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Title: Can anyone please help date this wedding photo? Possibly the Gates Family?
Post by: Rokkonz on Tuesday 13 February 18 12:48 GMT (UK)
Hi,

Can anybody please offer me possible dates for this photo? I believe that it could possibly be my 3x great grandparents who were married in 1853 in Brighton, Sussex, England.

If the photo seems like it is from 1870 or later a secondary location could be Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Any help would be much appreciated,

Richard
Title: Re: Can anyone please help date this wedding photo? Possibly the Gates Family?
Post by: McGroger on Thursday 15 February 18 07:12 GMT (UK)
Hi, Richard,
Bringing your photo up the board might attract the attention of the dating experts.
In my not-so-expert opinion I think it is a much later picture, possibly 1907-1912 or something like that... but I've been known to be seriously wrong, so hopefully an expert will come along soon.
Meanwhile I've given your picture a tidy.
Peter
Title: Re: Can anyone please help date this wedding photo? Possibly the Gates Family?
Post by: Wiggy on Thursday 15 February 18 07:20 GMT (UK)
Definitely not 1853, and almost as definitely not 1870s.

  More recent is my guess . . . . .think Peter could be closer to the date.

Start looking for new contenders.    :)

Wiggy.    :)

Title: Re: Can anyone please help date this wedding photo? Possibly the Gates Family?
Post by: matthewj64 on Thursday 15 February 18 08:19 GMT (UK)
uneducated guess of circa 1900  :)
Title: Re: Can anyone please help date this wedding photo? Possibly the Gates Family?
Post by: Pelican on Thursday 15 February 18 08:29 GMT (UK)
No expert - my immediate impression was Edwardian. What a beautiful dress,
Title: Re: Can anyone please help date this wedding photo? Possibly the Gates Family?
Post by: Gadget on Thursday 15 February 18 08:48 GMT (UK)
mid 1900s - say 1903-1906

Gadget
Title: Re: Can anyone please help date this wedding photo? Possibly the Gates Family?
Post by: jim1 on Thursday 15 February 18 12:27 GMT (UK)
With Gadget on this one.
Title: Re: Can anyone please help date this wedding photo? Possibly the Gates Family?
Post by: Pelican on Thursday 15 February 18 23:25 GMT (UK)
The collar of the bride's dress is very Queen Mary style, but this is before she was Queen.
Title: Re: Can anyone please help date this wedding photo? Possibly the Gates Family?
Post by: Treetotal on Thursday 15 February 18 23:28 GMT (UK)
Quote from: jim1 on Thursday 15 February 18 12:27 GMT (UK)
With Gadget on this one.

Me too.
Carol
Title: Re: Can anyone please help date this wedding photo? Possibly the Gates Family?
Post by: Pelican on Thursday 15 February 18 23:46 GMT (UK)
The collar of the bride's beautiful dress looks very Queen Mary,
Title: Re: Can anyone please help date this wedding photo? Possibly the Gates Family?
Post by: Rokkonz on Friday 16 February 18 03:27 GMT (UK)
Thanks very much to everyone for their input, especially to McGroger for the post bump & photo restoration! I was quite surprised that it was a unanimous decision but am pleased that I won't be left wondering whether it was my 3x great grandparents. A relative has about 9kg worth of photos to go through & scan so I may be back at some stage (sorry).

Cheers, Richard
Title: Re: Can anyone please help date this wedding photo? Possibly the Gates Family?
Post by: Thornwood on Friday 16 February 18 12:35 GMT (UK)
I agree, 1907 ish.  No hat or headdress makes me think that it could be in New Zealand rather than UK. This could fit with your second theory.