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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Is there enough information? Thomas Thomas,
« on: Monday 26 August 24 11:51 BST (UK) »The style of dress is very typically 1870's.Thanks for that!
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Is there enough information? Thomas Thomas,
« on: Sunday 25 August 24 22:00 BST (UK) »
Oh wow! That’s awesome! Thank you!
I was guessing 1870-80 because I thought he might be 30-40. Another relative was thinking more 1860s - he left Wales 1867 so it might be a portrait taken before he left, to leave with his folks perhaps.
I was guessing 1870-80 because I thought he might be 30-40. Another relative was thinking more 1860s - he left Wales 1867 so it might be a portrait taken before he left, to leave with his folks perhaps.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Is there enough information? Thomas Thomas,
« on: Sunday 25 August 24 11:13 BST (UK) »
Hi, this is a picture of Thomas Thomas, born 1842 Pembrokeshire and emigrated to Australia 1867. Is there enough information to hazard a guess as to the date this was taken? All guesses most gratefully received!
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: A tricky one in a mourning locket - any ideas of date please?
« on: Friday 27 March 20 22:52 GMT (UK) »I think you need to be careful here & not to try and hammer this in to someone you would like it to be.
What you've said contradicts what everyone is saying to you in that this is a girl around 15.
Women of all classes managed their hair into the fashionable style of the day without any problem.
Of course! You guys are the experts. It would have been lovely - I think I have very dim memories of my mum telling me it was Sarah but mum was renowned for scattering red herrings everywhere and I stopped taking her word as gospel a long time ago! Will go back to looking for a girl who was around 15 in the 70s (I thought I saw the choker there too) and who died young (perhaps - or it was just a favourite photograph)
Lots to think about! Thank you all for your insights!
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: A tricky one in a mourning locket - any ideas of date please?
« on: Friday 27 March 20 17:45 GMT (UK) »
Some excellent thoughts there. The locket is Jet (they lived close enough to Whitby and there was quite a bit of jet in my nanna’s house - it’s very shiny on the outside and stiff as can be to open up. I can’t get the picture out unfortunately and there’s nothing on the other side space.
I naturally thought she was sitting - my thought was it was a wedding pic and that’s what I’ve seen before with husband’s proprietorial hand on shoulder. The hair kinda threw me because Ive not often see it down in pictures but it looks like she had an unmanageable amount of it so it may have been her pride and joy. My other thought was that this would have been in a coal mining Durham village where maybe the niceties of style in society didn’t apply but otoh it looks like she was well dolled up for the occasion, whatever it was.
I naturally thought she was sitting - my thought was it was a wedding pic and that’s what I’ve seen before with husband’s proprietorial hand on shoulder. The hair kinda threw me because Ive not often see it down in pictures but it looks like she had an unmanageable amount of it so it may have been her pride and joy. My other thought was that this would have been in a coal mining Durham village where maybe the niceties of style in society didn’t apply but otoh it looks like she was well dolled up for the occasion, whatever it was.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: A tricky one in a mourning locket - any ideas of date please?
« on: Friday 27 March 20 00:03 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Carol. Back to the drawing board!
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: A tricky one in a mourning locket - any ideas of date please?
« on: Thursday 26 March 20 23:44 GMT (UK) »
Good idea, Carol, but sadly I think araldite must have been used!
Just floating another possibility - would a 21 year old in 1882 be a better fit? Still not 15 but we all look young in our family (cough!!!)
Just floating another possibility - would a 21 year old in 1882 be a better fit? Still not 15 but we all look young in our family (cough!!!)
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: A tricky one in a mourning locket - any ideas of date please?
« on: Thursday 26 March 20 23:24 GMT (UK) »
Oh Pooh! Back to the drawing board then I guess if you think it's after 1857. I suppose it didnt need to be a wedding photograph.
Thinking outside the box - would a better fit be a 17 year old being married in 1873?
When I was clearing out my mum's stuff I came across an in memoriam card in my grandmother's best handbag which had been in mum's drawer for over 40 years. I knew the name on it - Tabitha Binks - but the date on the card was 1876, and my nanna wasnt born until 1897. I did some sleuthing and found that the Tabitha Binks who was nanna's friend was named for her father's first wife Tabitha Rhodes who had died age 22. Now, I wonder whether this may have been her instead. Though why my nanna would have a mourning locket of someone who wasnt related is a bit of a conundrum - equally, I have no idea why she would have kept the in memoriam card of someone unrelated who had died more than 20 years before she was born.
Looks like I might never know!
Thinking outside the box - would a better fit be a 17 year old being married in 1873?
When I was clearing out my mum's stuff I came across an in memoriam card in my grandmother's best handbag which had been in mum's drawer for over 40 years. I knew the name on it - Tabitha Binks - but the date on the card was 1876, and my nanna wasnt born until 1897. I did some sleuthing and found that the Tabitha Binks who was nanna's friend was named for her father's first wife Tabitha Rhodes who had died age 22. Now, I wonder whether this may have been her instead. Though why my nanna would have a mourning locket of someone who wasnt related is a bit of a conundrum - equally, I have no idea why she would have kept the in memoriam card of someone unrelated who had died more than 20 years before she was born.
Looks like I might never know!
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: A tricky one in a mourning locket - any ideas of date please?
« on: Thursday 26 March 20 22:21 GMT (UK) »
Thanks guys! Her maiden name was Sarah Bridge born 1834 in Hetton le Hole, Durham, married John Swinburn at 22/23 in 1857 and died in 1862 age 28 of scarlet fever. I was thinking, given the arm across her shoulder that this would have been a wedding picture. She does look very young but 23 could have been possible. I cant see anyone else who would fit the bill in the family I have got on that side. It's definitely a mourning locket because it's big and black. I really had no idea whether people were having wedding photographs done in the late 1850s!