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Dating and Giving an Age to a Mystery Lady Please - crossmyloff photo
« on: Sunday 21 August 16 23:01 BST (UK) »
This photograph is of a member of my family - it's been kept for years in a box with other pictures.
It is a photograph glued to a backing card. There is nothing on the reverse of the card.
 I'm unsure as to who the lady is and I realise with it being a portrait there may not be much to go on , but can anyone give me a rough idea of date please? Also what age approx. would you say this lady is? I would love to be able to look at my family tree and name her.

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Re: Dating and Giving an Age to a Mystery Lady Please.
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 21 August 16 23:16 BST (UK) »
All I can find so far is the photographer in operation from 1898 - 1911
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Dating and Giving an Age to a Mystery Lady Please.
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 21 August 16 23:23 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Seoras on Sunday 21 August 16 23:16 BST (UK)
All I can find so far is the photographer in operation from 1898 - 1911

Thank you for that Seoras - That is actually quite a small window for the period the photographer was trading. It also helps to rule out the person my late Mum thought it was.

Looby

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Re: Dating and Giving an Age to a Mystery Lady Please.
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 21 August 16 23:25 BST (UK) »
Hi Looby, I think the photo fits in with those dates, though that is just my opinion.

The studio was at 1111 Pollockshaws Road.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Dating and Giving an Age to a Mystery Lady Please.
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 21 August 16 23:38 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Seoras on Sunday 21 August 16 23:25 BST (UK)
Hi Looby, I think the photo fits in with those dates, though that is just my opinion.

The studio was at 1111 Pollockshaws Road.
 

Thanks Seoras  :) That's very helpful.

Looby

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Re: Dating and Giving an Age to a Mystery Lady Please.
« Reply #5 on: Monday 22 August 16 08:47 BST (UK) »
Nothing definite but I have a member of my family dressed very similar and with that same hairstyle. Mine was taken in 1907.
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Re: Dating and Giving an Age to a Mystery Lady Please.
« Reply #6 on: Monday 22 August 16 09:06 BST (UK) »
Thank you Thornwood  :)
I did wonder if she was before or after 1900 and with the dates provided by Seoras of when the photographer was trading , I am inclined to think she is from around that date.
My late mother has written on the back that this is my paternal grandmother, who was only a child during this era . I was quite sure that it couldn't be as the photo seemed too old to be her as an adult woman.

Looby :)
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