Re: Our Ancestors #5

[Emmeline]

Thanks Ellen for some details of her life.

Are there any photos of her wedding in India ? Look forward to seeing any others you have......... and more stories.

[PaulaToo]

Following the photo of My dear little Mum than has been so beautifully restored by you clever Roots people, here is a photo of Jessie May a few years later with one of her several nephews. A careful look and you can see she is wearing her engagement ring.

[PaulaToo]

An' here is a photo of the bloke, my Dad Joe, who put that ring on her finger, sharing a joke with her mother, Harriet Mathias.

[Rabbit B]

An' here is a photo of the bloke, my Dad Joe, who put that ring on her finger, sharing a joke with her mother, Harriet Mathias.

Harriet does not look so fierce here does she!!

Rabbit B   

[PaulaToo]

There was mischief going on there.
I can almost hear my Mother saying,
'Joe, shut up!' 

[Rabbit B]

Better not answer that, I am listening to the Goon Show!!!

Rabbit B 

[Elliebob]

Hi

Emmeline - I don't think there are any photos of the wedding in India.  I have never seen one at all of Bob's grandfather.  This is his aunt Thea, who was widowed and then married a Dutchman and was never heard of after going to Holland in WW2, as mentioned elsewhere on RC

Ellen

[stoney]

I've started looking at hubby's side of the family and have re-discovered old photos of his maternal g-grandmother, who was born and lived in India.  She's the middle one in the picture - Amy Osborne. She always looks winsome and a little sad, to me.

She married and Army Sergeant (Robert Harry Brown) and they had six children, before Amy died of a brain-tumour in 1917 and Robert died in the influenza epidemic of 1919, leaving their children to be raised by the maternal grandparents. Eventually the children were split up around the family (and around the globe!) and although they kept in touch by letter some of them never saw each other again. 

[Dinkydidy]

What a sad story, stoney, and it is enhanced by the wistful nature of the picture. Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes you need both to get the "full picture".