Re: Our Ancestors #5

[PaulaToo]

It kind of, gets to you, doesn't it, stoney. Go on, you know you'll give in, in the end.

There's a family likeness passed down there, Tom. How lovely to have all the pictures like that.

[anitamo]

Dinkydidy those are superb photos and, as you say, that hairstyle is something else, I wonder how long it took her to sculpt that every morning.

Stoney, I agree with Paula that sweet looking little boy does look like Mary Jane.
And believe me my family's bedhopping antics are almost lengendary. I have to say the more I delve the more I find morals  then are not what they are these days.

[mahees]

Here's a link to my G-Grandad Francis Roby, who died in 1923 from 'causes attributable to his service' 

http://21st-battalion-8.tripod.com/o-s.html

He's just over halfway down the page, and I am particularly proud to have him on the site since he was buried in a communal plot without mention on any memorial. None of my family knew much about him either. Also, here's his grave, which we recently tracked down-

http://21st-battalion-8.tripod.com/graves_o-s.html

Thanks to Al Lloyd for running the 21st battalion site 

[7igerby7he7ail]

On the left of the picture with pipes under his arm.
My Wife's great granduncle John 'Jock' McLellan.b 1875 Dunoon, Argyll,Scotland

John joined the Highland Light Infantry and  served in the South African War He was awarded the DCM when the Regiment saw action at the Battle of Maggersfontein.
In WW1 he joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he attained the rank of Pipe Major.
He wrote several pipe tunes and it is said he composed the Air wich became 'The Road To The Isles'
The date and location of the picture is unknown

[LizzieW]

The first photograph is of my gran and her siblings.  She is the one at the back on the right.  The next one is the same gran age about 40 I think.

Liz

[LizzieW]

This is my dad (on the right) and his twin sister age about 12 months I guess.

[PaulaToo]

Lovely group of Gran and her siblings, Liz.
My goodness, doesn't the little chap on the right look 'master of all he surveys.' Bet he was 'trying to be like dad' in front of the camera.

[LizzieW]

The first of these is my mum and her dad.

The second is me age about 6-9 months.  I don't know if I look like my mum, or my dad (the one in the picture of the twins).   When I got older I looked much more like dad and he changed and got darker like his sister.

Liz

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[PaulaToo]

Dad's eyes, Mum's cheekbones, I would say, Liz.