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Thanks everyone... I'm still here! And thrilled that this old thread is still of interest. Thanks elacass, for your suggestions, and I'll be in touch via private mail. It's a while since I thought about this album (which I still have) so will have to refresh my memory. I don't remember coming across Tanygrisiau before so look forward to finding out more.

I have a habit (compulsion) of collecting old photographs. I don't understand how people can get rid of them either. I buy them to research the family and often share them on a blog I keep. I've found that the photos usually come from the end of a family line, as Ruskie says. I did have one success last year though, where the owner had lost some photos during a house move. I picked them up online from someone who had bought them at auction, and they were reunited with their original owner/family!

So it would be wonderful to find out more about this Welsh album. I'll keep you all posted 

I've just been re-reading the thread and realised mandywills mentioned Tanygrisiau too. Sorry, I missed that post at the time... 

It's funny that we both look for more photos etc to research into, as if we don't have enough of our own family 'stuff', we take on other people's too! But I love it so much that I hate to think of old photos being abandoned and unidentified  .

By the way - I have an Uncle Bob 'Stiniog !

This is great, thank you! And makes a lot of sense, since one of the problems I've had researching this album is the repetition in the names.... so adding the place-name label is helpful, and I didn't realise it was done quite so often. Not coming from Wales myself, you see! It's a great experience, delving into Welsh ancestry.

W J Roberts, Bolton House, Blaenau Ffestiniog was a photographer. XS/2572/1-19 Gwynedd Archives, includes a number of photographs by him, 1900? - 1914.
Emyr

Thanks so much! I'll look on a later census than I have been doing ;-)

Another possibility? Ewythr is the Welsh for uncle - perhaps Stiniog is a diminutive of Festiniog, as in Blaenau Festiniog, so Ewythr Stiniog Brawd Taid would be Uncle Stiniog, Granddad's Brother.

I like this interpretation! And to think I've spent all afternoon putting variations of 'Stinisa' into Ancestry and coming up with nothing, hehe. Uncle Stiniog has a nice ring to it :-).

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Would Black Barn be the larger area? Very little comes up when I google it, and I'd love to pin-point this place on the censuses

Sorry that was just me thinking aloud as to what Scybor-ddu might mean.

Oops, I see now! Not much information about this tiny place on the web... I'll keep looking.

I think the older child wearing a dress is actually a girl- it was common to cut off the hair of a person ill with fever in those days.

I also thought 'girl' but she does look very sickly... bless her.

Could it be  ysgubor  and if so it is barn, brawd is brother,  and taid grandfather

Ahh, so maybe not so straightforward as Scybor Ddu on Anglesey, then?

DragonT is correct, Uncle(from) F(f)estiniog etc, probably Blaenau Ffestiniog rather than Llan Ffestiniog.
The other is Auntie Jane Scubor (Ysgubor) Ddu. Ysgubor Ddu where, can't say.

I have another photo of the same man, taken in Bl. Festiniog so I think your assumption is correct, and I need to look at the census for that area.

Thanks everyone, this has helped a lot! I'll report back if I find anything. Or with more questions :-).

How about: the Township of Scybor-ddu in Angelsey?

Thank you, Jon! That is a very good fit --- there's another photo in the album with Perth written on the back, and I notice there's a place called Perth Y Paen nearby. I suspected it didn't refer to Australia ;-).

Would Black Barn be the larger area? Very little comes up when I google it, and I'd love to pin-point this place on the censuses.