Author Topic: photo of lady and man  (Read 2389 times)

Offline heath

  • RootsChat Senior
  • ****
  • Posts: 355
    • View Profile
photo of lady and man
« on: Tuesday 04 April 23 04:56 BST (UK) »
I believe that this photo to have been taken in Scotland.  Would it be a photo of two people taken after a wedding.  The man holding marriage license.  ie husband and wife? could you please give me a date - era

Offline Treetotal

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 28,517
    • View Profile
Re: photo of lady and man
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 04 April 23 23:17 BST (UK) »
I would suggest this is Edwardian, it could be a wedding photo.
Carol
CAPES Hull. KIRK  Leeds, Hull. JONES  Wales,  Lancashire. CARROLL Ireland, Lancashire, U.S.A. BROUGHTON Leicester, Goole, Hull BORRILL  Lincolnshire, Durham, Hull. GROOM  Wishbech, Hull. ANTHONY St. John's Nfld. BUCKNALL Lincolnshire, Hull. BUTT Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. PARSONS  Western Bay, Newfoundland. MONAGHAN  Ireland, U.S.A. PERRY Cheshire, Liverpool.
 
RESTORERS:PLEASE DO NOT USE MY RESTORES WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION - THANK YOU

Offline Gadget

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 57,896
    • View Profile
Re: photo of lady and man
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 04 April 23 23:33 BST (UK) »
It could be a wedding photo. Do I see a possible pregnancy?

I agree with Carol about the date. (add -bow tie might suggest later - into the early 1910s)


Gadget
Census &  BMD information Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk and GROS - www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

***Restorers - Please do not use my restores without my permission. Thanks***

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=877762.0

Offline ColinBignell

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 53
  • Image licenced from iStock
    • View Profile
Re: photo of lady and man
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 04 April 23 23:43 BST (UK) »
Queen Victoria popularised white as the colour to wear at weddings and that dress looks black, which I would associate with funerals. I'm not an horticulturalist, but if those flowers are lilies, that would also suggest a funeral.
BIGNELL Oxon, Newport Pagnell Bucks, Highgate, Islington North London
MIDDLETON King's Lynn Norfolk
WILKINSON Islington North London
FARNBANK Berks, Middx
REYNOLDS Newport Pagnell Bucks
GOODING Middx
JEROME Berks
BARKER King's Lynn Norfolk


Offline Ian Nelson

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,208
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: photo of lady and man
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 05 April 23 09:37 BST (UK) »
The setting looks like a photographer's studio ... would that be a normal setting for a wedding or a funeral ?

Also, he's doesn't appear to be wearing a ring but has a bright button badge in his lapel.
Norfolk, Nelsons of Gt Ryburgh, Gooch, Howman, COLLISONS of Norfolk and Auchlunie Aberdeen ,  Ainger, Couzens, Batrick (Norfolk & Dorset), Tubby of Poringland, Norwich ( also of Yorkshire) Cathcarts of Dublin, Ireland, Lancashire & Isle of Wight) Dickinsons of Morecambe and Lancaster, Wilson of Poulton-le-Sands and Broughton.  Wilson - Ffrance of Rawcliffe,  Mitchells of Isle of Wight. Hair of Ayrshire, Williamson of Tradeston, Glasgow. Nelsons in Australia with Great Ryburgh and Haywards Heath

Offline Viktoria

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 4,088
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: photo of lady and man
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 05 April 23 10:22 BST (UK) »
It looks like a church doorway to me, a modest town church, but I think it is a scene against a wall to suggest a nicer setting so probably a studio.
Do I see a carpet up steps?
White was not always worn, , many could only afford their best clothes.
My paternal grandmother wore a tweed dress with leg of mutton sleeves ,back in 1896, and it was a Church wedding and no pregnancy. 
The bride does not look very young so perhaps a second marriage , but my grandmother was 30 when she married,born 1866.

Not all men wore/wear rings , my O,H didn’t .
It could be after a funeral , but then why a photo?
Hope  you get more info.Viktoria.

Offline ColinBignell

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 53
  • Image licenced from iStock
    • View Profile
Re: photo of lady and man
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 05 April 23 10:42 BST (UK) »

Also, he's doesn't appear to be wearing a ring but has a bright button badge in his lapel.

I wouldn't expect to see a man wearing a wedding ring until fairly recent times. It certainly isn't something men of my generation would be likely to do.

However, a random thought: I wonder if the roll of paper in his hand and the badge signify that he has taken the pledge.
BIGNELL Oxon, Newport Pagnell Bucks, Highgate, Islington North London
MIDDLETON King's Lynn Norfolk
WILKINSON Islington North London
FARNBANK Berks, Middx
REYNOLDS Newport Pagnell Bucks
GOODING Middx
JEROME Berks
BARKER King's Lynn Norfolk

Offline Gadget

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 57,896
    • View Profile
Re: photo of lady and man
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 05 April 23 10:49 BST (UK) »
Why would she be carrying a flower??

Add  - and he a scroll??
Census &  BMD information Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk and GROS - www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

***Restorers - Please do not use my restores without my permission. Thanks***

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=877762.0

Offline ColinBignell

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 53
  • Image licenced from iStock
    • View Profile
Re: photo of lady and man
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 05 April 23 11:10 BST (UK) »
Why would she be carrying a flower??

Add  - and he a scroll??

It was only a random thought, but I wondered if the scroll might be the pledge he had signed. Whether or not white flowers might be a symbol of temperance I cannot say. There were lots of different temperance movements and they are poorly documented.
BIGNELL Oxon, Newport Pagnell Bucks, Highgate, Islington North London
MIDDLETON King's Lynn Norfolk
WILKINSON Islington North London
FARNBANK Berks, Middx
REYNOLDS Newport Pagnell Bucks
GOODING Middx
JEROME Berks
BARKER King's Lynn Norfolk