Unusual photograph

[Treetotal]

Hi Alan...A clean from me as promised...I agree with Jim and don't see a ring I think it's a mark on the photo.

Carol

[Treetotal]

A lighter version for you with a warmer tone.
Carol

[Regorian]

Her father was a labourer. Working people did not wear such clothes and did not have such photographs taken of them yet, give it another 20 years. Perhaps she made a good marriage. May we know the name of the man she married?   

[mientajb]

Carol,

Thank you so much. The two pictures are wonderful. You can see much more of her face.

Her father was Thomas Landon but he died in 1835, the same year that Elizabeth was born. He was indeed a labourer. Her mother remarried Thomas James in 1840. Thomas was a fisherman by trade. He had a large family from a previous marriage so I doubt that there was much money in the family.

Elizabeth married Enoch Barnett in 1865, Enoch was 10 years younger than her and was a carpenter by trade. They lived in Staunton, Coleford, Gloucester.

We will probably never know when and why this photograph was taken. She does look younger than thirty and all of the evidence would suggest that it was taken in the 1850's. At first we did wonder if she had married before but we can find no record of this and she did say that she was a spinster in her wedding to Enoch.

Carol, thank you again for bringing this old picture back to life.

Alan

[Treetotal]

Hi Alan...You are very welcome...what a lovely thing to have...I wonder if it could be a 21st Birthday?
Thanks for the background information...I often wonder about the life and personality of the sitter when I restore a photo.

Carol

[terry h]

Two late goes.

Terry

[mientajb]

They are lovely. Thank you.

Alan