Help date photo from Thornton, Leics

[JILL1]

This photo is of my Great Grandad, Thomas Bembridge, standing on the right. On the back it says Thornton and I would like to put a name to the other people on it. He lived in Thornton until sometime between the 1891 & 1901 census and died in 1931.
Many thanks for your help.
Jill

[davidbembridge]

Thomas Bembridge would have been my grt grt uncle, When he lived with his mum and dad it was at 35 high steet, also a lot of the family lived in 94 High street which I can remember well.  However I dont recognise this cottage at all, they built a lot of the newer houses in the 1950s and maybe some of the old ones were knocked down.  Assuming thats his wife Emma in the pic?  Have you got any more pictures, my great grandad was Frederick Bembridge who was the son of Jemima Bembridge (who was thomas's sister).  I beleive Jemima was a servent for the daines family and mr daines is fredericks father.

[IgorStrav]

Hello David and welcome to Rootschat!

Jill who posted the original picture hasn't been on the board since December 2010, but if you post twice more (just reply to this message twice) you will be able to send her a personal message if you click on the green scroll under her name.  But you need to have posted three times before you can do this.

Hope you get in touch.

There don't seem to have been any answers to her original query, but now you have brought this posting back up to the top of the message board, perhaps you will get some more dates!

[davidbembridge]

Thanks for the tip, I will get in touch.

[jim1]

for a date,late WW1 & possibly into the very early 1920's.

jim

[JILL1]

Thanks Jim1 for your dating information it's got me thinking that maybe my Gt Gt Grandad was visiting Thornton as he had left the village by that time so it's not his house.

Thanks david, I have sent a person message as a follow up.

Can anyone date the clothes to confirm what Jim thinks?

[IgorStrav]

Hi Jill, Jim will have been going by the clothes, and believe me, he's an expert! 

I think you will be able to rely on what he's said.

Glad you've had some good information, even if a bit late from your original enquiry! 

[davidbembridge]

It could be 1918 as none of the sons are there? 2 of them were fighting in France at that time..

[marky2287]

Jemima was servant of the Beck family in Leicester, she later married Benjamin Daines and had children with him. But there is no record at all as to who is Frederick's father.