The beginning and Elsie Margaret Yarwood

 As I begin to document my research in to the photographs from my ancestors it is hard to state when my interest in these photographs began . In my youth they were just photographs of people most of whom I would never have known because their lives had already occurred . There didn't seem to be a big extended family as I was growing up and so the idea of asking an older relative to identify some of subjects of these photographs was just not possible at that time.

 In the mid 1990's my wife and I were expecting our first child . Prior to our relationship my wife had assisted her maternal Grandmother in tracing some lines of her family tree and although I'd asked a few questions after my own father's death in 1983 I must confess I was too young back then and knew of only odd names and places but not quite how it all connected . So armed with a collection of photographs that had once belonged to my paternal Grandmother Elsie and a wife who had some experience in genealogy we began to piece my family tree together.

 Fortunately for me my Grandmother Elsie had took the time to write names and sometimes addresses on the reverse of some of these photographs . Unfortunately for me though was that those pictures that had been used as postcards generally had had their stamps removed so the exact year ,which could've helped , was missing.

 So here's my first picture taken somewhere between 1910 and 1914 of my Grandmother Elsie Margaret Yarwood most probably at Mill Farm , Stanthorne , Cheshire. 

  

Elsie Margaret Yarwood 1895-1968