The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 6)

[deb usa]

Hi everyone

I have been trying to catch up after an extended vacation .... Hope you are all well.

deb

[ShaunJ]

Hmmm - the card says that the photo was taken "before the war"... not "shortly before"...

If that is young Stanley he looks no more than 10 or 11 which would place it in 1927/8.

[Daisy Loo]

Hi Deb

Shaun, you are quite right, my mind added shortly! So, young Stanley is a possibility I suppose, and supporting that, he does appear to be an only child?

Added:  So the writer of the blue writing would have been perhaps Edie?

[nestagj]

Hello all 

Looking at Steven's family tree there is a David Goater born to Minnie Isobel Bryceson in November 1933 - but he looks older than 6 ?

Also to me the clothes look a bit later than the 20's ? but I'm no expert

Nesta

[Aniseed]

How exciting to see a photo of Nat's daughter! Wow! Thanks for posting it, Steven, and thanks for making sense of who the rellies were, Daisy Loo, (I still get a bit lost with them all), and I think we should thank Steven's nan for bothering to write the names on the back. I inherited a whole load of gorgeous photos from my great aunt, but nothing on the back, and I have to make best guesses at who they all were.

I loved today's entry. I missed the whole Mrs Skirricker bit first time round, so it's nice to see he hasn't forgotten about her, and the italicised part had me in stitches! Brilliant stuff!

[Mongibello]

This is the tree of NB's descendants as far as I have worked them out (mostly by census & FreeBMD).    Always open to correction of course.

[Daisy Loo]

That's very neat Mongibello   Much better to look at it like that

It's a little ironic, I think, that the name Bryceson dies out, after not being quite the right name in the beginning.

[nestagj]

That's brilliant Mongibello ! so easy to look at what format have you used or did you hand write it;  I still do that because you can see it straight away - do the same in my work .....anything I need to think about gets handwritten !

Mrs S - who on earth is she    ?   or is our Nat totally wrong about her ancestors .....

Nesta

[Paul Caswell]

"A church has just been completed in Old Street Road."

Why would he believe Mrs Skirricker would be at the new church? Apart from the cynical one that she wanted to avoid him.

Does she or her family have church-building inclinations? She certainly seems to visit several different ones.

Paul