Exciting discovery - clean if possible? Morris William Pay and Mabel Emily Wade

[Crumblie]

I would think that must have been quite an expensive wedding for those days. I like the cap the young gentleman on the front row is wearing or should that be the person the hat is wearing.

[IgorStrav]

I would think that must have been quite an expensive wedding for those days. I like the cap the young gentleman on the front row is wearing or should that be the person the hat is wearing.

My great uncle Ernest Pay (aged 13) is the boy under the hat.   

So far, in my efforts to identify people (and I have very few pictures of my grandmother's Wade family), I have found 28 potential attendees at the wedding for her 'side'
ie the bride's parents, her siblings and their spouses, and nephews/neices.

I have yet to count up the groom's 'side'. His siblings were all younger than him, but he had a large number of uncles and aunts and cousins.

I may start by counting all the people I can see to judge whether all, or what proportion, of these potential invitees actually attended.

Goodness me

[Cyfrifydd]

It seems an impressive wedding - might there have been a report in the local newspaper?

Richard

[Treetotal]

I have my doubts as to whether the guy next to the bride is the same person in your attachment...even in his later years, he has a full beard. Just my opinion.
BTW...Did you miss my restore 
Carol

[IgorStrav]

I have my doubts as to whether the guy next to the bride is the same person in your attachment...even in his later years, he has a full beard. Just my opinion.
BTW...Did you miss my restore 
Carol

Oh I apologise, Carol, I did miss your restore, for which many thanks indeed.  It looks very good in sepia, and the faces are getting clearer by the minute, which is going to be really helpful.  Thank you for cleaning it up - all of you restorers do such a marvellous job 

Thank you also for your views on the mystery man. If it's not James Pay, it MIGHT be my great grandfather William Thomas Wade. 

However, I do wonder whether my greatx2 grandfather James Pay might have wanted to attend the wedding of his eldest son's eldest son - and if the mystery man isn't him, I can't see him elsewhere in the photo.

Oh the questions....

[IgorStrav]

It seems an impressive wedding - might there have been a report in the local newspaper?

Richard

Thank you Richard, my thoughts exactly! 

However, irritatingly the Woolwich Gazette and Greenwich and Deptford Chronicle doesn't appear to be available in the British Newspaper Archives for 1911.

I have had a look in the BNA in London newspapers, but no luck as yet.

[Treetotal]

Not to worry Igor...I blame Crumblie as his message took it to the next page and that's why you didn't see it  You have some really lovely photos.
Carol

[a-l]

Igor what a magnificent photo with so many people, how lucky you are !

[IgorStrav]

Igor what a magnificent photo with so many people, how lucky you are !

yes, it's been really exciting finding it.   
can't quite believe I've never seen it before 

I was very hopeful of finally seeing some of my grandmother's Wade family, but it's quite hard working out who might be who......


added:  Do you think that's the vicar standing behind the bride and groom?