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Title: The names on the back of this photo - Help please
Post by: Teletran on Thursday 27 October 22 22:23 BST (UK)
Good evening, I wonder if these words could be deciphered?  I've got most of it:  47 Oxford Avenue: ???: Albert & Gladys (?) myself and ????.  Photo of near relations of my Paternal Great Grandfather.  Any help would be very much appreciated.
Stephen

Title: Re: The names on the back of this photo - Help please
Post by: Treetotal on Thursday 27 October 22 22:34 BST (UK)
It look like Dorrie, maybe it should be for Doris.
Carol
Title: Re: The names on the back of this photo - Help please
Post by: Teletran on Thursday 27 October 22 22:50 BST (UK)
Thanks, interesting, Dorothy was my paternal grandmother, the lady of left I suspect is a sister, would you have any thoughts on the word starting with 'P'?  Thanks again.
Title: Re: The names on the back of this photo - Help please
Post by: Treetotal on Thursday 27 October 22 22:52 BST (UK)
Not sure but it looks Pris ? I thought it said Paris at first, but it looks like a person's name.
Carol
Title: Re: The names on the back of this photo - Help please
Post by: wivenhoe on Thursday 27 October 22 22:55 BST (UK)

There are five people so you might expect five names?

...Priss.....Albert......Gladys......mysef....Dorrie.

And Priss might be....Priscilla?

Anything like these names in the family?

(unless, of course, the dog got a mention)
Title: Re: The names on the back of this photo - Help please
Post by: Gadget on Thursday 27 October 22 22:55 BST (UK)
It does look like Pris/Priss. I've seen if used as a pet name for Priscilla
Title: Re: The names on the back of this photo - Help please
Post by: Treetotal on Thursday 27 October 22 22:57 BST (UK)
Quote from: Gadget on Thursday 27 October 22 22:55 BST (UK)
It does look like Pris/Priss. I've seen if used as a pet name for Priscilla

Yes that's what I thought, I have it before.
Carol
Title: Re: The names on the back of this photo - Help please
Post by: Teletran on Thursday 27 October 22 23:06 BST (UK)
ok, the plot thickens :).  If I assume the child held on the right as you look at the photo is Dorrie b.1907, my Great Grandmother is likely holding her, Fanny Matilda Emerton and she does have a sister by the name of Margaret Pricilla Emerton so that sounds about right save they tended not to live in Wimbledon (Oxford Avenue) and I've not located an Albert yet, assume the child on the left is Gladys.
Title: Re: The names on the back of this photo - Help please
Post by: Wiggy on Thursday 27 October 22 23:43 BST (UK)
"Taken to remember their visit to Wimbledon"?   ;)

I agree with Priss (Priscilla)


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unless, of course, the dog got a mention
 

Should have - obviously a member of the/a family!   ;)
Title: Re: The names on the back of this photo - Help please
Post by: sparrett on Friday 28 October 22 05:47 BST (UK)
Well maybe this-

Marriages Sep 1905
   
EMERTON    Fanny Matilda       
TURNER Thomas William       
Westminster
1a/1200      
 
Birth-
TURNER, DOROTHY  FRANCES.  MSS    EMERTON 
GRO  YearD Quarter
WANDSWORTH
Volume 01D  Page 569

And
Marriages Sep 1905   
Albert COOPER       
Margaret EMERTON
Leighton B.
3b/807
 
Birth
COOPER, GLADYS  MARGARET.  MSS   EMERTON 
Year 1906
J Quarter   
LUTON
Volume 03B  Page 414

Sue

Title: Re: The names on the back of this photo - Help please
Post by: Kinsy on Friday 28 October 22 19:20 BST (UK)
Quote from: Treetotal on Thursday 27 October 22 22:34 BST (UK)
It look like Dorrie, maybe it should be for Doris.
Carol
Could also perhaps be Dorice
Title: Re: The names on the back of this photo - Help please
Post by: Teletran on Friday 28 October 22 22:07 BST (UK)
Many thanks for spotting the marriage of Priscilla to Albert, yes that all fits together, nice to put some context around the old photo. :)