Photo stored away in Ancestors photo collection

[retepniltub]

This is a photo that is part of a collection started by my gt grandfather. Whilst I can identify 99% of them this is a complete mystery as I am sure they are of another unrelated family.
On the back of the card is a very very faint stamped mark, I can read the words "photography number 402" and the photographer is "J T......." at the "....... COTTAGE". Is it FERN COTTAGE ?
Its a long shot but has anyone seen any stamp mark like this.  I would be interested to know the date when the photo was taken.  Many thanks ....

[Treetotal]

Hi...I have asked a moderator to move this to the Photo Restoration & Dating board for a more informed response. Lovely photo.
Carol

[Pinetree]

By fiddling with the contrast I'm coming up with;

J TURN B? U? LL

Photographer and artist

Fern Cottage

G(C?)AR??STON

Do you have any idea of a possible area to help with a guess of the place name?

Pinetree

[Pinetree]

Think I've got it

J(oseph) Turrill Fern Cottage GARSINGTON  - (Oxon)

There was a photo of a cricket match for sale online by this artist c.1900.  Found another snippet that says he was a market gardener and also the village photographer most active in the last two decades of the 19c

Does that help?

Pinetree

[retepniltub]

That is a great help and certainly more than I was expecting. The family was based in Northamptonshire, so Oxfordshire being an adjoining county makes for some sort of sense.
The family travelled a lot but it was always more northern ie Yorkshire so this presents a problem still, the family do not look like relatives and I would say are not.
The original scan I have done is a better quality but due to the understandable limits set I could not get it any better.
Anyway Pinetree with this information though something will/may trigger an explanation so I thank you for your very valuable help.    ... Peter

[Pinetree]

I get the impression he was a local photographer so had a quick look at the 1901 Garsington census on the basis the photograph may have been taken there.

There is one lady from Kings Sutton, Northamptonshire - she was Mary Elizabeth Jeffery b.1864 married Arthur Blay a farmer in 1887.  Just thought I'd mention her in case the name means anything.

Pinetree