This old photo is a complete mystery. This lady is of the Harvey of Bristol family but who is she?
Can this photo be of Frederic Harvey's sister Louisa, daughter of Moses Woolland Harvey?
You might remember that Louisa Harvey married Charles Henry Langmead sometime before 1871 when they were both aged 28, living at no.13 Albert Road, St Pancras and he was described as a wine merchant.
By 1881 Louisa and Charles Henry had moved to Clifton residing at 79 Pembroke Road, Clifton.
Why did they return to Clifton by 1881? Perhaps it was because Frederic Harvey was in ill health.
After Frederic Harvey died at 33 Apsley Road, Clifton, on the 11th June 1886 we find that Charles Henry Langmead has ditched or disposed of his wife Louisa and by 1891 is married to the wealthy widow Mary Ann Harvey, his sister-in-law, moving her and the six Harvey children to London residing at 68 Hillsborough Road, Sydenham.
If this is Louisa she would be aged about 40 perhaps?
It's not known what became of Louisa. I couldn't find any record of her in the UK census after 1881.
This lady doesn't wear a wedding ring. She is wearing a rather nice Gold gate bracelet and a gold chunky link bracelet. She is wearing a Victorian ring on the 3rd finger of her right hand.
I don't know the name of the dog.
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This old photo is a complete mystery. This lady is of the Harvey of Bristol family but who is she?
Date: 22 May 2007 | Responder location: United Kingdom
Record has been found of Louisa Langmead's death. She died in Bristol in 1885 Oct-Dec aged 43. She died approximately six months before her brother Frederic's early demise in June 1886 at the young age of 38.
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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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