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Portrait of
Mrs Horatio S Ross?
... or is it
Elsie Nina Stock Bower?
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© Reproduced with
acknowledgement to Steve Beadle, Gillingham, Kent
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Mrs Horatio S Ross
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Thank you to Steve Beadle,
Gillingham, Kent for sending me the photograph above.
This photo comes from the studio of William Crooke who was based at 103
Princes Street from 1883 until 1925. It is numbered 23534.
From the style of this cabinet print, it appears to me to be probably from
around the 1890s.
Steve believes that the picture is of Mrs Horatio Seftenberg Ross.
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Horatio Seftenberg Ross was born in 1834. He was the eldest son
of the early Scottish photographer, Horatio Ross, who was a prominent
member of the Photographic Society of Scotland that met in Edinburgh in
the 1850s and 1860s.
Horatio Ross
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Elsie Nina Stock Bower? |
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Thank you to Alison Ramos, USA, grand-daughter of
Horatio S Ross, who emailed me in October 2006 telling me:
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Elsie Nina Stock Bower?
"The photo that you show as possibly
being Mrs H. S. Ross is not my great grandmother. She was a Caroline
St. George.
I have photos of her from the late
1890s when she was already an old lady. Much loved and known to the
family as Granny Ross.
I think the photo you show is of Elsie
Nina Stock Bower. She married Horace's son Horatio St. George in
1895. He died in 1913."
Alison Ramos, USA: May 2005 |
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