Shrimpton - Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs

FAMILY HISTORY FROM PEN & SWORD

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Mary Ingham

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Ray Westlake

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Stephen Wade

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Sue Wilkes

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Jonathan Brown

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Kathy Chater

Tracing Your Servant Ancestors
Michelle Higgs

Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837
Jonathan Oates

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Simon Wills

Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors

Sue Wilkes

Tracing Your Ancestors through Death Records
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Simon Fowler

Tracing Your Army Ancestors - 2nd Edition
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Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet
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Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837

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First published in Great Britain in 2014

PEN & SWORD FAMILY HISTORY

an imprint of

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

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Copyright Jayne Shrimpton 2014

ISBN 978 1 78159 280 9

eISBN 9781473831827

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M any individuals have helped with the preparation of this book. I am indebted to colleagues, family and friends who have given freely of their time and expertise or have permitted photographs from their personal, group or professional collections to be featured. Special thanks are due to military expert Jon Mills and Ron Cosens of Photographers of Great Britain and Ireland 18401940/Victorian Image Collection.

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Fiona Adams 7, 30, 34, 48, 835, 1045, 123, 150; Pat Brady 31, 42, 68, 81, 149; Agnes Burton 37, 62, 92; Patrick Davison 77, 101, 144; Claire Dulanty 39, 54, 56, 98, 103, 113, 148, 151; Julian Hargreaves 76, 79, 90, 112, 142; Mike Kostiuk (Family Tree Folk) 152; Simon Martin 29, 50, 60, 63, 67, 80, 86, 89; John Mills 114, 116, 1201, 1246, 129, 135, 139; Heather Redman 143; Richards Family 4; Ringmer History Study Group 2; Ann Thiessen 66, 82; Beryl Venn 3, 33, 44, 71, 75, 93, 102, 110, 117, 147; Victorian Image Collection 73, 91; Katharine Williams 6, 8, 26, 356, 38, 40, 457, 49, 589, 645, 6970, 74, 78, 878, 945, 99, 106, 1089, 115, 118, 122, 1278, 130, 1324, 1368, 145. The remaining images are from the authors collection.

E arly in 1839 the new invention of photography was announced to the world by photographic pioneers in Britain and France. Within two years of this it was becoming possible for members of the public to have their photographs taken in one of the commercial portrait rooms being established in major cities, and twenty years later photography was opening up to a wide population. The new medium of photographic portraiture profoundly affected the way in which our ancestors viewed themselves and their contemporaries and how others have seen them ever since. The surviving photographs handed down the generations that now form todays private picture archives provide family historians with an unrivalled opportunity not only to touch the personal items that were once handled and treasured by past family members, but to study their likenesses and gain a unique insight into their lives.

Old photographs have often been hoarded in attics, garages, cupboards and drawers but it is never too soon to resurrect and review these precious heirlooms. Whether our photograph collections comprise mainly twentieth-century snapshots or include formal Victorian studio portraits, these historical images need to be organised, examined carefully and researched in order to discover their origins and meaning. Very few family photographs date from before the 1850s, but even mid-nineteenth-century images can take us back six, seven or even eight generations of the family and may portray ancestors born in the eighteenth century. This book focuses on photographs dating from the 1840s up until the 1940s: this is not to suggest that later snapshots arent important, but drawing a line at around 1950 ensures adequate coverage of the period that falls largely outside many researchers living memory.