT (UK)
I knew a gamekeeper who was handy with a gun, when I was in the Highlands, Dyingout...but that's another story, and not for Ancestors. If I remember I'll put it in the Tearoom.

Was trawling through old memories Ancestor threads and found an unanswered question.
My Quest for the Caponhursts of Bucks.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,211814.90.html

At the time I had Alic. Allice...Alice Caponhurst safely married to John Grace but only the IGI's word as to where she came from.
I now have her father's will....well, I guess it's his will, because he leaves a heck of a lot to his 'son in law John Grace.'
So that  has legitimised Richard Caponhurst as father of Alic. IGI had it right.
But not only that...I have also the will of Rycharde Caponhurst...Richard's dad, which was drawn up in 1558.

I really don't expect to get any further than that!....but there are all those Capenhursts on the Wirral.... :'(
What ever, a picture of the church at Granborough where my Caponhursts were to brighten up the message.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 26 March 07 16:39 BST (UK)
Not such a happy post.
Sent to the Mother in Law when the lovely man who should have been my Father in Law was lost during WW2
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Blondie1 on Monday 26 March 07 16:42 BST (UK)
I hope it gave her a little bit of comfort
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 26 March 07 17:14 BST (UK)
Me too, grumpyblondie. By all that I have been told she took loosing him badly, but perhaps it was something to hold onto later.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Elliebob on Sunday 01 April 07 23:10 BST (UK)
Went ot m-i-l's yesterday and brought back a batch of photos to scan.  This one is rather lovely.  It is m-i-l at about a year old (1915) with her mother.  She had just had her hand smacked for touching the flowers - hence the pout!

Ellen
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Sunday 01 April 07 23:31 BST (UK)
That is adorable, Ellen.
How lovely to hear about the pout. Don't forget to keep that little snippet of information with the picture, it adds so much to it.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Emmeline on Monday 02 April 07 02:22 BST (UK)
That is just lovely Ellen. I notice mother is holding that little hand firmly - away from the flowers.
Tell m/in/law she was a beautiful baby........
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Elliebob on Monday 02 April 07 08:44 BST (UK)
Thanks Paula and Emmeline

Bob's gran looked beautiful in the photos.  I have one of her when older currently on the photo restoration board.  She was still beautiful then. M-i-l
was lovely (very like her mother) when young and at 92 still has lovely skin!

Ellen
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Emmeline on Monday 02 April 07 10:45 BST (UK)
Ellen - I found her on the Photo Restoration board. Lovely to behold.........
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Elliebob on Monday 02 April 07 10:57 BST (UK)
Yes she was lovely - Unfortunately Bob never knew her although he was 14 when she died!  I have just realised with some concern that in that photo she was about my current age!!

She had a hard life - married in India at 17 and had 10 children of which m-i-l was the youngest.  Bad marriage and they finally separated.  Several children died in infancy, one in the flu epidemic in 1919.  She looks happy enough though doesn't she?

I do love all the old photos and will put a few more on later.  Mum's sisters who are in others were lovely too.
Ellen
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Blondie1 on Monday 02 April 07 15:53 BST (UK)
What a lovely picture and what a life -10 children gosh
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Emmeline on Monday 02 April 07 22:53 BST (UK)
Thanks Ellen for some details of her life.

Are there any photos of her wedding in India ? Look forward to seeing any others you have......... and more stories.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 09 April 07 14:45 BST (UK)
Following the photo of My dear little Mum than has been so beautifully restored by you clever Roots people, here is a photo of Jessie May a few years later with one of her several nephews. A careful look and you can see she is wearing her engagement ring.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 09 April 07 14:48 BST (UK)
An' here is a photo of the bloke, my Dad Joe, who put that ring on her finger, sharing a joke with her mother, Harriet Mathias.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Rabbit B on Monday 09 April 07 22:13 BST (UK)
An' here is a photo of the bloke, my Dad Joe, who put that ring on her finger, sharing a joke with her mother, Harriet Mathias.

Harriet does not look so fierce here does she!!

Rabbit B   :D
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 09 April 07 22:43 BST (UK)
There was mischief going on there.
I can almost hear my Mother saying,
'Joe, shut up!'  :D
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Rabbit B on Monday 09 April 07 22:48 BST (UK)
Better not answer that, I am listening to the Goon Show!!!

Rabbit B  :D
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Elliebob on Monday 09 April 07 23:30 BST (UK)
Hi

Emmeline - I don't think there are any photos of the wedding in India.  I have never seen one at all of Bob's grandfather.  This is his aunt Thea, who was widowed and then married a Dutchman and was never heard of after going to Holland in WW2, as mentioned elsewhere on RC

Ellen
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: stoney on Tuesday 10 April 07 13:16 BST (UK)
I've started looking at hubby's side of the family and have re-discovered old photos of his maternal g-grandmother, who was born and lived in India.  She's the middle one in the picture - Amy Osborne. She always looks winsome and a little sad, to me.

She married and Army Sergeant (Robert Harry Brown) and they had six children, before Amy died of a brain-tumour in 1917 and Robert died in the influenza epidemic of 1919, leaving their children to be raised by the maternal grandparents. Eventually the children were split up around the family (and around the globe!) and although they kept in touch by letter some of them never saw each other again.  :'(
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Dinkydidy on Wednesday 11 April 07 00:40 BST (UK)
What a sad story, stoney, and it is enhanced by the wistful nature of the picture. Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes you need both to get the "full picture".

Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: stoney on Wednesday 11 April 07 07:56 BST (UK)
Dinkdidy - this picture says it all - I think! She looks totally exhausted!
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: millymcb on Wednesday 18 April 07 20:37 BST (UK)
I've been looking at all these lovely photos and thought I'd add my favourite picture. This is my Great Grandfather (sitting in the back) and two of his older brothers when they were on holiday in the Isle of Wight.

I love this piccie.  He looks so bemused sitting in the back and his brother is concentrating so hard on the "driving"

 ;D

Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: LizzieW on Wednesday 18 April 07 20:51 BST (UK)
Very upmarket family milly!  Mine were working as ag.labs, trawlermen and railway workers at that time.

Liz
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: millymcb on Wednesday 18 April 07 21:54 BST (UK)
Very upmarket family milly!  Mine were working as ag.labs, trawlermen and railway workers at that time.

Liz


These guys were mechanical engineer and tin-plate workers - and the women of the family worked in the cotton mills.  It surprised (but pleased) me to find out they had been able to afford to go off to the Isle of Wight on their holidays.  Their older brother was with the Navy in Portsmouth so I presume they went down to visit him.

....... but I'll let you into a little secret.... ;) ...I think that cars a fake!
 

 
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: stoney on Wednesday 18 April 07 23:26 BST (UK)
Here's one we call our "Forsyte Saga" pose!
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: LizzieW on Wednesday 18 April 07 23:38 BST (UK)
Quote
...... but I'll let you into a little secret.... Wink ...I think that cars a fake!

I guessed that, because it looks posed, but I was looking at the men in it who look so healthy.

Liz
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: mahees on Thursday 19 April 07 13:15 BST (UK)
Here is my Grandma Dorothy's first marriage to Charles Fry in 1935. He died in World War 2 and Dorothy remarried to my Grandad. The lady in the bottom right is my G-G-Grandmother Eliza, and stood behind her is my G-G-Grandfather George. I found this recently on a distant relative's website; I couldn't believe I could see relatives so many generations back! The adult bridesmaid on the right is my great-aunt Peg and she's coming to my wedding this July ;D
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: stoney on Friday 20 April 07 18:28 BST (UK)
Here's my Mum and Dad on their wedding day - 27/04/1942. He had a 48 hr pass and was posted overseas shortly afterwards for the remainder of WW2.

They planned some code-words  before he went  so when he managed to write home he could let the family know where he was without the censors knowing! (eg. "how's Auntie Nellie's leg? = Italy, etc.)
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Elliebob on Tuesday 01 May 07 20:54 BST (UK)
Found this picture at my mother's.  We don't know where it came from but it is of her mother and sister.  She has no idea who the boy is but thinks that it may be a cousin as it isn't her brother.

Ellen
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: pentio on Tuesday 01 May 07 23:43 BST (UK)
Hi to Paula Too, Emmeline, and Elliebob,

It's been a while since I was on Our ancestors and it's really lovely to see the topic still going strong. To all the contributors thank you for all the wonderful photos and stories which make this such a special thread. :) :)

stoney-A beautiful photgraph with a very sad story.

This one is of Aunt Ellen which was taken around 1948.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Emmeline on Saturday 19 May 07 22:32 BST (UK)
Hello Pentio - other old friends and new .

Have just popped in for a look and delighted at all the wonderful photos still being shown.

Please keep them coming........
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: perth tiger on Wednesday 18 July 07 11:26 BST (UK)
gggrandparents davey
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: perth tiger on Wednesday 18 July 07 11:28 BST (UK)
ok can someone tell me why i cant see it without downloading it
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Wednesday 18 July 07 12:10 BST (UK)
Not being computer smart, I don't know, perth, but they are lovely pictures, and well worth looking at.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Wednesday 18 July 07 12:10 BST (UK)
Just noticed they are tif not jpg...is that anything to do with it.....
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: perth tiger on Wednesday 18 July 07 12:31 BST (UK)
lol paula you know more than i do
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Wednesday 18 July 07 13:18 BST (UK)
I might have noticed it, perth, but it don't mean I know what to do about it ;D
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: aspin on Wednesday 18 July 07 13:46 BST (UK)
Perth Tigar
have PM you is this what you are after
Elizabeth

Here goes
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: perth tiger on Wednesday 18 July 07 14:47 BST (UK)
thats what i normally get aspin, dont know what happened that time
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Taidquest on Wednesday 18 July 07 19:55 BST (UK)
hi all,loving all your great photos.the one below is my grandmother
and her 2 eldest chilldren in dublin which I think was taken in about 1914.my uncle looks
about 5 years old in this photo and his fifth birthday was the day before granddad enlisted
and went off to war,
so I suppose the photo was taken to give or send to him.does'nt my nan look glum.
                                                                                                       regards.anne
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Elliebob on Wednesday 18 July 07 21:10 BST (UK)
Here are photos of my husband's McConnell grandparents.  We had never seen any of them until we cleared my m-i-l's house as she has moved into residential accommodation.

Ellen
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Emmeline on Wednesday 18 July 07 22:22 BST (UK)
Thanks everyone for your  family photos.

Hello Ellen  :)  Two great photos. Can just imagine Grandma walking along with those two flowers on her hat bobbing along with her.

Regards.......
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: stoney on Wednesday 18 July 07 23:20 BST (UK)
This is one of the oldest pictures I have. They are William and Mary (Pemberton) Routledge, my G-G-Grandparents, taken c.mid-1860's. He was a Corporal in the Royal Artillery.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Emmeline on Wednesday 18 July 07 23:29 BST (UK)
A wonderful photo to treasure stoney. How I wish I had one going back that far. One question - do you know if the little child on father's lap is a boy or a girl ???
Thanks for showing.....
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: stoney on Thursday 19 July 07 18:20 BST (UK)
A wonderful photo to treasure stoney. How I wish I had one going back that far. One question - do you know if the little child on father's lap is a boy or a girl ???
Thanks for showing.....

I believe the little girl is my G-Grandmother, Mary Jane Routledge (later Meyers), but we're not sure about the other child - there were 5 boys and 4 girls! He does look like a boy, though, and it was the custom to dress boys in dresses at that time, certainly for something as formal as a portrait.

And because William was in the army the children were born all over the place: Gosport, Hants.;  Pembroke Dock, Wales;  Ireland;  Bermuda; and Carlisle, Cumberland!

Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: rancegal on Thursday 19 July 07 19:15 BST (UK)
It certainly looks like a boy's 'frock'
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Emmeline on Friday 20 July 07 04:19 BST (UK)
Thanks stoney for your reply.

I love everyones family history as well as my own  :)

My Gt.Grandparents first child was born in Rouen, France and the numerous others all over England. Nothing as exotic as Bermuda though.

Yes rancegal - I think it looks more like a ' boys' frock - not frilly enough for a little girl......
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Elliebob on Friday 20 July 07 08:41 BST (UK)
Stoney - my husband's g- grandfather was in the Royal Artillary at about the same time, he fought in the Zulu wars.  I wonder if they knew each other?

Ellen
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: stoney on Friday 20 July 07 16:17 BST (UK)
Stoney - my husband's g- grandfather was in the Royal Artillary at about the same time, he fought in the Zulu wars.  I wonder if they knew each other?

Ellen

Possible, I suppose! I've not tried to find out about William's military career yet - just know about him being in Bermuda as his third child, Amelia, was born there, which means his wife and probably the two elder children were there too!

In the Baptisms recorded for St George, Bermuda, 1861, he's listed as a Corporal - I wouldn't have thought the army would have allowed him to take his family with him (think of the expense!) and his rank would surely not have been that high up to make a difference!

I've no idea if he took part in the Zulu wars - none of the children appear to have been born in that part of the world and there.

Remind me, when did those conflicts take place? Most of William's children arrived at two-year intervals except the gap between William jnr. b.c.1857 (Ireland) and the next child, Amelia, b.1861, Bemuda. So if the Zulu wars occurred then it could explain the "gap" in the children, if the wife was left at home.

Alternatively, there may have been infant mortalities I haven't discovered - I'm working mainly from the 1871 census onwards, as the family would have been out of Britain in 1861 and William and Mary don't appear to have married by 1851!
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: pentio on Monday 03 September 07 09:52 BST (UK)
Hi folks

I haven't been on for some time and i am so pleased that this thread continues to go from strength to strength. Thanks to everyone for the wonderful photos.

This photo is of my grandmother, grandfather and family taken in the 1930's in Belfast. My mum is the girl in the middle holding her wee sisters hand.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: pentio on Monday 03 September 07 10:06 BST (UK)
Another one of Aunt Elllen and her friends taken in the 1940's at Rostrevor.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: aspin on Monday 03 September 07 17:50 BST (UK)
glad to see this thread up and running again
I love to see the old photo's

Elizabeth
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: perth tiger on Tuesday 04 September 07 13:20 BST (UK)
hope this aint too big
its my ggrandparents and their extended family abt 1910 on a day out.
my gran is on the right with the blurred face her mother behind her holding her brother john who is 97 on thursday
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Emmeline on Tuesday 04 September 07 21:54 BST (UK)
Hello Perth Tiger

What a wonderful photo. You are very lucky to have it.

Give congratulations to Gt Uncle John on Thursday - I wonder if he has told you some of his family stories?

Perhaps you have more photos you can show us - hope so..........
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Elliebob on Tuesday 04 September 07 22:34 BST (UK)
Great to see this thread revived. Here is another we found in m-i-law's photos when she moved.  It is of my f-i-law (second from left) his 2 brothers Sam and Jim and a cousin W. Long on the far left.

Our next job is to find out how exactly the Long family are related.

Keep the photos coming.  I look forward to seeing lots when we are back from holiday.  Tomorrow, we are off to Cork for a week - I can't wait.

Ellen
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Tuesday 04 September 07 23:05 BST (UK)
Now that cousin isn't half a smashing looking chap, isn't he, Ellen......oh yessy yes yes!
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: perth tiger on Wednesday 05 September 07 09:17 BST (UK)
 ;D steady paula hes too old for you

gggrandparents john davey and emma hodgson
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: stoney on Wednesday 05 September 07 12:33 BST (UK)
Don't know if I've sent this one to another message already - but this is my paternal - G-Grandad, Joseph Edward Beattie (Snr). I wonder if he rode that bike or just took the opportunity to be photographed with it?
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: stoney on Wednesday 05 September 07 12:40 BST (UK)
Don't know if I've sent this one to another message already - but this is my paternal - G-Grandad, Joseph Edward Beattie (Snr). I wonder if he rode that bike or just took the opportunity to be photographed with it?

- sorry, should read maternal G-Grandad - I mean, my Mum's Dad's Dad!  ::)
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: pentio on Monday 15 October 07 02:11 BST (UK)
Just thought i would share this photo of my ggg...grandmother Eliza Ward who lived in St Helena. She arrived on the island in 1842 with her husband William who was in the Old Saints Regiment. After he retired he was chief signalman for the island. The photo was taken in the late 1860's.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: pentio on Monday 15 October 07 02:15 BST (UK)
Photo of my ggg..grandfather William Ward taken on the island of St Helena, seen here at work as chief signalman for the island.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: pentio on Monday 10 March 08 11:32 GMT (UK)
I was having a look through this thread and thought it would be a good idea if it was brought back to give others the opportunity of posting some more photos.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Suziesmith37 on Monday 10 March 08 12:44 GMT (UK)
Just looked back through this thread it is fantastic - thanks pentio for reviving it.

I would like to start the ball rolling again a school photo from 1910 (not quite 100 yrs old!), my Grandmother is second row, third child from the right.  Her name is Lynn Barker(Willliams then).  The school is Trewirgie School in Redruth, Cornwall.  (PaulaToo if you happen to read this - where did your Emily Barker originate from pls?)

Su



Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 10 March 08 13:16 GMT (UK)
Hi Su,
Emily Baker, born Emily Price, 1840, North Marston, Bucks.
Married Denchfield Baker, North Marston, 1862
Died at home of daughter, Granborough, Bucks 1931.

Any relation?
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Suziesmith37 on Monday 10 March 08 13:26 GMT (UK)
Sorry PaulaToo was relating to Reply 98 which said Emily Barker my error!

She just happened to be a seamstress, saw sewing machine etc. 

Ah well - But they were wonderful photographs to look at though.

Hope this board gets going again, it is so thought provoking and important as regards costume etc.

Thanks Su
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 10 March 08 15:29 GMT (UK)
Don't be sorry, Su, it was my error, I had not noticed that I had put Barker... it should have read Baker.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: aspin on Monday 10 March 08 16:39 GMT (UK)
I am at he moment searching the Gregson family ,for those who would like to look ( and if thats  ok by rootschat )
Google Thomas George Gregson Lowlynn
its very interesting to read and I am hoping he is one of my Gregsons



Lovely old school photo ,Will look my Dads out and post it his eldest brother is also on it

Elizabeth
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: littleclaire on Monday 10 March 08 18:22 GMT (UK)
Thought I'd add my bit!

This is my Grandma's family

Claire
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: littleclaire on Monday 10 March 08 18:26 GMT (UK)
I added the wrong photo last time!

This is my G Grandparents wedding. It has on it my GG Grandfather John R Jones on the right, and it also has my Grandfather (Alfred Mattey's) adopted Grandparents who took him in when his father ran off with another woman when his mother died......

I'll try and do the right one.....
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: littleclaire on Monday 10 March 08 18:27 GMT (UK)
Or his adopted mother.... I'm not with it this evening!
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 10 March 08 19:35 GMT (UK)
Don't worry, Claire, I've just led Su astray by mistakenly putting an R in Baker and turning it into Barker....what a prise dodo!
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Suziesmith37 on Monday 10 March 08 19:44 GMT (UK)
Hey

I made a new friend so no problem PaulaToo ;D

Su
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 10 March 08 19:47 GMT (UK)
I'll drink to that, Su (http://www.websmileys.com/sm/drink/trink39.gif)
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Emmeline on Monday 10 March 08 19:57 GMT (UK)
Hello Pentio and All

Will be marvellous if we can keept this thread going. Our Ancestors #5 shows just how popular it has been.

I've  enjoyed every  single photo.......
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Willow 4873 on Monday 10 March 08 20:34 GMT (UK)
Just noticed this thread and had to add to it

My Grandparents George Bowkett and Annie Harris on their wedding day 2.8.1930

Willow x
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 10 March 08 20:35 GMT (UK)
It all began on Thursday 25 May 06 !8:08....when pentio found a scrolll.............

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,158759.0.html

and Our Ancestors was born....
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Willow 4873 on Monday 10 March 08 20:38 GMT (UK)
And here they are again - they were married 50 years

Willow x
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: aspin on Monday 10 March 08 21:30 GMT (UK)
Nice to see this thread opened up again



Willow it is our 50th next year

Don't know what to do yet

Elizabeth
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Suziesmith37 on Monday 10 March 08 21:42 GMT (UK)
PaulaToo what a wonderful journey this thread is making I suspect No 6 soon!?

It is so great to share in others lives as well and some of the story that go with them.

Su
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Monday 10 March 08 21:58 GMT (UK)
There are some lovely pictures and stories on the other threads too, Su,

Our Ancestors
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,158759.0.html

Our Ancestors #2
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,179418.0.html

Our Ancestors #3
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,211814.0.html

Our Ancestors #4
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,195497.0.html
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Suziesmith37 on Monday 10 March 08 22:00 GMT (UK)
Thanks PaulaToo I am sure I and many others will be looking through those with great interest. :D

Su
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Willow 4873 on Tuesday 11 March 08 09:51 GMT (UK)
Nice to see this thread opened up again



Willow it is our 50th next year

Don't know what to do yet

Elizabeth


Congratulations!

Have a big family knees up then go away somewhere nice or you could renew your wedding vows and have a big party and second honeymoon?

Unfortunatly Nan was in hospital with a broken hip when it was their 50th so we had to have a make do party there. She died the following February

Willow x
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: aspin on Tuesday 11 March 08 20:24 GMT (UK)
How sad
But it was nice for them to make their 59th

Ours is August so I was thinking of having an open day so that family ,friends and guest can come and go as they please
We'll see how it goes

Elizabeth
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: aspin on Tuesday 11 March 08 20:29 GMT (UK)
How sad
But it was nice for them to make their 59th

Ours is August so I was thinking of having an open day so that family ,friends and guest can come and go as they please
We'll see how it goes

Elizabeth

sorry hit the wrong button 50th
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Emmeline on Wednesday 12 March 08 01:51 GMT (UK)
Hello Everyone

Not sure if I have sent this before.

My ma and pa on their wedding day in London - December 19th 1936 - a week after the Abdication.

Bridesmaid at back is my mother's sister.

My pa died three days after their 40th wedding anniversary.
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: perth tiger on Wednesday 12 March 08 08:19 GMT (UK)
dont know if iv put this on before but here goes
my gran is on the right with the blurred face, my ggran is stood behind her holding my g uncle john. all the rest are my ggrans siblings their wives and children. taken 1910
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: aspin on Thursday 13 March 08 00:10 GMT (UK)
Thats a lovely photo to have

Elizabeth
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: Suziesmith37 on Thursday 13 March 08 01:21 GMT (UK)
Calling PaulaToo Page 21 - Time for No 6!

Su
Title: Re: Our Ancestors #5
Post by: PaulaToo on Thursday 13 March 08 10:35 GMT (UK)
Continued at
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=291994.new
Let's see some more lovely photos...