Today I want to share with you some photos of my family. I've had these photos in my possession since last year when I asked my grandmother (father's mother) if I could borrow them to scan so I have copies of them. They were in a really old photo album too that was falling apart so I wanted to get a new one to put them in for her.
Anyone who knows my granny knows she's a great story teller and I must admit I love hearing about all the hijinks she used to get up to when she was younger. I had to Skype her yesterday so that she could tell me who the people were in some of the photographs and it got me thinking about how much has changed in the world since these photographs were taken. I bet she wouldn't have dreamed of something like Skype when she was my age!
I love learning about my family and it's great that my granny is able to tell me about the people pictured below, for me it's important to know where I came from and who my family are, if for nothing else than to remember them and learn about their lives.
This is my great-grandfather Charles Downes, my granny's father. He was born in 1900 and died in 1990, so I got to meet him which is pretty amazing. I still remember the day of his funeral even though I was only 4. We used to call him 'Grandad with the stick' because he had a walking cane and we didn't understand what a great-grandfather was so it was my parents way of distinguishing him from my grandad. My granny said she thinks he was about 18 here, so it would have been taken around 1918.
This is my great-grandmother Kitty on the right standing beside her sister Julia. She died when my granny was 14, in about 1947.
My granny, Elizabeth, second from the right in about 1939.
She's with her two brothers John and Charlie here.
The date on the back of this photo is November 1948, so she would have been about to turn 16 here.
25th of January 1951 with a lady called Bernie Murray.
With a lady called Mary White
1952/3 with Carmel Gleeson.
11th January 1951
At the Zoo in Phoenix Park Dublin with Jenny Reid.
All of the above photos were taken in the early to mid 50s.
My grandfather Bartholomew Grimes.
So that's a bit of my family history. I'm so thankful to have my grandparents around and that I live near enough to them that I get to see them regularly. Do you know much about your family?
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