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There was only one slide  of a wedding with a surname on and from that I have managed to track down both sides of the family. I have found the children in the slides now in their fifties who are very excited to get this slice of history back. There are parents grandparents and great grandparents on the slides I am so jealous. Currently making arrangements to get them back where they belong 🥰


Turns out the photographer died in 1974 his wife remarried then died in the 2000s and her husband died close to Chester 10years ago which is presumably how the slides ended up in a car boot sale. No one seems to know anything about the fantastic holidays though 🤷‍♀️

My friend has passed onto me a box of about 500 slides that her son picked up at a car boot sale in Chester about 10 years ago. Most are meticulously labelled with date and place and range from Scotland 1949 to Scotland 1975 but include holidays in many different places in between.
Tissington in 1969
Norway Skiing in 1970
Cruise including Venice Corfu Greece and Jerusalem in 1970
Austria in 1973
As well as San Francisco, Rome, Hawaii Honolulu without dates
There are also some weddings, birthdays, christenings and christmas’
They are beautiful slides some with family groups on them my problem is that there is nothing to say exactly where the family is from except the early slides seem to be Wales a lot and Chester Zoo (and they were bought at a car boot in Chester)
There are a couple of names such as Helen and Jacks wedding and what appears to be birthday of their daughter Claire 1960 but no surname. Or Diane Hulmes wedding to Eric 10 Dec 1966 (I can only find one Diane Hulmes marrying an Eric Lucas)

I will be going through them again when I have a couple of days off looking for other clues but would love to pass the slides on to the relevant descendants eventually

I have posted in armed forces now

I did have a quick check through but none jumped out but difficult to tell when I only have an initial 😕

I have been having a clearout and found a medal that I think I picked up at a car boot sale or somewhere about 20 years ago that I meant to research but most stuff wasn’t online then

Anyway it’s a WW2 Medal with Palestine 1945-1948 bar on it it has the name H Dearden and the number T 14472826 round the edge and I have found the medal card entry on ancestry but not sure where to go from here as it simply says H Dearden on the card entry

So after an afternoon of reading ships crew agreements I think jcmac is correct the first line with the captain says Same (its much clearer on other entries) meaning he was on the same ship as he is currently on. So having excluded the Kenilworth I think Elias Saunde was previously in the Aphrodite.

As I understand it  National Archives wanted to get rid of lots of records and were going to destroy them but conservationists and family historians saved them. Some are still in U.K. at the National Archives and some are at Maritime museum, some are in Newfoundland and Maritime history suggests that some local history groups took some records relevant to their areas. Have I understood this correctly

Unfortunately I cannot find any other online records at the moment but there are records in the National Archives or at the Maritme Museum that I can request a search of so that might be the next step.

Both the Aphrodite and the Marabout (the other ship I found him on) are from New Brunswick in Canada and the Yarmouth mentioned as his previous ship from entry  on Marabout is from Yarmouth Nova Scotia so a bit of a theme I hope.

And lastly the Marabout seems to have been a long trip. Elias joined ship on 28/2/1889 and was discharged on 29/9/1890 would this have been one trip for 17months?