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Can anyone help with dating this photo. I know nothing about the couple or the location only that it probably came from England in the early 1920's.

I'm still pursuing the possible Blower/Sedgwick connection but have also started working on the people listed with Mary A Blower in the 1861 derbyshire census:

possibly her
1861
RG9/2489/110/3
charles neville age 33. b. newhall,derbyshire. occ. farmer of 199 acres . head(unm)
mary nixon age 32. b. leicestershire. occ. housekeeper
mary.a.blower age 13. b. shenstone. occ. general servant
arthur neville age 18. b. wiggington,staffs. occ. carter
joseph chapman age 13. b. chellaston,derbyshire. occ. plough driver
job/john spendlove age 35. b. shottle,derbyshire. occ (cannot make it out)
living at;weston fields,weston upon trent,derbyshire
reg.dist; shardlow

Charles Neville was born in Derbysh. but his family were landowners in Shenstone Staffs. and thats where Charles was living in 1841 and 1851.

There is a Nixon family in Shenstone on the 1851 census - H.O. 107/2014
Benjamin Nixon - Head - Widower - 70 - Ag. Labourer - born Shenstone, Staffs.
Ann Nixon - Daughter - Unm. - 26 - Servant - born Walsall, Staffs.
Mary Ann Nixon - Granddaughter - 4 - born Shenstone, Staffs.

An entry found on familysearch.org shows a Marianne Nickson christened 19 May 1847 in Shenstone with only the mother Ann Nickson shown as parent.

The birth certificate for Mary Ann Nixon shows her born on May 9, 1847 in Shenstone - Ann Nixon is the mother with no father listed.

I have a handwritten list done by one of my great aunts in the 1930's/40's which shows the birth and death dates for most of her family including parents and siblings. For her mother - Mary Ann - there is no year but the birthday is May 9.

So I think there is a good chance that this Mary Ann Nixon is my ggm whom I've always known as Mary Ann Blower/Stone/Archer. The trouble now is that I can't make a connection between Nixon and Blower. I've tried searches using various spellings of Blower/Bloor/Blore/Bloore and Nixon/Nixson/Nickson and have found no matches.

All ideas welcome 

I'm wondering if you have checked out the facebook page for the Hazelbrae Barnardo Home Memorial Group? You may be able to work with others who are also looking for information on family.

You have already done so much research you've probably seen this website but I'll add it just in case. I scrolled through it and was struck by the photo of the "Girls arriving in Quebec in 1912" - your Mafey could well have been one of them.

http://canadianbritishhomechildren.weebly.com/hazelbrae-barnardo-home.html

I guess you have also considered the possibility that she married while in Canada. The only records I checked were on the BC Archives link and there was a Mary Skelton who married a Joseph Rowlandson in Grand Forks in 1926. I could not find a death record for her in BC.

Its a long shot - but you never know