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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can someone clever compare this couple for a match please?
« on: Wednesday 23 November 11 22:53 GMT (UK)  »
Yes they could well have been friends too I guess ..... BUT the owner of the photo has the same surname as the bride and groom in the first photo, so really there should be a connection!  By chance I was given a report written by the local paper about that wedding and it's very detailed and I've passed on the names of the five ..... yes 5 ... groomsmen to the photo owner hoping this may help.

The couple in the 2nd photo are the reason why I started my family history journey.  I grew up constantly seeing a large photo of them on my Grandmother's wall and all I ever knew about them was that they were Mother and Father and their surname was McIntyre they lived at Pokeno and they came from Scotland.  It wasn't until the year 2000 that my Aunt showed me a funeral card for Elizabeth McIntyre that I even had a name!  That was all I needed to get me started ...... I later found that my Grandmother was born out of wedlock, so these two would have brought her up as their own!  How strange that the large photo disappeared when my Grandmother passed away and each member of the family thought that one of the other members had it ?  How fantastic that one connection I made sent me a copy of that very same photo!  It's been a wonderful journey thanks to those two.  I have enjoyed every minute of it .... even the stuff that knocked our socks off!!   

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can someone clever compare this couple for a match please?
« on: Wednesday 23 November 11 22:11 GMT (UK)  »
Brilliant - thank you Rachel-2 !!
Yes I agree that the buttonhole is a certainty match too!
Those white things on the bodice look like tassles to me.....?

I forgot to mention that the original photo of the couple has written on the back "From Grannie"
Now, as this couple were my Grandmother's Grandparents - this was her Grannie too!
How strange that there is no immediate connection to be found  ???
Though I'm jumping out of my skin here waiting to hear from the family historian who is an extended member of the couple photo owner.

Also I have to say how the chance of probability is always on the side of family history seekers!  It was only by chance that I came across the couple photo..... which was printed onto the cover of the New Zealand Society of Genealogist magazine a year ago.  Yes I was at the local Library and yes I had a few spare minutes to fill .... hmmm I will catch up on the NZSG mags..... Blimey look at that photo!!!!  I couldn't wait to see the article about those two ... but only found a caption for the photo asking for help to identify them and giving contact details...... I was bursting to tell them who was in the photo and rushed home and contacted them .......and here we are : )

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can someone clever compare this couple for a match please?
« on: Wednesday 23 November 11 20:17 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you both for your comments as I totally agree that it is the same couple, the same clothes and yes even the same day!!!!  Just have to convince the family that has the photo.  This couple are my Scottish ancestors who settled in New Zealand in 1864 so it's very exciting to see another photo of them!

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can someone clever compare this couple for a match please?
« on: Wednesday 23 November 11 20:12 GMT (UK)  »
As the photo is just a photocopy it may not be too clear enlarged?  
I've had a go and found a way to do it though  :)

Hmmm that didn't seem to work .... maybe it's too big now  ???
Will have another go ............

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Can someone clever compare this couple for a match please?
« on: Wednesday 23 November 11 19:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I have a wedding photo from 1903 that has the parents of the bride standing beside her which I will post.  A photo turned up out of the blue on the cover of the NZSG magazine that shows a distinct likeness to the parents, but I've contacted the family who passed a copy onto me and they can't find a connection and don't see any similarities ..... ? [Many thanks mare for all of your help!]


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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Mausoleums at Waikumete....
« on: Tuesday 14 June 11 00:59 BST (UK)  »
UPDATE:
My brother noticed the other day that someone had been added to the Lovich Mausoleum so I checked out the Herald Death Notices and found Ivka Lovich the wife of Luka Lovich  had died recently .... checked out the Waikumete Cemetery Records and found her interred in a Mausoleum!!!
Yes Luka was one of our Grandfather's 'cousins' Geni.com confirmed.  I still have some work to do to find out about these 'cousins' and have a plan of action to follow, as their kiwi first names are quite different to their birth names :)

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Mausoleums at Waikumete....
« on: Sunday 08 November 09 05:17 GMT (UK)  »
Our family are still none the wiser as to who rests in the Lovich crypt.
Yes we would all like to know, as we are all drawn to this place!
I have one more lead to follow up -
one of my Grandfather's cousins children that Natalie has given me the contact for.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Mausoleums at Waikumete....
« on: Sunday 08 November 09 05:11 GMT (UK)  »
We walked the whole street and was very impressed with the marble eagle on the Nola crypt

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Mausoleums at Waikumete....
« on: Sunday 08 November 09 05:06 GMT (UK)  »
In front of the Lovich crypt is a token of love from someone.... to someone

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