Wartime weddings and trips to the beach: Discover my family history in these beautiful old photographs
Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine reader Val Thorley from Aberforth, West Wales shares her family photographs
Published: March 17, 2024 at 10:00 am
Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine reader Val Thorley from Aberforth, West Wales shares her family photographs.
This is the wedding of my paternal aunt Nancy Packe to Albert William Oliver in Leicester. I’m on the far right, aged two, with Mum, Dad, Granny, Grandad and brother Roger.Here is my paternal great grand aunt Elizabeth Philpotts (née Smithies) with her husband William and their daughter Nellie My mother Vera May Steeples married my father Bernard Packe at Sheffield Register Office during the Second World WarThis photo shows (left to right) my mother, Roger, my aunt Nancy and Granny PackeElizabeth, her daughter-in-law Louisa and Louisa’s mother Hannah BrearleyMy father is sitting on his mother Annie Packe’s knee in 1912This photo shows Mum, Dad and Roger out on a bicycleHere are my grandmother Annie’s second cousin Ethel Maud Farniss (née Smithies), her husband Lawrence and their son Alfred in 1918 – Lawrence was an acting corporal in the Royal EngineersMy paternal great aunt Louise Timms was born in Northampton in 1867Louise’s son Reginald was born in 1899 in CastlethorpeThis photo from c1922 shows Dad (far right) playing with friends
