Week 2 2023 - Favourite photo

 WEEK 2 – Favourite photo

This gets harder every year because once you’ve used your “favourite photo” you can’t use it again and therefore no other photo is your “favourite photo”. 

However, I have sat and gone through some of the old photos and decided to use this one of Elizabeth Ann Tanner she was the wife of my 2nd cousin 4x removed.

The look on her face says everything! She had a very hard life. If only photos could talk, but they say a picture paints a thousand words and this certainly does.

 Elizabeth was born 16 March 1847 In Greenwich, London. She was the daughter of William Tanner and Elizabeth Ruzbridge. Records have been few and far between for Elizabeth, and many people have her (photos and date of birth etc) linked to various parents. I have her mother’s name from GRO index and her fathers from her death record. However, I am not 100% sure that these are correct as I can’t find a marriage that matches, and others have her father married to 3 different Elizabeth’s!

 I have not been able to locate Elizabeth on any England census records, there are plenty for her name with matching parents but locations and year don’t match of birth.

 In 1863 at aged only 16years and 5months she was married off to Daniel Frederick Haylock who was 24years old, in New Zealand – their marriage licence says she was a minor! His family had left England over 10years earlier linked to the Gold mine industry. As with everything else linked to Elizabeth transport from England to New Zealand is hit and miss as well. I found one possible record but the age was out by 3 years.

 Linked to the above photo, it was sent to me from a Haylock ancestor who lives out in Australia, it was linked in with the family Bible. She told me that this photo was taken the day before Elizabeth’s wedding. Is this why she looks so sad because she was being forced to get married? Who knows. It sure can’t have been fun being a teenage bride!

 

As well as this information about the photo I was told that she had a baby just before she turned 17years old but sadly it never lived, I have not found information on this. But she did go on to have 12 children the last was when she was 45years old.

Even in this later photo of Elizabeth, she still looks like she has the weight of the world on her shoulders, bless her. She is one of those people who I would like to sit and have a coffee and a chat with to find out her story.

 



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