Help identifying date of photo

doppelganger · Post by **doppelganger** » 20 Mar 2007 18:10

Hi I recently acquired a photo of either my paternal great grandparents, or gg grandparents - as yet can't be certain which. Any suggestions as to approximate date of photo and age of couple would be most helpful in determining which set.

Thanks
Alan
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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 21 Mar 2007 08:10

I think you forgot to post the photo ?

doppelganger · Post by **doppelganger** » 21 Mar 2007 12:40

Thank you Jane,

I'm glad somebody let me know. Any idea why I got the message that photo had uploaded ok, but it didn't appear?

Alan
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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 21 Mar 2007 12:43

You probably did not press the insert picture link in the pop up window.

doppelganger · Post by **doppelganger** » 21 Mar 2007 12:48

Thanks again,

I will try again when I get home - the ms resizer doesn't work on my work pc for some reason.

Alan
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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 21 Mar 2007 16:08

Was this the image?

doppelganger · Post by **doppelganger** » 21 Mar 2007 18:18

Thank you Jane!

Yes that is the image. Any help would be appreciated - rough date of photo and rough age of couple if possible

Thanks again
Alan

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 21 Mar 2007 19:00

That's quite tricky as elderly people tend to dress in the way of their youth, my feeling would be this was taken in the early 20th Century of people born in the middle of the 19th, they remind me of the photo I have of my GG Grandparents Diamond Wedding (60th) in the early 1930's. They were born around 1850.

doppelganger · Post by **doppelganger** » 21 Mar 2007 19:09

Thanks again,

My G grandparents were born 1854 & 1855. Sarah my G gran died in 1919 aged 64. The lady in the picture looks older to me, but then again times were hard then & no doubt took their toll

Alan

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 21 Mar 2007 20:32

I would have said the lady was older than 64 as well, but the husband looks much younger so it could be she is just very ill. Is that a blanket around her?

Here are my G-G-Grandparents, in 1936 at which time they were 83 and 86 respectively and both lived into their 90s

doppelganger · Post by **doppelganger** » 21 Mar 2007 21:37

Well my GG Gran Jemima lived to 93 - (c1813-1905), but that would make her 42 years older than my g Granddad. Baffling!
My GG Granddad was Stephen (1810-1893), but this photo is probably too late for that.

Alan

doppelganger · Post by **doppelganger** » 21 Mar 2007 21:59

Another Possibility

Both sets of G Grandparents were called George and Sarah. However, my maternal set were born later in 1871. That would date the photo more like the 1930s or later - like your photo Jane. Also the other Sarah had an accident and shuffled around on sticks, so that might explain the blanket?

Alan

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