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--- can_you_help_identify_these_photos [2025/01/16 21:55] – judith
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 ====== Mystery photos ======
-One of the benefits of doing this family history is pooling our knowledge about our extended family. We all have photos which have been handed down without captions, of people and places that are now unknown. Do you recognise any of these?((Provenance of first 3: T.A. & M.T. M-P)) Or any of the others on this website where identification is uncertain?
+One of the benefits of doing this family history is pooling our knowledge about our extended family. We all have photos which have been handed down without captions, of people and places that are now unknown. Do you recognise any of these?((Provenance T.A. & M.T. M-P)) Or any of the others on this website where identification is uncertain?
- {{:unidentified_2.jpeg?300|}}  {{:unidentified_3.jpeg?300|}}  {{:unidentified_7_enh.jpeg?300|}} (SUCCESS! Thank you to Christopher Valttila who has written a book titled //Peerless// about his great-grandfather Lord Henry Phipps who owned //the Hollow// near //Tamrookum// from 1878-89. He says that Lord Henry and his wife Norma (Lady Phipps) knew Nora Murray-Prior quite well. He thinks that almost certainly this photo is of Lord Henry. \\
+ {{:unidentified_2.jpeg?300|}}  {{:unidentified_3.jpeg?300|}}  {{:wedding_photo.jpg?300|}}((Provenance: check State Library of NSW?))\
- {{:wedding_photo.jpg?300|}}((Provenance: check State Library of NSW?)) {{:unidentified_4_enh.jpeg?200|}}((Provenance: T.A. & M.T. M-P)) This last photo is probably one of Matilda's sons or sons-in-law, the same one in the previous wedding photo, but who? \\
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+ {{:unidentified_4_enh.jpeg?200|}}SUCCESS! Thank you to Christopher Valttila who has written a book titled //Peerless// about his great-grandfather Lord Henry Phipps, son of the Marquess of Normanby, the Governor of Queensland 1871-74. This photo is Lord Henry who owned //the Hollow// near //Tamrookum// from 1878-89; Christopher Valttila says that Lord Henry and his wife Norma (Lady Phipps) knew Nora Murray-Prior quite well.\\
+{{:unidentified_7_enh.jpeg?200|}} This photo is probably Lord Henry's father the Marquess of Normanby, the Governor of Queensland 1871-74. \\