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Offline Michelle79

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3 Photos but are they of the same family
« on: Tuesday 01 January 13 00:37 GMT (UK) »
A Happy New Year to all,

Hopefully in 2013 I can finally get to the bottom of some family photo's I was given last year.  Photo A is the one I know most about, it is of my GG Grandfather, my Grandmother and her sisters.  I have put the names underneath in the order they are standing.

Photo B and C are the mystery as I'm not 100% sure who they are of, both are postcard photo's and on the back of each there is a handwritten note saying Happy New Year (how appropriate  :) ) from Margaret and Harold.

If Margaret sent the photo's and it seems likely then would they be photo's of herself and her husband or of another family member.  I'm not 100% convinced that the women in B and C is Margaret in photo A.

The only person that i don't have to worry about in photo A is Constance (my grandmother) as she doesn't appear anywhere in B and C.  There is a gap in time between the photo's and my nan was busy with her own family.

I guess i would like other people's opinions on whether the people in the photo's could be the same people.

Many thanks

Michelle
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Re: 3 Photos but are they of the same family
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 01 January 13 01:38 GMT (UK) »
Hi Michelle :)

I have to say that before I'd read your message I thought that the lady marked as Margaret in your first photo was the bride in the other two pics...Having had a better look I still think this could be correct.  Did your Margaret marry a Harold?

Your great-grandfather appears to be standing behind and to (our) left of the married couple in the group photo :)

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Re: 3 Photos but are they of the same family
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 01 January 13 04:38 GMT (UK) »
It looks to me that Joyce's dress is in both photos, also.

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Re: 3 Photos but are they of the same family
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 01 January 13 08:58 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the responses, I'm glad that it wasn't just me seeing resemblances that weren't there  :)

I also thought that the dress Joyce is wearing in both photo's looked remarkably alike, they could be the same dress.  I'm sure the photo's are taken a few years apart so if it is the same dress then she must have saved it.

As for Margaret marrying a Harold, thats something I don't know at the moment as not much is known about her.  There was a family rumour that she ran away at a young age but if this is the case then she must have come back at some point.

I wonder if anyone would hazard a guess as to how many years there are between photo's A and B,C.

Again many thanks for the responses, keep them coming.

Michelle
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Stoke-on-Trent / Huddersfield / Devon


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Re: 3 Photos but are they of the same family
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 01 January 13 09:09 GMT (UK) »
B and C are the same day, no?

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Re: 3 Photos but are they of the same family
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 01 January 13 10:10 GMT (UK) »
I agree. They are all of the same family.

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Re: 3 Photos but are they of the same family
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 01 January 13 12:28 GMT (UK) »
Hi JamJar,

Yes B and C are of the same day.

I posted these same photo's a while ago to see if anyone could help identify the uniform and date the photo's.  Someone came back with a date around 1942 and suggested it may be a wartime wedding.

The child that is with the couple in photo C is possibly a niece/nephew rather than the couples own child, depending on how far apart the pictures were taken it could be the same child that is pictured in picture A, the child is the daughter of Elsie.

Michelle
Key / Bennett / French / Bullock / Ellis
Stoke-on-Trent / Huddersfield / Devon