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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: pauashell on Wednesday 23 November 11 19:51 GMT (UK)
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Hi, I have a wedding photo from 1903 that has the parents of the bride standing beside her which I will post. A photo turned up out of the blue on the cover of the NZSG magazine that shows a distinct likeness to the parents, but I've contacted the family who passed a copy onto me and they can't find a connection and don't see any similarities ..... ? [Many thanks mare for all of your help!]
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I hope I'm not jumping in too quickly, but from what I can see, I think they're a good match ! Would it be possible for you to post a larger version of the family wedding image, please ?
Pels.
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Looks like the same couple and even the same day and location - the trees and their clothing are identical!
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As the photo is just a photocopy it may not be too clear enlarged?
I've had a go and found a way to do it though :)
Hmmm that didn't seem to work .... maybe it's too big now ???
Will have another go ............
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Thank you both for your comments as I totally agree that it is the same couple, the same clothes and yes even the same day!!!! Just have to convince the family that has the photo. This couple are my Scottish ancestors who settled in New Zealand in 1864 so it's very exciting to see another photo of them!
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I'd agree that they're the same couple: even his watch chain and fob match...
Lucky you!
Cati
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Lucky you indeed - I'd say they are the same also
- odd that the people concerned can't see the similarity really! Even his 'buttonhole' is the same.
I wonder what the white bits under her arms are in the second picture? :-\
Wiggy :)
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Absolutely the same people
Rachel
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Brilliant - thank you Rachel-2 !!
Yes I agree that the buttonhole is a certainty match too!
Those white things on the bodice look like tassles to me.....?
I forgot to mention that the original photo of the couple has written on the back "From Grannie"
Now, as this couple were my Grandmother's Grandparents - this was her Grannie too!
How strange that there is no immediate connection to be found ???
Though I'm jumping out of my skin here waiting to hear from the family historian who is an extended member of the couple photo owner.
Also I have to say how the chance of probability is always on the side of family history seekers! It was only by chance that I came across the couple photo..... which was printed onto the cover of the New Zealand Society of Genealogist magazine a year ago. Yes I was at the local Library and yes I had a few spare minutes to fill .... hmmm I will catch up on the NZSG mags..... Blimey look at that photo!!!! I couldn't wait to see the article about those two ... but only found a caption for the photo asking for help to identify them and giving contact details...... I was bursting to tell them who was in the photo and rushed home and contacted them .......and here we are : )
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I think the "tassles" are actually the back of the chair showing between her (tightly corsetted) waist and her arms...
What an exciting story! I'd be so chuffed to find a photo like this on the cover of a mag ;D
Maybe the family of the person who posted it was friends with your family, so there might not be an obvious connection between the two?
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Yes they could well have been friends too I guess ..... BUT the owner of the photo has the same surname as the bride and groom in the first photo, so really there should be a connection! By chance I was given a report written by the local paper about that wedding and it's very detailed and I've passed on the names of the five ..... yes 5 ... groomsmen to the photo owner hoping this may help.
The couple in the 2nd photo are the reason why I started my family history journey. I grew up constantly seeing a large photo of them on my Grandmother's wall and all I ever knew about them was that they were Mother and Father and their surname was McIntyre they lived at Pokeno and they came from Scotland. It wasn't until the year 2000 that my Aunt showed me a funeral card for Elizabeth McIntyre that I even had a name! That was all I needed to get me started ...... I later found that my Grandmother was born out of wedlock, so these two would have brought her up as their own! How strange that the large photo disappeared when my Grandmother passed away and each member of the family thought that one of the other members had it ? How fantastic that one connection I made sent me a copy of that very same photo! It's been a wonderful journey thanks to those two. I have enjoyed every minute of it .... even the stuff that knocked our socks off!!
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A wonderful story all round pauashell! And I also agree that they are the same couple. :)
When I saw the title of this post, I was prepared to say they were different people. There are regularly similar queries trying to confirm if people in photos are one and the same, and it is quite rare that they are identifiable as such.
What I don't understand is that the owner of the other photo doesn't see any similarities ... :-\ I can understand if they cannot find a connection, but they're obviously the same couple and as others have said, the photo looks to be taken on exactly the same occassion.
In addition to the similarities already pointed out by others, there is the man's distinctive hat - on head in wedding party photo - on knee in photo of couple ...
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As expected ;) we have agreement .... and sharing in your exciting find as well, wonderful!
Now to get family to join all the dots/wots, work out what Watt's what with the grannie bit! Also find it strange that there wasn't an immediate connection found with the owner sharing the name. Hopefully the family historian will come up trumps soon!
I'm thinking your g'mother's cousin, if Sam had a bro. with children :-\ and photo could have been gifted after the wedding but while grannie still about maybe.
... and agree with Prue, Elizabeth with trim waist, back of chair showing.
?? 5 bridegrooms ...
:) mare
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five ..... yes 5 ... bridegrooms
Groomsmen, perhaps ;) ;D
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Yes, more than likely ;D ... there are 5 young ladies besides the bride with bouquets.
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Oops yes indeed I meant to put groomsmen !
I've edited it now ..... thanks for pointing that out ;)
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I think the "tassles" are actually the back of the chair showing between her (tightly corsetted) waist and her arms...
Not totally convinced it is the chair back showing :-\ .... it's puzzling
The 2 sets of blobs are mirror images of each other
Rachel
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No, it certainly doesn't look like chair back there Rachel :D .... perhaps she can't get her spare hankies up her sleeve ;D
It must be part of decoration on the waistband ... accentuates the little waist, that's for sure!
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Those white blobs aren't in the full wedding photo!
Maybe that's why Prue thinks they are from the chair as she is obviously sitting for this photo but look like she is standing for the other one-. very odd though aren't they - :-\
Wiggy
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:o Oooooo
Look carefully at the area behind her. Is she wearing wings ??????
I'm only joking but the shapes either side do look a bit like wings.
In the first pic I think she's holding a walking stick.
Rachel
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The 'white blobs' look like they attach to, or tie around, the waist ... they're not part of her headress are they? The texture and colour look similar to what's on her head ...
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a try
sylvia
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Same (I think)
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I think the "tassles" are actually the back of the chair showing between her (tightly corsetted) waist and her arms...
Not totally convinced it is the chair back showing :-\ .... it's puzzling
The 2 sets of blobs are mirror images of each other
Rachel
I think the chair is a garden chair and that the white blobs maybe a small cushion behing the lady's back possibly so she would be upright rather than leaning back into the chair. If it is a cushion the cover could be one of those with frills round the edge it could account for the shape of them.
Jean
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The 'white blobs' look like they attach to, or tie around, the waist ... they're not part of her headress are they? The texture and colour look similar to what's on her head ...
So what is on her head? It looks like a lacy soft fabric ......?
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The thing on her head is a lacy bonnet arrangement, I can't remember their exact name but they're pretty common - probably more so in earlier times, but on an older lady at this date, not unheard of.
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Most of the other photos of the lady in question have a feather headress, but she is younger too.....
I'm very fond of this as it is one half of the photo that I grew up with ... can't post the both of them as it's too big . . .
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a try
sylvia