Re: Our Ancestors #5

[stoney]

Dinkdidy - this picture says it all - I think! She looks totally exhausted!

[millymcb]

I've been looking at all these lovely photos and thought I'd add my favourite picture. This is my Great Grandfather (sitting in the back) and two of his older brothers when they were on holiday in the Isle of Wight.

I love this piccie.  He looks so bemused sitting in the back and his brother is concentrating so hard on the "driving"

 

[LizzieW]

Very upmarket family milly!  Mine were working as ag.labs, trawlermen and railway workers at that time.

Liz

[millymcb]

Very upmarket family milly!  Mine were working as ag.labs, trawlermen and railway workers at that time.

Liz

These guys were mechanical engineer and tin-plate workers - and the women of the family worked in the cotton mills.  It surprised (but pleased) me to find out they had been able to afford to go off to the Isle of Wight on their holidays.  Their older brother was with the Navy in Portsmouth so I presume they went down to visit him.

....... but I'll let you into a little secret.... ...I think that cars a fake!
 

 

[stoney]

Here's one we call our "Forsyte Saga" pose!

[LizzieW]

...... but I'll let you into a little secret.... Wink ...I think that cars a fake!

I guessed that, because it looks posed, but I was looking at the men in it who look so healthy.

Liz

[mahees]

Here is my Grandma Dorothy's first marriage to Charles Fry in 1935. He died in World War 2 and Dorothy remarried to my Grandad. The lady in the bottom right is my G-G-Grandmother Eliza, and stood behind her is my G-G-Grandfather George. I found this recently on a distant relative's website; I couldn't believe I could see relatives so many generations back! The adult bridesmaid on the right is my great-aunt Peg and she's coming to my wedding this July

[stoney]

Here's my Mum and Dad on their wedding day - 27/04/1942. He had a 48 hr pass and was posted overseas shortly afterwards for the remainder of WW2.

They planned some code-words  before he went  so when he managed to write home he could let the family know where he was without the censors knowing! (eg. "how's Auntie Nellie's leg? = Italy, etc.)

[Elliebob]

Found this picture at my mother's.  We don't know where it came from but it is of her mother and sister.  She has no idea who the boy is but thinks that it may be a cousin as it isn't her brother.

Ellen