Re: Our Ancestors #5

[Blondie1]

I hope it gave her a little bit of comfort

[PaulaToo]

Me too, grumpyblondie. By all that I have been told she took loosing him badly, but perhaps it was something to hold onto later.

[Elliebob]

Went ot m-i-l's yesterday and brought back a batch of photos to scan.  This one is rather lovely.  It is m-i-l at about a year old (1915) with her mother.  She had just had her hand smacked for touching the flowers - hence the pout!

Ellen

[PaulaToo]

That is adorable, Ellen.
How lovely to hear about the pout. Don't forget to keep that little snippet of information with the picture, it adds so much to it.

[Emmeline]

That is just lovely Ellen. I notice mother is holding that little hand firmly - away from the flowers.
Tell m/in/law she was a beautiful baby........

[Elliebob]

Thanks Paula and Emmeline

Bob's gran looked beautiful in the photos.  I have one of her when older currently on the photo restoration board.  She was still beautiful then. M-i-l
was lovely (very like her mother) when young and at 92 still has lovely skin!

Ellen

[Emmeline]

Ellen - I found her on the Photo Restoration board. Lovely to behold.........

[Elliebob]

Yes she was lovely - Unfortunately Bob never knew her although he was 14 when she died!  I have just realised with some concern that in that photo she was about my current age!!

She had a hard life - married in India at 17 and had 10 children of which m-i-l was the youngest.  Bad marriage and they finally separated.  Several children died in infancy, one in the flu epidemic in 1919.  She looks happy enough though doesn't she?

I do love all the old photos and will put a few more on later.  Mum's sisters who are in others were lovely too.
Ellen

[Blondie1]

What a lovely picture and what a life -10 children gosh