Date the ancestors most Likely my GGGrandmother Mrs Brooks

[LauraLS]

Hello,

I have some photographs of ancestors and I'm pretty sure I know who's who but if I knew when the photos were likely to have been taken, it would help. 

This isn't a photo, but I reckon her to be my great x 5 grandmother, born around 1785:



Most likely my great x 3 grandmother, born 1839:



I think these are my great great grandparents, born in the early to mid 1860s:



If anyone could help me out, I'd be very happy.

Thanks! 

[Treetotal]

Hi Laura...The first one looks like it could be and 1860s Carte De Visite copy of a lithograph of a sketch ...the second is either a tinted Ambrotype,Tintype or Daguerrotype late 1850s or early 1860s and I think the last one is 1870s...Jim may be on later and will be more accurate:

http://www.skinnerinc.com/news/blog/daguerreotypes-ambrotypes-tintypes-the-rise-of-early-photography/

Carol

[jim1]

1st. one could be anytime 1820's-40's so would fit with someone born around the 1780's.
The print looks early 1900's.
2nd. one an 1850's Ambrotype as Carol mentioned. difficult to be more precise as this was pretty much the uniform of that decade however I suspect mid-late.
The last has a start date of late 1870's. The man's jacket style suggests 1880's.
If you have this we need to see all of it as then we can narrow down the date.

[LauraLS]

Hi Laura...The first one looks like it could be and 1860s Carte De Visite copy of a lithograph of a sketch ...the second is either a tinted Ambrotype,Tintype or Daguerrotype late 1850s or early 1860s and I think the last one is 1870s...Jim may be on later and will be more accurate:

http://www.skinnerinc.com/news/blog/daguerreotypes-ambrotypes-tintypes-the-rise-of-early-photography/

Carol

1st. one could be anytime 1820's-40's so would fit with someone born around the 1780's.
The print looks early 1900's.
2nd. one an 1850's Ambrotype as Carol mentioned. difficult to be more precise as this was pretty much the uniform of that decade however I suspect mid-late.
The last has a start date of late 1870's. The man's jacket style suggests 1880's.
If you have this we need to see all of it as then we can narrow down the date.

Thank you both. 

There is another photograph that I'm 99% sure is the middle lady inscribed on the back it says "Charlotte, the best looking of the family, G." -Which is interesting, as her husband's name was Henry.  My great x 3 grandmother's name was Charlotte Newton/Brookes, so that's why I assumed it was her.  There is a photo in the case alongside Charlotte, who I guessed was probably Henry, but I only have a small image:



Is there a chance it could be from the 1860s or would you say 1850s is definite? 

It's my grandad who holds all of the photographs, but I think the image of the bottom one is the full photograph unfortunately.