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Hello Katy

That woud be a good idea, I think the problem is that they are to big (an d I do't know how to make them smaller!), but I know I can email them at this size.

Re Mary Huntigfords posts, the Alfred Isaac that she mentions is without doubt my great grandfather. Both he & his son Stanley were Blacksmiths in the Hunstanton area. So Owen & Lydia were my, and Marys, great great grandparents. might that be the same for you?

All for the moment
Dave

Hello Katy
I think you left 'sense of humour' off of your list!
I've sent a couple of photo's, the ones I mentioned before. Apologies for the flash but I can't find the decent copy that I made by taking the print oput of the frame. Standing L-R are Stanley Walker Jones, Alfred Isaace Jones, Annie Jones (Nee Walker), I don't know who the young man is at the right. Seated L-R is Gracie Hannah Jones (my Grandmother), not sure who is next but could be Lillian Newstead, a long tome friend of Gracie, Again not sure of the elderly lady but couod be Annies Mother (going on facial features) and not sure who the young lady is at the right. I belive this is taken at Park Road in Hunstanton, in about 1905 (ish).
The second picture is I am sure taken at Holloway Road, either Gracies home at 503 or the Holloway Pleating Co works at 491 (I suspect the former). I can only identify two people in this and they are Gracie (seated and looking at the camera) and my Dad, Keneth. I would guess this is around the late 1920's as Dad was born in 1916. It woud be wonderful if someone could identify the other three women. Note hanging on the wall is the the first picture!
In one of the previous posts mention was made of Annie Jones being Annie Mason(?) before she married. Mr Edmunds of Hunstanton suggests that it was Walker, which I would go along with as Stanleys middle name was Walker.
I've no family tree, either written on a large sheet of paper or computor prog form. I really only stumbled across this site by Googling Alfred Isaac etc and found 'my family history' ready written for me. I would though like to go to Hunstanton to see the various addresses there.
I'll have to close now but hope this is of some interest or use to you.
Regards
Dave

Hello Katy
2nd try!
I will admit to being very new to family history, I did look up the 1901 census for Hunstanton and found the family that I knew or had heard of. More on that later.
Various myths & legends that I have heard are that it was thought there were Welsh roots, but no more info than that. The existence of a Welsh bible said to have been handed down was the only thing to give that substance. (I managed to find it yesterday, sadly no names have been written in to give any clues as to past ownership). It was also said that my gg made the ornamental gates at Sandringham, but I rather doubted that.
I knew that there was a very strong Hunstanton link, and the name Sedgeford was familiar too.
On the 1901 census it lists my gg, Alfred Isaac, and his son, Stanley Walker, as blacksmiths. This was a revelation to me as I had never heard that before, maybe because I had never asked. However, it suddenly made the gates story a bit more plausible.
So, Alfred Isaac and his wife Annie (probably Walker) were my great grandparents. They had 2 children, Gracie Hannah (b1879, d10/2/56) and Stanley Walker (b c1886, d c1970).
Neither Gracie nor Stanley ever married, to the very best of my knowledge. However, Gracie had my Dad, Kenneth Hope Jones, (in Bournemouth) on 30/11/1916. He was bought up by Stanley, his uncle, only finding out who was who after the war when he had to get a birth cert for a job with the Post Office. Dad married Gladys Cuttriss on 8/2/47 and I was born on 16/6/48.
I don’t know when the move to London was made, but I guess it was anytime after they moved from Park Rd in 1913. There were several addresses, but always around the Holloway and Tufnell Park area. That said, there was mention of Dad living at Sewardstone, between Chingford and Waltham Abbey.
I would imagine that the Holloway Pleating Company would be in the 1920’s and maybe early 1930’s. That was at 491 Holloway Rd (I have a postcard of it) and I have a book with Gracies address, probably at the same time at 503 Holloway Road.

Do you have any family photo’s? I have a few but can only identify a small number of people, wonder if you can help.

Typically, we don’t think of asking the right questions until it’s too late. A family friend (Lillian Newstead) that knew Hunstanton, and then before WW2 moved to Holloway, died in about 1990. She could have told me so much.

I’ll leave you to try and make sense of that for now.

Dave

After a long gap, I'm wondering if anyone is still researching this branch of the Jones family. I've only just found it and am amazed to see so much of my own family history written for me!
The Grace that Mary mentions at the Holloway Pleating Company was my grandmother, she died in 1956. Her brother Stanley died in about 1970.
I know a few more details, maybe some myths, and have a few photo's if there is still anyone out there I would be very pleased to make contact.
Dave