Looking for a date or other comments for this photo, which was probably taken in the mid - late 1800s? I assume Stanley Bros, 124 Brompton Rd, was in London. It was in my deceased grandmother's collection.
I am wondering from the style of dress the woman is wearing if she may be of French origin? Were beaded necklaces common for English women at the time? My great-great grandmother was supposedly born abt 1833 in France and fled to England with her family after the 1848 revolution, (her family were in the pottery industry so the story goes). She married my English great-great granfather, whom his family (also in pottery) shunned because he married a Catholic. They lived in Islington. He ended up working as a jailor. They immigrated to Australia in 1881. Apparently she was very beautiful, which is why he married her, so the family story goes.
