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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Photo for dating - Unknown family, photo by Bisset (Ballater and Aboyne)
« on: Sunday 27 October 19 20:01 GMT (UK)  »
Good evening

I dont suppose anyone could help me date the attached photo? A bit of research online suggests that the photographers were J+J Bisset, who indeed worked out of Ballater and Aboyne in Scotland. I cant seem to find any exact dates for when they were in business though.

The photo is from a family album from northern England, though the people in the photo are unknown.

Thanks
Fishy

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Checking a few dates of photos Photographer William Mortimer Edmonds Hull
« on: Thursday 20 June 19 19:15 BST (UK)  »
More photos from this time

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Checking a few dates of photos Photographer William Mortimer Edmonds Hull
« on: Thursday 20 June 19 18:19 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone

I have recently been handed a stack of hundreds of unattributed old family photos that i am now on a mission to identify. I have narrowed down a few that i would like dated if possible, which i will try to attach.

A little background info: These photos were collected and kept by a distant relative of mine, who passed away in 1980, and passed them to his grandson who gave me copies of them (i do not have the originals).
These particular photos were taken by William Mortimer Edmonds, a photographer who operated in Hull, UK. He lived from 1859-1936, so i assume his business operated from the 1880s to roughly 1920ish, at a guess. We know he was open in the early 1890s. As you might expect, the card frontage changed over time, and i expect it got fancier as he became more established. The branding in the attached photos are some of the most fancy we have, so i suspect these are quite late in his career.
Now, the older lady in these photos has been identified as a Rose Brigham, who was the sister-in-law of Edmonds (Edmonds was my g-g-grandfather!). She married into the family in 1897 (at 22 years old). I have also run facial recognition tests on these, and the child in the hat has been identified (as best as possible) as her son, who was born in 1899. (it was her son who curated these photos and died in 1980)
I do have more photos with this card frontage (i will try to post in the comments), and one of the gentlemen in them has been identified as another of her brother-in-laws, who married into the family in 1905.
So at a guess, i would say these photos dated from the mid noughties? Would anyone agree or disagree with this? Can anyone see anything that would cast doubt on my analysis?

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World War Two / Re: Help to find WW2 records/info. Uniform ID.
« on: Monday 22 May 17 09:49 BST (UK)  »
Thankyou for the reply MaxD, thats very interesting. Ammunition Examiner does sound promising, since we know he worked in bomb disposal, and looking into it, the ROSC did perform this function in WW2. Is this the patch you are on about? I have also blown up what i can of who im assuming is his COs cap from the group shot. Its not very clear, but if that could be identified it might tell us something.

Thanks
Fishy

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World War Two / Re: Help to find WW2 records/info. Uniform ID.
« on: Sunday 21 May 17 22:54 BST (UK)  »
Yes, of course!

Name: William Eric Bakes
Born: 18th Feb 1921
Birthplace: Hull, UK

Thankyou for the help :)

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World War Two / Help to find WW2 records/info. Uniform ID.
« on: Sunday 21 May 17 21:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi there!

Me and my family are currently trying to find information on the WW2 involvement of my grandad. Sadly he passed away in 1986, a month before i was born, and long before we started doing family history so we have never been able to ask him, and surviving information on him is scarce.

A google search yields absolutely nothing. All we have are 4 photos of him in uniform (attached... one is dated 1942), as well as some information from my Grandma who is still with us today. Here is what we know...

Born in Hull, we know he served in Gibraltar as part of a bomb disposal unit. Further research has shown us this was probably the Royal Engineers.
Grandma told us a story of how his group exploded some ammunition, and accidentally discovered a network of natural caves. She said they were called St Michael's Caves, and there is a plaque there dedicated to them. We have looked into this, and it seems this part is quite true, and that a deeper level of St Michael's Caves was uncovered in 1942 by blasting by the Royal Engineers.

Thats basically as much as we know. If anyone can help us out by pointing us in a direction we can go, or helping to identify anything specific about his uniform, we would be greatly appreciative!

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Jones/ Penygelly / Kerry Church
« on: Thursday 15 October 15 22:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi there!

I know im necroing an old thread, but i do so in hoping the original poster will see this reply!

I, too, am researching my family history, and believe we may be looking at the same people.

We are currently looking at a John Jones (DOB Unknown, died 1875), who married a Charlotte Owens in 1822 in Wales (same as the information given above). Charlotte died in 1879 according to our records, and so the timeline and place seems to fit in what the thread above says. However, we have the daughter (or one of their daughters) as "Mary Ann Elizabeth Jones", with Elizabeth being one of her middle names. This daughter married my great-great-great grandfather James Bakes in 1860 around York.
If the original poster (or indeed anyone) has any more information, then i would be very grateful!

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