Family History Photos - Great-Grandmothers

[Merry]

May 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-grandmothers (and the great-grandmothers of your partner and any step or adopted great-grandmothers 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 paternal grandmother's mother. Taken in 1893 or 1894
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s222/LVSue/JessieLloyd1893.jpg (http://s153.photobucket.com/user/LVSue/media/JessieLloyd1893.jpg.html)

Jessie Lloyd 9 April 1873 - 19 May 1948
She married Charles Key in Avenbury, Herefordshire in 1895 and they had 2 sons and a daughter. They emigrated to Saskatchewan, Canada in 1911 and homesteaded near Biggar. Their elder son, Sam, died in 1912 aged 16 and their younger son, Ted, was killed in WW1 in 1918 just after his 20th birthday.
Charles & Jessie celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary on 21 February 1945.

[Langley Vale Sue]

Jessie Kilpatrick (nee Lloyd).
Taken on her Golden Wedding anniversary on 21 February 1945 near Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada. My paternal grandmother's mother.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s222/LVSue/4ea7265d-b7d7-4a3e-bf08-deb60a25bb20_zpsf3b4dd46.jpg (http://s153.photobucket.com/user/LVSue/media/4ea7265d-b7d7-4a3e-bf08-deb60a25bb20_zpsf3b4dd46.jpg.html)

[Langley Vale Sue]

Ellen Victoria Carsons - nee Phillips - (Nellie) 10 April 1863 - 5 February 1952.
Taken in the 1940s. My maternal grandmother's mother.


http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s222/LVSue/Grandmacarsons.jpg (http://s153.photobucket.com/user/LVSue/media/Grandmacarsons.jpg.html)

She was very deaf in her later years and used a horn ear trumpet. I vividly remember shouting down it when I was a toddler and her telling me not to shout as she wasn't that deaf!

[Langley Vale Sue]

Ellen Victoria Carsons - nee Phillips - (Nellie) pictured in 1950 with her daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughter (me!).

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s222/LVSue/4gencarsons-2.jpg (http://s153.photobucket.com/user/LVSue/media/4gencarsons-2.jpg.html)

[Guinevere]

Eliza Ann Howard (Later Capps)
1848 - 1926

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m185/Guinevere13_2006/family%20photos/HowardElizaAnn_zps51658b6b.jpg

Taken early 1920s

[Guinevere]

Elizabeth Ann Turrell (again)
with her youngest son and some grandchildren

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m185/Guinevere13_2006/family%20photos/EdmondsElizabethampgchildren_zps0beb50b3.jpg

Taken about 1888.

[Guinevere]

Caroline Hurley (later Cottle)
1862 - 1947

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m185/Guinevere13_2006/family%20photos/HurleyCaroline-1_zps864d9c59.jpg

Taken in 1889

[Langley Vale Sue]

Emma Kilpatrick (nee Gumbert) taken about 1895 in Canada. She was my paternal grandfather's mother.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s222/LVSue/EmmaGumbert.gif (http://s153.photobucket.com/user/LVSue/media/EmmaGumbert.gif.html)

According to family legend, Emma was adopted by a family of German descent (George & Sophia Gumbert) from Pennsylvania, USA, although they are known to have lived in Ontario, Canada at the time of Emma's marriage in 1884. Emma died in about 1903, aged about 40, shortly after having her 5th child, her only daughter. The family were living in North Dakota, USA, in the 1900 census and moved back to Canada sometime before 1906. We have not been able to find Emma's death or burial or the birth of her daughter Ella.

[Shona]

Isabella 'Bell' McGlary, nee Williamson

Photo taken in 1960 - that's me on her knee!

If you look closely, she is wearing a heart-shaped locket around her neck - a gift to her from my great-grandfather, John McGlary.

When Granny McGlary passed away, she left the locket to my mum. It contained one of the few photos we have of John.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u654/shonamcisaac/593204a0-ec6e-4b13-8978-223c9672e7c2_zps2e1cd4b1.jpg (http://s1326.photobucket.com/user/shonamcisaac/media/593204a0-ec6e-4b13-8978-223c9672e7c2_zps2e1cd4b1.jpg.html)

[Sunny Kate]

Adelaide Brown nee Barlow, my maternal great-grandmother.

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd97/francat/barlow_adelaidesepiaweb.jpg (http://s221.photobucket.com/user/francat/media/barlow_adelaidesepiaweb.jpg.html)

She was born in 1856 at the goldrush township of Tambaroora, NSW, Australia and died at Newtown in Sydney in 1920. This photo was probably taken at Hill End, NSW in about 1878.

[Shona]

Ellen Victoria Carsons - nee Phillips - (Nellie) pictured in 1950 with her daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughter (me!).

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s222/LVSue/4gencarsons-2.jpg (http://s153.photobucket.com/user/LVSue/media/4gencarsons-2.jpg.html)

I love those four generation photos.

[Merry]

This is my father's maternal grandmother, Annie Mitchell, nee Allen. Annie was born in about 1844 (not registered) in Bristol. She was the second wife of stone mason and publican, Edwin Flower Mitchell, who she married in 1879. Her only surviving child was my grandmother, Florence. Annie died in 1926 aged 82.

This photo was taken in the 1890s.

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m13/merry_monty_montgomery/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/AnnieAllen2.jpg (http://s100.photobucket.com/user/merry_monty_montgomery/media/My%20Family%20History%20Photos/AnnieAllen2.jpg.html)

This is my father's paternal grandmother, Johanna Burchill, nee Sage. Johanna was born in 1853 in Chew Magna, Somerset and married Samuel Charles Burchill in 1879. The had six children (pictured), the oldest being my grandfather, George. Johanna died in 1928 aged 74.

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)

[Merry]

This is my mother's paternal grandmother, Mary Louisa Buck, nee Clark. Mary was born into a Quaker family in 1860 at Neithrop near Banbury, Oxfordshire. She worked as a governess of the children of the headmaster of Sidcot (Quaker) School in Somerset where she met her future husband, Henry Robert Clark, who she married in 1884. Mary died in 1928 at Winscombe in Somerset. I think this photograph was taken just before her marriage in 1884.

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

[Margaret in Burton]

Alice Mortlock nee Flack 1847-1925. Born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Moved to Burton after her marriage in 1874.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/FlackAlice-1_zps43b4dbe8.png (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/FlackAlice-1_zps43b4dbe8.png.html)

[Margaret in Burton]

Phillis Helena Newey nee Rust 1858-1903. Born in London, moved to Burton c 1881.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/PhillisNeweyneeRust-1_zps2b7c8395.jpg (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/PhillisNeweyneeRust-1_zps2b7c8395.jpg.html)

[Margaret in Burton]

Ann Birch 1862-1935. Born Solihull, Warwickshire moved to Burton c 1881

She was married 3 times, firstly to James Barker, then to Thomas Green then to my great grandfather Thomas Henry Yates.

Ann is on the right with her sister Emma and brother in law Henry Edwards (who I think looks like Albert Steptoe. :d

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/BirchAnnfarrightEmmaandHenryEdwardsneeBirch_zps8e9 ac0b9.jpg (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/BirchAnnfarrightEmmaandHenryEdwardsneeBirch_zps8e9 ac0b9.jpg.html)

This one was taken about 1931. The baby is my father.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/AnnYatesneeBirch_zpsb0d63ca9.jpg (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/AnnYatesneeBirch_zpsb0d63ca9.jpg.html)

[Margaret in Burton]

I think this would been taken late 1910's or early 1920's. Ann on the left and her daughter Marion who was born in 1900. The children are my dad and his eldest sister.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/BirchAnnYatesMarianYatesSydneyRaymondampYatesPhyll isAnnie_zps8913cee5.jpg (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/BirchAnnYatesMarianYatesSydneyRaymondampYatesPhyll isAnnie_zps8913cee5.jpg.html)

[Margaret in Burton]

Hannah Sharratt 1875-1955. She was married twice, firstly to my OH's great grandfather William Brewer and then to Alfred Bamford. Born in Hoar Cross, Staffordshire and died in Burton.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/SharrattHannahlaterBrewerthenBamford-1_zps498a7236.png (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/SharrattHannahlaterBrewerthenBamford-1_zps498a7236.png.html)

[Margaret in Burton]

Ann Elizabeth Smith 1869-1941. Burton born and bred. Married twice firstly to OH's great grandfather Vincent Stanbridge then to Frederick William Powell. Someone has been cut off the photo but you can just see an arm. Perhaps Vincent.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/AnnElizabethStanbridgeneeSmith1-1_zps5952ae5f.jpg (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/AnnElizabethStanbridgeneeSmith1-1_zps5952ae5f.jpg.html)

[Margaret in Burton]

Ann Elizabeth Smith 1969-1941

Don't think she was riding the bike, just posing.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu326/margharrison/AnnElizabethPowellneeSmithlateStanbridge_zps2426c3 d9.jpg (http://s660.photobucket.com/user/margharrison/media/AnnElizabethPowellneeSmithlateStanbridge_zps2426c3 d9.jpg.html)

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