My 90+ year old Aunt-M finds my family history exploration very entertaining and is always keen to add to my collection of photos and stories.

She recently gave me a little brown photo album to scan created by her Aunt Dorrie (the baby in the pram in the header image above) in the 1920s and early 1930s.  Aunt Dorrie made some annotations in neat black ink and in later years, her daughter added additional labels in blue biro.

Many of the photographs are not annotated which is a great shame so we don’t know who, what or where.  Aunt-M did her best but she is 18 years younger than Dorrie so a lot of it was guess-work.  Some of the group photos defeated us completely and for others, the annotations didn’t help all that much.

But this annotation was very clear.

Edgar Taylor c1940

It has to be Edgar Ernest Taylor (1903-1995), the man who won Aunt Dorrie’s heart and married her in 1933.  Aunt-M and I think that the child in the front seat is probably their eldest daughter and that the photo was taken in Dangin outside Jamieson’s general store.

The album offers so much more to explore and I am very grateful to my Great-Aunt for leaving us this treasure.