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Hello Ghislain,

Thank you for the additional information.

I am confident that my great great grandfather William Whitman was the son of John and Adele.  His death record indicates his parents as John Whitman and Adele Maynard, and he also appears in their family on the 1871 and 1881 Saint-Hugues census.

I have confirmed that John, Thomas, and Hugh were from the Norwell and Carlton on Trent family that I mentioned a few posts ago.  The book Seeking a Better Future: The English Pioneers of Ontario and Quebec, cites a parish record indicating this:

NTRO PR7347: Carlton-on-Trent Parish records.  The emigrants included Mary Weightman and her four children (John, Thomas, Hugh, and Ann) and three grandchildren (John's children); Jonathan Selby and his wife and six children; Thomas Marrot and family; and John Batterby and family.

I also acquired a copy of the will of John Weightman (the father of John, Thomas, and Hugh).  It seems he died around April, 1828, and left everything to his wife Mary.

Here are two cabinet cards that I recently purchased.  The man is my 1st cousin 5 times removed.  The woman is only labelled as his wife.  He was married twice, first to another 1st cousin 5 times removed of mine.  She died in 1889 and he remarried another woman in 1892.  I was hoping that somebody might be able to tell me if this would be his first wife or second.  The cards have plain dark backs and gold colored trim around the slightly beveled edges, which should be visible in the scans.

Thanks in advance!

Ooh - lot's of responses.  Thanks everyone!

As far as the eye spacing is concerned, I still think it may be the same woman, and they just look closer together due to parallax.  I did some measurements on the photographs, and if they are the same person, for the eyes to look that close, the head would have to rotated about 30 degrees with respect to the straight-on photograph.  I think this could be true for the unknown photo.

This rotation could also account for the slightly different jaw line and cheek shape, since it's fairly difficult to get an impression of the 3-dimensional facial structure from only the straight-on photo.  I also measured the ratio of the vertical distance between the eyes and nose and eyes and mouth, and it was essentially identical for the two photos - 0.6, though I'm not sure how much this varies between different people.

The woman actually died in September, 1886, the same year the photo was taken, at the age of 51.  She was not Amish as far as I know.  Being farmers in rural Vermont, I doubt they had much need or means to own very fancy clothes.

If the photo was cropped by the scanner, it only cut off a few pixels.  I think the photo itself might have been cut to fit in the album.  I do have another photo that would appear to be contemporary which was not cut down as much, which I'll post here.  I actually was curious about whether this is the same woman as another photo I have too.  I can post it here, or start another thread for it.

I think the photographs are fine the way they are - I usually prefer them as close to the original as possible, unless there is serious damage.  If anybody wants to use them for practice, feel free though.

The more I look at them, the more I think they are the same person as well.  Certain asymmetries in the face stand out, especially the mouth and philtrum (I had to look that one up - it's the dip under the nose)

Thanks for the date.  I will see what others think too.  Do you think it is safe to assume that these are husband and wife?

I'm looking for a date for these two CDV's, which evidently were taken together.  I do not have a scan of the backs, but if I recall correctly, they were fairly plain, indicating they were taken at Aldrich's in Barnet, VT.  Picasa suggested that the woman is my great great great grandmother.  I would like to know what everyone else thinks, so I will post the photo I have that I know to be her.

Thanks in advance.