Re: Our Ancestors #5

[kesannah]

Nice photos Anitia, Bet you are so pleased to have them.

[saxonw.]

Puzzle time does anyone think either of these ladies is in  the picture  on 136

[PaulaToo]

Not very good at this saxon, but the lady on the left does have the same tilt of the head as the Blundells.

[Dinkydidy]

Loved the beach girls enjoying themselves, Anita, and the way great aunt has tucked her dress into elastic of long bloomers. I can almost remember doing that....

Here is my grandmother, Margaret Ann White, around the time of her marriage in 1908. Note the hairdo, same as in wedding photo which follows.

Didy

[Dinkydidy]

This was a treasure found after grandmother (second from right) died, along with a list of full names and birthdates of the eleven siblings. They are standing in age order from oldest on right, and the occasion was probably the last time they were all gathered together, when their father died in 1923.

It obviously helped that one of the sisters had married a photographer! 

Didy

[stoney]

This is my G-Grandmother, Mary Jane (Routledge) Meyers with some of her children. Does the boy standing beside her look as though he "fits" in?

Although the 1901 census proclaims him as David Meyers, the name on his will was David Miller Routledge (and closer inspection of census returns reveals his age to be pre-marriage of his parents!) That aside, he was different in features to the rest of the brood....and I've no idea where the "Miller" name came from! What was G-granny up to!

Never mind, he was a lovely "gentle" man by all accounts, with a wicked sense of humour!

[PaulaToo]

After all the bedpost notching adventures of my Eliza Ann, I'm used to that sort of thing, stoney.

He looks terribly like Mary Jane, doesn't he...Have you ever found a David Miller around at the right time?

[stoney]

After all the bedpost notching adventures of my Eliza Ann, I'm used to that sort of thing, stoney.

He looks terribly like Mary Jane, doesn't he...Have you ever found a David Miller around at the right time?

No, no sign of the father, but I do know young David was living with Mary Jane's Aunt and Uncle at the time of the 1881 census (born 1880) and she had married my G-Granfather by the end of 1881.

I'm tempted to get David's birth certificate to try and solve the mystery!

[7igerby7he7ail]

Here are the Gaunts!
Top row L2R
Great Great Grandfather, William b 1828, Great Grandfather, William b 1857, Grandfather, William b 1885
Bottom row L2R
Father, Thomas b 1910, Myself, born 1948