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Does anyone recognise the young ladies in this James Ring photo.ca.1900`s.
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DescriptionMystery Photo. Does anyone recognise the young ladies in this James Ring photo. Probably taken in the early 1900's. The family possibly lived in the Lake Brunner / Nelson Creek / Reefton District as the photo was in my mother's collection and came from her Molloy parents of Kotuku. It was common in those days to give photos to close family friends, at Christmas for example.
Possibly MuncmastersPhotographerJames RingDate of Photo1900`sContributor Geoffrey Bell
Possibly MuncmastersPhotographerJames RingDate of Photo1900`sContributor Geoffrey Bell
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CommentsIna Lineham It's beautiful.
Maggie Bath Stunning photo Geoff
Yvonne Jean Wow love the clothes very pretty ladies
Margaret Wright Are they your Grandmothers Sisters Maybe if you know grandmother maiden name look On BDM for names
Geoffrey Bell Hi Margaret. I'm into Family History in a big way so I have exhausted all those avenues. I have a number of these photos and some of them I have identified. I have decided to gradually put them all on the WCSIH site as I feel they are worth sharing with everyone and there maybe a distant chance that someone may recognise one of them.
Christine Farrell Wow wow photo
Pauline Barrow Thats a lovely photo
Glenice Hansen Beautiful photo
Che Norris These were real ladies!
Che Norris A picture to remember.
Peter Dennehy What a great photo.
Don Hutton Attractive ladies!
Lorraine Phillips Gosh, they look like triplets.
Nana Pop Detlaff They look like Mother (rear) and Daughters.
Craig Benbow Mother and daughters perhaps. The two ladies seated appear to be quite young just dressed up for the occasion. Funny how it is hard to judge the ages. Different age, babies came soon after marriage.......
Anne Addy the women at this time still dressed so beautifully, look at the hats. !!
Florence Gunn Wow beautiful, gorgeous dresses etc
Alison Hale Wonder what colour the dresses were.
Shona Ratana Beautiful dresses So much sewing of all those articles. Hard work for that perfection
Shirley Scarlett Those hats!
Mary Moffitt Love this photo. The two girls' dresses at the front have been made from the same pattern. Some changes have been made, to the sleeves for example, and colours were probably different. I feel sure that their mother was the dressmaker, and if so she was a clever woman. The woman at the back is older, but may be an older sister and not their mother.
Keep the photos coming, please.
Geoffrey Bell Mary Moffitt. The girls most likely come from a family from up the Grey Valley. The icing on the cake would be if someone recognised who they are in the photos.
Noeline McCaughan Looking closely at the garments I ascertained that they are not dresses but two piece garments, consisting of a pinafore and blouse. The pinafores are identical in structure but are of different fabrics whilst the blouses are entirely different in pattern.
Mary Moffitt Noeline McCaughan Agreed. Sometimes they also had several interchangeable parts such as detachable collars which perhaps needed washing more often, and also covered much of the garment below, like the pinafore effect. This was especially useful for the…like the pinafore effect. This was especially useful for the young adults when their body shape changed. My great grandmother, Catherine (Nairn) Donald wore her plum-coloured wedding skirt again as an underskirt at her Golden Wedding. (Catherine's son retired to Stillwater.)These women knew how to make clothes last - except for their daily chores garments.
Mary Moffitt Geoffrey Bell Probably a daft idea, Geoffrey, but I wondered about the young woman on the right. She looks familiar. At present, I am thinking of the Richardsons at Stillwater. Margaret McIntyre married Len Richardson (Stationmaster). I knew them only as old women but they were lovely kind old women. Margaret's sister was Adeline McIntyre and I called her Auntie Ad as Margaret's daughters did. Ad, single, lived with the Richardsons up on the hill opposite the station a few sections north of the current hotel. It feels right to me that she is the young woman on the left, but who knows?
Why I wonder about these two, is that the one on the right looks like the younger generation of kids, and, visually, makes me think of Margaret Richardson. Not much to go on, but Bryan McIntyre is from this McIntyre family and may know more.
Len Richardson, historian par excellence, will surely know if they are his family.
Noeline McCaughan So interesting, the foregoing conversations have validated the use of the internet in gathering and giving information on times, people and events of earlier years that might otherwise have just been forgotten.
Noeline McCaughan I really enjoyed the responses as they came up.
Geoffrey Bell Margaret Wright. I believe you are right and the young ladies are family and are indeed Muncaster sisters. Going by the background, that fits in with about 1915. I have studied their faces and compared them with the Muncaster Family photo (which includes two of Elizabeth's children) and come to the conclusion that they are from left to right, Teresa born 29th of May 1898, Margaret (standing) born 21st of August 1888 and Isabella born 13th of December 1895.
Judy Smolen Wow my grandmother
Geoffrey Bell Indeed Judy and my grandmother's first cousins.
Maggie Bath Stunning photo Geoff
Yvonne Jean Wow love the clothes very pretty ladies
Margaret Wright Are they your Grandmothers Sisters Maybe if you know grandmother maiden name look On BDM for names
Geoffrey Bell Hi Margaret. I'm into Family History in a big way so I have exhausted all those avenues. I have a number of these photos and some of them I have identified. I have decided to gradually put them all on the WCSIH site as I feel they are worth sharing with everyone and there maybe a distant chance that someone may recognise one of them.
Christine Farrell Wow wow photo
Pauline Barrow Thats a lovely photo
Glenice Hansen Beautiful photo
Che Norris These were real ladies!
Che Norris A picture to remember.
Peter Dennehy What a great photo.
Don Hutton Attractive ladies!
Lorraine Phillips Gosh, they look like triplets.
Nana Pop Detlaff They look like Mother (rear) and Daughters.
Craig Benbow Mother and daughters perhaps. The two ladies seated appear to be quite young just dressed up for the occasion. Funny how it is hard to judge the ages. Different age, babies came soon after marriage.......
Anne Addy the women at this time still dressed so beautifully, look at the hats. !!
Florence Gunn Wow beautiful, gorgeous dresses etc
Alison Hale Wonder what colour the dresses were.
Shona Ratana Beautiful dresses So much sewing of all those articles. Hard work for that perfection
Shirley Scarlett Those hats!
Mary Moffitt Love this photo. The two girls' dresses at the front have been made from the same pattern. Some changes have been made, to the sleeves for example, and colours were probably different. I feel sure that their mother was the dressmaker, and if so she was a clever woman. The woman at the back is older, but may be an older sister and not their mother.
Keep the photos coming, please.
Geoffrey Bell Mary Moffitt. The girls most likely come from a family from up the Grey Valley. The icing on the cake would be if someone recognised who they are in the photos.
Noeline McCaughan Looking closely at the garments I ascertained that they are not dresses but two piece garments, consisting of a pinafore and blouse. The pinafores are identical in structure but are of different fabrics whilst the blouses are entirely different in pattern.
Mary Moffitt Noeline McCaughan Agreed. Sometimes they also had several interchangeable parts such as detachable collars which perhaps needed washing more often, and also covered much of the garment below, like the pinafore effect. This was especially useful for the…like the pinafore effect. This was especially useful for the young adults when their body shape changed. My great grandmother, Catherine (Nairn) Donald wore her plum-coloured wedding skirt again as an underskirt at her Golden Wedding. (Catherine's son retired to Stillwater.)These women knew how to make clothes last - except for their daily chores garments.
Mary Moffitt Geoffrey Bell Probably a daft idea, Geoffrey, but I wondered about the young woman on the right. She looks familiar. At present, I am thinking of the Richardsons at Stillwater. Margaret McIntyre married Len Richardson (Stationmaster). I knew them only as old women but they were lovely kind old women. Margaret's sister was Adeline McIntyre and I called her Auntie Ad as Margaret's daughters did. Ad, single, lived with the Richardsons up on the hill opposite the station a few sections north of the current hotel. It feels right to me that she is the young woman on the left, but who knows?
Why I wonder about these two, is that the one on the right looks like the younger generation of kids, and, visually, makes me think of Margaret Richardson. Not much to go on, but Bryan McIntyre is from this McIntyre family and may know more.
Len Richardson, historian par excellence, will surely know if they are his family.
Noeline McCaughan So interesting, the foregoing conversations have validated the use of the internet in gathering and giving information on times, people and events of earlier years that might otherwise have just been forgotten.
Noeline McCaughan I really enjoyed the responses as they came up.
Geoffrey Bell Margaret Wright. I believe you are right and the young ladies are family and are indeed Muncaster sisters. Going by the background, that fits in with about 1915. I have studied their faces and compared them with the Muncaster Family photo (which includes two of Elizabeth's children) and come to the conclusion that they are from left to right, Teresa born 29th of May 1898, Margaret (standing) born 21st of August 1888 and Isabella born 13th of December 1895.
Judy Smolen Wow my grandmother
Geoffrey Bell Indeed Judy and my grandmother's first cousins.
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