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Can anyone date this photo please? Great Grandparents Hooton
« on: Sunday 26 November 17 07:17 GMT (UK) »
Hello,
I believe that this is a photo of my gg grandparents, but can't be sure. A date range would help very much. I think that the photo was probably taken in London.
Thanks.
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Re: Can anyone date this photo please? Great Grandparents Hooton
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 26 November 17 12:28 GMT (UK) »
I should have added that i suspect that it was taken between 1900 and 1920, but a more precise date would be very helpful - if possible.
All help welcome!
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Re: Can anyone date this photo please? Great Grandparents Hooton
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 26 November 17 13:50 GMT (UK) »
My books suggest that it could be 1912-1917. There are photos of a similar outfit to the boy's dated 1917-1918.

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Re: Can anyone date this photo please? Great Grandparents Hooton
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 26 November 17 14:30 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Gadget.
If this was taken around 1915 ish, and if these are the people that I believe them to be, then the adults in this photo would both have been about 50yrs old when this picture was taken.
I'm not very good at aging people - does anyone think that this is possible?
Would anyone be able to approximate the ages of these adults, given the era?
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Re: Can anyone date this photo please? Great Grandparents Hooton
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 26 November 17 15:02 GMT (UK) »
I'd say the woman looks maybe late 30s- early 40s. The man could be in his 40s.

As a comparison, my grandmother was 38 when the photo in my avatar was take.

Maybe Carol or Jim can help.
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Re: Can anyone date this photo please? Great Grandparents Hooton
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 26 November 17 15:32 GMT (UK) »
The man could be Edwardian - 1901-1911 but can't see enough of the woman's clothes to be sure. Her hair is unlikely to be 1908-11.

Added - are you thinking that this photo is of the same woman?  I see China dated her as 1910.

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Re: Can anyone date this photo please? Great Grandparents Hooton
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 26 November 17 15:56 GMT (UK) »
I've just done a comparison of the two photos - they do look very very similar


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Re: Can anyone date this photo please? Great Grandparents Hooton
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 26 November 17 20:20 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Gadget,
I think that the first picture is my gg grandparents and the second picture is their daughter (my great grandmother), but the timelines seem a little off.
My gg grandmother (Mary Ann Hooton, nee Hawkins - 1864-1945) had 9 children between 1887 and 1909. The first photo could, potentially, be an image with her youngest 2 children (born 1904 and 1909), if taken around 1915 - but neither of the adults look like 50yr olds to me.
The second photo is, I believe, their eldest daughter. If taken around 1910, then she would have been 22yrs old. However, the photo seems to me to be more formal/staged and therefore appears older - I have very limited knowledge of the era.
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Re: Can anyone date this photo please? Great Grandparents Hooton
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 26 November 17 20:57 GMT (UK) »
The dating book suggests the rounded collars the man is wearing are from the early part of the 1910-15 and went out of fashion as the decade advanced.

Where Gadget has put the two photos together, I am guessing the lady wearing specs is older than the one in black. 

Does that really mess things up?  Anyhow I could be wrong, I'm no expert - but interested.

I think if the couple are about 50 then they are very well preserved!  But I also think Gadget's gran looks a little younger than them.     :-\ :-\    Not much help really

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added . . . .  I also think the lady in the specs is from an earlier date . . . though maybe not much.   :-\
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