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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 8. I can Identify


PERRY FAMILY PHOTO

Having completed the 52 Ancestors challenge in 2021, many of the stories within those themes show how I identified many of my ancestors and those I have yet to authenticate the identity. So for this weeks theme I thought I would talk about the first photograph I received of my paternal family taken around 1931/2.


As the photograph has been passed amongst the family so names have been  agreed and suggested. Looking at other family photo's, some other names can be guessed at and through knowledge of family deaths and relationships other may be attributed but not necessarily correctly.

So working from left to right, on the back row, of 5 men, I can identify:-
?Percival David Perry
?Ernest Perry
My Grandfather Maurice Frederick Perry
Hubert Jay
Leslie Mark Perry
not visible on this copy of the photo but on another there is possibly Edward Perry and why Percy and Ernest may also be in this photo.

The middle row of women and children:-
Dorothy Jay nee Perry
My Grandmother, Alice Perry nee Pitts
? Rhoda Annie Louisa Theobald
My Great Grandmother, Edith Perry nee Youell
Two girls: ? Evelyn and Olive Perry (Their mother died in 1930, whilst the girls were intigrated within the wider Perry family, the boys were put into care. As the youngest daughter Audrey is definitly pictured on the front row. It may be that her older siblings are also pictured.
Unknown although as Rhoda is pictured this may be her mother.

Front Row
Audrey Perry
My father Vivian Perry
My Great Grandfather George Arthur Perry (Pye)
Unknown, may be Ernest's wife Lily.
Eric Jay
Ruby (Sally) Jay.






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