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Title: Belfast photo
Post by: Wardio on Tuesday 26 March 13 20:30 GMT (UK)
Grateful for any ideas as to date of the attached photo which was taken by Abernethy Studios, Belfast. It's on quite heavy card with gilt finish to the outer edges. The border, which also contains the Abernethy blurb is in green.
Title: Re: Belfast photo
Post by: aghadowey on Tuesday 26 March 13 22:04 GMT (UK)
Similar mount?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2244/2305741609_7a1dc9062e.jpg

This might be more helpful in identifying the mount-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37053660@N02/sets/72157623303002721/detail/
Title: Re: Belfast photo
Post by: Wardio on Tuesday 26 March 13 23:56 GMT (UK)
Yes, thanks, that's just the same mount as mine!
Title: Re: Belfast photo
Post by: aghadowey on Wednesday 27 March 13 00:07 GMT (UK)
Royal appointment seal helps a bit for date. If you look on Antrim Resources board there are links to directories that might help see when the studios were in Belfast & Bangor (think one also in Newry at some point)
Title: Re: Belfast photo
Post by: Wardio on Wednesday 27 March 13 00:55 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that too!
Title: Re: Belfast photo
Post by: jim1 on Wednesday 27 March 13 10:56 GMT (UK)
1908-12

jim
Title: Re: Belfast photo
Post by: Wardio on Wednesday 27 March 13 15:38 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that Jim. It gives me something to work on. Just one of many lovely old photos I have with no date or name on the back!
Title: Re: Belfast photo
Post by: Treetotal on Wednesday 27 March 13 16:11 GMT (UK)
What a lovely photo...I hope you identify who they are.
Carol
Title: Re: Belfast photo
Post by: cazza59 on Wednesday 27 March 13 16:29 GMT (UK)
It is a beautiful photo and I couldn't resist running the duster over it!  :P :P :P

Caroline
Title: Re: Belfast photo
Post by: Wardio on Wednesday 27 March 13 17:01 GMT (UK)
Thanks Carol and Caroline. I'm starting to believe that they are Maxwell Drennan b: 1877 and his wife Sarah Jane McAlistair m: 30 Aug 1901 Antrim, with their son William Alexander Drennan b: 1903. They emigrated to California in 1907. The boy shows in two other photos; in a group with mother and three sisters, with the right family mix and ages, and one in a badly trimmed down picture, on his own, aged about six, on the back of which is written: To Mrs Minnie ........ From Wm A........, the dots showing the missing parts. The only Minnie in the wider Drennan family of this time was a Minnie Pearl Kaulbach, married to Maxwell's brother who had emigrated to Nova Scotia! Whilst I'm tempted to say "elementary my dear Watson" I'm wondering why my Drennan grandfather would have had this last photo in his possession.

Ward
Title: Re: Belfast photo
Post by: cazza59 on Wednesday 27 March 13 17:05 GMT (UK)
Couldn't resist playing a bit more.

I'm a little bit confused as to where everyone fits in.  What connection was your Drennan Grandfather to Maxwell D and his family?

Caroline
Title: Re: Belfast photo
Post by: Wardio on Wednesday 27 March 13 17:32 GMT (UK)
My grandfather was first cousin to Maxwell D and Thomas Alexander D. You could say that I have spent too much time on the wider family, but it has allowed me to personally contact living descendants in both Pennsylvania, USA (Grandfather's brother's line) and Nova Scotia, Canada, and in doing so, pass on a considerable amount of family history.