PHOTOS

DURHAM FAMILY HISTORY

„ PHOTOS

PHOTOS ARE ARRANGED BY FAMILIES, SO IF YOU CAN’T FIND A PHOTO OF THE PERSON YOU ARE LOOKING FOR, ESPECIALLY BEFORE THEY ARE MARRIED, LOOK AT THEIR FATHER

ANY PHOTOS WHICH CONTAIN LIVING PEOPLE ARE ONLY AVAILABLE TO FAMILY MEMBERS

NAMES IN ITALICS: NO PHOTOS AVAILABLE

PLEASE LET ME KNOW OF ANY LINKS THAT DON’T WORK

AS ALL PHOTOS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO 3 NEW SITES

http://digilander.libero.it/DURHAM_FAMILY_PHOTOS

http://digilander.libero.it/DURHAM_FAMILY_PHOT_2

http://digilander.libero.it/DURHAM_FAMILY_PHOT_3

IF ANY OF THE LINKS BELOW DON’T WORK, TRY SUBSTITUTING THE URL

DURHAM_FAMILY/

WITH

DURHAM_FAMILY_PHOTOS/

or DURHAM_FAMILY_PHOT_2/

or DURHAM_FAMILY_PHOT_3/

Many of these photos are from the “Wigley USA collection” - there is an interesting story behind these photos, which also goes to explain why there are so many:

After Herbert William Wigley emigrated to the USA in 1904, his brother and his sisters must have spent the next 50 years sending him photos of themselves and their families, as in those days they might never see him again (he did come back to the UK for a visit in 1926), and people still used to write to each other. This exchange of letters probably ceased gradually as the various siblings died in the 1940-50’s. When the author visited his children (his father's cousins) in Schenectady, New York state, about 1980, he found they had a shoebox full of old family photos – many with a handwritten note on the back from the person who’d sent them - borrowed them, and made copies.

Many of these photos either didn’t exist any more England, or had been scattered around the various families - so now there is have a nice collection of (copy) photos of the Wigley, Macklin and Davis families, people the author has never seen.

There are more of Albert James Wigley’s family than of any other family - obviously, over the years he must have been the best letter writer.

Other photos are from the collection of Margaret Nancy Durham Turner Dootson Chisman, who was an avid collector – she was one of the eldest in her generation, and had many photos of her various cousins, taken in a time when the families still mixed, before they went their separate ways.

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WILLIAM I

WILLIAM II

JACOB I

ALICE I / THOMAS SIMPSON and the SIMPSON FAMILY

ALEXANDER WILLIAM JAMES

CHARLES JACOB SMITH (his wife’s family)

THOROLD (descended from Smith)

ELIZABETH ANN / FREDERICK ALPHONSE KNOTT

WILLIAM JACOB SMITH

MARTIN (his wife’s family)

JANE ANN / SAMUEL MITTON WATERFIELD