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Offline Greensleeves

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Re: Help in dating this lovely lady, please..
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 03 June 12 23:41 BST (UK) »
I agree with Igor and  Wiggy, there is something somewhat theatrical about the stance, the eyebrows, the shoes.....
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« Reply #10 on: Monday 04 June 12 07:33 BST (UK) »
I agree with you more and more.... I've been having a closer look at the photo and I think that I can see trousers - they just show at the bottom of the skirt.  Can't see any trace of whiskers, though, so obviously someone quite young... Interesting!!  I wonder whether it is my grandfather, although he was a Quaker and I'm not sure that is the sort of thing he would have done!! Curiouser and curiouser ???

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Re: Help in dating this lovely lady, please..
« Reply #11 on: Monday 04 June 12 09:40 BST (UK) »
I'm glad someone else said it .. my initial reaction was is it a woman?  it was the feet that made me wonder - not just the size and the shoes but theres something about the stance ..  and as you say theres a hint of possible trousers there
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« Reply #12 on: Monday 04 June 12 09:52 BST (UK) »
So I now have a drag queen in my family tree!!

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Re: Help in dating this lovely lady, please..
« Reply #13 on: Monday 04 June 12 09:54 BST (UK) »
Well - makes life interesting doesn't it!!!   ;D ;D

You don't want to be dull and boring.    ;)
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Re: Help in dating this lovely lady, please..
« Reply #14 on: Monday 04 June 12 09:58 BST (UK) »
The subject does look quite young, possibly adolescent.  Wonder if 'he' attended a boys' school and took a female role in the school play.   
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« Reply #15 on: Monday 04 June 12 10:14 BST (UK) »
Lady Macbeth, maybe!!.... although white wasn't really her colour!

I have just shown the photo to my daughter and boyfriend - they agree it is a man and sincerely hope that, if he is an ancestor, his genes are well and truly worn out!!... I think he is quite cute :P

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Re: Help in dating this lovely lady, please..
« Reply #16 on: Monday 04 June 12 10:26 BST (UK) »
It's the stance that is the give away...very masculine...a lady wouldn't stand feet apart and there is a comic expression to the wry smile..."Don't take me seriously...please"  ;D
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« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 05 June 12 13:27 BST (UK) »
Hi Carol,

I thought that, too, about the feet apart..... and now my husband has announced that there is a definite  family likeness...Oh dear!!  I have decided that it could well be my grandfather....a Quaker, Rachebite drag queen, must be rare!!

Tilly ;)
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Rix - Norfolk   Burke - Co Clare



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