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I find old family photographs completely fascinating. When you can add a story to a picture, know what is going on and how one person is related to another, it gives it a whole new dimension. And to think that, without these people, you wouldn't be here... it's just amazing.
I don't actually know who this is. I find it very baffling. The picture is probably taken somewhere between 1905 and 1910 but it's a very peculiar dress so it's hard for little old me to date. I can't think of any relatives who were born during those dates either. I shall have to ask my grandmother.
These are my great great grandparents - as far as I know, they're my mother's mother's mother's father's parents. They certainly look like my mother's mother's mother's father. That's quite confusing. But in that case, they will be named Starkie.
Definitely the same man again. It's a definite shame about the quality. I've touched it up a bit but I can't be bothered to go to great lengths to get this picture looking perfect. I am a bad great great granddaughter.
I think the young man on the far right is my great-uncle Arthur who was killed at the Somme. It's definitely a picture of his conscription. On the back is written the following.
'PS If you can spare the time you might send me a few buns or any thing of that kind, as we don't get any supper and they come in very handy for that. I get one from Janie every week but that does not go very far. So bye bye once more, Arthur.'
Written over that in a child's handwriting are the words 'Dear Dad I do love to kiss all these babies but Dad the best with love Connie' which makes absolutely no sense. And Connie was only two or three when her father was died (and only a tiny baby when the postcard was sent) so it was probably added on later.
She definitely has the family look and, if you ask me, she looks a great deal like the gentleman in this photo so she is possibly the young girl or another daughter.
I don't actually know who this is. I find it very baffling. The picture is probably taken somewhere between 1905 and 1910 but it's a very peculiar dress so it's hard for little old me to date. I can't think of any relatives who were born during those dates either. I shall have to ask my grandmother.
These are my great great grandparents - as far as I know, they're my mother's mother's mother's father's parents. They certainly look like my mother's mother's mother's father. That's quite confusing. But in that case, they will be named Starkie.
Definitely the same man again. It's a definite shame about the quality. I've touched it up a bit but I can't be bothered to go to great lengths to get this picture looking perfect. I am a bad great great granddaughter.
I think the young man on the far right is my great-uncle Arthur who was killed at the Somme. It's definitely a picture of his conscription. On the back is written the following.
'PS If you can spare the time you might send me a few buns or any thing of that kind, as we don't get any supper and they come in very handy for that. I get one from Janie every week but that does not go very far. So bye bye once more, Arthur.'
Written over that in a child's handwriting are the words 'Dear Dad I do love to kiss all these babies but Dad the best with love Connie' which makes absolutely no sense. And Connie was only two or three when her father was died (and only a tiny baby when the postcard was sent) so it was probably added on later.
She definitely has the family look and, if you ask me, she looks a great deal like the gentleman in this photo so she is possibly the young girl or another daughter.
