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Theme - Generations

2007.11.19

Five generations, taken in 1909

Great great grandmother, aged 90 (born 1819 Yorkshire)
Great grandfather, aged 65 (born 1844 Yorkshire)
Grandmother, aged 43 (born 1866 Queensland)
Mother, aged 22 (born 1887 Queensland)
Daughter, baby (born 1909 Queensland)

At the time this photo was taken, Maria had 154 descendants:
8 children, 70 grandchildren, 74 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren.

The final count was 8 children, 81 grandchildren, 81 great grandchildren and 222 great great grandchildren!

20 Comments
mimax2 very interesting! thanks for sharing.
mimax2 · 2007-11-19: 01:33
slowpete large families back then
great share for the theme
slowpete · 2007-11-19: 02:18
davidcardona Marvellous post! Memorable!
davidcardona · 2007-11-19: 03:02
carmitage So you are a Yorkshire lass :-)
My husband is from Yorkshire. Wonderful picture
carmitage · 2007-11-19: 04:02
Madoc Incredible photo...1909, wow!
Perfect shot for the theme.

Funny how people always look SO happy on these old pics!....
Madoc · 2007-11-19: 05:26
mireanna perfect, I very love old photos!!
mireanna · 2007-11-19: 06:13
Alicehume What a great record to have - thanks for sharing.
Alicehume · 2007-11-19: 07:03
spikepole Wow! This one is great!
spikepole · 2007-11-19: 07:23
justsuz Great family history! Five generations is quite remarkable.
justsuz · 2007-11-19: 07:32
SheriJ WOw that is when families were families and not too busy for each other!! great post!!
SheriJ · 2007-11-19: 08:26
sirsanya My maths is not good enough to comment on this.. Anyways.... Good pic.
sirsanya · 2007-11-19: 09:59
DancingDolphin How lucky you are to know your family so well! Thanks for sharing a treasure!
DancingDolphin · 2007-11-19: 10:00
lexlevans you ARE lucky to know the family history so well! i love old photos like this - see what people looked like, how they dressed. and then when i think about life back then i always think everything was black and white!
lexlevans · 2007-11-19: 10:27
sutbali Very nice picture, I would like to have soo much grandchildren:)))
sutbali · 2007-11-19: 11:14
sunshineand well done
sunshineand · 2007-11-19: 13:02
eljapa great to see this, thanks!
eljapa · 2007-11-19: 15:10
rolpa Terrific photo and very interesting.
rolpa · 2007-11-19: 15:48
vollenda Holy Moly! That's a lot of decendants! Fabulous old photo with all 5 generations! What fun. :)
vollenda · 2007-11-20: 00:10
Maxine I love this. (I stuck a photo of my g-g-grandma - also from that part of the world - on my blog some time back - can't be bothered looking for it to tell you where it is). :))
Maxine · 2007-11-20: 01:52
Yanko Isn´t that something?!
Yanko · 2007-11-20: 07:56
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