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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Aberdeenshire => Topic started by: leanora on Wednesday 18 August 10 18:40 BST (UK)
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This family picture looks like a wedding to me . I can pick out my gandparents and im 99% sure that the 2 elderly people siting are my great grandmother with my great grandfather but not 100% sure about him.
anyone like to take a guess at who got married ? we cause i cant see anyone who looks like the bride but ???
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here's another which to me looks like the other end of the hall ? taken on same day.
if anyone recognised anyone please can you let me know thanks
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Hi Leonora
Just a suggestion - but instead of a wedding could it be a celebration of something like a confirmation/first communion to a church? The three young girls are all wearing lovely dresses and look as though they're about the right age and as you say, there's no obvious bride or groom.
Just a thought!
Lynn
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My thoughts as well. Reminded me of photos of my sisters.
Regards, Steve
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The hall is decorated with bunting and union flags. One of the girls is wearing a tiara but the other two are not. Could it be a 1953 coronation party with a 'Queen' as in a May Queen celebration, with the other two being her maids of honour - or whatever they would have been called?
Jen
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my grandfather was Thomas Kelly married to Williamina ( called Mina by my grandfather nee Barclay) great granmothers name on my mother birth cert was Jessie Cassie but according to my grandparent marriage cert her father was James Barclay not sure how grandmother became Cassie.
When my parent married my grandparents address was D1 Prison Quarters Peterhead ( much to my mothers embarrassment ).
But my granfather was not a prison warder he worked for the Admiralty and was working with the divers building the breakwater in Peterhead with his son Tommy Kelly who was a diver.
My grandmothers family originate from Peterhead but my grand fathers family came from Banff Larks.
I though it was a wedding due to the flower some are wearing.
But thinking about it I wonder if this was taken in the prison warders club attached to the prison in Peterhead ? I vaguely remember the bar there but not sure if they had a function room
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Tomas kelly working with divers on breakwater Perterhead hes the one in the middle of the 2 divers
and just for a little bit of extra about Peterhead . My father was one of the Royal Engineers who clear all the mines from the beaches there after the 2nd world war :) so when you walk on the beach at Peterhead remeber my father helped make the beaches safe there :)
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I could be wrong but perhaps it's a golden wedding celebration, especially as the elderly couple are in the centre of the photograph.
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The hall is decorated with bunting and union flags. One of the girls is wearing a tiara but the other two are not. Could it be a 1953 coronation party with a Queen as in a May Queen celebration, with the other two being her maids of honour - or whatever they would have been called?
Jen
OK that sounds interesting because i have 3 female cousins who are between 7 and 10 years older than me , all sister . I was born in 1954 so does anyone have any idea of the ages of the 3 youngest girls ? please
my grandparnet didnt marry early my grandfather was 35 and gandmother 29 when they married in 1913
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OK that sounds interesting because i have 3 female cousins who are between 7 and 10 years older than me , all sister . I was born in 1954 so does anyone have any idea of the ages of the 3 youngest girls ? please
I should say they look about the right ages to fit with your cousins. But would they not be able to answer the question for you? Are you in touch with them?
Jen :)
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yes I am the youngest is due down for a visit very soon so will show her the picture and see if she remembers anything if not she can take a copy back up to her sister in Glasgow
thank you
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Good luck - I hope she can help you. It's always worth 'grilling' other members of the family, especially those who are older than you. You never know what they might remember.
Jen :D
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Strange thing is its me who appears to know more than them, possible due to the fact my grandparents came to live with us in Chester after I started school as my mother could not longer travel and stay for 3months at a time in Peterhead looking after gran as she was bedriden.
So I spent the most time with my grandparent as a child and resently was able to prove some of the storied Grandfather told me about his life because I was given a lot of family papers photos when my uncle Tommy Kelly died by his abopted daughter . She was so kind and wanted the family history to go back to the blood family :) one story beign about my grandfather pet monkey he brought back from one of his tours in the army or merchant navy overseas. the 3 older cousins didn't know about the monkey but now I have a photograph to prove it was real and not just a story i was told ;D
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here's another which to me looks like the other end of the hall ? taken on same day.
if anyone recognised anyone please can you let me know thanks
I think that both photographs were taken from exactly the same point.
It looks an awful lot like a wedding anniversary photo to me. People generally didn't celebrate Ruby Weddings in that manner, but I suppose its not impossible. The decorations might be a red herring - they may have been put up for another event (in this case the Coronation).
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I have just had an email from my cousin ans she has a copy of one of the photos as well but stamped on the back of hers she says it was a photographer from Edinburgh
so after both looking at it we have agreed the couple in front sitting down are
Great Aunt Martha daze and her husband and possible their children and grand children
and her brother Tom Kelly my grandfather
thank you all for your help
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Did they get married in 1903 by any chance? :)
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Matha Daze nee kelly was in born1888 in Lanarkshire. and was living in Edinbourgh in the 1960- 1970 possible a lot longer she died at the ripe old age of 102 so I have been told ( a rootschat moderater found when she died for me
but i know nothing about her marriage date sorry her husband was John daze
They did have children
son named Jackie Daze
daughters Louise or louisa and Bet (which I think may be short for Elizabeth, as Elizabeth is a name that keeps appearing in the kelly family)