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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
    • 20570

    #91

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      #92
      Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
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      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Dave2002
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 18029

        #93
        What the ....? Was that a stunt shot?

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37726

          #94
          So, that's what happened to Buckethead!

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          • Richard Tarleton

            #95
            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Hannah Stilley, born 1746, photographed in 1840. More than likely the earliest born individual captured on a photo.
            I've been working on our family history for a few years now, and this is the oldest photo of a relative I've managed to find. The Massachusetts branch of our family goes back to 1635 (when my 9x great grandfather arrived on a pilgrim ship), and this is one of my great-great-great-great grandfathers, Ephraim Reed Snelling (1788-1872) captured in old age. The image is much faded (I've done what I can to enhance it), his head has almost disappeared, but the eyes are still there and he still has a certain presence. He's described as "shipwright, shipbuilder, caulker and graver". He saw service against the English – he was a Corporal in the 1st (Binney's) Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia in the War of 1812, (the “forgotten war”), when England was seeking to enforce a blockade against Napoleon's France). His granddaughter Miss Martha Lincoln Snelling is listed as a Daughter of the American Revolution.

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            • pastoralguy
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 7773

              #96
              Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
              I've been working on our family history for a few years now, and this is the oldest photo of a relative I've managed to find. The Massachusetts branch of our family goes back to 1635 (when my 9x great grandfather arrived on a pilgrim ship), and this is one of my great-great-great-great grandfathers, Ephraim Reed Snelling (1788-1872) captured in old age. The image is much faded (I've done what I can to enhance it), his head has almost disappeared, but the eyes are still there and he still has a certain presence. He's described as "shipwright, shipbuilder, caulker and graver". He saw service against the English – he was a Corporal in the 1st (Binney's) Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia in the War of 1812, (the “forgotten war”), when England was seeking to enforce a blockade against Napoleon's France). His granddaughter Miss Martha Lincoln Snelling is listed as a Daughter of the American Revolution.


              Absolutely amazing!

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                #97
                Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
                Absolutely amazing!
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • ardcarp
                  Late member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 11102

                  #98

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                  • ardcarp
                    Late member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 11102

                    #99

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                    • ardcarp
                      Late member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 11102

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12861

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                        ... but are there any Ardcarp ancestors among these Dorset worthies?

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                        • gradus
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 5613

                          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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                          ... but are there any Ardcarp ancestors among these Dorset worthies?

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                          Lovely evocative pics, even if the snapper couldn't resist a bit of product placement!

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                          • ardcarp
                            Late member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 11102

                            ...I was partly practising getting photos on the Forum. But they're all photos of photos taken in Stoke Abbott. Life of the rural poor in Hardy country.

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37726

                              Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
                              ...I was partly practising getting photos on the Forum. But they're all photos of photos taken in Stoke Abbott. Life of the rural poor in Hardy country.
                              Many thanks for these. Staring at the group of children, I wonder how they managed to get those smocks so gleamingly white in an era before Daz!

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                                Many thanks for these.


                                Staring at the group of children, I wonder how they managed to get those smocks so gleamingly white in an era before Daz!
                                I think the clue might be in the whitewashed cottages behind them!
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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