Apart from the letters
that form such an important part of this research, Sandra and Tracey have also been working with a batch of family photographs.
Unfortunately, only a few of them are able to have names put to them with any degree of certainty, and those are the ones included on the original pages.
But the others are too good to leave out, so we are including them here, for your pleasure, with a few notes as to who we THINK they might be! |
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These two photographs seem to be the oldest in the collection. Circumstantially, at least, they confirm the Lancaster connection suggested by the Census for 1881.
But we have no dates and we have no names. We have grouped them together for "Lancaster".
There seems to be a family resemblance to Araminta in the girl's face.
The "soldier's" uniform suggests a volunteer, but is, apparently, a uniform (scarlet tunic and black trousers) which
was almost 'standard' pre (circa) 1904 British Infantry Style. It is extremely difficult to give an exact date for
the photograph. The soldier rank was that of Private and his helmet bore the 'spike top' of the Infantry
(Corps such as Engineers, Artillery etc. used as a 'ball top' spike).
The helmet plate badge was the General Service pattern, and so unfortunately does not signify a specific Regiment.
The braid on the soldiers lower sleeve was used by the Volunteer Units and this, coupled with the General Service badge,
may well mean that he was a (part time) Volunteer with perhaps a local Rifle Volunteer Unit or local Volunteer Battalion.
A real guess for the date of the photographs would be circa 1895.
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