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Title: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: pmgreen314 on Monday 30 March 15 21:46 BST (UK)
Please provide date of the attached photo if you are able. Thank you!
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: Treetotal on Monday 30 March 15 22:55 BST (UK)
Hi.....the eaters will want to see the back if you have it as it helps with dating.
Carol
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: cazza59 on Monday 30 March 15 23:58 BST (UK)
Are you calling Jim and China some kind of alien…"the eaters" or just hungry people?   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: Treetotal on Tuesday 31 March 15 00:05 BST (UK)
Ooops...... ;D ;D ;D....daters as well.
Carol
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: pmgreen314 on Tuesday 31 March 15 00:16 BST (UK)
The photo is glued to their card stock which has nothing on the back.  It is a dark green in colour.
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: cazza59 on Tuesday 31 March 15 14:22 BST (UK)
The dating people haven't seen this yet as it's slipped down the board, so bumping it up.

I think dark green card signifies 1880s. 

Caz
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: cazza59 on Tuesday 31 March 15 14:29 BST (UK)
PS That cello tape will eventually start to deteriorate and damage the photo.    :(  I don't suggest you remove it for fear of tearing the image, but it's a shame it was used.

Caz
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: Regorian on Tuesday 31 March 15 14:56 BST (UK)
Have to wait for the experts, but Landport is Portsmouth and photographer operated from that address 1899 to 1911.
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: jim1 on Tuesday 31 March 15 15:09 BST (UK)
1870's & probably mid-late decade making this a reprint.
Back to the nosebag.
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: Regorian on Tuesday 31 March 15 16:57 BST (UK)
That explains my nagging doubt. Apparently that area was pretty well flattened by the Luftwaffe in 1940 although Charles Dickens birthplace is still standing. Also the family name Rideout is still present in the area. 
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: jim1 on Tuesday 31 March 15 17:29 BST (UK)
She looks late teens - early 20's so perhaps the mother of someone who was in Portsmouth 1900 - 1910ish.
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: Regorian on Tuesday 31 March 15 18:07 BST (UK)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~janp/index_files/burbidget.htm

I don't really follow this family website, but this could be her. Caroline Rideout b. 1846 Wimborne, Dorset. Married 30Nov1872 at Wimborne. Who to, I can't see, but presumably a Burbidge.
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: chinakay on Tuesday 31 March 15 22:06 BST (UK)
Sorry I'm late...stopped for a snack ;D

Agree with Jim, 1870s on a later backing so a reprint. Photo has a grainy quality not commonly seen but for a reprint without a negative it's not bad.

All photos of this era are glued to a cardboard back because the printing-out paper was very thin and couldn't stand on its own. The shiny green card usually had no printing on the back.

Cheers,
China
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: pmgreen314 on Tuesday 31 March 15 22:56 BST (UK)
Thank you for your help but I admit I am a little confused. I'm fairly new to RootsChat.  Are you saying the photo was printed in 1870s but is a reprint of an earlier dated photo or rather it is an 1870s photo where more than one copy was made?  Pat
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: cazza59 on Tuesday 31 March 15 23:31 BST (UK)
Hi Pat

I think Jim and China are saying that the original photo was taken sometime between 1875 - 1879 (based on her clothing/hair etc).  However, the green card that your photo is attached to wasn't available until later, making your photo a reprint of the original.

My family are from Dorset and knew some of the Ridout clan, I think there might even be a distant marriage  or two somewhere along the line!  :)

Caroline
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: cazza59 on Wednesday 01 April 15 00:34 BST (UK)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~janp/index_files/burbidget.htm

I don't really follow this family website, but this could be her. Caroline Rideout b. 1846 Wimborne, Dorset. Married 30Nov1872 at Wimborne. Who to, I can't see, but presumably a Burbidge.

From that site she married William Burbidge.  There are two relatives of mine on that link!  :)

Caz
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: pmgreen314 on Wednesday 01 April 15 01:01 BST (UK)
Thank you for the clarification, Caroline!  My Caroline Louisa Rideout (my ggggrandmother) was from Sturminster Newton, Dorset and married Frederick John Dainton on 27 Apr 1880.
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: cazza59 on Wednesday 01 April 15 01:11 BST (UK)
My Uncle was born in Sturminster Newton and my mother in Okeford Fitzpaine!  ;D ;D  They grew up with the Rideouts and Rose families of the area in the 1930s.  From what they tell me, quite an idyllic childhood!  :) :)

Every few years I get to return to the UK and we always visit Okeford Fitzpaine and the area, and it's like time has stood still (except for the cars of course).  I hope the next time I'm there, I can say the same thing.  :)

Caz
Title: Re: Dating photo Caroline Rideout
Post by: pmgreen314 on Wednesday 08 April 15 03:39 BST (UK)
Caz, the Roses show up predominately in my family.  My ggaunt, Jane Rideout Wareham married John Rose (both born SN) and Ellen, one of the Dainton sisters (Caroline Rideout's sister-in-law), married a Rose but he was from Sussex. Eventually that line ended up in Saskatchewan, Canada. There are so many branches of these families it took me while to sort them all out. Thanks, again, for your input.