« Reply #7 on: Saturday 31 July 10 11:27 BST (UK) »
Dear all,
This thread seems to have gone oddly quite since my last posting so I think a word of explanation might be in-order.
GAH and I met through another forum and didn't realise we are both Rootschatters. We both share the same 3 x great grand parents (poss' 2 x G grand parents for GAH). I told GAH about my 1890's photo album with 30+ mostly unidentified photos in it. Recent results indicate that the majority of the photos are from the Putt and Owen families base on the trend that, so far, the only photos identified are of these families and that resemblances between the identified and the unidentified indicate 2 main family groups. Having sent GAH a selection of the most obvious candidates, GAH thought that the photo posted above could possibly be GAH's great grandmother. I personally have reservations because of some small details but the possibility still exists and there is a strong resemblance which at the very least would place this women as a sibling or niece. We are working through the dates of death for these very large Owen families to find who was alive/married/had children at the possible time this photo was taken. It appears we both had the same idea at roughly the same time when it came to checking up on the details of the photos themselves i.e. asking the very knowledgeable rootschatters. (that is knowledgeable on both photos and Leicester).
Please do not let my possibly "left field" contribution to this thread put you off helping GAH.
Below in the reverse of the photo mount. As I understand it curved corners are more closely connected with circa 1900 (+/- a couple of years). Phillips and Freckleton don;t seem to come up in the commercial directories but I have it in mind that the Nottingham address was only in use from 1899 to about 1901.
As always, any help given is gratefully received
Thanks - Mark - (FS)
Warner, Owen, Putt, Mynett, Wickwar, Norman, Wheeler, Gray, Cooke, Dewick, Holmes, Lawson, Granger, Queenan, Weston, Wesson, Brewin, Cartwright, Heathcote, Heathcoat, Felkin, Morley, Hallam, Wootton, Adkin, Shepshed, Loughborough, Leicester, Philadelphia, Ontario, Nottingham,