Ancestor Worship
Jan. 26th, 2024 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo This is something my sis dug up in her investigation into our family history.
The year is 1908. Annie Grist is marrying Archibald Mitchell. The ceremony was conducted at Christ Church, Erith. Afterwards the bridal party poses for photographs in somebody's grotty back yard. They have done what they can to cheer it up by spreading carpet and hanging a flag.
Ohmigod, the things the women have put on their heads! Words fail. Those Edwardians, what were they like!
I'm mostly interested in the two people on the far right. The boy- the bride's brother- aged about nine or ten- is my grandfather Cyril Henry, and the woman behind him, half hidden, with wary eyes, is almost certainly my widowed great grandmother (another Annie). This is the first picture of her I've ever seen.
And here's Cyril in his prime- a company director who- like the girl in the song- has long since shaken off his "lowly born tags" ...
The year is 1908. Annie Grist is marrying Archibald Mitchell. The ceremony was conducted at Christ Church, Erith. Afterwards the bridal party poses for photographs in somebody's grotty back yard. They have done what they can to cheer it up by spreading carpet and hanging a flag.
Ohmigod, the things the women have put on their heads! Words fail. Those Edwardians, what were they like!
I'm mostly interested in the two people on the far right. The boy- the bride's brother- aged about nine or ten- is my grandfather Cyril Henry, and the woman behind him, half hidden, with wary eyes, is almost certainly my widowed great grandmother (another Annie). This is the first picture of her I've ever seen.
And here's Cyril in his prime- a company director who- like the girl in the song- has long since shaken off his "lowly born tags" ...
