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Jazzy Rags
Well i bet you thourght i was just a silly ossie 
:lol:Well my history goes back to Wales .are they a good lot i hope so ?. This photo goes back too 1870 it is my great great grandmother and father John@ Alice Bramley. Alice was married to a bloke named william at the age of 16 yrs,This was don't a happy marriage,after giving birth to twins she left him and the twins in wales and came to Australia .She meet John and fell in love but the law said you had to be separated 7 years to marry "shock " "horror" they lived in sin till Alice got her divorce in with that time my great grandmother was born . A bit of family history .( did you enjoy that or did i bore you all to death ). :lola:
LuxembearsNeat Fran! I just love history and old photos like yours. I hope you will pass it down through your family with the written story attached.
Jazzy Rags
This Photo is 1890 my great grandfather is william sitting in the chair on the right .William died an alcoholic .Tragically his 3 brothers all died of tuberculosis .This photo was found in a ancient box of papers .Just incase you are wondering i don't drink
Past Time BearsGreat old photos, Fran . . . I LOVE old pictures!
Posts: 3,540Me too, I LOVE old photos! There's so much history, and I'm always wondering what the people were thinking when they got their photos taken..... 
DoodlebearsFran County Cork is not in Wales it's in Ireland. I love the old photographs, thanks for sharing.
Jane 
Interesting thread Fran! You come from colourful stock!! 
Jazzy RagsI shouldnt be telling all my family secrets should i 
Bears-a-Bruin!Great photos, Fran! I love family history. You can never be quite sure what you'll find out...!
UKWowies love the photos Fran !!!
Terries BearsGreat photos, Fran! and yes you do have some colorful characters in your past. Your great great grandmother must have been a woman ahead of her time. People in those days usually just put up with their lives the way that they were. It would have taken a lot of courage for her to leave her husband and babies and start a new life for herself.
Childhood TreasuresI also love geneology. I've been working on the family tree for a long time. it's like treasure hunting. Keep it up.
Ann
Baird'sBears
Wonderful photos, Fran!!
I think we're better off for the colorful characters on our family trees--where would we be without their grit?
I've never seen a picture of my Belgian paternal grandmother, who died in the 1918 Flu epidemic. I'm sure someone somewhere has one, and I ought to start hunting. I suspect I'm very like her, since I don't seem to have much in common with my mother's family.
Anne, I love your bears!!
Eileen
Fran, thanks for the pics! Interesting stories. I'm glad your grandmother was happy "living in sin."
Posts: 8,574Wonderful Fran....stubborn and independent stock you come from. Excellant
