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Re: Ages of this couple
« Reply #9 on: Monday 09 May 11 08:17 BST (UK) »
I think they're younger than 50's, it's just the style of the time. Do you know who they might be?

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Re: Ages of this couple
« Reply #10 on: Monday 09 May 11 08:41 BST (UK) »
I'd go with mid to late 50s. 

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« Reply #11 on: Monday 09 May 11 09:35 BST (UK) »
I agree with Igor that she is definitely younger than her 50s (unless she has worn spectacularly well, of course!).  If you look at a close-up, she is not particularly lined and her neck is in fairly good nick.  The clothes of that era (pre Beatles) tended to make even young people look old.  I remember, because I was wearing similar clothes 'for best' when I was about 15 and could drink in any pub in Ipswich  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Ages of this couple
« Reply #12 on: Monday 09 May 11 10:17 BST (UK) »
She looks like my MiL at that time - and she was mid 50s  and Scottish!!   ;) ;)    ;D ;D

Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Ages of this couple
« Reply #13 on: Monday 09 May 11 10:38 BST (UK) »
I'm terrible at this type of thing but I'd say about 53 for him and 46 for her.
As a very rough guess.

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Re: Ages of this couple
« Reply #14 on: Monday 23 May 11 18:12 BST (UK) »
Hello, thank you everyone. I also think he is 50 ish and her 40 ish. As for who they are... he is the brother of my great grandmother Annie Gallagher (she was born 1910). His and Annie's mother was also Annie Gallagher born 1891. She had the children illegitimate and thats why I'm unsure of his surname, it's either Gallagher or Kenny.
Joanna Mooney née Connor born County Offaly about 1833, died unknown
and her children (all born Staffordshire/Worcestershire):
Ann Mooney, born 1856
Martin Mooney, born 1862
Thomas Mooney, born 1864
Joanna Mooney, born 1866
Agnes Mooney, born 1868
Theresa Mooney, born 1870