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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Originally posted by Robert View PostIt 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.
Still the Bride looks so sad.She's the only one not looking at the Camera.
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Don't linger longer in the Donga!!!
Originally posted by Robert View PostWell, this was 1899 - maybe Rose has just found out that Isidore booked South Africa for the honeymoon.
Anyway, it's a great pic.
"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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Originally posted by Livia View PostAccording to the FreeBMD Index, they were married
in September of 1899 in Islington, Greater London.
Volume 1b, page 926.
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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Originally posted by richardnunweek View PostHi,
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.
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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