Photo's found at carboot sale.

[mare]

Number 18;- On the back of the photo it say's Jack. 15-3-19 It also say's L/Cpl,Ray. Baghdad. at the foot of the photo but it is not showing on this scan.

Very faint image but does compare well with #8

Number 8;- L/Cpl. J.W. Ray. Civil police, Baghdad.

Eliza and Amy's brother JAMES RAY born 1877 Hartfield Sussex.

Son John William James RAY-is, I think,on the WW1 Service Records as just John RAY with an Edenbridge address. The age is out but most other things fit.

I believe it was his sister Amy who married William PAYNE.

Maureen

Jack and John are interchangeable ... James, don't think so

[MaureeninNY]

Harriet Selina RAY (b 1892)-daughter of John William RAY marries Richard Alfred Astley(that's how it's transcribed on A* but it looks like it starts with an H to me) SANDFORD age 31 Private A.S.C. (M.T.?) father Richard Sandford occ:tin smith.
  3 Jun 1917 at Brondesbury Christ Church (Middlesex) witnesses Sibyl EARL and Maud SANDFORD.

Maureen

[MaureeninNY]

 
Just noticed the date of the marriage vs the date of the photo.

So it's their wedding day!

Just to note-he seems to have been born as Alfred Richard H SANDFORD.

Father Richard-mother Emma.


Maureen

[mare]

That's brilliant Maureen ... wedding day so perhaps hence the reference to Mr and Mrs Sandford

Wonder if there are two families of Rays ... with the John v James    and now Harriet family of John William Ray

not amongst the names already mentioned but may well be more family or cousins 

E Ray is Eliza Ann Ray daughter of Annie Martha. Born 1881 she was living at  Gilbridge Chiddingstone in 1911. That is about 4 miles from Leigh.

She had 3 younger sisters Ellen 1886, Mary A 1888 and Amy 1890.

Amy RAY married William PAYNE  1914 in Tonbridge, Kent

mother Annie Martha

( again modified to clarify )

[MaureeninNY]

You really had to ask,didn't you,mare?

I think groom got a little mixed in generations..but same family.

In 1881 James and Annie M RAY have a 13 yr old son John. He's the one who goes on to have the family we're looking at. His family with wife Mary A are:

All born in Sevenoaks Reg District:
RAY
Annie Mary A  1890
Harriet Selina 1892>>>>> married SANDFORD
Amy 1893>>>> married William PAYNE
Edith Caroline 1895
John William J 1897  the L/CPL in B*dad
Frank Charles 1901
Frederick Robert 1903
Ellen Eliza 1904
Marjorie Ethel 1909

Could be more of them but I'm stopping at 1911.


Maureen

[mare]

Well done for the sort out ... unmuddled me as an observer/looker-upperer-amateur.

Generations are certainly easy to confuse though, especially when names get repetitive.   

[mare]

Makes #1 Miss E Ray    either Ellen Eliza b 1904 or Edith Caroline b 1895 

added ... so I'll say Edith

[youngtug]

Back of photo #12;

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Back of photo #15;