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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: pickle168 on Thursday 27 May 21 17:53 BST (UK)
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Wedding between John C Owens and A.J.Jones Twrcelyn Chapel Bangor 1900 would there have been photos?
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Presumably this is the marriage that you are referring to?
Marriages Sep 1900
Jones Anne Jane Bangor 11b 711
Owens John Christmas Bangor 11b 711
I wonder if John was born at Christmas time or if that is his mother's maiden name?
Have you tried looking in Welsh newspapers to see if there is anything there?
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Few people had photographers at the wedding, it's a modern custom; nor would guests have had cameras; more likely to have had studio photos taken around the time.
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If there was a wedding photo if wouldn't necessarily be a tradition wedding photo, maybe a studio photo taken in their best clothes. My Grandparets had their photo taking when they married in 1904 and they just wore their good outfit, I wouldn't have known that it was a wedding photo if it wasn't written on the back. My Grandma is wearing a light coloured blouse and dark skirt with a frill round the bottom and a light coloured hat with a brim and Grandad is wearing a thre piece suit. The earliest family photo of a wedding that I have with the bride wearing a wedding dress is 1922.
Carol
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I have a group photo with bride, groom, parents, bridesmaids etc taken outside in what is a 'wide passage' between terraced houses in a town in 1906. They were not wealthy so not impossible to find a photo at that time.
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I also have a wedding photo taken with the bride in a wedding dress and all the family including bridesmaids, but taken in front of two houses, 1924. My great grandparents just have a studio photo taken in 1892.
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If they were anything like my family - not very affluent - there might be a photo of the wedding party at the bottom of the garden in front of the shed.
And then you would need to know a member of the family who thought to keep it, to find a copy. ;)