Left: My great great great grandmother circa 1830.
Right: My great great grandmother circa 1880.
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Left: My great great aunt late 1800s.
Right: My great grandmother late 1800s.
Left: My great aunt early 1900s.
Right: My mother in 1904.
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Hats! Such great photos, and look how the styles changed! A family story tells of my maternal grandmother spending a week's salary on a hat before she was married - fourteen whole dollars! The hat was an enormously brimmed thing covered with fake fruits and a few peacock feathers.
Obviously a strong millinery gene runs through your family!
Oh J, what a treasure trove! The hat your Mother is wearing as a babe in 1904! How wonderful that you ahve all these photos. Thankyou for posting them.
And don't the genes show through - the continuity of facial characteristics never fails to amaze me!
Judith
How lovely to have all these photographs of your family stretching so far back. Wonderful
Peter
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Ah how beautiful your photos are. I have hardly any such photos however one I do have is a framed photo of my grandmother, taken when she was in her late teens or early 20s. In it she is wearing a close fitting hat and a dark coat with a fur collar. A very fashionable young lady. Only recently my eldest son confessed that he'd grown up thinking she was a pilot, he'd always wondered where her Biggles goggles were.
Hello Judith,
I have written a manuscript about your great great aunt (we are related) in the mop cap. I am getting it ready for publication and must ask you what you know about her.
I hope you are well as I noticed your last blog was in 2016, regards Margaret
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