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Rachel A

25-05-11, 14:55

These two girls are possibly the nieces (or friends?) of my great grandmother who was born in 1875. She was the oldest of her siblings (born up to 1890). So they would have been having children from 1900 to the 1920s.

I'm trying to work out who these two girls are. I reckon that the photo was taken during WW1 and that they are around 7 to 10 years old.

Just wanted other's thoughts please, as I'm having trouble trying to find names to fit (so may well be friends after all)... :confused:

Phoenix

26-05-11, 11:57

You've got the name of the photographer, which ought to help as I assume it is embossed over the photo?

The boots, dropped waists & flapper bows suggest a similar date to Merry's photo.

I assume, since young women were called flappers in the 1920s after the large bows they had worn in childhood, that this must have been a fairly widespread but short-lived fashion.

Rachel A

26-05-11, 12:16

:o I've only just spotted the name of the photographer!

I received it quite small (and wonky), so had to blow it up and crop to make it straight and missed an obvious clue! :d

Here's the blow up of the photograph

I can't actually read the name to be honest!! ;( so hopefully someone can!

Just been looking at Merry's thread, so pre-WW1... 1911-12?

kiterunner

26-05-11, 12:21

Peter Moss something of Ilfracombe?

kiterunner

26-05-11, 12:32

I've had a look through the Ilfracombe bit of Kelly's Directory 1914 and I can't see anything like in there.

Rachel A

26-05-11, 12:44

Thanks Kate :)

I can't find anything through Google... and Historical Directories is on the go slow...

kiterunner

26-05-11, 12:45

Ah, just realised it was there in 1914! Also in 1919.

Phillipse & Lees. I didn't realise there was an & attached to an L at first!

Rachel A

26-05-11, 13:16

Thanks Kate... You have better eyesight then me, and Historical Directories still isn't working for me :)

Just got to work out who they are now!! :d

(Which isn't helped because they probably were on holiday when it was taken!!)

Rachel A

12-06-11, 09:51

Can someone locate this couple in 1911 please, as they maybe the parents of these two girls :)

Alice Spicer Cooper born c1883 Plumpton (Lewes), Sussex
& George Cooper
Married in June qtr 1908 in Eastbourne, Sussex.

Many thanks :)

Margaret in Burton

12-06-11, 10:12

Rachel A

12-06-11, 10:33

Hmmm. Thanks Margaret :)

Been looking at FreeBMD and there's quite a few Coopers MMN Spicer for that period.

I have to say that I laughed out loud when I discovered an Alice Cooper in my tree! :d

kiterunner

12-06-11, 10:49

I can't find them either, sorry.

Rachel A

12-06-11, 10:57

Hmmm. Thanks Margaret :)

Been looking at FreeBMD and there's quite a few Coopers MMN Spicer for that period.

I have to say that I laughed out loud when I discovered an Alice Cooper in my tree! :d

Oops, I meant to have said Cooper mmn Davies :o

Otherwise she would have been Alice Spicer Spicer :d

Again loads of hits on FreeBMD :confused:

Thanks for looking Kate :)

Merry

12-06-11, 14:11

I don't know if this is them or not?

30 Duke Street Eastbourne, Sussex

George Cooper head 30 married fireman b Eastbourne
Alace (sic) Cooper wife 28 married 4,1,1,0, b Eastbourne
George Cooper son 1 b Eastbourne

Rachel A

12-06-11, 15:08

Oooooooooohhhhh, could be Merry :)

Interesting that he was a firemen as I have a (possible) volunteer fireman in this family too :)

kiterunner

12-06-11, 15:11

Fireman on the census doesn't always mean firefighter; it can be someone who worked on steam engines. I'm not sure which it would be in 1911.

Rachel A

12-06-11, 15:16

That's true. He could have been a fireman on the railways.

Rachel A

12-06-11, 15:16

Unfortunately, Duke Street no longer exists, as well.