Edwardian Postcards
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. In the early decades of the 20th Century there was a boom in postcard sending. In autumn 2009 this was highlighted in media reports of the work of Julia Gillen of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. In her synposis of her work on Edwardian Postcards Ms Gillen explained: In the heyday […]
More Snowball pictures
Andrew Openshaw contacted me yesterday with some pictures he has of the Snowball family. The first picture shows Jane Ann Snowball (left) with her sisters Isabel and Sarah Ann. Jane Ann looks around 16-18 in this picture, so I think it dates from the late 1870s. Isabel and Sarah Ann were twins born a […]
Thomas Snowball – great great grandfather with ‘a singular tasteful way in bouquets’
Thanks to John Bowron for providing the following article about great great grandfather Thomas Snowball.
Great Grand Uncle Ralph Snowball’s photographic Collection
See Flickr Collection at http://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/sets/72157608912691810/
Famous photographer…Jane Anne Snowball’s half brother
Ralph Snowball born 19 Nov 1848 in Leadgate, Co Durham, England, and Ralph emigrated to Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia, he died on the 4 Aug 1925 and buried on the 4 Aug 1925 in Sandgate, New South Wales, Australia. Ralph become a established Photographer his collection can be seen through the University of Newcastle’s […]
Crowes – witnesses on Charles and Emma’s wedding certificate – 1911 census
Listed at witensses at Charles and Emma’s 1911 wedding, here is their entry, as neighbours to the happy couple, in the 1911 census.
1883 Isabella Sunter Dies in Howden – home of Jane Ann Snowball!
1883 Isabella Sunter Death Originally uploaded by timsunter Address is given as High Street, Howden. Isabella was 32 years old when she died and cause of death is given as “Phthisis 3 months”. Joseph Sunter is the informant and also gives his address as High Street Howden. Phthisis is the old term for TB. The […]
1877 Hannah Pedley Sunter Birth
1877 Hannah Pedley Sunter Birth Originally uploaded by timsunter Hannah Pedley Sunter was born to Joseph and Isabella Sunter in 1877 in Bishop Auckland. I ordered this certificate to find out where the Sunter’s were living in Bishop Auckland and to further investigate what the relationship was to Jane Ann Snowball and the Hulls. There […]
1939 Amy Sunter (Lofty’s sister) marriage
1939 Amy Sunter marriage Originally uploaded by timsunter 1939 – Lofty’s sister Amy gets married to Arthur Stephenson. The marriage was to remain childless. Amy worked for ASDA and lived in South Shields. Towards the end of her life Lofty got back in contact with her and went to visit on several occasions, […]