Any ideas/info about this photo please?

[ogohogoh]

I would appreciate any information gleaned from this photo of my paternal grandfather William Wilkinson...his age, status, symbolism etc.  The photo is stuck to a plain postcard-size piece of card so I can't say what's on the back.  It looks original but might just be an old copy of an earlier photograph with the subject set against a new plain background...there's a cut-out feel to it. 

Apart from this image I have a copy of his marriage certificate dated 5th August 1913 at age 26 when he was a Stock Broker's Clerk, but that's all.  He's something of a mystery man as he was no-longer with my grandmother by the time my father was 6 or 7 and my father never spoke of him.

Many thanks, Fred

[chinakay]

Hi ogogoghho  oggogoghoo Fred

Is it a true black & white, or has it just been scanned that way? Could we see a colour scan of the whole thing please?

You will have to change the file name, just add a letter or number to it and that should be fine.

Welcome to Rootschat

Cheers,
China

[Seoras]

Fred if he was 26 in 1913 and he seems to disappear is it possible he died in WW I.Of course if your father was born after WW I then that idea is a no-goer,just a thought though.

George.

[chinakay]

Where was he from? Have you looked in the IGI?

Cheers,
China

[ogohogoh]

Hi George - my father was born 11th November 1914.  I got the impression that his father was around for part of his childhood but was considered something of a 'Bad Lot'.   His mother had a daughter by another man eight years later and they stayed together for a long time, possibly until his death, but never married.  She eventually married again in 1941. Regards, Fred

Hi China - I converted the photo to black and white and tidied it up a bit to improve clarity.  I'll rescan the original and post again.  At the time of his marriage in Hackney he was living in Lower Clapton.  Not sure what IGI is - am a total novice!  Regards, Fred

[gortonboy]

hi,,where was william born?   

[ogohogoh]

Here’s the original  scan – the handwritten note was added by my mother many years ago, the date probably a guess. 

I’m pretty sure she never met him. My parents met in 1943 and married 7 weeks later on 12.1.1944.  Neither my grandfather or his replacement featured in their wedding photos.

I've no idea, as yet, where my grandfather was born, or anything else about him.

Fred

[PrueM]

Hi Fred

It certainly looks like a re-print to me, perhaps there were others in the photo that were not wanted, or the background wasn't liked, or...who knows!

The boy is wearing an Eton collar, and combined with the mortar-board he could be in his school uniform, perhaps even Etonian - although I think they wore/wear top hats.  Younger Eton boys certainly wore shorts jackets like this one.

Cheers
Prue

[nickgc]

Have you found him on the 1911 census?  Does he give a middle initial on his marriage cert?  Father's name on marriage cert?  It is not clear to me whether you are only interested in finding him after 1913, or are also looking for his previous life and his family.

Nick