Family Tree Frog

Alan from Sepia Saturday says: It is 100 years since HMS Queen Elizabeth was launched at Portsmouth. Whilst this is not the Queen Elizabeth, it matters not, because in Sepia Saturday 198 we celebrate the start of something new. It might be a life, it might be a love, it might be a a new chicken coop or it might be a mighty ocean liner. In the case of our current photograph it was HMAS Albatross the Royal Australian Navy's first seaplane carrier which was launched in February 1928 at Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney. The photograph, which was taken by Sam Hood (1872-1953) and forms part of the Australian National Maritime Museum's stream on Flickr Commons. If you have a picture of a launch of a battleship in your collection, feel free to share it, but a photograph of anything new, anything beginning or anything that floats on water will do.  Joy and Ray's album It's always a challenge deciding what to do for Sepia Saturday. I saw the ship and imme...

1944 August Joy and Ray Here is Photo Number 2 for the February Photo Collage Festival. It is of my first cousin once removed Joyce Isabel and her husband Ray Jeffery. Joy was more of an Auntie to me being my mother's first cousin.   Joy's mother Belle and my mother's mother Kit were twin sisters. Apparently I look a lot like Joy. Joy married Ray in 1942. Joy very kindly gave me a beautiful ring of hers and I wear it on my left hand on the middle finger.  It is very difficult to remove!  The inside of the ring is inscribed with the words "To my darling Bub" and then the dates 22.10.44 - 29.11.44. I always thought this was connected to the birth and death of their first child - Robert William Jeffery but I have looked up his death in the NSW BDM index and he died in 1943.   This was during the war years so I wonder if the dates relate to their second honeymoon.  Going through an old photo album of Joy's it does seem to f...