Saturday Snapshot – Family

Published on by Margaret

I don’t have many photos of my grandparents. Here are two.

The first is a photo of George Ellis Owens, my Taid (grandfather on my mother’s side) at his home in Penyffordd, North Wales. My mother has written on the back ‘My father 1930‘. He was born in 1880 and was a steel worker at John Summers at Hawarden Bridge Steelworks Shotton.

He is the grandparent I knew the most, because he and my grandmother came to live with us when I was 5. My granny died five years later and he lived to the ripe old age of 87, when I was 20. My other grandparents died when I was 6.

Below is a photo of  my granny, my father’s mother, taken in her garden at Bowdon Vale, Cheshire with my cousin Sylvia. I do remember her fairly well. She was always smiling in contrast to my granddad who was always grumpy, I thought. He had a big mustache and a loud gruff voice which made me nervous, plus he had his dog tied up to his armchair which scared me. She had her hair in a bun – just like grannies in picture books. She was born in 1878 and died when she was 74. I was named after her.

and this is me when I was 5½. I’ve cheated a bit here as this was a school photo.

To participate in Alyce’s Saturday Snapshot meme post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken. Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes to see. How much detail you give in the caption is entirely up to you. All Alyce asks is that you don’t post random photos that you find online.

16 thoughts on “Saturday Snapshot – Family”

  1. Margaret – What wonderful ‘photos! And thank you for sharing a bit of your own history with us. I’m happy for you that you had your grandparents for quite a while in your life. Oh, and that school ‘photo of you is just adorable!

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  2. Margaret, these are lovely! I’m so glad you shared your grandparents with us and the picture of you at 5 is so cute. Love the hair bows. I really enjoy the family photos that some are sharing. I hope to do the same in a few months.

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  4. Thanks for sharing a little bit of your family history to go along with the pictures. The old photos are wonderful to look at, not only for the people in them, but also some of the background details too – like the garden gate with the hearts! Very sweet.

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  7. These look like so many of my old family photos! My mother grew up in southern Wales in a coal mining town and my father in a small town in Scotland!

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  9. It is great that you have these photos and that they are labeled! My mother has photos from her parents and we have no clue who are in them. It is a shame.

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  11. Those are lovely old photos of you and your family! Thank you for sharing your memories of your grandparents.

    (And I wouldn’t consider the last photo cheating since it is a photo of you.) :)

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  12. Old photographs are wonderful, aren’t they? Especially photos of poeple like our grandparents who we’ve only known as grandparents…so interesting to see them before we ever came along :)

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  13. I love seeing family photos. How are you doing with your Agatha Reading Challenge. I trying, having a hard time finding some of the earlier works.

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    1. Irene, I’m plodding along with the Agatha Christie Reading challenge and managing to find some of her earlier books in 2nd hand bookshops.

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  15. You were such a beautiful child, Margaret. I enjoyed reading about your family and seeing two of your grandparents. Some day I really must go through some of our old photos and publish a few.

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