This is a list of names culled from the reverse of photographs in my collection. In most cases I have also given the photographer’s name and the town in which his or her studio operated. The lady to the left is known only as ‘Mrs Brown’.
From time to time, new arrivals may be added to this list, so keep checking.
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Ada (surname not recorded)
Another Ada (surname not recorded)
Henry (surname not recorded)
Aunt ANSTEY
Aunt ANSTEY – by E Flukes, Bath
K. M. ANSTEY – by E Thomas, Chippenham
Mary ANSTEY – by Turner & Everitt, Islington
Mary ANSTEY – by Jospeh Byrne, Margate
Two little ANSTEYs
John ARNOLD, Ryde, Isle of Wight – by Mr Jabez Hughes
Polly ARNOLD, West Meor – by A. Wyatt, Fareham
R. A. BENNETT(S), Spring Grove House, Loxley, Sheffield – by W R Miller, Great Yarmouth
Rev’d. BICKNELL – by Thos. Barnes & Sons, London E.
Alfred John BLACKMAN, born September 25, 1875 – by C Hawkins, London
Ellen BROOKS – by Williams & C0, Holloway
Mrs BROWN – by C.J. Hopkins, Epsom
Mrs CHALLEN – by James Mudd, Manchester (Mrs Sarah CHALLEN (nee EARWAKER) was born 1824 at West Meon, Hampshire. In 1845 she married Mr Richard Jones CHALLEN, who had been a cotton worker at one of the mills in Manchester and was living in Chorlton on Medlock in 1841. Ten years later they had moved to London, and were living in Lambeth. Richard was an agent for a firm of Calico Printers. Sarah’s brother, Robert EARWAKER was living with them.
By 1861, Richard and Sarah had settled at an address in Green Walk, Bowdon, Altrincham, and James MUDD (the photographer) was living close by in Rose Hill, Bowdon. A further ten years on, and the CHALLENs had moved back to West Meon, Hampshire. The 1881 census records the retired Richard Jones CHALLEN and Sarah living at Worcester Road, Sutton, Surrey. Richard died on 1stJuly 1885 and Sarah lived a further 12 years, dying at around the age of 73. As far as I can determine, there were no children.
Marianne CLAYPOLE 20th July 1873
John CRAIG -by R Totherick, Berwick. (The whole insdcription reads – ‘To Harriot Augusta Gunn, from her affectionate father, John Craig, born June 7th 1796. Likeness taken June 7th 1864.’)
Robert FISHER – by Henry J Brooks, Abingdon
Hannah FREAN 1879 – by Elliott and Fry, Baker St, London. (Hannah was a member of the family that founded the Peak Frean biscuit company.)
Patty HARRIS (nee HOCKING)
FRANK SCOTT HAYDON, 1884 – by G Churchill, Eastbourne. Frank was born on December 12th 1822 in London and was the son of the noted Victorian painter, Benjamin Haydon. and his wife Mary. Frank was not baptised until he was 7 years old, on 13th July 1829 at the Church of saint James, Paddington. At som point before 1887, Frank Scott Haydon worked at the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane. He maried Mary Middleton and had two children. One a boy, did not survive infanthood. The second child was a daughter, Ellen Mary Haydon. Frank Scott Haydon died 1887. (P S – his father, Benjamin, committed suicide in 1846.)
Patty HARRIS (nee HOCKING ) – by J Grey, Stonehouse, Devon
Marie HODGSON 1872 – by T & J Holroyd, Harrogate
Mary HOLDSWORTH – by Henry Death, 119 Camberwell Rd
Mrs HOOK – by Fradelle, Regent St, London
Sarah HOOPER, housemaid, Cotton Denham – by W. Chaffin & Sons, Sherborne
Captain HOSEASON – by Mr Henry Mullins, Jersey
Martha INGRAM
M. JACKSON – by E. A. Carnel, New Radford, Nottingham
Mary Ann Ja(—)FIELD – portrait taken 1868 by Aubrey Paul of 1 Thames Place, Putney
Alex F. JONES, London – by Netterville Briggs
Mr and Mrs JONES – by C. Biskeborn, Chatham
Walter LAWSON (an old sweetheart) – by Taney & Co, Norwich
Mrs LING – by William Lacey, London (see Miss Travers)
Mrs LUCAS (?) – by Morgan & Laing, Greenwich
Tom MARLOW (worked for G.P.O.), – by Macfarlane & Harris, Dalston
May (surname not recorded)
C. A. J. NIBBS, Sept 1895 - by W C Harvey, Gosport
Nora (no surname ) – by A Seaman & Sons, Chesterfield etc
Mrs PHILLIPS (?), 4 Wellington St, S’ford – by Levy Bros, Bristol
Eleanor PINNOCK, 9 months, June ’78 – by Thos. B. Howe, Newbury
Mr QUICK – Thomas Taylor, Soho Studio, Oxford St, London (next door to the Soho Bazaar)
Mrs SHAW – by J.Lowe, Loughborough
C. SHEAF - Newport, Monmouth, 3rd May 1890
A.M. TRAVERS – by A. Simmons, London S.E.
Miss TRAVERS , after Mrs LING – by Wm Lacey, London
Priscilla THOMPSON (Mrs A Thompson) – by A Maddison, Huntingdon
Miss TRAVERS (see Mrs LING)
A. M. TRAVERS
Alexander Dugan UGLAND, aged 13 and half months – by L.R. Goodman, Margate.
The UGLAND family were found on the 1881 census, living in Charlton, near Woolwich in Kent, at 19 Church Lane. Alexander’s mother Martha was English, but his father was Norwegian-born. It is not known when Ketil Ugland came to England although why he came might be more easily answered.
Mr Ugland was involved in shipping, presumably importing or exporting goods between England and Scandinavia. He had married Martha Dugan in Lambeth in 1875, Alexander was born some five years later. They were a fairly affluent family, with two young female servants, Mary Murphy and Emily Scatcher. Ketil’s nineteen year old cousin Hans, who worked as a clerk, completed the little household.
On checking the 1891 census, I found that the family were still living in Charlton, this time with two sons, Alexander and his brother, Nils, born in 1882. However, in 1897 tragedy struck when Ketil Ugland died at the age of fifty; soon after, Alexander also vanished from the records. The child in the photograph was now a young man and with his father gone, Alexander set out to seek his fortune. But that is a story for another day.
Mrs WATTS
Jane WEBB – by Hall’s of Brighton
Baby WHEELER
Herbert WHEELER, 4 Providence Place, Charlton Kings, nr Cheltenham – by J Joyner, Cheltenham
Rev. G C WHITE or Rev F H WILKINSON- by G Wallis, Whitby (There are two names on the reverse of this photo)
Mrs WHITEHOUSE – by Lambert Weston & Son, Dover/Folkestone
Mrs WISE ?
Alfred WISE
Mr F WISE (?) – by Sutch Brothers, London
Frank WISE
Mrs WHITEHOUSE Grandmother WILKINSON
Mr WILLIAMS
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