Do you think these photos are the same person?

[Andrew Tarr]

The features are similar but the shape of the head is different, also the ears.  But I am sure that the receding hair in the earlier photo would have receded further 25 years later !

[Gadget]

mmm -

[dublin1850]

I think they're the same man. The hairline looks the same to me, and he seems to have kept his parting in the same place.

[Gadget]

In the b&W, side by side  comparison, the bone structure of the face is so similar and it's just that there is 'more flesh on the bones' of the older man. I'm now thinking that it is the same man. 

Gadget

[maddys52]

I think it is the same man too.

[Antony1977]

Thanks all. It is confusing isn’t it.

The black and white pic is of a man known as Bill Coley ( his wife Florence is by his side on the uncropped version)

We have been trying to work out if he was Reggie Coleys best man on the wedding pic ( hopefully attached)

From speaking to family Bill Coley was older than Reggie who was  born in 1916.


So trying ( and failing to prove or disprove whether his real name is John William Coley born in 1899)

If it’s the latter then the colourised best man is 45/46 in the wedding pic and approx 80 in the black and white pic 😂 need to try and obtain death certs / dates of Bill Coley and wife Florence ( no other details known , family think she was born in Malta)

The other fly in the ointment is that Reggie referred to Bill ( in the wedding pic) as his brother.

Reggie was bought up believing his lily coley 1896-1936 was his aunt ( it was his mom, she died in Burghill Asylum from “insanity” according to the death cert and asylum records I have got, and he thought George and Sarah Coley were his parents, whereby they were actually his grandparents. Reggie was born when his mother was late teenage and unmarried

[DianaCanada]

I don’t think they are the same man.  Ears don’t change much , certainly not the basic shape.

[Andrew Tarr]

For my money, the 1970s photo looks more like the groom than the best man !

[Antony1977]

There’s more than a passing resemblance, Reggie’s son ( my fiancés father) says he looks like Reggie, however Reggie died in 1986 and we have lots of photos so can 100% say it’s not Reggie 

Reggie in the mid 1980s just before he died