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Gramps This is the next photo in the February Photo Collage Festival dreamt up by the lovely Julie at Angler's Rest and cleverly named by the lovely Pauleen at Family HIstory Across the seas. Okay - let's have a change of gender. This photograph is obviously a copy of a copy. It bears the simple word "Gramps" on the back of it. I am assuming it is Edwin Conner - my father's grandfather - because of the uniform and it's in my paternal grandmother's family album. Edwin was born Christmas Day 1869 at 46 Albert Street, Portsea Island, Southampton in England and died in the Greycliffe disaster in Sydney Harbour 3 November 1927 at the age of 57 - nearly 58. He was buried in the Methodist section of South Head Cemetery by a Salvation Army Minister. There is a memorial page which I have just discovered on Find A Grave here . The newspapers said he lived at 58 Salisbury Street Watson's Bay. However his death certificate says he...