You show me yours ......

[LoneyBones]

Maybe Thomas had the photo taken and sent later than 1848??
I have a print of several ambassadors in America 1855, one has a double breasted suit with silk collar like Arthur's. It's a good quality photo, so if Thomas was fairly prosperous or a public figure, there very well could have been a special occasion for a better quality photo.
I'm a trier. 
Leonie.

[joboy]

Your responses have necessitated a closer look at my records and to compare them with the recent info from NZ.
In respect to this I strongly suspect that my NZ cousins have got the wrong Thomas. and that the Thomas in the photo was born Reading 1798 son of Thomas Flower and Martha (nee Parr) .... so he was from a later generation and a brother of William (1800) who took his family to NZ also John (1793) who was my 2ggf.
Thomas in the photo looks to be in his 60's so I guess the photo was taken sometime around 1860 or so would'nt you say?
Phew ....... glad that we (collectively) sorted that out.
Now to tell my NZ cousins the news.
Joe

[mark.r]

Hi is there a site to look for members of the family.Mark

[PrueM]

Thomas in the photo looks to be in his 60's so I guess the photo was taken sometime around 1860 or so would'nt you say?

Hi Joe 

I still think it's later than that, but without seeing the whole thing it's really hard to tell    I think the fellow in the photo is around his 60s, though.

Cheers
Prue

[PrueM]

Hi is there a site to look for members of the family.Mark

Hi Mark,
Can you be a bit more specific?    Members of what family?

Prue

[Cell]

Hi,
This is one of our (mine and hubby's)oldest photo's I think.

It's hubby's G G Grandmother Jane Samuel who was from Llanelly.
 I don't know when it was taken and I can't make out her age in this photo ( except that she looks middle age )  as the small photo is in such terrible condition, but I do know  she was born in 1839 - So if she is around  40 ish in the photo, I guess it was taken in the early 1880's. It came out of a photograph album which used to belong to his grandmother.

This picture is in it's original scanned form. We have enhanced ones , but I have posted the original scanned photo for you to see it in it's original form

( P.S  She hasn't got a black eye  a- it's a mark on the picture)

Kind Regards

[jethorp]

Eliza Whitehead with her first born child Mary Ellen. The picture was taken 1881.This is my Grt Gandmother, she was born in 1860

[MarkyP]

Excellent thread!  

This is my 5xG.Grandmother Maria Jerome, born in 1789, unless of course you know better! She died in 1883.

[Tsu]

Mine are not as old as that.  Here is my husband's grandfather Matthew Thomas England born in Melbourne in 1890 (picture must be about 1894) and the lady and child are relatives, I just don't know which ones yet...LOL