My mother taken on her 21st Birthday.

She died 22yrs ago, aged 73yrs.

You are very fortunate to have those photos.  

DEB

Twelve girls and one boy! Just think of all the weddings. lol.

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@purple_haize wrote:

My Great Grandmother seated in front with 9 of her 13 children, she had 12 girls and 1 boy. My grandmother is 4th on the right. I loved my grandmother so much, we were very close. She died when she was 96yrs. old.

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12 girls to 1 boy......what are the odds of that?

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@lloydslights wrote:

You are very fortunate to have those photos.  

 

DEB

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Thanks Deb,

I have boxes of family photos everywhere, I do scrapbooking, so have many books on the go at any one time

Your mum was beautiful PH

This is a pic of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, he was born in 1775 in Scotland & died in England in 1860.

He is my great, great, great grandfather on my grandfathers side. my Grandfather, my mother's father was born John Jesse Cochrane.

All the Horatio Hornblower books, pictures and tv series are based on the life of Thomas Cochrane, he was a Admiral in the British Navy.

There is the remains of the Dundonald Castle in Scotland, there is also a bust remembering him in Culross.

He is buried in Westminster Abbey, under the floor, both Diana and Katherine stood on the exact place where his grave is.

One of my mother's brothers looked very much like him and one of my cousins is the spitting image of him, when Thomas Cochrane was young.

There is heaps about him on google, iif you want to know more.

There is also a couple of books written about him..........still looking for them.

Is it only the women in a family that hold the "family's traditions and long-term memories and photos" do you think?

Unfortunately, coming from "poor stock"  and definitely no money for a camera or developing, I don't have photos, but some of the stories my nana told me, I have passed on to my daughter (simply because she sat still long enough to tell).

I've done my bit in telling her.  Now it's up to her to pass on to her nieces.  But one day, I intend to put snippets of info in writing.

Actually tonight might be the night to start!

DEB.  

My Grandma in the newspaper at her 105th birthday celebrations (her last one) with a photo of her wedding day. 

10 children, 36 grandchildren, lost count of great and great grandchildren. Only spent the last 6 weeks of her life in a retirement home (lived with family for quite a few years before that).

This is my Dad................I still love the sound of bagpipes playing.