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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Oldest Family Photos

It's Saturday Night -

time for more Genealogy Fun!



Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is: 

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:

1)  What are the oldest family photos that you have?  Can you date them?  Do you know who is in them?

2)  Show us one or more of your oldest photos and provide a date and the subjects.

3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook.

Here's mine:

My Gleeson family passed down a wonderful photo album full of photos of the Gleeson and Tierney families who lived in Ontario, Canada; British Columbia, Canada; and South Dakota and Oregon.

The album has numbered slots for photos and a key at the front where the photos were labeled. These photos appeared to be labeled by my first cousin 2x removed, Muriel Martha Gilbert. She made very distinctive Ms and Ns. It also fit that when she identified people, she would give their relationship to herself.


The oldest photo that I think is in the album is labeled “Great-grandmother Tierney, Mary Ann and Johnny Dubrille."



Muriel’s great-grandmother Tierney was Ann Murray Tierney who married John Tierney in Ottawa in 1832. They had eleven children. Their oldest child, Elizabeth, married Charles Dubreuille in 1854 in Ottawa. Charles and Elizabeth had two children named John and Mary Ann, but John was five years older than Mary Ann. The oldest child was named Margaret Ann and was two years older than John. I don’t think the girl in the photo is only two years older than the younger child. It is possible that the younger boy was really Damas Joseph, who was five years younger than Mary Ann, however, he was born in Oregon and I doubt that Ann ever visited Oregon. This photo is likely mislabeled.


I do have a photo of Ann much later in life. Do you think these two women could be the same person?



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Comments

  1. Oh, that is so frustrating! It's usually a good thing to have your photos labeled. I hope you figure this one out. I can't tell if the two women are the same.

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    1. I know. Anyone who would have known are long dead.

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  2. The clothing styles in your top photo look to be c1860s. The photo also looks like a tintype form the coloring, which would fit in that era, too. I do think the two women could be the same person.

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    1. Thanks. It may be a mystery that can not be solved.

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