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Offline Keithchr

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Unusual Wedding pic for colour and comment please
« on: Sunday 13 January 08 14:14 GMT (UK) »
This lady is my wifes Gt. Grandmother - Emily Curd nee Bashford (1868-1946) on her wedding day in Croydon 4 Sep 1897. As you can see, she is not wearing the traditional white for a bride. We think this is because she had had a child out of wedlock - a man whose identity we have not discovered. Would the colour of this dress have been black (or dark blue)? and was it common for "fallen" Victorian brides to marry in this attire? I wonder if this public display of the fact that she had had a pre marital child would have been humiliating or embarrasing for her?

For the colour meisters - her hair was brown and her eyes were blue.

Thank you very much
Christie (Dundee & London)
Pyett (Suffolk. Hunts & London)
Bentley (Shropshire & London)
Curd (Sussex)
Dolbey (London)
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Re: Unusual Wedding pic for colour and comment please
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 13 January 08 14:25 GMT (UK) »
This is an article about the history of wedding dresses

http://www.fromtimespast.com/wedding.htm
Middx - VAUS, ROBERTS, EVERSFIELD, INMAN, STAR, HOLBECK, WYATT, BICKFORD, SMITH, REDWOOD
Hants - SMALL, HAMMERTON, GRIST, FRYER, TRODD, DAGWELL, PARKER, WOODFORD, CROUTEAR, BECK, BENDELL, KEEPING, HARDING, BULL
Kent - BAYLY, BORER, MITCHELL, PLANE, VERNON, FARRANCE, CHAPMAN, MEDHURST, LOMAX, WYATT, IDEN
Devon - TOPE, BICKFORD, FOSTER
YKS - QUIRK, McGUIRE, BENN
Nott/Derbs - SLACK
Herts - BARNES
L'pool- PLUMBE
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Re: Unusual Wedding pic for colour and comment please
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 13 January 08 14:43 GMT (UK) »
Hi Keithchr
Here's a quick resized B/W cleanup
Mudge

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Re: Unusual Wedding pic for colour and comment please
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 13 January 08 14:54 GMT (UK) »
Keith,

I don't think this is a photo of atonement - it looks like the celebration that it is.

It is a great photo, and the bride is obviously in her best dress. It was about this time that mass produced dresses became available. This is a good one.

Getting married in white was only a luxury that the well off could afford, the average needed a dress that they could use again for that special occasion.

In my family at this time about 1/3 of all 1st born were outside of wedlock. I think that it was only later that it became a stigma.

Great photo.

Rog

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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 13 January 08 15:17 GMT (UK) »
Rog! - You have made my wifes day with this one - beautiful colours - thank you very much.

We are lucky to have such a picture.

Thank you too Mudge for the clean up and bearkat for the information.

Regards

keith
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Re: Unusual Wedding pic for colour and comment please
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 13 January 08 19:26 GMT (UK) »
Hi Keith
         Newbie here hi to everyone ;D
heres my version....
i have my own account i don't have to use my mums :P
so Judy get your pics out ;D

Regards

Lil Stump

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« Reply #6 on: Sunday 13 January 08 19:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi Lil Stump!!!!

i think I know who you are  :P :P :P :P

Welcome to Rootschat officially   ;D ;D ;D ;D

That is a lovely restore you have done on this photo!  ::) ::)

Thanks for the offer - I'll post one tomorrow LOL  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Judy  ;)
Best wishes, Judy :-))


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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 13 January 08 22:08 GMT (UK) »
Welcome Stump,

Is the cat a giveaway?

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« Reply #8 on: Monday 14 January 08 00:42 GMT (UK) »
Hi Keith

Was your wife's gr grandmother born in this country?  The dress looks sort of Russian-style or something like that.  Maybe Jewish?  Could just be the fashion at the time.  It's a lovely dress, as is the head-dress.

Rosemary
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