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Hi Angie,  Have had a look at your John Wardell and Dinah Rutledge.  Do you have have documents that support your findings.   Obviously he married in Trimdon as that is where Dinah is from.  My John married in Hamsterly which is where Ann Pattison came from.  Either one could be  the John Wardell whose parents were John and Eleanor Briggs.   We need proof of this  Frederick had 10 children and they were give the usual Wardell names,
Will carry on digging and see if I can come up with anything.

Regards
Olwen

Hi Angela

Thanks for this information.  I will have to do a bit more digging.  Who did John Wardell b 1763 marry as this may help me see where and if i have go wrong.

Thanks  Olwen

I know what you mean as looking at it closely it looks like there could be a man and also another women stood to the tight of him!  very strange.  The full text I have just received from my cousin is 
The letter that accompanies the photo states:
This photo was probably taken on the last occasion when the family was altogether before the older sister left for England/Canada. One sister must have been missing and she is the one who has been "fitted in" at the back from another photo. Paddy says that the front left is Auntie Bridie, then Anne with Johnny on her knee, then Esther (Jo) then Auntie Lil (Paddy's wife). Back row - Thomas, Aunt Molly, then Uncle Tom and Aunt Jude (Julia). Therefore Aunt Ann is the upper figure. As Johnny was born in 1916, it must have been taken in 1917. (This comes from Mary Atherton in a letter to my late Grandma, Eileen Cahill Bohart.

There is only 9 people mentioned and 9 people showing clearly on the photo
Is is possible to have a go at restoring excluding the phantom man on the back row

Many thanks

This picture was emailed to me by a 2nd cousin in Canada.  I have contacted her to see if she knows any answers.  She did say that she only have a copy of the original photo and it is no clearer than this scanned copy.  She has no idea where the original is .
Will advise when I hear from her.

Many thanks for your help

hi Trevor

many thanks for your help, I have emailed them to see if they have any records for John Timpson.  If I do find anything about him will update on here.

Thanks again
Olwen