This week’s prompt in the 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks is our favourite photo. Looking through all of the scanned photos that I have attached to my family tree, it is difficult to decide which one is my favourite as I like them all.
Since I was a young child, I’ve always enjoyed looking at my nan’s photos and hearing about all of the different people in the pictures. A couple of years ago, when I was visiting my Nan, we had another look through all her old photos, and she gave me a few to scan. Here are a selection of them:
This is a group photo of a family day out taken circa 1936/7, with my Nan and her sisters on the right-hand side of the picture.
The following photo is of my great-grandparents, Percival Edwin Cole and Edna Violet Higginson:
They were married on the 30 August 1924 in Southampton, Hampshire, and this photo was taken in their back garden. I wonder what colour her bouquet was? I remember visiting their house a lot when I was younger, and remember my great-grandfather always sitting on the same chair in the living room. He never really spoke a lot, and I remember spending more time with my great-nan. I was eight when my great granddad passed away and eleven when my great-nan passed.
The next photo is Anne Jane Moffat, my great, great-grandmother, born 1873 in Chiswick, London, with her children:
I’m not sure of the date this was taken, but here are a few more of her children:
Alice Maude Cole on her wedding day. She married Walter Wallace Long in the third quarter of 1919 in Southampton, Hampshire
This is Ann and Hilda Cole:
Ann and Hilda
Ann is on the left-hand side, and was born in 1895, and Hilda Eleanor was born in 1903, both in Southampton. Unfortunately I don’t have a date when this photo was taken, so it’s difficult to say how old they were in this photo.
Hilda Eleanor
This is another photo of Hilda Eleanor, and unfortunately, again, this photo isn’t dated. I really like this photo and it would be interesting to see what colour she was wearing, and also the colour of the background.
This is Elsie May, and she was born in 1896:
Elsie May
Looking at this photo, I can definitely see a likeness to her with other members of my immediate family.
Norah was born in 1905, and died in 1972 when she was 67 years old:
Norah
This looks like it may have been taken in the same studio as Hilda’s photo, possibly around the same time.
The final photo from the siblings is of Francis Joseph Cole:
Francis Joseph
This looks like this is from his marriage to Ethel A Carter in 1953. He would have been 39 years old.
The final photo that I am sharing with you is of my great, great-grandfather William David Higginson, and his family:
The photograph was taken on the Aquitania, and William is stood at the back next to his son, Richard. My great-nan is stood in front of William, and my Nan is stood on the bottom step. Again, this photo hasn’t been dated, but I would think that it was taken in the early 1930s. David was a Preventive Man working for Customs and Excise. He was originally working for them in Newhaven, Sussex, and continued in this line of work when he moved up to Hampshire.
So as you can see, it was difficult to publish just one photo, when I have been lucky enough to have access to all of these wonderful photos.
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