Family Tree Frog

  Alan from Sepia Saturday says: To take us into 2021 we have the letter T. You can interpret this as you like, for our theme image I have chosen a Birmingham tram from the 1920s. All you have to do is to feature an old photo in a blog post, post the post on or around Saturday 9th January 2021, and add a link to the list below. I have chosen a few bits and bobs from a memento box which needs to be sorted and scanned; something on my list of never-ending things to do which never seem to get done. Hazel Teddy & Jim at The Gap Watson's Bay   I don't think I've posted this photo before.  I like this photo because it shows Ted as a young boy.  Most of the photos I have of Ted are when he is an adult or a teen. As my father is the baby in this photo, I reckon Ted was probably about 10 years old and Hazel, 12-14 years old. Jim, my father, seems to have lost his shoe.  Why would they have been at Watson's Bay I wonder?  Had Jim just been baptised?  No. ...

Well this week's theme is quite easy for me to match in terms of family photos.  I suspect some of you may have seen this one before but I saw it with new eyes this morning realising perhaps for the first time that my maternal grandfather, Thomas McLoughlin,  was sitting on a wicker chair. Other family photos featuring wicker furniture are from the paternal side of the family. This is, I suspect, a photo of a photo but it is much loved.  It features my two Aunts and my Uncle.  I only knew my elder Aunt Hazel on the left. My Aunt Trixie (the baby in the chair) died when very young.  That's Uncle Ted on the right and he died well before I was born. This is their mother, my grandmother, Ethel, sitting at I strongly suspect a wicker table.  I also suspect that she would have embroidered that tablecloth.  I have a few of her tablecloths but I don't think that particular one.  I have posted this before so I really needed to fi...

Alan from Sepia Saturday says: Ah, I remember it well. Get out your smart threads, polish up your brogues, stand around that imposing jukebox and spin those old favourites : "Summer Holiday", "V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N", or maybe "Viva Espana". Yes, it can only mean one thing : I am about to go on holiday again. But, worry not, who is looking after things whilst I am away but my fellow administrator - Marilyn. And the theme image Marilyn has chosen for Sepia Saturday 225 (post your posts on or around Saturday 26 April 2014) shows a group of smart young things stood around a jukebox. If you are theming this week there are endless possibilities - jukeboxes, music, the 1950s are just a few suggestions. All you have to do is to post your post, link your link, and visit your sepia friends. Easy-peasy ...... itsy-bitsy, yellow polka-dot bikini (control yourself, Alan) I'm finding it very hard to stay on theme this week from my own collection.  All I have are ...

Ted Conner Ouf - just look at this photo.  Isn't it the cutest thing you ever did see? On the back it just says "Ted back in England" I am forced to assume that it is my grandfather. He was born in 1900 so I'm thinking it would have been taken in Portsmouth somewhere  c 1902.  How old do you think he looks?  I think two maybe three. This is a copy of a copy unfortunately.  I have no idea where the original is.  I must ask my father.  Boy I've got a lot of questions for him since I started this ! Maybe it is my great-grandfather - he was called Edwin too and Ted I think.  He was born 1869. I shall have to check with my father... All observations gratefully accepted. I am intrigued by the big hat.   The fabulous book by Lenore Frost called Dating Family Photos 1850-1920 (ISBN 0646058983, published 1991) might help me here.      This is obviously a studio photo.  Lenore says th...

Ted Conner c 1945 This is my contribution for Day Ten of the February Photo Collage Festival. There is nothing on the back of this photo but I'm guessing it was taken sometime around 1945-1947.  And I have no idea where it was taken - somewhere in Australia though.  I'm thinking Bankstown airport or maybe in Queensland at the end of the war. It is of my uncle, Edwin Oswald Conner - my father's older brother. I never knew him.  He died in October 1947 at the age of just 21. He was named after his father - Edwin Conner - and I suppose his uncle - my grandmother's younger brother Oswald Carrett or Ossie.   I blogged about Ted's life on my old blog here .  You can read his service record here I particularly like the reference from his old school principal at North Newtown Intermediate High who described him as : "a lad of fine type, of good moral character, of good address and of pleasing personality.  He is well balanced and sensible, ...