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Messages - Frankyfarrell

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date of Photo?
« on: Sunday 24 February 13 19:58 GMT (UK)  »
Agree with Jim on this one mid to late 1860s, back very much of that period, the link Jim gave is a very good one. Also the less full crinoline would hint at later as would the backdrop with the view in to the distance

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Cambridgeshire / Re: gotobed family
« on: Sunday 24 February 13 13:19 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Will have to get all the paper work out but the census is both confusing and misleading and has to be used with care, I will have to try and remember the details but as I remember he didn't marry twice and the 1822 birth date was also misleading. Reuben Rickett was not the son of a Mary, his mother's name was something completely different, however Mary Ann Sheldrick was born in Fen Ditton as was Reuben and James

What I am very fascinated and haven't been able to get to the bottom of and may be you can help me is why Elizabeth and Martha Robinson were both given the middle name Newling, I would love to know that, it really intrigues me :)

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Possible 1870's fashion?
« on: Saturday 23 February 13 22:50 GMT (UK)  »
You would be surprised,  we shouldn't forget the temptation to judge through modern eyes.  We have a number of securely dated and attested wedding photographs from this period showing exactly this fag in h
and. :)

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Possible 1870's fashion?
« on: Saturday 23 February 13 21:18 GMT (UK)  »
Definitely around 1910. Rather than it suggesting 'a well off couple' I think this is more probably a wedding portrait, this was a very common wedding pose and the outfits the couple are wearing are very typical of wedding attire at this time, hope this helps :)

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Later family portrait?
« on: Saturday 23 February 13 21:10 GMT (UK)  »
I apologise for my lack of apostrophes tonight, dodgy keyboard!

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Later family portrait?
« on: Saturday 23 February 13 21:08 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, this photo dates from around 1900. You have the lovely mix of the younger woman in a fashionable blouse of the time and the older woman wearing a more up to date skirt but slightly older style blouse. The young boys are wearing outfits common in the early part on the 1900s with a hang on to the styling of the late 1890s. The classic smock type dress of the young girl is very characteristic. Later in the decade young girls hair was more elaborately dressed with large bows.

Hope this helps :)

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date for this little girl and TLC
« on: Saturday 23 February 13 21:00 GMT (UK)  »
If you look closely you can see an extra shadow on the floor near the girls foot, which I think is the neck clamp

I think this may be slightly earlier but a nice photo

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Young lad 1860s?
« on: Saturday 23 February 13 20:40 GMT (UK)  »
Looks like 1870s to me but wouldn't be suprised if he was in big brothers hand me downs, dress style more akin to 1860s  :)

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: 2 Photos for dating
« on: Saturday 23 February 13 20:36 GMT (UK)  »
I would say the first photo dates from about 1876 -1880 based on the hair style and the neckline. The second photo is very hard to date without anything else to see such as the paper etc. The neckline is not typical of 1870s necessarily and the hairstyle could stylistically relate to the early 1880s.

In the 1870s it was very common and fashionable for women to wear false hair to pad out their own to create large, elaborate styles which tended to be more grandiose than what we have here which although unusual is not large in terms of hair required.

The false hair was often imported from the Balkans where girls entering nunneries would have their hair shaved off before taking the veil

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