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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: kerryb on Tuesday 11 November 25 14:20 GMT (UK)
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Hi
In the middle of moving my dad into an annex at my brother's house and I keep being given piles of photos. I am going to buy a scanner but for now this is a photo with my phone so not very clean etc.
Anyway a mystery wedding and I would like to know when it was if possible. I think I have identified the lady 3rd from the right. Do you think she is the same lady as in the second photo?
The tall gentleman on her left is screaming out to me that I have seen him before but I have no idea who he was. LOL Need to go through my other likely photos.
Thank you for any help with this one.
Kerry
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I think it could be the same person.
If not, they have the same taste in hats!
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I think it the same hat in both pictures. About 1940?
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She is wearing the same hat in both photos - so yes, the same person.
In the wedding photo, she is wearing gloves and has her arm linked into the brides elbow, suggesting that they are related somehow - mother or mother-in-law? She is also wearing a flower corsage indicating a prominent position in the wedding party.
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I think the whole out fit could be the same in both pictures. So perhaps if you can identify the building you might get a location for the wedding.
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Thank you all for your thoughts, I didn’t mention that I thought it was the same hat because I was hoping it was so that is excellent. The woman was known to my dad as Granny Smith but was in fact his Great aunt who brought up my granny.
If it is around 1940 then by that time she was a widow, her husband died in 1935. She didn’t have any children but she fostered at least 3 children, 2 on a long term, my granny and a young man Leonard Fears who died in Italy in 1944. I need to find out when he married and something about his wife, who I think was called Irene.
Silly question but is there a usual line up to where people stand for wedding photos? Ie bride’s parents on a particular side?
Kerry
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I think the whole out fit could be the same in both pictures. So perhaps if you can identify the building you might get a location for the wedding.
Good point, I’ll check out where the marriage I think it might be took place
Thank you
Kerry
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LEONARD FRANK Fears
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Sussex Regiment
1st Bn.
Date of Death
Died 26 September 1944
Age 26 years old
Buried or commemorated at
CORIANO RIDGE WAR CEMETERY
XVII, B, 6.
Son of Emma Grace Fears; husband of Iris Alice Fears, of Hailsham, Sussex.
Personal Inscription
THIS IS SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOREVER ENGLAND
FreeBMD has Marriage Reg Sept 1941, IRIS A TURNER his spouse
Trish :)
EDIT
Cant see any children to them and Iris may have never remarried.
Deaths Sep 1969
FEARS Iris 27Je1917 Eastbourne 5h 728
Emma Grace Fears died 1975 Death Reg in Norfolk
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1939 suggests she remarried HARVEY in 1954, NOH. I haven’t got around to checking NOH but I suspect it is Norwich.
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Thanks Trish and mckha489
I've got all the information about his war record, he served alongside my grandad in Italy who came home after the war. But I don't have the information about Iris, although I believe there was a child. Need to pull out my notes as sparse as they are.
Kerry