Unknown ancestor with a wooden leg - date please

[Gadget]

It could be but I would need to see it in Photoshop to be a bit more sure. I thinks she is holding a hat.
Carol

Agree - it looks like a bonnet with ribbons.  Interestingly, he seems to be wearing a slipper or similar.

Gadget   

[John-76]

Yes, it does look like a hat.

[Redroger]

I reckon 1870s not later than 1880. Is he a Crimea veteran?

[Wiggy]

Don't think it is as late as 1870s.   

[Treetotal]

Don't think it is as late as 1870s.   

Me neither, her outfit doesn't fit for that decade.
Carol

[Gadget]

If anything it is nearer the late 1850s than the 1870s. 

Crimean War was 1853-56

[Flemming]

It seems Robert Henry DRAKE was a fisherman, licensed boatman, etc., until 1911 and so could have lost his leg on the ships and carried on working with a stump, or been born that way and still found fishing work. He died in 1924, age 82. His only child was also Robert Henry DRAKE who, I recall, married in 1890. Perhaps I should delve deeper and see if there are any related family histories on-line.

Ref the Crimean War, it's not come up with any of the ancestors before but will look out for it.

Thanks to all for your help - further forward today than in a few people's lifetimes 

[Redroger]

Don't think it is as late as 1870s.   

A long way from London fashions were frequently 10 years or more behind the times. Indeed in Bournemouth last week I saw s woman dressed in middle class early 1950s style, and she thought she was wonderful.

[Gadget]

It's not just the style of the clothing that is late 1850s/1860s - it's the pose.