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Offline PaulaToo

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Re: Our Ancestors #4
« Reply #153 on: Sunday 31 December 06 11:14 GMT (UK) »
Glad you liked the Mathias Family, Emmeline.
There is another likeness too...but you have to look hard to see it.
The older of the children, boys and girls, were all tall like their father, but my Mother, Jessie and Charlie were short, like their mother. Charlie had a non pc nickname, so I can't put it on here, but today he would have been called Titch. I only knew him as Uncle 'Titch' Surprise for me when I found out what his name was.
If you look into that picture you will see that Walter, (a darned fine cabinet maker, I am sitting by a cupboard he made,) is sitting down but Charles is standing up. The wives were the same, Katie was tall, Lilian short and always dumpy.
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: Our Ancestors #4
« Reply #154 on: Sunday 31 December 06 11:27 GMT (UK) »
This is a photo of my Mother and her four sisters taken about 1930.

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William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Jones, Griffiths. Stephens, Parry, Gabriel, Conway, Hughes, Evans, Roberts, Lea, Hanmer. Peake, Edwards. Newnes, Davies. Thomas. "Blythin".
All North Wales.
Conway, Durber, Cartlidge, Lovatt, Bebington. Brindley, Sankey, Brunt. Dean. Clewes. Rhodes. Mountford,Walker,Bache, "Gibbons"Hood. Taylor
All Stoke-on-Trent.
Francis - Nantwich Cheshire.
Dennell - Cheshire/Staffordshire.
Talbot-Shropshire
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Re: Our Ancestors #4
« Reply #155 on: Sunday 31 December 06 19:59 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Paula - I feel I know them quite well now !

Thank you wrjones for the photo of your mother and sisters. Were they sun-bonnets two of them were wearing and were they the complete family or any sons?

Have I told you before that I visited Wrexham when my daughter was living there for 2 years?

Happy New Year to All...........


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Re: Our Ancestors #4
« Reply #156 on: Sunday 31 December 06 23:45 GMT (UK) »
Yes Emmeline there were only the five sisters,no boys.The two wearing bonnets were twins.

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William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Jones, Griffiths. Stephens, Parry, Gabriel, Conway, Hughes, Evans, Roberts, Lea, Hanmer. Peake, Edwards. Newnes, Davies. Thomas. "Blythin".
All North Wales.
Conway, Durber, Cartlidge, Lovatt, Bebington. Brindley, Sankey, Brunt. Dean. Clewes. Rhodes. Mountford,Walker,Bache, "Gibbons"Hood. Taylor
All Stoke-on-Trent.
Francis - Nantwich Cheshire.
Dennell - Cheshire/Staffordshire.
Talbot-Shropshire
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Re: Our Ancestors #4
« Reply #157 on: Friday 12 January 07 16:53 GMT (UK) »
A lovely picture of the dearly beloved's Uncle George (standing) with one of his 'Old Matey's' and his transport.

Oh dear, it does help if I try to put the picture on.............
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: Our Ancestors #4
« Reply #158 on: Friday 12 January 07 22:08 GMT (UK) »
This is the wedding party at the marriage of my great-aunt Louie Bridge to Herbert Gell. December 1902.
Back row L-R: J T Bridge (my grandfather) Mrs Gell snr, Lizzie Bridge, W H Bridge, Daisy Bridge, C A Bridge, Jane(?) Gell
Seated L-R: Laura Bridge (my lovely grandmother) Herbert Gell, Louisa Gell (nee Bridge), Thomas Bridge snr Mrs Georgiana Bridge (gt grandparents)
Children L-R: ? Gell, Arthur Bridge (on his mother's lap) C R Bridge, David Bridge, Valentine Bridge (killed on the Somme 14 years later)

   Don't you just love those hats! My grandma's looks as if it has just alighted on her head by chance. And what about the baby's outfit?
Bridge: GT Catworth, Hunts, and surrounding area
French: Blisworth,  and W. Northants

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Re: Our Ancestors #4
« Reply #159 on: Friday 12 January 07 22:14 GMT (UK) »
I should have said this photo is especially precious to me because it shows my great-grandparents and all but one of their 10 children. The Gells look a bit outnumbered though!
Bridge: GT Catworth, Hunts, and surrounding area
French: Blisworth,  and W. Northants

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Re: Our Ancestors #4
« Reply #160 on: Friday 12 January 07 22:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi Rancegal,

How absolutely smashing......Yes...the hats are fabulous.....and...it is amazing that all these lovely folks traipsed out onto a dirt track in all their finery...to have a picture taken!

You are so lucky to have such a wonderful pic

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Re: Our Ancestors #4
« Reply #161 on: Friday 12 January 07 22:30 GMT (UK) »
Paula, that caravan certainly would have been a bright spot on a gloomy day!

What a treasure to have, Rancegal! The poor little baby - how did they ever learn to crawl and walk, dressed like that?

And as for the hats - one wonders how they ever kept them on in the wind, hatpins or not.
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Steeles, Burton, Garrod (Norfolk), Clarke, Tomblin (Rutland)
Bauer (London, France), Blades, Parker (Surrey)
Edwards, Coles, Smith, Nunley, Craddock, York, & Linnell (Northants) )
Ehmcke, Deimel, Appelkamp (Germany)
Watts (Somerset, Wiltshire) Selway, Churchill, & Chappell (Somerset)
Redwood (Devon, Essex) Button, Archer, Leach (Cambridgeshire)

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