Marie Louise Harvey and her intended, Mr Jones. A rare Edwardian photoWhat's Mr Jones doing?
I love this photo. A rare photo. A young Edwardian Marie Louise and her fiance Mr Jones joking around in front of the camera.
Mr Jones is caught performing an action we recognise today as 'this makes me want to puke'. Marie Louise is actually laughing. A no no in early photography.
Victorian and Edwardian photography was a very serious affair where subjects were required to sit posed and stiff for the camera.
This is a fantastic photograph, very faded in parts and I am pleased to have been able to reproduce it because it will probably deteriorate over time and fade away completely.
The photo shows Marie Louise and Mr Jones as very real and human with a sense of humour. It gives us a little more understanding about who they were.
Known people in the above photo
1 from left:
Mr Jones
Age: 16 - 30
Male
2 from left:
Miss Marie Louise Harvey
Maiden name: Harvey
Age: 16 - 30
Female
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racheinderbys Said:
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Marie Louise Harvey and her intended, Mr Jones. A rare Edwardian photoWhat's Mr Jones doing?
Date: 9 Apr 2011 | Responder location: Matlock, United Kingdom
I believe Mr Jones is my (very) distant relative Walter Frederick Leslie Jones, who was a stationer and printer in Norwood, and later Beckenham. He married a Marie Louise Harvey in 1901.
His sister Rose Alyce Jones married, confusingly, Samuel Martin Jones who was a Church of England clergyman and whose brother Harry Clarke Jones was my great-grandfather. So Walter and Marie Louise are no blood relatives of mine at all, but I am delighted to find this charming photograph of them!
Another brother of Rose and Walter was Stuart Champion Jones!
chrisoc Said:
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Marie Louise Harvey and her intended, Mr Jones. A rare Edwardian photoWhat's Mr Jones doing?
Date: 3 Jul 2011 | Responder location: United Kingdom
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I believe Mr Jones is my (very) distant relative Walter Frederick Leslie Jones, who was a stationer and printer in Norwood, and later Beckenham. He married a Marie Louise Harvey in 1901.
His sister Rose Alyce Jones married, confusingly, Samuel Martin Jones who was a Church of England clergyman and whose brother Harry Clarke Jones was my great-grandfather. So Walter and Marie Louise are no blood relatives of mine at all, but I am delighted to find this charming photograph of them!
Another brother of Rose and Walter was Stuart Champion Jones!
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Firstly, thank you for giving the excellent Mr Jones a name and filling in details about his occupation and date of marriage to Marie Louise. I can now find the names of their children, the two boys and the eldest girl.
That he is the brother of Stuart Champion Jones is remarkable as I have up to now only been able to surmise the relationship between the families by their facial similarities, also the naming of Walter and Stuart sister and her marriage to Samuel Martin Jones is of enormous help.
I am hoping that Walter and Marie Louise's children married and had offspring since Marie Louise's sister Florence and Stuart Champion Jones had no children together, and neither, I believe, did her other brothers and sisters.
I was thrilled to receive your response. I'm hoping one day to return the Frederic Harvey archive to one of his descendents.
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The mystery,history and Archive of the Harveys of Bristol, a wealthy Victorian family 1866 to 1937.
The mystery is how this original personal family archive belonging to Florence Harvey came to be found in my deceased mother's house in Essex ten years ago.
Florence was living in Sri Lanka in the 1930's so how did it arrive in England and why did my mother have it?
My great aunt may have brought it back to England but why was it not returned to the Harvey family?
Does this Victorian family not have descendents to whom it could have been returned?
Why do the documents,archives and photos cease about 1937 when Florence Harvey's mother died?
The Harvey family have no connection to my own family.
It is our intention to return the Harvey family archive to Florence's descendents if they can be found.
Read their story on my eBay blog jeannchris and see their images here through time from 1866 to 1937.
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