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You're right to query this.
Daguerreotypes (1840's) & ambrotypes (1850's) were mirror images
of the subject so with men their waistcoats appear fastened on the wrong side.
You can see from this that's not the case so logically it would make it 1860's.
The clothes style is typical 1850's/60's.
My concern are the scratches which would be unusual to say the least on an albumin print (1860's)
& is more common on an ambrotype, so have you grabbed this from the internet or do you have it?
If the former it may have been reversed by someone & is in fact an ambrotype.
Very good facial reconstruction Tomkin.
I have a couple who married in 1938 in Dewsbury district. They both had fairly uncommon surnames and the combination of the two seems to be unique. By 1939 they were living in Hull. I had searched for children for the couple for about five years after marriage date, but found nothing, Then I extended the search area and time and found two children registered in the same quarter in 1947 with "a" and "b" after the page number in Oxford RD. Am I right in thinking this would be a late registration?
If there is any doubt about letters or names then each will be transcribed separately to ensure all possibilities are covered. Each will have the same reference.
I don't think this helps the query.
If there was any doubt about the surname should there not have been an annotation to denote such on the cert. the OP has?
If there's no annotation & he's indexed under both surnames this (I think) would say he'd been using 2 different surnames at different times.
However, the wording of 'or' isn't something I've seen, it's usually 'previously' or 'formerly' or 'Alias'.
Annie
