Family History Photos - Great-Grandfathers

[Merry]

April 2013

Each month we will be asking members to post up family history photographs from a particular category. This month we are looking for photographs of your great-grandfathers (and the great-grandfathers of your partner and any step or adopted great-grandfathers etc!).


Photos posted on this thread will eventually be added to our 'Decades of Family History Photographs' forum in order to help others with dating old photographs. (You are welcome to post any photos you like directly to the Decades forum at any time; these monthly requests are just further encouragement!)

Please note that this thread is on an open forum so any captions to your photos may be picked up by Google searches. If you are lucky you may make a family history contact through your post! I made my best family history contact ever through a photograph caption posted on this site!

There is no restriction to the number of photographs you post each month - the more the merrier! However, please make separate posts if your photos are from different decades. Remember to caption your photograph and if you know the date or approximate date, please state that also. If you are unsure, then that is something we can discuss on the thread.

You will need to use Photobucket or a similar site to host your pictures. If possible please scan your photos at between 300 and 600dpi - if you need help with uploading your images see here:

How to upload images (http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=46496&postcount=2)

This thread gives information about scanning your images:

Scanning photographs (http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2301)

Please make sure you have the permission of any named living people in your photos to post their image.

[Langley Vale Sue]

My great grandfather Charles Key, my paternal grandmother's father.
Taken at his Golden Wedding celebration near Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada in February 1945.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s222/LVSue/charleskey1945.jpg
Charles Key : 1869 - 1946

[Langley Vale Sue]

My great grandfather Charles Key, my paternal grandmother's father.
Taken in about 1895 in Worcester, England.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s222/LVSue/CharlesKey1895.jpg
Charles Key : 1869 - 1946

[Langley Vale Sue]

My great grandfather George Washington Kilpatrick, my paternal grandfather's father.
Taken in about 1910 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s222/LVSue/GWK.jpg
George Washington Kilpatrick : 1859 - 1931


Not a great scan I'm afraid!

[Langley Vale Sue]

My OH's great grandfather William Seldon (standing on right), his paternal grandfather's father.
Taken in Broadclyst, Devon in 1912.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s222/LVSue/4genseldons-1.jpg

William Seldon (back right) 1861 - 1951

[Langley Vale Sue]

My OH's great grandfather James Williams, his maternal grandmother's father.
Taken in the early 1920s in Culworth, Northamptonshire.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s222/LVSue/JasWilliams1920.jpg

James Williams : 1860 - 1923

[Langley Vale Sue]

My great grandfather Arthur Joseph Carsons, my maternal grandmother's father (back right).
Taken in Southfields, South West London in about 1910.


http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s222/LVSue/a2a42107-2a3d-4c37-9ad3-ac6e83d4755a_zps1578b005.jpg

Arthur Joseph Carsons : 1864 - 1932

[Guinevere]

John Cottle 1869 - 1893

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m185/Guinevere13_2006/family%20photos/CottleJohnjr.jpg

Taken in the 1880s

[Guinevere]

George Palmer 1865 - 1922

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m185/Guinevere13_2006/family%20photos/PalmerGeorgeandTom.jpg

Taken around 1915

[Shona]

My great-grandfather, John Milloy, crofter and parish beadle, outside the family croft in Kintyre with his wife Charlotte and daughters.

Taken about 1910.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u654/shonamcisaac/MillloyfamilyatChleit2_zps7c275b44.jpg

[Merry]

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/HenryClark2.jpg (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/merry_monty_montgomery/media/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/HenryClark2.jpg.html)

This is my mother's paternal grandfather, Henry Robert Clark, 1854-1938. The photo was taken about 1918-1920.

Henry was a schoolmaster at Sidcot Quaker School in Somerset for about 40 years.

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/EdwinMaynard2.jpg (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/merry_monty_montgomery/media/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/EdwinMaynard2.jpg.html)

This is my mother's maternal grandfather, Edwin Maynard, 1837-1921. The photo was taken about the same time as the one of Henry, above.

Edwin worked in his father's grocer's shop at Whittlesford in Cambridgeshire until the mid-1870s. After this he moved to London for a while before settling in Twickenham where he became the librarian at the newly formed public library. My gran (his daughter) always described him as the "Chief Librarian", but he was actually the only one!!

[Merry]

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/SamuelJoannaBurchill2.jpg (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/merry_monty_montgomery/media/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/SamuelJoannaBurchill2.jpg.html)

This is my father's paternal grandfather, Samuel Charles Burchill, 1855-1921 with his wife and six children. The photo was taken about 1900. Samuel lived in Bristol and was a train driver for the Great Western Railway. It is said he drove the first passenger train through the Severn Tunnel, but I don't know if that's true.

I don't have a photo of my father's maternal grandfather!

[marquette]

This is my great grandfather William Richard Collis 1861-1922

He is the man in the hat standing. Beside him is his wife Laura Sophia (nee Martin).
The caption says they are in Kruegersdorf South Africa. Two of the seated young people are their children. I don't know when it was taken or why they were in South Africa, as they lived in Sydney Australia.

http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w543/familygenie19/CollisfamilyatKrugersdorpSA_zpsc260cad1.jpg (http://s1329.photobucket.com/user/familygenie19/media/CollisfamilyatKrugersdorpSA_zpsc260cad1.jpg.html)

[marquette]

This is my Great grandfather Reuben Edward Page (1860-1924) and his second wife Lily Mary Ann (nee Dawson) (1872-1954).

http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w543/familygenie19/ReubenandLilyPage_zpscbefe220.jpg (http://s1329.photobucket.com/user/familygenie19/media/ReubenandLilyPage_zpscbefe220.jpg.html)

I love this photo of his family. This is a family afternoon tea in Auburn Sydney. Reuben is seated in the deck chair on the left. I think it was taken around 1913-14 judging by the children.

http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w543/familygenie19/AfternoonTeaatAuburn_zps9f00fcce.jpg (http://s1329.photobucket.com/user/familygenie19/media/AfternoonTeaatAuburn_zps9f00fcce.jpg.html)

[Merry]

Might the South Africa photo be just pre-WW1? I'm going by their clothing, but perhaps you can work out if that's likely by the ages of the two children?

Is the photo of Reuben and Lily their wedding photo? (she is showing off her left hand!)

[marquette]

Might the South Africa photo be just pre-WW1? I'm going by their clothing, but perhaps you can work out if that's likely by the ages of the two children?

Is the photo of Reuben and Lily their wedding photo? (she is showing off her left hand!)

I cannot find the notes about which children they are, but I think it was the youngest two, Kit b 1898 and Philip b 1904, which would make it after WW1. So a narrower time frame of 1919-1922. I will have to find the other family photos and compare to see if I can work out which children they were. Other possibilties are Edith b 1888, Elsie b 1891, and Arthur b 1890. I am not even sure which young man is the son, and who the others are.

William worked for the NSW Mines Dept and was in a fairlly senior position by then, so many they went to SA to look at mining or through connections at work?

Yes, it could be Reuben and Lily's wedding photo, it seems to be the only reason that people had formal photos taken at that time (1896).

There are so few photos of families like the afternoon tea in the backyard one, I suspect that my grandmother must have taken this one - and Dad says they must have been well off to afford a camera in those days!

[Shona]

Krugersdorp was founded in 1887 after gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand ridge and the need arose for a major town in the west of the reef. The government bought part of the Paardekraal farm and named the new town after the Transvaal President Paul Kruger. The mines were closed during the Boer War, during which the British set up a concentration for Boer families at Krugersdorp.

The clothes in the photo look Pre-WW1.

The three young men are all dressed similarly in what seems to be working clothing. The young women is simply dressed. Could they be staff or people who worked for William Collis?

[Shona]

My great-grandfather, John Milloy, and his wife, Charlotte Nash, taken on their wedding day in Bristol in 1892. It was the only time that John, a Gaelic-speaking crofter, left Scotland. Shame about the poor quality of the photo.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u654/shonamcisaac/JohnMilloyandCharlotteNash-weddingday1892_zps4f2fc801.jpg (http://s1326.photobucket.com/user/shonamcisaac/media/JohnMilloyandCharlotteNash-weddingday1892_zps4f2fc801.jpg.html)

[Merry]

It was the only time that John, a Gaelic-speaking crofter, left Scotland.

Do you know how they came to meet. Shona?

[Shona]

Great-grandfather, William Nicol, pictured with his wife Robina, and youngest son, John. Picture taken c1913

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u654/shonamcisaac/1cad06bd-1eb2-49a0-8522-88acf25a4b38_zps5dd365d1.jpg (http://s1326.photobucket.com/user/shonamcisaac/media/1cad06bd-1eb2-49a0-8522-88acf25a4b38_zps5dd365d1.jpg.html)

[Shona]

Do you know how they came to meet. Shona?

It's a mystery, Merry!

Charlotte's family were from Somerset/Devon.

One of my uncles did say that he heard that Charlotte was a lady's maid at Crubadale Lodge in Kintyre, which was built as a Victorian hunting lodge and located about a mile away from the croft where John Milloy lived.

In England, Charlotte was a lady's maid to some very wealthy families. Whether she was working permanently at Crubasdale or just there for the 'season', we don't know.

However, there are acccounts of the preparation for the hunting season. Servants were sent ahead with all the luggage, guns, etc, to ready the lodges.

For a brief period, John Milloy set up his own business as a carrier. He would meet the steamers when they docked at Campbeltown or Tarbert to take the servants and luggage to the hunting lodges - or to the country houses if the visitors were guests of one of the local big-wigs.

[Merry]

When you think of the chances of them getting together it's amazing you are here! lol :D

[Shona]

The family like to think of it as a Victorian holiday romance.

[Merry]

lol I shouldn't be here either as my maternal grandparents met by chance on a railway station hundreds of miles from his home.

As far as I know most of my other ancestors did stand a reasonable probability of finding each other, but it's strange how one chance missed would mean the future for the line would be so different - and that's excluding worrying about which eggs get fertilized etc etc!

[Margaret in Burton]

I really must get round to putting my great grandad's pics on here, keep forgetting. Can only do one out of the four anyway.

[Rachel]

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o228/rachelscand/ZGeorgeoval_zps556e8004.jpg (http://s121.photobucket.com/user/rachelscand/media/ZGeorgeoval_zps556e8004.jpg.html)

George 1858 - 1921

[Muggins in Sussex]

My "adoptive great-grandfather, Thomas Wolstencroft Rathbone, with his wife, Elizabeth -at least one of his wives, Elizabeth, as he had two.

I'm afraid I don't know the date.

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o112/djangocrystal/ThomasElizabeth.jpg (http://s118.photobucket.com/user/djangocrystal/media/ThomasElizabeth.jpg.html)

[Shona]

My "adoptive great-grandfather, Thomas Wolstencroft Rathbone, with his wife, Elizabeth -at least one of his wives, Elizabeth, as he had two.

I'm afraid I don't know the date.

The photographer was George Vernon Yates.

I'll see if I can find out when he was active.

[Muggins in Sussex]

Thanks Shona - I have found a George Vernon Yates a George V Yates and a GV Yates, photographers in Sheffield, and I am not sure whether they are the same person, or father & sons! - there is a link here - http://www.sheffieldindexers.com/Links/Links_PhotoSites.html

[Shona]

Thanks Shona - I have found a George Vernon Yates and a GV Yates, photographers in Sheffield, and I am not sure whether they are the same person, or father & son! - there is a link here - http://www.sheffieldindexers.com/Links/Links_PhotoSites.html

George Vernon Yates, Photographer, Davy's Buildings, Fargate, Sheffield, appears in the 1893 Kelly's Directory.

[Muggins in Sussex]

Thanks Shona :)

I think the three Yates photographers must all be the same person then - on the link on the Sheffield Indexers site, he seems to be listed as GV Yates in the 1893 Kelly's Directory :confused:

[Muggins in Sussex]

Here is another one of William, which I am told was taken in 1897 - he looks quite a lot older in this one - I mean Thomas - sorry

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o112/djangocrystal/PasleywithOliveJeannie.jpg (http://s118.photobucket.com/user/djangocrystal/media/PasleywithOliveJeannie.jpg.html)

[Margaret in Burton]

OH's great grandfather James Cox 1847-1902. Lived in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/CoxJames-1_zps8a996c87.jpg (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/CoxJames-1_zps8a996c87.jpg.html)

[Margaret in Burton]

My great grandfather George Barks 1878-1929. Born in Balderton, Notts and moved to Burton c 1903

This one was taken pre 1903 when he was a malster for James Hole and Co. in Notts. That's him centre front


http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/BarksGeorgecentrefront_zps5ec30692.jpg (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/BarksGeorgecentrefront_zps5ec30692.jpg.html)

[Margaret in Burton]

George in later years.

He worked as a malster for Yeoman Cherry and Curtis in Burton.


George is standing front right, no jacket and wearing braces.


http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/BarksGeorge3rdfromrightampworkmatesYeomanCherryamp Curtis_zpsbd89f960.jpg (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/BarksGeorge3rdfromrightampworkmatesYeomanCherryamp Curtis_zpsbd89f960.jpg.html)


This one was as a member of Burton Albion Tug of War team. George is seated on the right.


http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/BarksGeorgeseatedfarrightTugofWarteam2_zps12265eba .jpg (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/BarksGeorgeseatedfarrightTugofWarteam2_zps12265eba .jpg.html)


Studio photo of him, one of those on a large piece of cardboard.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/BarksGeorge2-1_zpsf0357fa4.jpg (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/BarksGeorge2-1_zpsf0357fa4.jpg.html)

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