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I've been sent here from another thread, to see what anyone can do with this photo. Unfortunately my grandmother did some photo restoration of her own when she was a little girl, and tried to colour it in! I'd love to see what can be done with it, perhaps some more colour added.

The lady in the centre is my 3x great grand aunt, Jane Ogilvie (b.1808). Sitting on the carpet in a red dress is my GG grandmother Kitty (b.1857) and her sister Allie is on her right (b.1853). Jane ran a girls' school and the photo is of her with her boarders.

On the back someone has written that Jane's face is turned away from the camera to hide the fact that she had to have half her jaw bone removed, before the days of anaesthetics!

Adam

My great great grandmother Katherine Forth would love to be cleaned up and coloured if possible.

Cheers,
Adam

I'm looking for Robert Ellis in Broxbourne in 1841. Born in 1788, it would make him 53. He was born out of the county.

Also in the family:

Mary, 48, b. Broxbourne
Charles, 27, b. Broxbourne
Robert, 25, b. Broxbourne
Mary Ann, 21, b. Broxbourne
Thomas, 18, b. Broxbourne
Sarah, 14, b. Broxbourne
George, 11, b. Broxbourne

Cheers,
Adam

I'm interested to see if anyone has any idea roughly when this may have been taken. There's not a great deal to go on as she's been cropped to make just a head and shoulders portrait.

If she's who I think she is (my great great great grandmother Sarah Akehurst) then she was born in 1820.

Thanks,
Adam

I'm looking for the following family in 1841 in Seale, Surrey.

Richard Stilwell, Abt 32, b. Seale Surrey
Eliza Stilwell, Abt 24, b. Hampshire
Louisa Stilwell, Abt 1, b. Hampshire

Thanks,
Adam