Sepia Saturday

 Sepia Saturday theme photo suggests groups of three - menage a trois? family? or maybe bonnets, stern faces , gimlet eyes? Or whatever takes your eye.

 A browse through my albums showed me that groups of 3 are the least numerous in my collection, but I was able to find a few - once more my ancestors have not let me down!

This photo was taken about 1847 in Germany and shows my maternal great grandmother, Laura Hanckel as a child. The family emigrated to Adelaide shortly after where Eduard Hanckel set up a bookbinding business and built himself a house at Norwood. Laura married my great grandfather E.B. Heyne a well known botanist and horticulturalist.

These three children appear in the family album. A note on the back in my late mother's handwriting suggests they may be the first 3 children in the Dorsch family. My great aunt Agnes married a Rev. Caspar Dorsch who had 3 young children from his first marriage. They then proceeded to have another 8 children. I don't know a lot about these early children. I do love this photo, though I must do more research on this branch of the family. My feeling is that the youngest child here might be the first of the second part of the family - they were blonde and blue-eyed and there seems to be quite an age difference. The little pug dog is cute.

This is a mystery trio from the album. Who are they?  I suspect that the older gentleman in front may be a Lutheran minister - 'the pastor' played a significant role in the lives of early German families. Maybe the other two were members of the church management?

On a different tack. I have always loved this photo. It shows one of my English aunts - Kathleen, centre  -  in Santiago, Spain with two friends. This would have been taken in the late 30s as my aunt died shortly after WW2. She was such a beautiful, elegant woman and she always looked so glamorous to me. I featured her chidren in last week's post.

On a more modern note. This is me - centre- very proud of myself. I was runner-up in the YWCA Athletics meeting. This was the first time I realised I was actually a good athlete. Up until that time I was always short and dumpy and never got a chance to run in any races at my school because no one thought I could run. This year was my blossoming year, because not only did I come second in these championships, but I won the Open 100yds at my school sports day and I made the first team in hockey and softball.

I was particularly pleased with myself because the girl on the right was the athletics champion at another top girls school and always thought that she was a better runner and hockey player than me - and I beat her!!

Liz Needle  -  linking with Sepia Saturday