Sepia Saturday

Sepia Saturday

Based on the non-prompt - Without a shadow of a doubt you are on your own with this one, after all, we Sepians are adults and not children. The powers that be (Marilyn and me) have decided that you should be left looking at the picture until you come up with your own interpretation.


Summer 1990 - Montreal Quebec


My cousin's baby shower. That is my maternal grandfather, click here to see him in 1930, some sixty years later, surrounded by some of his great grandchildren. My cousins' children, O'Shea and Swift.

Grandfather was Tom Swift, born in 1904 in Dublin Ireland. he appears on the 1911 census.

I found them in 1912 living in the same house. This is an image of the original 1908-1915 electoral rolls from the Dublin City Archives.

Interesting that his father's name is spelt (UK) or spelled (US) as Swifte. It shows that they lived in a house and shop.

Today it is a funeral house but it is easy to imagine how it would have looked in 1912. It is the small white building in the middle.

Sepia Saturday

Sepia Saturday

Dublin Ireland

The topic photo immediately brought this photo to mind.

These are my maternal great grandparents Catherine and William Brennan.

This is a copy of the 1911 census so I am guessing that this photo was taken in 1911 or 1912.



The children are Mary V, my grandmother who was always called Veronica or Vonnie. And my grand uncle Alex.
They would add to the family, William, known as Billy B and Catherine known as Kate.

Sepia Saturday

I'm posting at Sepia Saturday today. This week's challenge:

Florida Memory Stream On Flickr Commons

Ah, I remember it well. Get out your smart threads, polish up your brogues, stand around that imposing jukebox and spin those old favourites : "Summer Holiday", "V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N", or maybe "Viva Espana". Yes, it can only mean one thing : I am about to go on holiday again. But, worry not, who is looking after things whilst I am away but my fellow administrator - Marilyn. And the theme image Marilyn has chosen for Sepia Saturday 225 (post your posts on or around Saturday 26 April 2014) shows a group of smart young things stood around a jukebox. If you are theming this week there are endless possibilities - jukeboxes, music, the 1950s are just a few suggestions. All you have to do is to post your post, link your link, and visit your sepia friends. Easy-peasy ...... itsy-bitsy, yellow polka-dot bikini (control yourself, Alan) But before you pack your bag and fly off to Spain (oh, no, that's me isn't it!), here is a preview of what is in store over the next week or two.

I'm going with a travel theme. The man on the left is my grand uncle Alec Brennan and his wife Nora Sweetman is on the right. This would be in the 1950s and they are on a vacation from Dublin to the Isle of Man. The couple with them are the Stewarts as was written on the back of the photo.

I found a link to a repository of photographic representations of holidaymakers in the 1950s taken in Joe's Bar.

This link shows other holiday makers in Joe's.

Uncle Alec was born in 1911 as listed on the 1911 census.

Some other photos found online taken at Joe's.

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