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Thanks for that! Although this would make the person in question in his early 40s which means my suspicions are probably wrong!

Thank you,

Henning

I recently took an Ancestry DNA test and I was surprised to find an ethnicity estimate which included a range of 23-43% Europe East. As expected, I am around half English and the remaining quarter, German. This has been an interesting discovery as the only possible explanation is that my paternal grandfather for whom I have barely any information, was in fact Eastern European! Given that my Grandmother was German and lived in Hamburg when my father was born in 1948, this prompted me in to thinking that my Grandfather may have emigrated from Poland to Germany following the war.

I have several matches with cousins from Poland and despite spending hours searching locations and surnames and trawling through public trees, I am struggling to find anything that may help me to find out who he really is... Is there anything more that I can be doing with the information on Ancestry to pinpoint a more accurate match between cousins who are shared matches?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Henning

I hadn't noticed the ring, I think you're right in thinking they must be a couple - I know that Charles and Sarah were married in about 1852 and I assumed Mary and William at a similar sort of time bearing in mind their daughter was born in 1860.

Now that you say they appear "well to do" I think this probably rules out the Walkers as Charles was a servant and later steel works labourer who was the son of a blacksmith and he met his wife Sarah as she was a servant at the same house as him. So I suspect that this is on the other side of the family...

I recently recovered a small collection of old family photographs which my cousin had at the bottom of a cupboard for several years and in amongst these was one showing these two unknown people. She said that it was a picture which her dad (my Great-Great Uncle) had valued and therefore I am trying to work out who they could possibly be based on the approximate date and age of the people.

For the purposes of adding all the information as stated in the forum rules, I think it is either my 3xGreat Grandparents (Charles Walker and Sarah Armstrong) who lived in Sheffield in the 19th century, or my Great-Great Grandfather (George Thomas Walker)'s first wife's parents - William and Mary Thompson (who were from Leeds).

Any help with this photo would be much appreciated!

Henning Walker

The man on the right is definitely my Great-Great-Great-Grandfather and he was born in 1860, so if he is about 50 in the photo it would put the picture around 1910 which I think seems realistic. The first one, who is still unknown, came out of a photo album which was compiled in 1924 and all of the photos in it were taken between 1918 and 1924 (at least the annotated ones were). If he is, as you say, in his 30s, that would put the date of birth for this man in 1894. Interestingly, my Great-Great-Great-Grandfather did have a son born in 1894 called Heth Jones who we don't have any photographs of, so it seems highly likely that this could be his son Heth... Heth died in 1940 when he was hit by a motorcycle during a blackout and I later found out that he was discharged from the military because he was partially sighted (perhaps also a factor as to why he didn't see the motorcyclist coming). There might still be people on his side of the family who still remember him if that's the case, although I'm yet to get in contact with them. It might be "clutching at straws" but now I have a better idea of who it could be, I at least know where to start looking for an answer. There were also ten children in this generation of the family (i.e. my Great-Great-Great-Grandfathers children) and there were pictures of at least six of them in this album, so it would make sense that there is one of him as well.

Thanks for all the help on this thread!

Henning