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Now, at 49C, is a new member of the cast, labelled as one Tinley Mason, died 10th April, 1872, aged
28.

FreeBMD record this as occurring in Q2, 1872, registered at W.Derby, Vol. 8b, page 181.

West Derby is actually a suburb of Liverpool !

Ancestry has him "Born in Liverpool on 1844 to Robert Mason and Susanna Tinley"; and for his father, Robert:-
Born in Lakes, Derby on 1811. Robert married Susanna Tinley (b. 1818) and had 7 children.

•   Margarette Mason 1838-Unknown
•   Susanna Mason 1840-Unknown
•   Augusta Mason 1843-Unknown
•   Tinley Mason 1844-Unknown
•   Rusalia Mason 1846-Unknown
•   Edith Mason 1848-Unknown
•   Constance Mason 1853-1936

Now, the mother of Martha, the owner of this album, was one Mary mason, born Jan 1772, the daughter of one - Robert Mason.  So I guess that Tinley's father was Martha's brother... but I have yet to prove it.  Were that so, Tinley was Martha's nephew, and slightly younger than her second son (see below), so they might have been close.

I haven't yet found out why he died so young.

I believe this (43A) to be her eldest son, the Rev. Charles Thornewill, born 14 April 1841.

How old is he here / when was the photograph taken?

Does anyone agree with my suppositions?  Or have any answers?

A very helpful person at the National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.org.uk/
was so kind as to write to me, Wednesday, April 23, 2014 12:34 PM

I have looked through the various pages [on Cartes de Visite] illustrated on rootschat, ....

I also noticed a number of cartes-de-visite by Camille Silvy. Note that we have the daybooks from Silvy’s studio in our collection. See the following link for more details (look at the listing for albums 1-12):
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/about/photographs-collection/photographic-holdings-albums.php

With just a surname, it is possible to search (we have a database of sitters in the daybooks) for particular sitters and find a match, thus also helping to date the photographs. Where a name is not known, it is possible to go through the daybooks and locate the images, but there are twelve volumes containing approximately 17000 images.

[Footnote originally added has been removed at her request]

A very helpful person at the National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.org.uk/
was so kind as to write to me, Wednesday, April 23, 2014 12:34 PM

Subject: RE: Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

I have looked through the various pages illustrated on rootschat, but unfortunately, most of the sitters did not stand out to me as recognisable in the same way as Edward and Alexandra, apart from the following few:

Page 47
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=684730.0

47A:
This is Florence Barbara Maria (née von Sass), Lady Baker.
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp65166/florence-barbara-maria-nee-von-sass-lady-bakersearch=sas&sText=Florence+Barbara+Maria+%28n%C3%A9e+von+Sass%29%2C+Lady+Baker

You’ll notice ours show her in the same clothes, slightly different poses and are by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company. It could be that she attended both studios on the same day? Or the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company occasionally published photographs by other photographers and this may have occurred.


47B:
This is Sir Samuel White Baker:
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw114689/Sir-Samuel-White-Baker?search=sp&sText=Ax18286&firstRun=true&rNo=0


47D:
This is Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Bt:
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw114503/Sir-Roderick-Impey-Murchison-1st-Btsearch=sp&sText=Ax18339&firstRun=true&rNo=0



[Footnote originally added has been removed at her request]