Category: Neal
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Wedding fashions through family photos
There are of course a number of wedding photographs in the family collection, dating back over a hundred years. I thought it might be interesting to look at the differences, from changing fashions and fortunes. The variation is no doubt as much as about what they could afford as personal taste and the conventions of the times. Summer 1905, Norwich, Norfolk Eric Laddiman and Eliza Neal are fifth and sixth from the left back row. The fact that this is their wedding is by deduction » »
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Turning an absence into a presence
Tracing Alice Neal’s family No old photos on today’s item. In fact a photo absence is where it starts. Alice Neal was the only one of the 11 children of Robert Smith Neal and Ellen Elizabeth Watts not to appear in the 1902 family photograph featuring elsewhere on Cutlock and Co. But the very helpful caption, added later by gran (Emily Neal), says “No 3 Alice in Canada”. (Alice was the third child, Emily 9th.) Alice had so far proved elusive to pin down, so » »
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Neals in Canada – the photo gallery
An improved Neals in Canada photo web page has been created (December 2012) – better thumbnails and more photos to be added. » »
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Before they were married
This is currently my favourite old photo from the hundred or so ‘scanned in’ a couple of days ago. It is the only one just showing grandparents Sydney Howes and Emily Neal, and has been captioned “Wellington 1912”, a whole seven years before they married. I wonder who took it? Wellington, Shropshire was then the home of Emily’s older sister Eliza, who had been like a second mum to her, and had married Ernest Laddiman. Both Sydney and Emily were elementary school teachers – he started » »
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The Neal family in full 1900s attire
Photos reveal a key fact
Photos reveal a key fact I really ought to be saving this photo for later, doing a big build up for an important item. But that’s not really my style. So without further ado, the entire Neal family, bar one, in 1902. The extended caption written at some point by gran (Emily) reads: “Taken 1901 or 2. The Neal family Laura (7), Henry (5), George (6), Eliza (4) Edith (8), Ellen (Nellie) (1), Mother, Father, Robert (2) Albert (11) Mary (Polly) (10), Emily (9) No 3 » »
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Photos of great great uncle Sam, farmhand
So the ‘major scanning exercise’ is done, with about 100 old family photos digitally processed. Not quite as good quality as I hoped as Dad’s HP all-in-one scanner didn’t want to budge from 200 dpi but should be adequate. It will take some time to check them through, clean up and arrange all these, but images have already started appearing on old posts. I’ll try to include all of them in gallery pages eventually. This is a gallery test post, for which I’ve taken the family » »