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  • #16
    It is an extremely formal photograph, which might account for the fact that not a single person is smiling. Either that, or the best man's speech didn't go down too well.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Robert View Post
      It is an extremely formal photograph, which might account for the fact that not a single person is smiling. Either that, or the best man's speech didn't go down too well.
      It is very formal though that was pretty typical for the era.Like Annie Chapmans wedding photograph.

      Still the Bride looks so sad.She's the only one not looking at the Camera.

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      • #18
        I suppose with those old cameras, it was a bit difficult to hold a smile for the required length of time.

        It seems to have been a spring wedding - plenty of blossom.

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        • #19
          Brilliant! Chris!!!!!
          HOLD THAT SMILE now! x

          I agree Belinda- she looks sooooo sad ;-(
          'Would you like to see my African curiosities?'

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          • #20
            Chris, it speaks well of your comportment the family member trusted you with this. Thanks.

            Is the groom the man in the middle?

            Roy
            Sink the Bismark

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            • #21
              Well, this was 1899 - maybe Rose has just found out that Isidore booked South Africa for the honeymoon.

              Anyway, it's a great pic.

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              • #22
                Don't linger longer in the Donga!!!

                Originally posted by Robert View Post
                Well, this was 1899 - maybe Rose has just found out that Isidore booked South Africa for the honeymoon.

                Anyway, it's a great pic.
                Hi Robert,

                "Don't concern yourself my love! It will be a simply wonderful Honeymoon my darling!" "Now, where shall we go first? Mafeking? Or perhaps... err... now whats it called again... ah yes, Ladysmith?"

                Best wishes,

                Zodiac.
                And thus I clothe my naked villainy
                With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
                And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

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                • #23
                  Forget the soup-strainer....what about those lugs?

                  He looks like the Scottish Cup!

                  Great find....well done.
                  My opinion is all I have to offer here,

                  Dave.

                  Smilies are canned laughter.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Robert View Post
                    It seems to have been a spring wedding - plenty of blossom.
                    It was in the third quarter of the year, but I don't know the exact date.

                    Originally posted by Roy Corduroy
                    Is the groom the man in the middle?
                    Yes, I believe it is.

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                    • #25
                      According to the FreeBMD Index, they were married
                      in September of 1899 in Islington, Greater London.

                      Volume 1b, page 926.

                      Sorry, there's nothing further.

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                      • #26
                        The marriage seems to have been childless.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Livia View Post
                          According to the FreeBMD Index, they were married
                          in September of 1899 in Islington, Greater London.

                          Volume 1b, page 926.
                          Yes - in that context 'September' would actually indicate the quarter July-September.

                          Robert

                          Yes, I think the marriage was childless. I researched most of these descendants before the 1911 census was released, but their monumental inscriptions and the notices of their deaths in the Jewish Chronicle don't mention any surviving children.

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                          • #28
                            Bumping up the thread to the top.
                            Sink the Bismark

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by richardnunweek View Post
                              Hi,
                              Dutfields yard photo... thats history now, we have a picture of a genuine witness, well we have two really, if we include 'Topping'.
                              Many thanks to the owner, and many thanks to Chris.
                              Regards Richard.
                              Hi Richard
                              There is a picture of "Topping" ? Could you point me in that direction?
                              Thanks!
                              "Is all that we see or seem
                              but a dream within a dream?"

                              -Edgar Allan Poe


                              "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                              quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

                              -Frederick G. Abberline

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Observer View Post
                                Fascinating indeed, the man who saw Jack the Ripper. Great Photo Chris.

                                all the best

                                Observer
                                Peux pas dire mieux ! Merci Chris.

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