Saturday, January 23, 2016

My World - Family Photos




"Sepia Saturday" theme this week concerns family photos and of those I have plethora.  My family shots last week also aroused a lot of comment on "Tuesday Treasures", so I will link this post to that meme as well.

This first photo is one  of my maternal grandfather's family -  his sisters and their families. At the time papa only had 3 children. My grandfather is the handsome fellow on the  left in the back row. In front ofr him is my grandmother nursing my mother who is about 9 months old. This dates the photo as mid 1906. The two little ones in front of her are my uncle and aunt. Gran went on to produce another 6 children. She was considered by her mother in law to be not good enough for the family because she was just a seamstress and milliner while they were academics and scholars.

The others in the photos are my grandfathers sisters, husbands, children. The older woman in the middle is my great grandmother Laura Heyne nee Hanckel.

Until recently I haver only had a digital copy of this photo, but yesterday one of my cousins who is downsizing brought me a huge photo - the size of two A3 sheets. It is in need of restoration, but is in pretty good nick. She didn't want this big photo because her father wasn't in it - not yet born.  A windfall indeed.


The next photo shows my great grandmother (from the previous photo), her four children - my grandfather and his three sisters (from previous photo) and my great great grandmother Johanna Heyne nee hanckel.



And here we have my mother and some of her siblings. I love this photo.


My mother - the baby in the large family photo is the blonde cutie on the right. This was taken around 1914.

Finally, so as not to seem one sided, a family photo of my husband's family - paternal side. The first one shows the many children of the Boord family - one of them is Don's grandmother - Rosa Needle - nee Boord.






And next  a Boord family wedding photo  -  we do have a seating plan somewhere for this photo.





Liz Needle  -  linking with"Sepia Saturday" and "Tuesday's Treasures".





22 comments:

  1. Wonderful to have all these old photographs Liz. Have a lovely weekend.

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  2. I am full of admiration for your collection of family photographs. The one of your mother's siblings is so delightful, but I could not help think of f what hard work for their mother, as they seem very close in age.

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    1. Four more to go after this. My gran was a pretty amazing woman.

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  3. What a treasure trove of photos. I love the poses of the group of your husband's family paternal side and the dog. The final wedding photo with all the hats is splendid. I wonder why they didn't seat the bride and groom in the middle?

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  4. This is a special collection of family photos.

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  5. These are indeed treasures. You are blessed to have them.

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  6. It's really interesting to see family photo collections as it helps to learn the fashion clues and photographer styles for dating other photographs. I love the photos of the children with lots of character revealed.

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  7. Wonderful! Very glad that you have the "seating plan" for the large group photos. Often this is missing.

    Like you, I find that the provision of old photos is a wonderful windfall. So much better than chocolates or flowers as a gift!

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  8. I wonder if people will still be able to look at our pictures this far into the future? Hard drives fail and formats change - but a print is a print.

    Even big bully birds have to make a living!

    Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne

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  9. Such wonderful family photographs.

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  10. These are lovely Liz and how nice to see at least one child actually smiling too.

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  11. Lovely big family photographs! I think one of your aunts is smiling as well as one of your uncles in that very sweet grouping. The way wonen popped out babies so regularly always amazes me. I guess they didn't have much choice, and if they didn't die in childbirth, they just went through it again and again, and again.

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  12. Liz, you need to copy the link to your actual post in Mr Linky for Sepia Saturday. Anybody catching up several days later is directed to your latest post on your blog, not to your SS one. All you need to do, once you’ve published your blogpost, is click on the title - in this case ‘My World - Family Photos’ and copy that for your link. I hope this helps.

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  13. Great set of family photos, once again! Thanks for sharing them.

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  14. Luckily I have my mother’s old family pictures which are my treasures. My children seen to have no interest in them or the genealogy I have done on our families thru the years which is a heartbreaker for me. I adore al of your pictures. Those little white dresses on the children look so similar to the children in mine. I love this post especially in sepia.

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  15. i LOVE old photos, how lucky for you to have these!

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  16. Wonderful treasures! It's great that you have them.

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  17. Those are wonderful old pictures. What treasures you have.

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  18. Love those old photos: the clothes, the faces, the backgrounds.

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  19. Liz, I wish that I had a number of old pictures like this, but I don't. Thanks for sharing them this week and I hope that you return again soon.

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